[time-nuts] Paywall rant
steve heidmann
steveheidmann at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 6 18:48:50 UTC 2012
Then what happened ?
--- On Tue, 6/5/12, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
From: J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Paywall rant
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 12:45 PM
Good luck.
About 20 years ago, I bought out the entire library of a local R&D company
for $10, including well over 50' of 7' high shelves of professional
journals.
(There were a number of books I wanted and I got more than my money's
worth on those.}
Anyway, I tried to sell the journals without a single nibble. Nobody
wanted them. Luckily I bought the library on condition of not having to
take what I didn't want, so didn't have to dealo with several tons of
useless paper.
There might be takers as a donation in India or something, IF you pay to
ship them there. That's not for me.
FWIW,
-John
====================
> I may still have the option to get something like 600 to 800 lbs of
> IRE publications.
> I think in South Dakota. If anyone is game/interested I can check.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:15 AM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Its actully pretty pervasive these days. I hate those sights so now
>> carefully see what googles pointing me to before jumping if possible.
>> So a quick question and not to take the thread.
>> Anyone know if the old IRE papers might exist someplace for free?
>> I ran across a few of the actual magazines and for me it was actually a
>> good read.
>> Regards
>> Paul.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Peter Gottlieb <nerd at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Â I dropped my membership a couple of years ago. Â Every single thing
>>> cost
>>> Â money; I couldn't even skim through papers to see if they were
>>> Â applicable without paying full price and it became increasingly
>>> Â difficult to justify membership PLUS paying for browsing privileges
>>> Â especially when there is actually very little of direct practical
>>> use.
>>>
>>>
>>> Â On 06/05/12, Attila Kinali<attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>> Â On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:26:56 -0700
>>> Â Â Hal Murray <[1]hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>>> Â > The IEEE is particularly behind the times. I assume it's left over
>>> Â from when
>>> Â > they could get away with it because they only had to jack up the
>>> Â price of
>>> Â > printed stuff by a small amount. Some of this may trace back to
>>> their
>>> Â > standards work where they could get away with high prices.
>>> Â Actually they are getting worse. IEEEs Computer Society started to
>>> send
>>> Â out yearly reminders that it's not ok to share documents you legaly
>>> Â acuired with your coworkers and friends. Telling them a few times
>>> that
>>> Â this is in contradiction to local law, which explicitly allows me to
>>> do
>>> Â that didn't change anything... That and also the wording that
>>> strongly
>>> Â suggests that anyone who is subscribed to the CDL is a thief
>>> Â ("illegaly"
>>> Â copying files and sharing them with the world) led me to the
>>> decision
>>> Â to cancel my subscription.
>>> Â Attila Kinali
>>> Â --
>>> Â It is upon moral qualities that a society is ultimately founded. All
>>> Â the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of
>>> no
>>> Â use without that foundation.
>>> Â -- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson
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