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Subject: re: Re: UKNM: mac cover discs
From: ben
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 20:10:57 GMT

I must be looking in the wrong places if I can't find free broadband delivery like that...

...do you have the url?


> ** Original Subject: Re: UKNM: mac cover discs
> ** Original Sender: Stefan Magdalinski <stefanatisness [dot] org>
> ** Original Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 17:22:35 +0000

> ** Original Message follows...

>
> benatdeepend [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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