Not exact matches
< And in our preparatory column to last week's Issues on the Ether column for our #EtherIssue live discussion, Bringing Tools
of the Trade to Self - Publishing, we askwed our readers to talk with us about what tools entrepreneurial authors need most; to what
degree those tools can be as much
of a burden as a help if they slow down writers with steep
learning curves; how well the commercial world seems to be responding so far to the needs
of entrepreneurial authors; and what kind
of results they're seeing from their own experiences and experiments with new tools.
i committed to that
learning curve «out
of the gate», because i have lived through an entire graduate
degree and 9 years
of professional life trying to figure out * how to avoid printing *, while keeping my reading load light and portable.
While other space or flight titles go for similar intuitive controls, the most distinctive feature
of Descent: Underground the six
degrees of freedom, and the accompanying
learning curve, makes it hard to instantly love the game.
I agree that self - hosted sites will always offer a greater
degree of control, but for many people, WordPress»
learning curve is simply too high.
The phrase «steep
learning curve» means to describe a particular plot on a graph where the x axis measures time and the y axis measures the
degree of learning acquired; in such a setup, a steep
curve means that a lot
of learning takes place rapidly, exactly opposite to the meaning that most people give it, they presumably seeing it in the context
of climbing, where steepness is difficult and is conquered only slowly.