This week's book giveaway is in the General Computing forum. We're giving away four copies of Arduino in Action and have Martin Evans, Joshua Noble, and Jordan Hochenbaum on-line! See this thread for details.
Originally posted by Mapraputa Is: Here is a... book on the subject:
The subject at hand is how relevant George Washington's farewell address is to the modern world. I don't think there's anything wrong at all with doing this "translation", because the original's language is so archaic that very careful study is required to get much meaning from it. Translating it into language everyone can easily understand makes these powerful words accessible to people today. Not a bad thing at all.
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EFH: The subject at hand is...
Well, that's your subject. Mine is whatever I chose it to be. (Almost Alice in Wonderland...)
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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The subject at hand is how relevant George Washington's farewell address is to the modern world. I don't think there's anything wrong at all with doing this "translation", because the original's language is so archaic that very careful study is required to get much meaning from it. Translating it into language everyone can easily understand makes these powerful words accessible to people today. Not a bad thing at all.
(Almost Alice in Wonderland...)
