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What Magazines Do You Read?
Osgyth asks: "Everyone is quick to complain about a magazine when the author makes a mistake or a stupid comment. Wired and PC Magazine are only some that have fallen to this attack. Which 'PC related' magazines does the Slashdot crowd read? Are they informative and accurate? Or merely read for their entertainment value?" Why limit the topic to just PC Magazines? What other periodicals do you all read that you find interesting?
I *read* Playboy. No, really...it's for the articles!!
T...The Magazine for the Slashdotter who missed the story the third time around!
Asian temptress, and Hot House wive regularly.
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(> <) to help him achieve world domination.
When I can sit and reload slashdot all day!
Hustler and National Review. Proceedings of the ACM now and again.
Smithsonian and Discover are the magazines of choice, but only for the pictures! Oh and Sysadmin Magazine, which always has useful articles in it (can't wait to dig through the CDROM they sent with their back issues on it).
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
yeah, that's right, the one where ol'Dicky is supposedly a robot.
Why? Because if I want to read lies, I might as well know I'm reading them.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
The Following: FHM Loaded Maxim Rolling Stone Wired 2600 Stuff Tattoo Internationl What can I say, it's a long bus ride to hell and back everyday ;)
...covering only the most relevant information for those interested in taking over the world!
I prefer Playboy, lots of interesting beat off stuff. Good shorties.
So I just read slashdot.
Is this room 215?
Yes, can I help you?
Hi, I'm here for the flamewar?
Yes, please do come in. Won't you have some tea? we're discussing Star Wars.
Ah, good. I was looking for some potential converts to the world of Gene Roddenberry. Phasers can shoot through light-sabers, you know.
Careful, the tea's hot. And everyone knows that Imperial Shields can stop any energy/ballistic attack as long as the Shield Generators remain undamaged. Then Darth Vader would force-choke Captain Kirk into submission.
Mmm, good tea. May I have a scone?
Oh, please do.
Thank you. But that's absurd, if Geordi modulated the phasars on a plasma-variance intercorrelation loop, the meso-barions surrounding the ---
*knock knock* Is this the Paris Hilton vs. Natalie Portman thread?
(all) next thread, by the water cooler
Ah, much obliged. *leaves*
--look, Kirk was a ninny, anyway.
Hey, Kirk could kick Picard's pseudo-French hiney any day of the week!
Oh yeah, well Picard favorably impressed the Q continuum, so in them he has the friendship of a literal race of Gods, I think I've made my point.
See here, let's not have this bickering and whining about who killed who..
Hey, that's Monty Python! GET HIM!!!!!
Can't we all just get along?
Apparently not, but we can argue about why next week.
"A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire
"d'Oh!" ~Homer
In the corner of my eye it looked like you said:
"There are magazines devoted to everything -- sports cars, handguns, killing ferrets..."
I used to read Playboy, but now I am blind!
Maxim is a magazine for thicknecked jerks who spend their welfare checks on car stereo systems and take serious interest in articles which tell them which foods will improve the taste of their semen.
nah it just means i only have to see up to her neck before i'm horny ;)
------- "From bored to fanboy in 3.8 asian girls" ----------
If by that you mean "the training of puppies," then I heartily agree.
Come on, guys, there are subtler ways of collecting demographic info.
Can I see Armund Tanzarian's copy of Swank?
I find that the kiddies at the k-12 especially enjoy my old copies of Hustler. They often use them for collaging in art class. As a bonus, I have provided a "glue" to some of the pages to make their collaging easier.
I've tried that
Turns out, each time, i just convince myself that I could stand to know more about breasts. *sigh*
The Neo-Bohemian Techno-Socialist
I'm sure you actully mean PC Magazine == shit, otherwise you are trying to assign that property to what I'm sure is a protected variable of the computer magazine class. So you'd just get an error. Of course if PC Magazine is truley as shitty as you say then in all likleyhood they forgot to set it as private/protected which gives you free reign to set it to whatever you want. Tho if it were up to me I might set it to somthing like PC Magazine = Blow jobs
I had to buy 40 subscriptions to Vibe from some guy named Steve, who came from a rough area and used to be addicted to crack but is now off and trying to stay clean, in order to keep him from telling anyone about my money laundering scheme so I can stay out of federal reserve pound me in the ass prison.
