Allen Holub on DDJ & C-Chest (long)

[Dave Tutelman]

In article <2822 at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> rich at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Richard Pettit) writes:
>In case nobody noticed, you are currently reading the most comprehensive,
>open minded, engineer/programmer oriented magazine available in the world.
>

Right on, Rich!

Five or six years ago, when I started reading the net, I fairly quickly
let my subscriptions to Byte & TC Tech Journal lapse.  I found that
I was served better by usenet.  (Not necessarily cheaper, either in time
or money, but better.)  The salient points:

   -	Rumor and news showed up MONTHS earlier on the net than in the
	magazines.

   -	Of course, there was somewhat more MISinformation on the net than
	in the magazines, but not by that much.  And unlike the magazines,
	I saw a lot of points of view and could quickly determine what
	I ought to believe.  In the mags, misinformation is gospel, 
	'cause you only get the one story.

   -	As a responsive medium (query/solution) Byte was months of 
	turnaround and unreliable, PCTJ was virtually nonexistent,
	and the net was quick and convenient.  (Not all queries got
	responses, but MUCH better than Byte, and much faster.)

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