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| Thread ID: 40213 | 2003-12-01 23:23:00 | Let down again by PC World | JJJJJ (528) | Press F1 |
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| 196343 | 2003-12-08 21:16:00 | There's nothing wrong with this topic, thread, or it's replies. It's perfectly good debate, which is relevant to this forum as it is run by PC World. But using your theory, this topic shouldn't be here - it should be in a forum where people want to complain about magazines, newspapers, books etc. | somebody (208) | ||
| 196344 | 2003-12-08 21:17:00 | > Yes when I was at school we used > pens that were dipped in inkwells . > I started off with a slate and slate > pencil . > If I wanted to phone someone I > had only to walk a mile to a public phone booth . > What's wrong with that ? Selective memory is a wonderful asset to you Jack, so how is your horse? and how in heck do you manage to find a *real* Barber when you need blood-letting? Candles are easy to find still, but kerosene lamps are in short supply and it must give your lumbago gyp having to cut wood for your coal range every day since the coal man stopped delivering . It's a bugger when your abacus locks up halfway through calculating the annual income tax bill, but that's progress, taxes had to come one day and at least you can still count on your fingers . I presume Mrs J doesn't mind boiling up the copper for the weekly wash, pity you had to hock her mangle to an antiques dealer in exchange for a new bedside commode after you tripped over the old one and broke it but I suppose she doesn't complain too much about now having to wring the bedsheets out by hand . Maybe you ought to go dig a new longdrop as no doubt you don't hold with all this fancy sanitation stuff . As a concession to Mrs J's advancing age you really ought to consider hiring a local lad to pump your water from the well once a day and bring a few buckets inside at the same time to save aggravating her arthritis . Shouldn't cost you more than sixpence a week for his services . Ever since the iceman stopped calling I guess you have had to give in and go to the local garage for ice to keep your ice box cool, and you just can't get enough food into the meat safe anymore, darned supermarkets don't allow you to buy in daily requirements and prepacks are more than you need . Of course you can plough through the vittles after a hard day on the scythe cutting the grass out back so it's not all bad . I am just (and only just) old enough to have experienced slates, inkwells, the blue-black ink provided by schools for pupils whose parents couldn't afford Stephens Royal Blue, meat safes, no telephones, one speed bicycles, and always walking to school no matter what the weather wearing rubberised raincoats that left you wetter that not wearing one at all because of the sweat they produced . I wouldn't want to go back to those times . Rose tinted spectacles are all very well, but people dying in agony from illness, disease, accident or childbirth for lack of technology for medical research or lack of speedy communication or transport (to name just a few examples) were the drivers for research that has led to today's world . Just effective sanitation and clean water have saved countless lives and would do so in other places on the globe too if they could stop fighting long enough to take stock of what is important in life . Winging about a few pages in a magazine makes you sound like a grumpy old man, or worse, a closet luddite . I don't think you are either (using a computer was one clue :D) so stop hacking at PCW, go buy PC Authority if you must, but they review digital cameras too (April 2003) and *shock horror* photo-inkjets . The explosive growth of the latter is a clue to how interested the mainstream computing fraternity are in digital photography . Cheers Billy 8-{) :| |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 196345 | 2003-12-08 21:20:00 | I think this thread has gone far enough. We are just talking in circles.To finish off I will just say what I would like to see in PC World. A full fourty page article on how to use Powerpoint. All I do with it is use it to store my digital photo's. :D :D :D Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 196346 | 2003-12-08 21:28:00 | Billy T . I'll have you know we had a flush toilet. And I didn't have a bike. It was only a mile and a half to the tram stop. :D :D Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 196347 | 2003-12-08 22:31:00 | If you find a cell-phone too intrusive, then buy that little midget Red one you can get on Telecom's 027 network that's about the size of a matchbox, and use that. ...Then, when you dont wan to be bothered by it, turn the bloody thing off!! Just yesterday I helped somebody setup their Sony Erricson phone to talk with their laptop. If I had got stuck along the way, guess where I would have come!?! ....Now tell me why they're not related? |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 196348 | 2003-12-08 22:39:00 | I agree, this thread has run its course . Everybody's got their viewpoint and is well entitled to them . I respect what Jack is saying - he simply wants a PC mag that focuses exclusively on PC stuff without taking in stuff around the periphery . I'm sure he and and others would enjoy a mag like that but we have to cater to a broader audeince than that . Perhaps in an ideal world - where NZ was larger and we could affiord to have a more diverse magazine market - it would be possible to have a mag that tightly focused . But NZ isn't that large and its mag market is quite small, so we remain a broadly focused magazine . I would point out that the number of PC magazines in NZ shrunk massively in the last 10 years but that PC World remains . We didn't last the distance by not learning a bit about delivering what most of our audience want . For that reason if we believe things like the digicam supplement will be of interest and value to a broad part of our audience, we'll put them in . But we do try to do such things so that they do not limit the appeal of the mag to other readers -- there is plenty of "PC" content in that issue, I would argue . Let the debate end here unless someone has anything really new to say . I'm not locking the thread because it's been a good debate and full an frank exchnage of views and I've no desire to limit that in any way . |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 196349 | 2003-12-08 22:43:00 | > > I would like to see in PC World . A full fourty page > article on how to use Powerpoint . Ask Billy T to do it, he seems to have the time to write at length and I am sure he could fill up fourty pages no problem . Some of it may be irrelevant, or self-evident and stating the obvious but it will sure to be informative . |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 196350 | 2003-12-08 22:43:00 | > Let the debate end here unless someone has anything really new to say Boobies. |
metla (154) | ||
| 196351 | 2003-12-08 23:57:00 | At least it gives everybody a chance to practice their debating skills. | somebody (208) | ||
| 196352 | 2003-12-09 00:02:00 | My tuppence worth: 1. If you subscribe - put up with it/get over it 2. If you buy from a shop - leaf through it before you pay. I would have thought that these two things were fairly basic. BTW caveat emptor applies. |
Chris Randal (521) | ||
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