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Absolutely totally ignore every response to your question.
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What sort of information?
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I consume a lot of "Article of the Day" kind of newsletter, something like CodeProject does and summarizes a lot of what is going on.
If something really grabs my intention then I dig a little more about it but most reads will end on the head lines.
One thing that I find most productive is the Fiday afternoon "class" given by a team member about a subject that he knows or had to learn to teach the rest of us.
Every week a new team member have to teach something and this way only one of us have to spend time digging on a subject.
Friday afternoons are usually a lot less productive anyway so, this is a way to power up the end of the week.
Cheers!
Alex
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I have only worked in one environment where that was done, and that was a very long time ago. It may seem helpful, but I remember how much work you had to put in to get that "simple" one hour class done. About a week, if it was any good!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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What kind of poll is this really? I selected every option listed. I'm sure you can gather some very accurate results from that.
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I thought the same thing. Except I did not select video and podcasts.
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Yes, I thought the same, I have also selected everything except Audio Books and Podcast. Whatever way I just want to learn things / get more information...
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I love the smell of a new book and all the knowledge it contains.
I want to take a pencil and make notes next to the text.
I don't want to care wether something is pdf, epub or any of that, I don't like reading a book on my pc (don't have an e-reader), a book is just so much more comfortable to the eyes (in my opinion).
It's pretty easy to delete the ebook by accident (cleaning your pc) though most of you probably make backups.
Turn your comp off, take a seat, turn on the stereo or put in your earplugs and read.
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They also double as a weapon or kindling in case of emergency!
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That's not the only use, either: particularly if they have nice, soft pages...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Which is great if you run out of toilet paper too...
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Digital formats (PDF, e-book...) are better in several ways when you are trying to solve a specific problem...
You can load them at your computer, put them on a separate display and search for the topic/text you are looking for. moreover when you get the result you can copy and paste it to your code...
Much better in all the ways one can imagine.
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e-Media (Online Articles,eBooks,Downloadable documents,Email,PDF,Tutorials)
- Really prefered
- we can get them any time
- easy to read
Paper (actual) books
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- Save Paper, Save Tree (2012 is coming...  )
Rating always..... WELCOME
Be a good listener...Because Opprtunity Knock softly...
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I agree...........rally true.......
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I'm not entirely with you on this one. You don't need a power supply to read a book (well, unless it's night, and you need a light). So if your travelling for long periods of time, you'll be able to read it without problem.
Granted, as power on eBook readers gets better this is probably going to be less of an issue.
However, another point of paperbooks over eBooks is that you can open several pages at once (useful for reference material, which most programming books are)
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MarqW wrote: So if your travelling for long periods of time, you'll be able to read it without problem.
Printed works are also much more durable...
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If 2012 is coming, why do we care about saving trees?
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you missed the joke icon.
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