Re: UKNM: mac cover discs

[Stefan Magdalinski]

bendeepend [dot] it

 wrote:

 > 

 > ahhh... now I understand... so this DVD thing then is just a stillborn development of old

 > fashioned technology? I guess that means that Apple have totally shot themselves in the foot

 > with (what I stupidly thought) that fabulous option of DVD playing fullscreen movie

 > entertainment on their latest machines... Poor fools, and just when they had started to use

 > such pretty colours!

 > 

 > This must mean that the absolute limit of New Media design is what can be downloaded over

 > that trusty 28.8 and viewed through a browser... Therefore digital video (which I suppose is

 > another ancient and therefore worthless part of New Media) must be viewed on positively

 > prehistoric TV and video, roughly approximated through Real technologies, or waited an

 > hour for with Quicktime or Mpeg?


I believe you were berating the young gentleman for failing to

distribute 30 pence worth of 

plastic with the same useless collection of shareware and freeware on it

each month. unlike a real computer magazine. 


 > Sorry Stefan, but bog standard CDs are still a convenient way of 


protecting wooden tables from coffeecup stains.


 > carrying a stack of info

 > without spending four days downloading the bloody stuff... When real (as distinct from

 > promised/hinted at/divined from the gizzards of a lark) broadband/telco technologies allow

 > me to download 650Mb for free at the drop of a hat, I'll believe that the CD on the cover of

 > a mag is a waste of space.


but not compulsory surely.


 > This interweb thing just isn't that great yet ;-)


you're not looking in the right places, is all ;)


stefan


 > Ben


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