Tech Magazines going electronic.

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FrankW

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This just plain sucks.
Most of the trade magazines are dropping the
printed version for PDF files. I'm sorry but to
bring my PC to the can for reading is impractical.
Advertisers stop this nonsense. I will simply
stop reading them. I spend enough time in front
of a monitor. In this case technology sucks
 
That all started years ago when software sales people began pushing "online"
help functions in a program as a replacement for a user manual.
 
I dropped Solid Solutions for that reason. They never sent the refund
they said they would. And now they are defunct. With the web for
advertising I suspect the bucks for magazine inches has diminished.
The other thing about trade magazines that sucks is the
articles/infomercials that now proliferate. It is rare for a reviewer
to say it like it is anymore.
 
In article <1127413497.042372.58040@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
ken.maren@gmail.com says...
Nice. Hint Hint. Good one.
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Are you referring to anything in particular?

Robert
 
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:55:13 -0400, FrankW <fworm@mxznorpak.ca> wrote:

This just plain sucks.
Most of the trade magazines are dropping the
printed version for PDF files. I'm sorry but to
bring my PC to the can for reading is impractical.
Advertisers stop this nonsense. I will simply
stop reading them. I spend enough time in front
of a monitor. In this case technology sucks
Click to expand...

Well, I'm in two minds over it. Agree it's a PITA, however if it's
cheap enough, I can be bought. Circuit Cellar for $5 a year? Can't go
past that. I have even now assembled an old clunker PC in the barn
just for reading pdf's !

Barry Lennox
 
Wink, wink! Nod, nod! Know what I mean, Know what I mean!




<ken.maren@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1127413497.042372.58040@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Nice. Hint Hint. Good one.
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Yea! And while were complaining, why is it lately that EVERY article is
about PDM, FEA or CFD?

Muggs


"TOP" <kellnerp@cbd.net> wrote in message
news:1127416248.226465.128810@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
I dropped Solid Solutions for that reason. They never sent the refund
they said they would. And now they are defunct. With the web for
advertising I suspect the bucks for magazine inches has diminished.
The other thing about trade magazines that sucks is the
articles/infomercials that now proliferate. It is rare for a reviewer
to say it like it is anymore.
Click to expand...
 
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:55:13 -0400, FrankW wrote:

This just plain sucks.
Most of the trade magazines are dropping the
printed version for PDF files. I'm sorry but to
bring my PC to the can for reading is impractical.
Advertisers stop this nonsense. I will simply
stop reading them. I spend enough time in front
of a monitor. In this case technology sucks
Click to expand...
Take a crossword puzzle into the biffy with you.

Cheers!
Rich
 
Bet all the engineers fleeing Houston are busy reading their online
trade rag articles on CFD while sitting in traffic. CFD will be a hot
item there in a day or so.
 
In sci.electronics.design FrankW <fworm@mxznorpak.ca> wrote:
This just plain sucks.
Most of the trade magazines are dropping the
printed version for PDF files. I'm sorry but to
bring my PC to the can for reading is impractical.
Advertisers stop this nonsense. I will simply
stop reading them. I spend enough time in front
of a monitor. In this case technology sucks
Click to expand...
It depends.
I'm reading more on my (1.1Kg) laptop than I read dead-tree these
days. (200 books/year)
It gets propped up on its side on the bed, taken to the loo, ...

However, PDF is fundamentally the wrong format IMO.
I DO NOT WANT to have a simple electronic copy of the magazine.
I want one that I can adjust to have text size appropriate to where I
am, what the conditions are, ...
HTML.
 
I read in sci.electronics.design that TOP <kellnerp@cbd.net> wrote (in
<1127431626.959359.145090@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>) about 'Tech
Magazines going electronic.', on Thu, 22 Sep 2005:
Bet all the engineers fleeing Houston are busy reading their online
trade rag articles on CFD while sitting in traffic. CFD will be a hot
item there in a day or so.

CFD? Can't Find Dallas?
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--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
If everything has been designed, a god designed evolution by natural selection.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
 
Muggs wrote...
Wink, wink! Nod, nod! Know what I mean, Know what I mean!

ken wrote ...
Nice. Hint Hint. Good one.
Click to expand...
Word to the wise, word to the wise.


--
Thanks,
- Win
 
["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]
On 2005-09-23, Winfield Hill <Winfield_member@newsguy.com> wrote:
Muggs wrote...

Wink, wink! Nod, nod! Know what I mean, Know what I mean!

ken wrote ...
Nice. Hint Hint. Good one.

Word to the wise, word to the wise.
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Say no more!

robert
 
["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]
On 2005-09-22, Muggs <Muggs828@home.net> wrote:
Wink, wink! Nod, nod! Know what I mean, Know what I mean!
Click to expand...
A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat.

robert
 
Ian Stirling wrote:

In sci.electronics.design FrankW <fworm@mxznorpak.ca> wrote:

This just plain sucks.
Most of the trade magazines are dropping the
printed version for PDF files. I'm sorry but to
bring my PC to the can for reading is impractical.
Advertisers stop this nonsense. I will simply
stop reading them. I spend enough time in front
of a monitor. In this case technology sucks



It depends.
I'm reading more on my (1.1Kg) laptop than I read dead-tree these
days. (200 books/year)
It gets propped up on its side on the bed, taken to the loo, ...

However, PDF is fundamentally the wrong format IMO.
I DO NOT WANT to have a simple electronic copy of the magazine.
I want one that I can adjust to have text size appropriate to where I
am, what the conditions are, ...
HTML.

Agree.
Click to expand...
Why is everyone in the industry so fixated on using PDFs?

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org
 
I read in sci.electronics.design that Dirk Bruere at Neopax
<dirk.bruere@gmail.com> wrote (in <3pl6cdFaofllU1@individual.net>) about
'Tech Magazines going electronic.', on Sat, 24 Sep 2005:

Why is everyone in the industry so fixated on using PDFs?
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It started out free;
The reader still is free;
Everybody can read it;
It works (enough).
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
If everything has been designed, a god designed evolution by natural selection.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
 
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:32:46 +0100, Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:
Ian Stirling wrote:
In sci.electronics.design FrankW <fworm@mxznorpak.ca> wrote:

This just plain sucks.
Most of the trade magazines are dropping the
printed version for PDF files. I'm sorry but to
bring my PC to the can for reading is impractical.
Advertisers stop this nonsense. I will simply
stop reading them. I spend enough time in front
of a monitor. In this case technology sucks

It depends.
I'm reading more on my (1.1Kg) laptop than I read dead-tree these
days. (200 books/year)
It gets propped up on its side on the bed, taken to the loo, ...

However, PDF is fundamentally the wrong format IMO.
I DO NOT WANT to have a simple electronic copy of the magazine.
I want one that I can adjust to have text size appropriate to where I
am, what the conditions are, ...
HTML.

Agree.
Why is everyone in the industry so fixated on using PDFs?
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They don't know any better?
Their employer footed the bill for Adobe?
They think it's kewl?
It's got scalable vector graphics and text search capability?

Who knows?

Thanks,
Rich
 
Dirk Bruere wrote:
Why is everyone in the industry so fixated on using PDFs?
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1: Because it was the first cross platform format, and is so widely
used that people rarely have to install software to read a file.

2: Some IT departments will not allow you to install other software,
but Acrobat reader is commonly installed on networked computers.

3: Most people are familiar with PDF so they don't have to answer a
bunch of stupid questions, over and over.

--
?

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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