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Make Magazine Subscription Now Available
Jac_no_k writes "O'Reilly's Make magazine is now taking subscription orders. They have an offer for one bonus 'mook' by using the offer code 'M5ZXML'. Their description: 'MAKE is a new hybrid magazine/book ("mook") published quarterly by O'Reilly. MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. It follows in line with the Hacks books and Hardware Hacking Projects, but it takes a highly visual and personal approach.'" If the quality of the magazine is the same as their technical books, this should be a worthwhile subscription.
The problem here is its such a broad topic. People's interest diverge so far that it's really a much more suitable topic for a generalized search engine Google rather than a magazine format. While some people will tend to think that stuff in the kitchen is cool, others will think it should include coding. Others will want automotive and others will prefer architecture or explosives or metalwork or hide tanning or alternative energy. The Foxfire series tried to do something similar, but they also had a theme beyond just doing it yourself which was doing it the old fashioned way. That only appealed to a certain set. Coming at it from the opposite, doing it yourself and doing in the new way doesn't really seem to work as a theme.
I think the real question is, do we still need magazines?
In Soviet russia, only old Koreans profit from pictures of Natalie Portman stored on Beowulf Clusters.
I thought I was buying a Bagazine! WTF?
I will only purchase a subscription if every "mook" has a different animal pictured on the cover.
Would that be average quality? Some O'reilly books suck ass, you know.
... on /., but I am not the first one to subscribe Make.
I've been looking for something to replace my subscription to SA for a long time. Over the years, it has become wayyyy too much like popular science/mechanics for my taste.
What with all this talk of meeting makers and such...
-Erwos
Plausible conjecture should not be misrepresented as proof positive.
How long does it take to compile? My mailman isn't the fastest.
One Year - 4 Volumes $34.95
Not bad, but not too good either. I dropped my subscriptions to Linux Journal and Linux Magazine when their prices went this high. I'll probably buy one or two off of the shelf before I decide to subscribe.
Magic Eight Ball: Outlook not so good., Hmmm, how about Excel and Word?
If Penthouse magazine can go bankrupt even with naked boobies, what hope is there for a magazine without any boobies?
Makefile would've been a lot cooler IMHO. And quite relevant too, considering their target readership.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
I can finally put a REAL cupholder in my PC?
nice...
now i can make my own stuff
user@localhost>make o'reilly
No rule to make target 'o'reilly'. Stop.
Fuck. Not for me, I guess.
In Soviet russia, only old Koreans profit from pictures of Natalie Portman stored on Beowulf Clusters.
out of the office supplies? Hell yeah!!!
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Make is a mook that is really like a book but took the...
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For example:
"Tony, you are such a stupid mook."
DAMN YOU OCTODOG! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
what was wrong with 'bagazine'? Or boogazine? Or mack?
...doesn't anybody care?
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What? Wait, come back!
The difference between spam and poop is that you don't have to dig through septic tanks looking for real food. -- Me
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*actually it's not ORA it's https://www.pubservice.com/
This
I've given up fighting the word "blog" -- I just don't care anymore. The word "Mook", however, I'm ready to come out of retirement against.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
Big hairy thing. The Mook
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I just tried to subscribe, got the same error. You'd think they would be ready for large volume for a subscription launch. If it was the Slashdot effect, that was really fast. I'd bet there's something else going on, such as a poor implementation of the subscription server. If they crash that soon, then they may not be able to handle a normal web traffic load, much less the /. crowd.
jdbear
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
Hustler Boy or........PentJuggs
Aside from the goofy name, this won't sell. What makes anyone think that ORA can sell a quarterly to the same FOSSils who wouldn't shell out for Linux books?
me thinks they need to "Make" a subscription service that can handle a decent slashdotting...
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte
...is what you say to kids when you're trying to get them to use the toilet.
Why does this remind me of taking a dump?
Not sure we need another dumb-sounding buzzword for something that has been around for more than 90 years. "Afred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, "Weird Tales", "Astounding"...all of those old anthology magazines so little different from anthology books. Especially the issues with a single novella.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Oh no...I'm sorry...the answer is "moops"!
