Fresh graduate
University National Technical. Ukraine – Kharkov
Bachelor: Engineer Software of computer year 2008
Diploma (master 2 years): master in Software of computer – Aided systems are qualified as Engineer year 2010.

Languages:

Languages Speak Understand Write Read
English good good good good
French good good good good
Arabic Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent

In addition: Russian

Work Experience

Companies learned that they could buy content for their own websites without losing a lot of credibility (or worrying that an editor wouldn’t get it “right”). And, ironically, despite helping to usher in the modern online world, we never really came up with a viable business model for living in it. (Any CMP veterans out there who remember senior management’s attempt to “own” the Internet?)

Now, much as I love them, do I read the few that remain? Nope. If I want to learn about a product, I hit up someplace online…like everyone else. Sigh.

I guess it’s just one of those end-of-an-era kinda things. I’ll miss ‘em.

Here’s an interesting comparison: here in Britain, it’s still going! Ours is owned by Dennis Publications and still brands itself as “Britain’s biggest technology magazine”. I’ve been reading it for over two decades, so I hunted up an old ‘mammoth’ copy from the ’90s – I keep a few, say one every five years – to amuse myself looking at how things were, esp. the ads. You know: full height 5 1/4 inch hard drives, 80MB for $1000!

Issue 91 of September 1995 was £2.25 with a cover CD (not the cheap floppy edition, then) of goodies. That price was about $3.50, then. It had 708 pages and weighed 3 1/2 pounds, not counting the loose ads. About a third of its bulk was catalogues from small PC builders and component suppliers, and that paid for a lot of editorial – it was one of the leading reviewers, which is why I bought it. That wasn’t the biggest: they got up to over 1000 pages a couple of years later.

Issue 264 of February 2010 is £4.99 with a cover DVD (they recently dropped the CD option at £1 less). That would be $7.99 in the US. It has 164 pages and pretty-well the same format and recipe – even still has a Dell ad on the first few pages. Lots of updates in looks, of course, but recognizably the same product.

The question is, how can this be when in the US, the whole market’s folded? I reckon there are three factors here:

1) the cover price is higher (and buyers here have always been willing to pay it);

2) the goodies are valuable, bringing a regularly-updated collection of useful tools onto one disk (saves time trawling the net) as well as regular last-year’s-version of expensive software;

3) and those reviews, especially the head-to-head ones, are in depth and authoritative – I trust these guys. Yes, it’s all on the web, too, for free, but having it collected to read when you can’t get online, and having a section of new products with updating Best Buys to compare with at the front of the mag is CONVENIENT. And I’ll pay some for that.

Overall, this mag does it’s job still – it keeps me up to date painlessly, and I can always get back to stuff on the web later if I need it. That’s worth the (reduced) subscription price I pay.

Any comments?

I think CS was a better read than PCW because they devote too much to cell phones. They should call it PC & Cell Phone World. They didn’t even mention the CES show and they let go of my favorite contributing editor, Stephen Manes (“Full Disclosure” – last page of every PCW) That was the 1st article I read every time.

I think I had every issue of Analog and Antic until my wife sold them in a garage sale.