On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Mark Bennett <bennett.mab at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > All right, I was running my digital mouth, and I certainly meant no
> > offense. I know that both of the series are very popular, and that some
> of
> > the volumes are very good and very useful. I briefly used - did not buy
> -
> > the first "For Dummies" book, "DOS for Dummies," which was written by
> some
> > local dude here in San Diego, and it *did *contain much useful
> information.
> > However, it was written in an intolerably jokey style; virtually every
> > paragraph contained some lame joke trying to sugarcoat the point raised.
> I
> > just find both franchises a little strange in comparison to, say, the
> > venerable Schaum's outline series. I'm a dummy and an idiot for being so
> > harsh.
>
> Well, my informant did put it in a "you might be surprised, but" kind
> of way. The wine book (which was I think the first of that series)
> avoids that grating jokeyness that sometimes permeates these
> entry-level books -- mostly it tells you to relax and helps you figure
> out what you enjoy.
>
> Now, if anybody knows the equivalent of this in applied signal
> processing.... I didn't care much for Schaum's on the subject.
>
>
> --
> Andy
>
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