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| Thread ID: 117198 | 2011-04-07 02:09:00 | Magazines? | Cato (6936) | PC World Chat |
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| 1192735 | 2011-04-09 06:53:00 | I used to buy heaps, but the net is much quicker than any magazine really. Plus magazine prices are out of this world these days. | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 1192736 | 2011-04-09 07:36:00 | Plus magazine prices are out of this world these days. They wouldn't be if they had something worth reading. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1192737 | 2011-04-09 07:45:00 | We have just had one of our best years at work according to my employer, investing in new machinery last year, and again this year. A paperless office has been tried, and been found out it doesn't work. One thing I don't miss is the sticky pages in the umm men's mags Sticky touchscreen/keyboard? :yuck: |
bot (15449) | ||
| 1192738 | 2011-04-09 07:46:00 | Good point, Mike. I didn't even think of that - but it's very obvious, isn't it? Yeah - $$$ talks and we know what is bipedal. I tend to believe that Wired is going that way too - but I will look the other way for a while as the articles are (sometimes) brilliant and other times they are entertaining. What I dislike if the 2pt font they use for the articles. Back in the 90's I used to get PCMagazine from the USA and after giving up on that moved to PCPro from England and then to PCWorld from NZ and really enjoyed Geoff Palmer and his articles about Linux/Delphi etc. but then it appeared he got ankle tapped so I have just given up since then. As for the font size I am sure so many things use a font size that is way too small now. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1192739 | 2011-04-09 08:32:00 | I used to buy heaps, but the net is much quicker than any magazine really. Plus magazine prices are out of this world these days. Too true. Back in the days before I had left school, and first of all had pocket money until I was 12 (2/6d/week), then earned money from a paper round (7/6d a week) then a butchers delivery round and shop work (15/- a week) and then a saturday job in an ex-govt surplus shop (£1/week), I used to buy: Boy's Own Paper Hobbies Weekly Meccano Magazine (http://meccano.magazines.free.fr/) Cycling Practical Wireless Wireless World every now and then Motor Cycling (The Green'un; the Blue'un was The Motorcycle) The Aeroplane The Melody Maker ...........and I still had money left over for pictures, hobbies, records (78rpm), a motorbike, holidays etc. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1192740 | 2011-04-09 15:11:00 | Too true. Back in the days <yadda, yadda, yadda> ...........and I still had money left over for pictures, hobbies, records (78rpm), a motorbike, holidays etc. Then you got married. :devil |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1192741 | 2011-04-09 23:24:00 | Then you got married. :devil How did you guess ? Ah, the sacrifices made...first the record collection, then the motorbike, then there was not enough room in the flat for all the magazines, so out went the Aeroplane and all the Motorcyclings except for Vincent articles...But I did keep several years worth of Vincent Owners Club magazines. Nowadays I only buy the odd Silicon Chip magazine if there is an article of interest. However there is still a shedfull of Electronics Australia and Practical Wireless, "Camm's Comic" as it was disrepectfully called :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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