MAKE Switches To BUY

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday April 1, 2006 @10:38AM from the be-a-good-consumer dept.

ptorrone writes "It's been a rough year for MAKE Magazine, you see, everyone wants to buy things and not make things, so we're switching our format and rebranding the magazine to BUY. The next volume will be filled with wonderful things you can buy and directives on things to do, like buy more. Our new designer, Nada, has some shots of the next volume here."

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Oh, Make *magazine* by Kelson · 2006-04-01 10:40 · Score: 3, Funny

I thought this was about the GNU compiler tools!
1. Re:Oh, Make *magazine* by dilvie · 2006-04-01 10:41 · Score: 1
  
  Did you look at the photos? I love the big OBEY commandment. ;)
  
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2. Re:Oh, Make *magazine* by Ohreally_factor · 2006-04-01 10:59 · Score: 1
  
  Next thing you know, we'll be hearing that Fox News got hacked and that Bill O'Reily is really a lizard person.
  
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3. Re:Oh, Make *magazine* by Kelson · 2006-04-01 11:24 · Score: 1
  
  Bill O'Reily is really a lizard person.
  
  Now that I might believe...
4. Re:Oh, Make *magazine* by jrockway · 2006-04-01 12:48 · Score: 1
  
  I thought it was an article on how to MAKE swiches for other people to BUY from you. I guess not...
  
  (OMG! PONIES! has finally ended. The goggles... they do something now.)
  
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5. Re:Oh, Make *magazine* by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-01 16:44 · Score: 0
  
  Make is a BSD tool. You must be confusing it with gmake.
6. Re:Oh, Make *magazine* by jrockway · 2006-04-02 20:53 · Score: 1
  
  [~] 0 (jon@powerwire) $ make --version GNU Make 3.80 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. [~] 0 (jon@powerwire) $ gmake --version -bash: gmake: command not found [~] 0 (jon@powerwire) $ uname -a Darwin powerwire.local 8.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.5.0: Sun Jan 22 10:38:46 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.61.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
  
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7. Re:Oh, Make *magazine* by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-03 12:48 · Score: 0
  
  [anonymous@coward:~]$ ls -l `which make` lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16 Mar 29 14:39 /usr/bin/make -> /usr/bin/gnumake
  heh.
OMG!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-01 10:40 · Score: 0

fp OMG PONIES!!!
Make... Buy... Compile by dteichman2 · 2006-04-01 10:48 · Score: 1

I think that MAKE is annoying, but so is BUY. How about ANT?

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must buy..... by BugDoomBug · 2006-04-01 10:49 · Score: 1

ponies...... must sell LNUX stock holdings immediately to buy ponies....
That'll teach ya

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MYSPACE!!!!111 by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-01 10:50 · Score: 0

PLEASE LOVE MYSPACEhttp://jdodson.org/~jdodson/my_space_rulez/
Oh boy, a dream come true! by kimvette · 2006-04-01 10:50 · Score: 2, Funny

Now instead of making the sign, can I now BUY an "OMG Ponies!" sign?

I tried making one but ran out of glitter halfway through, and had to use nail polish to finish it. It's a bit of a hack, and I mean the worst connotation of the word "hack" :(

Ooooh look at the purty pink colors!

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where by thomas2you · 2006-04-01 10:51 · Score: 1

where can i get a subscription? i want to start getting that BS as soon as possible.
All property is theft!! by Robotron23 · 2006-04-01 10:53 · Score: 2, Insightful

Just kidding, April Fools!!

MOD UP...do it for the ponies.
Karma by CyberNigma · 2006-04-01 10:54 · Score: 0, Troll

Give me Karma...
1. Re:Karma by CyberNigma · 2006-04-01 10:56 · Score: 1
  
  on second thought... give me good karma...
2. Re:Karma by 1110110001 · 2006-04-01 11:00 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  Seems like everyone crazy enough to mod a random post up already got to bed. Who would do that anyway. Or does anyone want to prove I'm wrong?
3. Re:Karma by 1110110001 · 2006-04-01 11:03 · Score: 1
  
  Just a hint - Funny doesn't improve karma - choose an other +1 ;) Oh here is an other post for the proof.
4. Re:Karma by networkBoy · 2006-04-01 11:09 · Score: 1
  
  I modded him up on one post and down on the other, balence is preserved and I gave him Karma :-)
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thank god by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-01 11:01 · Score: 1, Funny

Their last project to make a girlfriend out of an old vcr and silly putty was a pita to build. I'm buying a girl next time.
1. Re:thank god by Keyboarder · 2006-04-01 11:40 · Score: 1
  
  "It's my sex box, and her name is Sony."
2. Re:thank god by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-01 13:03 · Score: 0
  
  I tried recently to buy, but she seems quite unresponsive:
  
  emerge girl
  
  I even tried man 8 girl but I got a load of fluffy kitten ;)
3. Re:thank god by Scarletdown · 2006-04-01 16:41 · Score: 1
  
  Their last project to make a girlfriend out of an old vcr and silly putty was a pita to build. I'm buying a girl next time.
  
