Silicon Chip magazine

I have in just completed a project which I was going to offer to SC. I have just changed my mind.

I understand it is popular mag with the hobbiest, but it is a 'has been' mag with very poor content, and has been like this for some time now. I fail to understand why people buy it. I rate it up there with the 'New Idea' mags.

"The Real Andy" wrote

I have in just completed a project which I was going to offer to SC. I have just changed my mind.

I understand it is popular mag with the hobbiest, but it is a 'has been' mag with very poor content, and has been like this for some time now. I fail to understand why people buy it. I rate it up there with the 'New Idea' mags.

****Then just why would you have entertained the idea of offering a project to them????????????????????/

Wotta wanker!!!!

Brian Goldsmith.

Brian it's patently obvious you have not heard the old axion about keeping quite and not confirming your foolishness..

Because "it is a popular mag with the hobbyist" perhaps... There are benefits to getting a project published, even if you don't partically find the mag useful yourself, the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Dave :)

Like having to answer thousands of e-mails over a period of >10 years from constructors whose poor soldering stopped the kit you designed from working, and/or didn't bother to read the kit notes, perhaps....?

Bob

** The female staffers at EA mag seemed to think that outside contributors has some legal/moral obligation to deal personally with each and every half witted kit constructor who wrote a some bitching, stupid letter to them. Instead of the shonky commercial operators ( ie like DSE, Jaycar and Rod Irving ) that sold the damn kits.

They would forward a copy of the ( usually scrawly, hand written) missive on with a curt request to answer it !!!

Why ??????????

9 bloody chances out of 10, the dickwad had already found and fixed his dumb error before his dopey letter arrived at the offices of EA.

All they had to do was send out a standard reply letter:

" We KNOW the design is A-OK, hundreds of working examples prove that point beyond doubt.

Please re-check all your soldering and all component values and orientation.

Missed solder joints and solder bridges account for most non working PCBs.

Kindly direct all future correspondence to your kit supplier.

They are making all the money out to this - not us . "

Arrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh !!!!!!

....... Phil

I see that I'm not alone. :-) The internet has made it much easier for them to tell you that they never make mistakes and they've checked the soldering a dozen times. Then there are the nit-pickers who tell you how you *should* have designed it, plus the aggressive Americans/Canadians who think the kit is a scam and that they've been conned, and that the only reason you make appearances on newsgroups is to subtly promote "your product". I could write a book! I absolutely agree with your final 'word'. :-)

Bob

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:23:42 +1100, Bob Parker wrote

SNIP

Now there's an idea for a Silicon Chip article Bob :-)

I wonder if they'd publish it? :-)

It was kind of you to warn Julian of some possible consequences but Julian's response was helpful to the group and should be encouraged in a general social sense. Did you actually lose any money as a result of your encounter with Lynden E. Hooper and Co or were they simply used to silence you?

"David Segall"

** No more " kind" than warning a blind person they are about to walk in front of an oncoming bus. ** What response was that then ?

The one YOU just snipped out of sight ??

How dopey of you.

** No money was expended by me - can't say how much Lynden E. charged Leo, SC and Co.

I have not been silenced - you presumed far too much.

Julian's predicament is another matter entirely.

Watch this space.

...... Phil

And if they did... would they pay? :-)

I am sorry if I offended you. I only wanted to say that although you were right to warn Julien of some possible consequences of his posts I thought his posts were valuable. And yes, I did snip one of those posts because I did not think it was relevant to this thread about the legal and moral aspects of the posts. In addition I guessed that, in your case, the lawyers were used in an _attempt_ to silence critics and that Julien should not be too concerned before he gets a letter from the lawyers. I am glad that you were not silenced and the purpose of my post was to encourage Julien to speak out too. I hesitated to do that before confirming that you were not bankrupted by Hooper and Co.

Hi Bob Yes, I forgot about that nice "side benefit" :-/ Great if you are a "people person" In one case I had to even answer hardware questions on a kit I didn't design!

I had one guy send back one of my kits (unsolicited) and demanded that I fix it "under warranty". He had the 78L05 regulator in backwards.

Like I said, it's certainly a labour of love...

Dave :)

"David Segall"

** What planet does this narcissistic fool living on ?????

** Who gives a rat's what a posturing idiot like YOU thinks ??

YOU have no idea if what Julian posted is true or fair comment or not.

** Bollocks.

** Only fools make guesses and then acts on them.

** The time to be concerned is well before any letters from lawyers rrive - cos by then it is probably too late.

Obviously, YOU have not the faintest damn clue what a LAWYER'S letter complaining about defamation demands of the recipient and threatens to do to that same person.

** YOU have no idea if what Julian posted is true or even fair comment not.

YOU are NOT the one at risk of being sued.

** Huh ?????

So anything less than total financial ruin is perfectly OK in your estimation.

Just so some congenital dope like YOU be amused by a pointless NG whinge.

Unbelieveable !!

....... Phil

**LOL!

--
Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au

LOL. When has the threat of being sued ever worried you Phil? I mean, what are they going to do if you lose? Round up your collection of toasters?

But at least it keeps you off the streets at night Bob

David (gr> David L. J> >

Brian is in my kill filter. But for the record the reason I considered it was because I did the project for my father, who has freinds who want the same. The idea of a kit from jaycar was great. Furhtermore, I had a few other things that pissed me off about the whole idea, but thats another story.