Re: Elektor Electronics new website

From: john jardine (john_at_jjdesigns.fsnet.co.uk)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 03:25:26 -0000

"Kryten" <kryten_droid_obfusticator@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:XCSQd.1659$8n6.1246@newsfe3-win.ntli.net...
>
> "HomeLab" <homelab@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:2e807ffc.0502160306.261f6863@posting.google.com...
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> > No Ivor Catt, pages of old f%$rt letters or Dickensian-style writers
> > in Elektor. Have a look at the QuizzAway pages in EE for some up to
> > date thought stimulation.
>
> I spoke to the editor of EW today, about the possibility of writing some
> articles.
>
> I ventured my opinions about how the content had declined from stuff
people
> could actually apply (radio and audio amplifier circuits) to tenuous
> abstract blather. The death of J.L. Hood probably killed off a lot of the
> audio engineer readership. Last time I looked there was some lengthy
article
> about magnetoaetheric tunnels and I just thought "what on earth is this
> mumbo jumbo about, and who the heck would pay to read this?"
>
> If asked "Are you going to take out a subscription?"
> I'd say "No, I'll read it at the library for what little relevant stuff it
> has"
>
> The editor (Svetlana Josifovska) asked me if I'd read it recently, because
> it has changed since she took over around Christmas. She is from an
> engineering background, so she prefers to read about practical engineering
> too.
>
> I get the feeling she doesn't think much of the scribblings of Catt et al,
> so hopefully we'll be seeing a lot less of them. I'd prefer none at all!
;-)
>
> I think we'll have to check it out on the news stands,
> to see if it has become a bit meatier...
>
>

I've never done it before but threw Februarys issue in the bin . Had hoped
the exotically named Svetlana would be offering a similar vision for the
mag'.
Not so, (fishing mag out of rubbish) ...

Potentia. "Digital tool warns against sytem power failure"
Multiband OFDM Alliance. PHY 1.0 spec.
Medea+. MPUs fall foul of Moores Law.
Medea+. "European R+D.
Medea+. EU R+D cooperation.
Altium. Easy 32 bit processor for FPGA.
DiBcom. DVB-H mobile TV Silicon ***
Peregrine Semicon. Silcon on Sapphire.
PICMG (PCI) group. Advanced TCA compliant products.
ARC International. New 'platforms'.
Biotech wetware.
Future Electronics. ADCs (trivia).
Lattice semicon. FPGA digital screens.
LPRA. Patient care.

*** Most TLAs ever gathered in one place.

These and other paid for advertising 'puffs', made up most of what's now
become a trade mag'. The 'articles' were the usual, moronic, unreadable BS
written by marketing people. Svetlana's taken the advertising shilling yet
has the cheek to try and charge me £3.25.
I'll give her a couple more issues before I cancel the magazine.
regards
john

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