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| Thread ID: 80169 | 2007-06-13 21:18:00 | Who fired the PCWorld editor? | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 558888 | 2007-06-15 04:54:00 | Yeah and I suppose you're the sort of person who'll only ever close the door, never shut it. :groan:If you're going to criticize others people's grammar, you can expect at least a cursory scrutiny of your own. I note that your "factual error" was not an error. I wonder if the grammatical errors you say you detected are in fact erroneous. Not that's it's relevant, I do not "only ever close the door". I open the door quite frequently. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 558889 | 2007-06-15 05:30:00 | The mags have lost their...funniness if you like. They've got to P.C. (lol) Compare the mag now with the mag this time last year, id have spent a few hours reading it over the course of a month, where as with the new mags, 15 mins and it's gone. i'm not too sure what it's lost....spelling and grammer and advertising doesn't matter - when it comes to PCs advertising is always interesting. Id say buck your ideas up a bit, i know i havnt bought a PCW mag for a long time. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 558890 | 2007-06-15 05:57:00 | All the popular technical magazines are dumbing down . That's to match the readership . Byte magazine used to have hundreds of pages, with plenty of technical content (e . g . building computers from chips, building a floppy disk interface . . . ) at a higher (or "lower") level than "how to plug boards into sockets and put a cover on" . Byte magazine became thinner and thinner (with a decline in advertising) and now is no more . The Australian "pc" magazines are thinner (less advertising) than they used to be . The technical articles are not as technical as they used to be . They sometimes contain blatant errors . Tits and bum (aimed at all sexes) magazines will probably thrive . I'd guess that there's even more money to be made with "audio" magazines which will carry "serious" reviews of, e . g . , a $700 IEC power cord, or multi thousand dollar "interconnect" cables, which are alleged to improve sound output quality . People with "golden ears" (solid metal between the ears?) seem be happy to pay extortionate prices for equipment marketed by snake oil merchants . Computer enthusiasts seem to want everything at the lowest possible price . Guess which industry has more money to spare for advertising . Guess which will get the glossiest and fattest magazines . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 558891 | 2007-06-15 06:01:00 | The Porn industry? | Metla (12) | ||
| 558892 | 2007-06-15 06:03:00 | All the popular technical magazines are dumbing down. That's to match the readership. Byte magazine used to have hundreds of pages, with plenty of technical content (e.g. building computers from chips, building a floppy disk interface ...) at a higher (or "lower") level than "how to plug boards into sockets and put a cover on". Byte magazine became thinner and thinner (with a decline in advertising) and now is no more. The Australian "pc" magazines are thinner (less advertising) than they used to be. The technical articles are not as technical as they used to be. They sometimes contain blatant errors. Tits and bum (aimed at all sexes) magazines will probably thrive. I'd guess that there's even more money to be made with "audio" magazines which will carry "serious" reviews of, e.g., a $700 IEC power cord, or multi thousand dollar "interconnect" cables, which are alleged to improve sound output quality. People with "golden ears" (solid metal between the ears?) seem be happy to pay extortionate prices for equipment marketed by snake oil merchants. Computer enthusiasts seem to want everything at the lowest possible price. Guess which industry has more money to spare for advertising. Guess which will get the glossiest and fattest magazines. Must just be PC mags that are "dumbing down", there are plenty of how to articles in NZ Mac Guide on a whole range of stuff which is not to say that you can't do similar stuff on a PC, infact as many readers here would agree you can play games on and build your own PC.... but there are either no articles or very limited articles in these areas of interest. Also workshops on building a mutlimedia style web site, setting up your own home PC network The best software apps for backing up your DVD collection Gaming tips Setting up a home server and wireless network ..... |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 558893 | 2007-06-15 06:05:00 | Bugger me, Who would have thought that Winmacguy would pop up stating that over in Mac land things are much much better? Anyone? :cool: |
Metla (12) | ||
| 558894 | 2007-06-15 06:08:00 | Beats me:p | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 558895 | 2007-06-15 06:45:00 | The Australian "pc" magazines are thinner (less advertising) than they used to be . The technical articles are not as technical as they used to be . They sometimes contain blatant errors . I must agree with you there . Especially the "overclocking: part 1" article in the latest APC mag . eg: "The basic overclocking methodology is to add more voltage to the motherboard . . . . " The article is riddled with statements like that . It seems the author has gotten voltage confused with clockspeeds/frequency . Another Quote: "Most overclockers say the best you can hope for in overclocking a CPU is 50 percent . . . " " . . . most motherboards - including the . . . . - just wont let you increase the voltage much higher than 30 per cent . " Now I may be wrong here, but I thought that increasing the voltage that much to any component in a PC would fry it, no matter how much cooling you use . . . |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 558896 | 2007-06-15 10:20:00 | I must agree with you there. Especially the "overclocking: part 1" article in the latest APC mag. eg: The article is riddled with statements like that. It seems the author has gotten voltage confused with clockspeeds/frequency. Another Quote: Now I may be wrong here, but I thought that increasing the voltage that much to any component in a PC would fry it, no matter how much cooling you use... If you're bumping up the FSB to do your overclocking you generally have to adjust your voltages to compensate. Perhaps that's what they were getting at? |
Scott Bartley (836) | ||
| 558897 | 2007-06-15 13:51:00 | If you're going to criticize others people's grammar, you can expect at least a cursory scrutiny of your own. I note that your "factual error" was not an error. I wonder if the grammatical errors you say you detected are in fact erroneous.Grey Ham... are you just pretending to be stupid, or are you the real thing? | Greg (193) | ||
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