Tech Magazines going electronic.

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

 

Totally agree. I do not read anything electronic.

 

That all started years ago when software sales people began pushing "online"
help functions in a program as a replacement for a user manual.

 

Nice. Hint Hint. Good one.

 

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.

 

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

 

Yea! And while were complaining, why is it lately that EVERY article is
about PDM, FEA or CFD?

Muggs

 

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.

 

CFD? Can't Find Dallas?

 

Muggs wrote...

Word to the wise, word to the wise.

 

["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat.

robert

 

["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]

Say no more!

robert

 

Agree.
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

It started out free;
The reader still is free;
Everybody can read it;
It works (enough).

 

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

 

HTML

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org

 

But, Robert, Acrobat reader has had hyperlinks for several versions,
now. And with the hot new 7.0, it'll even call home without asking your
permission, or even telling you it's doing it!. At least with a modern
browser (not, of course, M$ style), you can prohibit html doing that.

John Perry

 

Couple of revs eh?
Use standard, well defined, HTML.
Strangely, I manage to write HTML that runs on all known browsers. But then,
it's not loaded with Flash, movies or sound. Just pics and text.

--
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org

 

A couple of revs of PDF ?

Yeah it's gone downhill ! Adobe should be shot.

Graham