  Will that be with or without the machine gun jubblies?
  
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gets the job done by SirWraith · 2006-04-01 11:03 · Score: 1

either way the "make/(buy) me a sandwich, woman" command will still get me a sandwich.
1. Re:gets the job done by YU+Nicks+NE+Way · 2006-04-01 11:23 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  If you say "Make me a sandwich woman", I can say "OK, you need to learn how to make sandwiches, and the get your sex changed, and then go to work at Subway. You'll be a sandwich woman." If you say "Buy me a sandwich woman," though, I'll be forced to explain that slavery is illegal.
Bullshit tag by nacturation · 2006-04-01 11:03 · Score: 1

Days like today are the reason you can tag articles with "bullshit". :)

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USA culture: Humor challenged. by Futurepower(R) · 2006-04-01 11:20 · Score: 1

Unfortunately, all of this shows that the U.S. culture doesn't have a well-developed sense of humor.
Copycats by ThousandStars · 2006-04-01 11:22 · Score: 1

They just stole someone else's idea. Posers.
no one got the reference!? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-01 11:23 · Score: 0

sounds like you need to PUT ON THE GLASSES!
Oops! by caffeination · 2006-04-01 11:30 · Score: 1

No wonder I was so bored by this story. I thought it was a Slashvertisement for "MAKE switches", some fictional electronic component, available for PURCHASE.
I shit thee not. Too much time has been spent on Slashdot by me today.
Even better by Errans · 2006-04-01 11:34 · Score: 1

is the post on Make:blog about the new webringr service. An April Fool's joke that's actually subtle...
make by michelcultivo · 2006-04-01 11:36 · Score: 1

make magazine make pinkdot. cp pinkdot /home/httpd/www.slashdot.org

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The Magazine? wow by thestevo · 2006-04-01 12:07 · Score: 1

Hmmm... didn't know they were talkin about the magazine... I just thought that Linspire finally called there method of obtaining software what it was
we do have a sense of humor by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-01 12:21 · Score: 0

- it's just that the rest of the world are all L 7s...

p.s. duck and cover, 'cause we're coming for ya!
They Live by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-01 13:43 · Score: 0

If you like the pictures, watch the movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZn x0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9VGhleSBMaXZlfGZ0PTF8 bXg9MjB8bG09NTAwfGNvPTF8aHRtbD0xfG5tPTE_;fc=2;ft=2 2;fm=1
For those who don't get the joke by deblau · 2006-04-01 15:12 · Score: 1

They Live. Screenshot.

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MAKE switches to BYE by antispam_ben · 2006-04-01 15:55 · Score: 1

'nuff said.

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Good title already used by Namlak · 2006-04-01 18:19 · Score: 1

They decided to name it "Buy" because "Popular Science" was already taken.
Electronics Australia magazine really did do this by Circlotron · 2006-04-01 19:42 · Score: 1

EA was a magazine that ran from the 1920's till 2001. In it's heyday it was really something. Had articles like Ian Pogson's "Deltahet" in 1971, the world's first phase-locked loop communications receiver published for home construction, or in 1974 their EDUC-8 microcomputer that missed by 1 week (do'h!) as the world's first home construction PC article. (Congrats to Radio Electronic BTW). Barrowloads of construction articles that ran the gamut of electronics for the lives of several generations. Then someone in management who obviously new better, turned it in one issue from a world class mag to a glossy advertorial full of I-pods and home theatre stuff and game console stuff etc etc ad nauseum. It only ran 2 or 3 issues after this then crashed and burned.
Is there a difference? by RomulusNR · 2006-04-02 06:47 · Score: 1

The ironic thing is that most of the projects in MAKE really require more financial investment to execute than they would if you bought prefab. The things in MAKE that supposedly save you money actually assume that you already have a shitload of spare parts and accessories that are not cheap to accumulate.

Basically, MAKE only appeals to and makes sense for people who have been doing hardware hacks and mods already for a long time, and have spent alot of money on various projects already, and have tons of copious time. This problem for most real people is the reason why there is prefab anything in the first place. MAKE is then a zine for a geek bourgeoise without real (i.e. complex) jobs or lives and who have lots of time and lots of money.

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1. Re:Is there a difference? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-02 14:54 · Score: 0
  
  Is your life so consumed by work that you have nothing you do for fun? No hobbies? Making weird stuff is some people's hobby. You can't pay people to have fun for you, even if it is cheaper...
2. Re:Is there a difference? by ptorrone · 2006-04-02 17:20 · Score: 1
  
  i think i could go through most/all the projects and show that many of them are cheaper than buying things already made. we have a $14 camera stabilizer, the same ones sell for $400+...modding disposable cameras for kite photos...some things we show to make you can't really buy, like a spud gun. that said, that's not the point - making a water rocket for example might take a little more time than buy a version at mall, but building it together with your kids/friend/etc is really where (i think) the value comes from (i work for make, and was the one that submitted the story).