Yes, I don't suppose it could have anything at all to do with the BSD's having legal trouble when Linus felt like playing with a free unix clone.
He's basically said as much as if they weren't legally ambiguous that he wouldn't have bothered. Then it would be BSDs vs. Hurd, and I think we all know how that would have turned out.
Just because your libraries suck doesn't mean they all do. Mine for instance, it highly up to date technology wise. Because I'm in charge of that section, heh.
We have a nice selection of BSD and Linux on it's way, but a lot of it hasn't been published yet.
We even let people who don't realize we have books use our fancy T1. For free.:P (Wireless coming in two months, with no time restriction, and open to all.)
XP does something similar. Since Setup.exe is almost always used only for installing windows programs, when you run a setup.exe (especially when autorun from CD) Windows asks if you want to install the software as yourself, or as Administrator. Very handy, and much faster than FUS back and forth.
And runas works very well for command line stuff, as long as you know the complete path to the app. (PATH has kind of languished since everything's in the start menu.;) )
What's worse is if you are one of those libraries that had the music industries abandoned warehouses dumped on you. These CDs flat out blow; we have six copies of Whitney Houston's Star Spangled Banner single. We haven't recieved the shipment from one of our 3 branches yet either, so I suspect we'll have 6 or 8 before it's all over. Every library we've talked to has recieved several copies of several CDs. Even if they were good, most libraries don't carry multiple copies of CDs.
Most of the CDs are crap that they couldn't sell 5 years ago, and shitty singles. When have you ever seen a library carry a single?
Oh yeah, and we can't give them away, donate them to our friends of the library group (because they would sell them for $.50-$1 apiece, and that could concievably benefit us, except for the ones they end up throwing in the dumpster...) or anything else.
Let me put it another way: If I could get out of a speeding ticket by emptying out one of my junk closets, why exactly would I feel like I need to slow down in the future?
Slashdot has to post BSD stories once in a while so they can act like a sponge for the retards to ruin and keep them from ruining all the other stories. The comments are useless on any BSD story, due to retard concentration. Allowing Anonymous posts doesn't help anything.
Reminds me of the "Designed by women" Volvo
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I saw this in a local WaldenBooks store last weekend. I could tell just by the cover (and the thickness, no decent Games Programming book is less than 1.5":D ) that all the book was was an attempt to sell some dead trees because it had Linux on the cover. (The posted contents of the CD appear to prove me right. MSDOS format? Hello?)
There shouldn't be a book for Linux games anyway. There shouldn't be a book dedicated to games on ANY OS. They should talk about how things work, and get them to work in as portable a way as possible, so that people can get their games in as many hands as possible, and so that they can have a book that will be beneficial to them no matter their OS (be it Win, Lin, BSD, etc.)
I suppose I'll never see another book I liked as much as Micheal Abrash's Graphics Black Book. (Not the exact title, but it's not exactly in front of me right now;) )
nVidia seems to be making several strange business descisions lately... For instance, there is a driver for teh Geforce on Be that could be completed in about 4 hours, IF nVidia would release some documentation on their registers. They absolutely will not release them for some reason. i cant understand what tey can possibly gain from not getting supoprt for as many oses as possible. IMO the only reson theres a linux driver at all is because its userbase has gottten rather large recently and they think they would lose X number of users by not offering some support. apparently X must be rather large before they pay attention though...
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Yes, I don't suppose it could have anything at all to do with the BSD's having legal trouble when Linus felt like playing with a free unix clone.
He's basically said as much as if they weren't legally ambiguous that he wouldn't have bothered. Then it would be BSDs vs. Hurd, and I think we all know how that would have turned out.
Just because your libraries suck doesn't mean they all do. Mine for instance, it highly up to date technology wise. Because I'm in charge of that section, heh.
:P (Wireless coming in two months, with no time restriction, and open to all.)
We have a nice selection of BSD and Linux on it's way, but a lot of it hasn't been published yet.
We even let people who don't realize we have books use our fancy T1. For free.
XP does something similar. Since Setup.exe is almost always used only for installing windows programs, when you run a setup.exe (especially when autorun from CD) Windows asks if you want to install the software as yourself, or as Administrator. Very handy, and much faster than FUS back and forth.
;) )
And runas works very well for command line stuff, as long as you know the complete path to the app. (PATH has kind of languished since everything's in the start menu.
Except cut his hair!
We've got a wireless lavalier mic here, but there's a cable from the actual mic to the wireless transmitter. I may have to swing it around today. :D
What's worse is if you are one of those libraries that had the music industries abandoned warehouses dumped on you. These CDs flat out blow; we have six copies of Whitney Houston's Star Spangled Banner single. We haven't recieved the shipment from one of our 3 branches yet either, so I suspect we'll have 6 or 8 before it's all over. Every library we've talked to has recieved several copies of several CDs. Even if they were good, most libraries don't carry multiple copies of CDs.
Most of the CDs are crap that they couldn't sell 5 years ago, and shitty singles. When have you ever seen a library carry a single?
Oh yeah, and we can't give them away, donate them to our friends of the library group (because they would sell them for $.50-$1 apiece, and that could concievably benefit us, except for the ones they end up throwing in the dumpster...) or anything else.
Let me put it another way: If I could get out of a speeding ticket by emptying out one of my junk closets, why exactly would I feel like I need to slow down in the future?
But have they gotten it to say "Autobots, let's roll out!" yet? Then they'll have something worth talking about.
4.2 billion dollars? Did they only sell 6 last year? ;)
Slashdot has to post BSD stories once in a while so they can act like a sponge for the retards to ruin and keep them from ruining all the other stories. The comments are useless on any BSD story, due to retard concentration. Allowing Anonymous posts doesn't help anything.
Sooo... is the hood welded shut? ;)
OR, Sam Kinnesin.
:D
"No, dumbass, you ride the damn superstring into the black hole! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!"
I saw this in a local WaldenBooks store last weekend. I could tell just by the cover (and the thickness, no decent Games Programming book is less than 1.5" :D ) that all the book was was an attempt to sell some dead trees because it had Linux on the cover. (The posted contents of the CD appear to prove me right. MSDOS format? Hello?)
;) )
There shouldn't be a book for Linux games anyway. There shouldn't be a book dedicated to games on ANY OS. They should talk about how things work, and get them to work in as portable a way as possible, so that people can get their games in as many hands as possible, and so that they can have a book that will be beneficial to them no matter their OS (be it Win, Lin, BSD, etc.)
I suppose I'll never see another book I liked as much as Micheal Abrash's Graphics Black Book. (Not the exact title, but it's not exactly in front of me right now
nVidia seems to be making several strange business descisions lately... For instance, there is a driver for teh Geforce on Be that could be completed in about 4 hours, IF nVidia would release some documentation on their registers. They absolutely will not release them for some reason. i cant understand what tey can possibly gain from not getting supoprt for as many oses as possible. IMO the only reson theres a linux driver at all is because its userbase has gottten rather large recently and they think they would lose X number of users by not offering some support. apparently X must be rather large before they pay attention though...