[sdiy] FM/SOS

[metasonix]

>was pulled for political reasons was one where I said that Windows 9x was 
>crap for music because it had weird MIDI support. (Which it did - a ten 
>device limit really didn't cut it for pro use.)

Sounds right to me

>it was sent over for vetting to one of the droids on a PC comic who knew 
>exactly nothing about music technology; and thought, for whatever perverse 
>reasons of his own, that M$ could do no wrong.

The word is "peckerhead". I like that word. It fits so many "managers"
so well. It has a nice ring to it. And it really pisses them off.

>In fact I took a lot of pleasure in being rude 
>(within reason) about things I thought were crap.

I must have missed those articles! How come I never see the juicy ones?

>In one famous instance Philips pulled their ad spend because I'd said that 
>I thought DCC had no future and there was no point using it as a mastering 
>format. Karl Foster who was ed then, made a point of backing me, and the 
>result was FM lost no small sum of money.

And you were right of course. I didn't buy a DCC because I could
see it dying a horrible death in the marketplace due to writeable CDs.

>I actually find SOS disgustingly anoraky and gear-headed most of the time. 

Granted, but that's what you have to do to sell a magazine.

You should see the average Vacuum Tube Valley reader....literally,
he's a fat over-40 male peckerhead (love that word), usually white,
who's either freshy divorced or soon will be--the wife is constantly on
his back for collecting "junk" and blowing the grocery money on
costly NOS tubes.....this describes literally 99+% of VTV's readers....

I think VTV has exactly 4 regular readers who are female--the
rest (more than 5000) are as described above. (oh, and two of those
four females are transsexuals. No, I am not joking.)