...it has great usefulness.
you mean like making a horde of tai'chi loving super assassins designed to take out Richard Simmons - Father of Workout Tape Evil.
on second thought... no
actually, when dealing with film, anolog/digital refers to the signal given off. Namely, analog means that the colors are stored and represented with a curve, as does actual light (giving a near infinite amount of colors). Digital, on the other hand, stores color as a more defined and jagged movement (giving each color a very specific frequency). So, the old film is indeed analog (as far as cinematography is concerned).
i think they are getting paid exactly what they should. After all, the garbage gets picked up weekly (and on time), but on the other hand, the wonderful teachers of Texas aren't exactly churning out the brightest students in the country.
*prepares for lone star flame attack*
What are you going to do, turn off the internet?
SHHHHHH!!!! Don't give those people any ideas! I need my cable modem! My precious! ^_^
Seriously though, you people need to realize when something is a joke (?hoax - *reminded of that Nintendo sues Sony article a while ago*). If, however, you like satire such as this, I'd suggest going to satirewire.com.... okay, its not exactly geek satire, but its still funny.
Your missing the point of any Bible series for any subject. It is designed to take a reader from a 100% newbie to a multi-faceted user whom has a clue about what to do. I also read this book, and i myself was a complete newbie to linux. This book introduced me to the very basics and eventually brought me up to speed on many important features and benefits of linux. As you and others have stated, there is little depth to subjects, yet it covers a broad group of subjects; and there in lies the key. This book allows a user to start with absolutely no understanding of linux and grow into various subjects. This allows for me to see an overview of the core subjects involved in linux and allows me to gain at least some advanced use of each. It also allows me to choose which areas i want to develop my skills in more. For example, the books shows how to set up a fileserve, which ended up interesting me. Though the depth was not great, i now have a foundation on which i can build more knowledge. And that is what the bible is all about. it allows a newbie to enter the linux world with some knowledge of most of the important topics. Later on, the reader can decide which subjects they wish to expand their knowledge of. So for someone like you, who is obviously a seasoned linux user, the book holds little value, but that is no reason to rate this book as a 5 out of 10. Instead, it should be judged on whether it does what it inteds to do. And I feel that this book suits its purpose well. 9/10
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...it has great usefulness. you mean like making a horde of tai'chi loving super assassins designed to take out Richard Simmons - Father of Workout Tape Evil. on second thought... no
actually, when dealing with film, anolog/digital refers to the signal given off. Namely, analog means that the colors are stored and represented with a curve, as does actual light (giving a near infinite amount of colors). Digital, on the other hand, stores color as a more defined and jagged movement (giving each color a very specific frequency). So, the old film is indeed analog (as far as cinematography is concerned).
i think they are getting paid exactly what they should. After all, the garbage gets picked up weekly (and on time), but on the other hand, the wonderful teachers of Texas aren't exactly churning out the brightest students in the country. *prepares for lone star flame attack*
actually, bible means library ... like in spanish, library is biblioteca. you should study up on your romantic languages.
What are you going to do, turn off the internet? SHHHHHH!!!! Don't give those people any ideas! I need my cable modem! My precious! ^_^ Seriously though, you people need to realize when something is a joke (?hoax - *reminded of that Nintendo sues Sony article a while ago*). If, however, you like satire such as this, I'd suggest going to satirewire.com .... okay, its not exactly geek satire, but its still funny.
Your missing the point of any Bible series for any subject. It is designed to take a reader from a 100% newbie to a multi-faceted user whom has a clue about what to do. I also read this book, and i myself was a complete newbie to linux. This book introduced me to the very basics and eventually brought me up to speed on many important features and benefits of linux.
As you and others have stated, there is little depth to subjects, yet it covers a broad group of subjects; and there in lies the key. This book allows a user to start with absolutely no understanding of linux and grow into various subjects. This allows for me to see an overview of the core subjects involved in linux and allows me to gain at least some advanced use of each. It also allows me to choose which areas i want to develop my skills in more. For example, the books shows how to set up a fileserve, which ended up interesting me. Though the depth was not great, i now have a foundation on which i can build more knowledge.
And that is what the bible is all about. it allows a newbie to enter the linux world with some knowledge of most of the important topics. Later on, the reader can decide which subjects they wish to expand their knowledge of.
So for someone like you, who is obviously a seasoned linux user, the book holds little value, but that is no reason to rate this book as a 5 out of 10. Instead, it should be judged on whether it does what it inteds to do. And I feel that this book suits its purpose well. 9/10