[geeks] SPARC proprietary

[Shannon]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:36:58PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> Sucks whenever I tried to read it.  I can't recall specific dates, but
> going back several years to my recollection.

Some of their stuff was good though, just surrounded by too much
illegible print and fluff to ever make me want to subscribe.

Then again, I feel that way about most magazines any more. I miss the
geek rags from the 70s and 80s.

I thought some of the interviews were very good, while others made me
wonder if the person it was about sued them. They did a lot of articles
on whacky research and barely-there technology, and they wrote it up as
if the stuff was going to be in Wal-Mart next week, when its more likey
years to decades away from commercial use.

However, some things Wired did were good. I thought articles on the
hidden infrastructures in society were good, and no one else does things
like that. For example, when they followed a trans-ocean cable from
hop-to-hop. In another, they detailed the nitty-gritty of a building's
internal systems, things which most people never think about.

So maybe what we need is to take those aspects of Wired and make a rag
which gets rid of their bad side. 

Oh, and printing in readable colors would be nice too.


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