"....and buy a magazine devoted to a subject you know nothing about. Read it." ...and that is why the slashdot crowd chooses Playboy!
Finally! A magazine with even worse photographers than Earl "vasaline on the lens" Miller!
Why does every girl in Maxim have to be slathered in glycerine and dressed like a cheap hooker?
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
FAIR reports that Halliburton has made US$4,508,231,125 trillion dollars mining stem-cell futures in Gadzookistan in the past forty-five minutes alone.
Jesus, who was a liberal, said that abortion is wrong. Since only aborted harp seals can operate the machinery used to mine stem-cells in the giant redwoods of the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge, this practice is clearly in opposition to the will of God, and also against the will of God's boss (Noam Chomsky).
You are, therefore, a fascist, an atheist, a corporatist bourgeois swine, a damned foreigner, a sexist pig, a child-molester, and a jerk. I hate you. The whole world hates you. FAIR has demonstrated that the New York Times has run NOT ONE STORY in the past year reporting that the whole world hates you and the God-fearing, Bible-believing multicultural harp seal fetus that you rode in on, you evil freak. This is stark media bias at its most reprehensible.
You can get Jesus out of the schools, but you can't get him out of the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge! He hates you too, by the way. Because you hate fags, you damned fag. And because you don't use Linux. BSD is, after all, dying. Where will YOU be on Judgement Day? Installing XP Service Pack Twelve, you pathetic deluded sheep?
IEEE Spectrum / IEEE Computer (I'm a programmer)
Physics Today (I have a physics degree)
Aviation Week (I work for NASA)
Car and Driver (I'm a gearhead)
MIT Technology Review (I'm a tech geek)
and...
Penthouse Forum! (for the... uh... articles!)
Yeah, sucks to do things that other people do. Obviously that makes us stupid sheep.
Just for you Mr. Indie, I have bitten some rhymes:
I'm so indie that my shirt don't fit
you wonder out loud 'frontalot yo why you come so ill-equipped?'
because being all prepared to get on the mic is selling out
and I ain't even about to relinquish indie clout
I look confused, like I just got out of bed,
my rhyme style reflects this
use my overdeveloped sense of irony to deflect dis-
missiles, exploding all around me
unpromoted, don't know how you found me
soundly situated in obscurityland
famous in inverse proportion to how cool I am
and should I ever garner triple-digit fans
you can tell me then there's someone I ain't indier than--mc frontalot
Oh, yeah and I read giant robot too.
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Crudely Drawn Games
Bein' from Jo-jah, it took me a moment to unda-stand the statement "you all." Then, I just realized it be a bastardization of "y'all." Come own now - ain't no problem sayin' "y'all."
But in a weak attempt to stay on topic - I don't read PC mags. I saw a guy laughing over a Unix mag once and asked him what was so funny, and he said - "Can you believe these pleebs think that the standard carburator can run at 3700 jigawatts on a 1998 Googenheimer Blonhoowhatzit?" I looked at him vacantly. "Exactly! That's what I'm sayin'!" He said before turning back to the magazine.
In short, I don't read them because - more often than not - I feel incredibly out of the loop. Most advanced users and technology writers write and talk as if they're working for a specialized trade magazine, so it's harder for me to keep up.
That being said, I stick to the Victoria's Secret catalogue... not that I understand how their products work either.
You sound like a Fox News Reporter - "fair and balanced".
From their website:
Stratfor was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in Washington, D.C., with an intelligence network located throughout the world.
Nevermind, now it's clear that they are impartial, and nothing like Fox News.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
I think you are obsessed with Microsoft's (male) genitals. And frankly, I'm worried.
We're talking about male genitals of a company called "micro" "soft". From a man's point of view, that's all bad.
Avoid Missing Ball for High Score
I tend to read PC Gamer and PC Mag regularly. Sometimes, whenever Science crosses my path I check it out. Can't say I've ever "read" Playboy, probably cause I get more turned on by the latest Falcon NW Exotix case (yeah, I'm a loser, so sue me). I'm sure Playboy and Penthouse are worth reading for their "intellectual" value, but it's the tech stuff that really appeals to me. Besides, I've got a girl (yes, in real life, yes, a real one).
This isn't really a geek/nerd magazine but I just got my latest issue of Hot Rod magazine. It came with an AOL CD.
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!
My brain hurts..