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
Don't you have to have a subscription to "./configure" magazine first?
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
I was thinking that the last thing the world needed was more written drivel from the author & FoxNews persona.
... is 404 (running IIS). I wonder how much revenue they're losing after a Slashdot post?
"Powers. I have them."
It's Moors, you idiot! ...That's a misprint!
Odd. Not 2 minutes ago I just finished mine.
Cypherpunks: Civil Liberty Through Complex Mathematics. Those who live by the sword die by the arrow.
You order the special "./make test" issue.
It's outsourced.
I tried to subscribe, submitting credit card immediately.
I got an invoice instead.
I called them. They won't have the data until Monday, because ORA has it (supposedly). They said, "sometimes that happens with websites."
I threw up my hands and decided to submit payment for the invoice, using a credit card.
I filled everything out. I checked all the appropriate boxes. I hit "Submit".
The payment page simply reloaded. No confirmation, no email, no nothing.
At this point, I've tried to pay twice. I thought I HAD paid. Twice. If this is how ORA wants to deal with their subscriptions, they just lost one. I have better things to do than help their outsourced subscription-handling company debug their craptacular approach to accepting money.
.@.
I'll probably buy the first issue, but wait on getting a subscription.
The problem with reading about these kinds of hacks online is that there are so many of them. I never know which ones are the most useful or the coolest. I don't know how many times I have paid little attention to an article on Slashdot, only to find it was a really cool topic when I see it on the Screen Savers.
I'm hoping this magazine can help provide some insight, and maybe I'll learn something.
I thought magazine news went in the developer section.
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I did the same thing - the web site reports that I have not paid, but I got an email that seems to confirm that I did indeed pay. Seems that pubservice needs to hire better developers.
This issue has a human animal on the cover!
The idea of a software developer paying for a software magazine is ludicrous.
just tried it, it worked fine. I think you forget to click on the checkbox that your billing address is the same as your other address.
Nope. I made it a point to. I even went back in the cache and verified I did.
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I checked out their website, some of the projects, and the price and find it awesome. I'll be one of the first subscribers. If I had kids I am sure they'd love those little projects.
Our subscription fulfillment house has processed nearly 600 subscription orders since the original slashdot. But the truth is, we should have been able to handle the load. I have been told that they in fact did identify a problem within the past hour and have corrected it. Everything appears to be running smoothly. However, if you continue to experience difficulties subscribing, please contact me directly at dan@oreilly.com. Dan Woods Associate Publisher MAKE dan@oreilly.com
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Is Make Magazine supposed to turn into some kind of journal?, one that we keep on the shelf for reference year after year? At $15 a pop, one would hope so.
Heard any good sigs lately?
O'Reilly really should know better.
I will subscribe when they get a better system, but not until then.
Someone needs to tell O'Reilly that "mook" is already a word. And, um, a derogatory one at that.
Another example of modern usage:
Read my blog.
- you're not hallucinating... the web site is FUCKED UP!
1. filled out info, entered promo code
2. continued, checked 'same as billing'
3. entered cc info
4. got the final page with links to pay with a credit card!
FUCKED UP WEB SITE!!!
O'Reilly, didn't you check this out????
do any test runs, you idiots out there on the Left Coast?
O'Reilly looks like it's getting too big for its britches now...
maybe one of their HTML authors should have a go at the subscription site?
...I might be tempted to try to scrape together the money to subscribe.
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Why didn't anyone tell me my alma mater had been re-branded?
This past semester, I took a class where we did a lot of AVR programming. Since I finished that class, I've been looking to continue this as a hobby. But I had no idea what would be some fun and useful embedded projects. I'm not expecting that to come directly from this magazine... But I'm hoping that there's something I can make, and then improve on by throwing a micro into the mix :-)
If anyone has anymore resources for the wannabe-hobbyist, I'd like to know!
Freaked me out for a sec there.
Tried to calculate how much the'd have to pay me to read a Bill O'Reily mag, but the hp49 only goes to 10^500
wowser!
It seems that O'Reilly has borrowed the term from the Japanese publishing industry and have applied it to their own new magazine series. Funny thing is that I didn't make the "magazine + book" connection until now o_O;
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