Comments on: anyone remember Artbyte? http://blog.charlesbeckwith.com/2007/05/anyone-remember-artbyte/ Charles Beckwith Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:35:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: kkwan.nyc http://blog.charlesbeckwith.com/2007/05/anyone-remember-artbyte/comment-page-1/#comment-3 kkwan.nyc Fri, 25 May 2007 18:52:00 +0000 http://blog.charlesbeckwith.com/wordpress/?p=17#comment-3 Hm, well. It really depends on your viewpoint of things. In terms of "hacker magazines", I personally consider Make to be much more useful than 2600. Partly because of its penchant to report informatively and instructively. <br/><br/>2600 always gives me an impression that they want you to stir-shit-up, screw the authorities and all that. I mean, teaching you how to circumvent an artificial limitation and learning about the process is good and useful, but teaching you how to make fake coupons to save 67 cents, or to mess with HomeDepot computers just for fun? That's lame. <br/><br/>That being said, I prefer reading message boards. Hm, well. It really depends on your viewpoint of things. In terms of “hacker magazines”, I personally consider Make to be much more useful than 2600. Partly because of its penchant to report informatively and instructively.

2600 always gives me an impression that they want you to stir-shit-up, screw the authorities and all that. I mean, teaching you how to circumvent an artificial limitation and learning about the process is good and useful, but teaching you how to make fake coupons to save 67 cents, or to mess with HomeDepot computers just for fun? That’s lame.

That being said, I prefer reading message boards.

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