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Re: ZDnet



Ira said:

> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
>
> > If you ever thought that maybe it's worth reading what ZDnet writes,
or
> > maybe someone there could have a clue, read this:
> >
> > http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_4100.html
>
> can we please stop being negative towards the media on this list?
> write positive things once in a while...

ZDNet are the "trade rags" and they're supposed to be slightly better
then the average Joe Sixpence reporter
who writes for the Westlake Times on garage sales & The Internet(TM). But
too often then not, ZDnet stories are either content free (that is they
are quoting, with mistakes, either press releases or marketing
publications of interested parties) or down right show complete lack of
understanding of the issues at hand.

In the age of the Internet I don't need ZDnet for getting information. I
have all the information I'll ever need and probably much much more - I
can get the marketing dept. stuff from the companies themselves just like
the reporter. What I expect from a serious reporter is to give the
information the /context/ that I may lack because I don't have
time/resources to catch up on everything. From a reporter worthy of the
name I would expect a serious inquiry as to why such a utility is needed?
why isn't this functionality part of the OS in the first place? how are
other OS doing the same thing? what security implication this utility may
have? and a zillion other things. But, of course, the story tells us
nothing apart from: "hey, look what new toy I dug out to fill this column
in 20 minutes of surfing the net".
This is NOT serious journalism. I get better researched SPAM messages...

So, what I guess I'm trying to say is: I am NOT negative to the media. I
am, and will continue to be, negative to BAD media coverage.

>
> http://www.zdnet.co.il/html/article_view.asp?EditId=419

And this is what I got when I tried to follow your link:
----
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Timeout expired
/html/article_view.asp, line 30
---

No, it's not really related, but I find it funny never the less... ;-)

Just my 2c,
Gilad.


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