5 Jun
2010
5 Jun
'10
4:24 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Arachelian" <ray at arachelian.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Lightbulb police? (was RE: Anyone off to VCF-UK)
On 06/04/2010 03:19 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
That was one heck of a rant Ray, but I chopped most of it since I'm only
gonna reply tp the paragraph below...
Eeek!. Considering that I regard most UK
magazines are being pretty
awful, yous must be downright useless :-(
They are, they're mostly filled with ads and the articles are fluffy at
best.
I used to get MacWorld and MacLife, but then, I stopped since a) they're
just full of ads, and b) the "articles" are reviews of products mostly
and rarely anything useful and c) any "news" they might have, I've
already read online two months ago, despite the magazine's date saying
it was for next month, and d) the content was so piss poor that I'd be
able to read all the articles of interest in less than half an hour
(skipping the stuff that wasn't interesting), and then into the recycle
bin in went. Dr Dobbs and C Users Digest used to be good stuff, but
they're no more...
Alot of magazines these days are full of adverts, as magazines (and
newspapers) are struggling to be profitable. EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly)
was cancelled for about half a year or more, and after having new owners is
going to be (or has been) relaunched. Personally, the only videogame
magazine I buy monthly is Famitsu Wave and that is mainly for the free DVD's
(usually 2 region 2 DVD's containing around 2-3 hrs of items) that come with
it (they feature adverts, previews, reviews, cheats and tips, plus wacky
(and sometimes cool) Japanese items). Before anyone asks, no I don't
read/speak Japanese, though I have picked up a couple of words and symbols
:)
Regarding magazine articles (item c) in your previous paragraph), most (if
not all) magazine articles are usually written (atleast) 3 months in
advance. I'm not sure why it's 3 months, but that seems to have always been
the case (atleast in my experience with UK games mags over the past 15
years).
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk