RE: [Sheflug] linux format DVD issue (is it a ripoff?)

["Neil R Porter" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You've answered your own question :)

I've got adsl and get the CD version... it's sometimes nice to sit on
the sofa and flick through using the old fashioned medium of paper.
Else, as someone else more or less said, don't bother with it, as you'll
find whatever's in there on the net in one form or other.  As for me,
I'll keep getting it through the door each month cos I've got the set
(and some sort of OCD lol).

Best wishes

Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk 
> [mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk] On Behalf Of David Holden
> Sent: 09 April 2002 17:39
> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] linux format DVD issue (is it a ripoff?)
> 
> 
> Yeh, I had not figured on the connection, but then my 
> connections free 
> (to me) leased line at work :)
> 
> 
>   dave.
> 
> 
> Will Newton wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 Apr 2002 5:03 pm, David Holden wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>  just bought the April 2002 of linux format (DVD verions) £6.49 !!
> >>
> >>  Is it me or is this a bit of a rip off, especially when the DVDs 
> >>probably full of free software anyway.
> > 
> > 
> > Depends. If you use all of a 4.7Gb CD of software that you would 
> > otherwise
> > have downloaded over a modem:
> > 
> > 4.7Gb = 5046586572 bytes (approx)
> > 
> > Downloaded at 5000 b/s would take:
> > 
> > 1009317 seconds = 280 hours
> > 
> > At a penny a minute (no-one pays that much I hope) thats over 150 
> > quid.
> > 
> > TBH I would not be suprised to see print computing 
> magazines at prices 
> > that
> > high, the internet is making them largely useless and 
> circulation is dropping 
> > all the time. I notice the same thing has cut the 
> readership of Penthouse in 
> > half in the last few years. :)
> > 
> > I wouldn't wast my money on it (Linux Format that is :), 
> but I don't 
> > think
> > there is anything wrong with the price, it's a very small 
> run compared to 
> > something like Computer Shopper.
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