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Comment Recommended Electronics Reading (Score 1) 335

by David_Wayne on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @11:47AM (#23324590) Attached to: Books On Electronics For the Lay Programmer?

Go to a used book store and find an old ARRL Handbook. This is from the Amature Radio Relay League and it is used by "ham" radio people. I loved the first one or two that I got. They covered everything from semiconductors to antennas.

Ballmer Speaks on His Solo Act 196

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday July 28, 2006 @10:16AM from the but-does-he-do-the-monkey-dance dept.

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "In his first one-on-one interview since Bill Gates's retirement announcement, Steve Ballmer tells the Wall Street Journal he is bullish on Microsoft's investments in online services, and he dismisses as 'random malarkey' the idea that Microsoft is having trouble hiring and keeping the kind of brilliant employees that have always been the company's competitive weapon. Here's Ballmer on Gates's departure: 'As co-leaders of the business, I could allow Bill to be the full-time champion of innovation. And [now] with me really being the guy who's here every day running the place, I must be the champion of innovation.' And on competing with Google: 'We're going to compete. We're going to be in the online business. We are going to have a core around online. We're going to be excellent. That, I would tell people, to count on...'"

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