I think you missed my point Jim, sorry if I had not made it clear. Steve
On 15 July 2011 02:51, Jim Lux <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/14/11 6:08 AM, Steve Rooke wrote: >> >> It's a shame these, and other elderly scholarly works, can't just be >> released for the greater good, without all this red tape tying them >> down. I wonder how much better the world would advance if we could all >> go back to the days when we shared knowledge and skills freely between >> engineers before all the lawyers became involved. Does anyone else >> remember the hay days I wonder... > > Oh yeah.. I remember how wonderful all that was..I think, overall, we're a > lot better off today > > Getting on the bus or driving for an hour or more to go to a library which > happened to have a copy, and then taking notes by hand from a bound journal > after waiting for it to be retrieved from the stacks. > > Waiting for several weeks while an interlibrary loan was processed and they > mailed it to you. > > Paying a nickle or dime a page in the 1970s ($.50/page today) for a crummy > "greasy" copy of a not very wonderful microfiche image. > > Even as recently as the mid 90s, it was very difficult to get online access > to most things. Search databases have been around for quite a while, and > you could get the abstract sort of online, but then you'd have to request > the article from someone like University Microfilms or hunt it down at a > local library. > > And I think it's wonderful that most universities put dissertations online > now. The typical "Chapter 2" of a dissertation where the author reviews the > literature and current state of knowledge is a gold mine for tracking down > stuff, and for half way decent synthesis of a bunch of stuff together. > > I will say that it was fun to get the postcards in the mail from all over > the world asking for a reprint of your paper. Now, they just send you > whining emails asking why the link on your website is so slow or broken. > And, letters asking for permission to cite or copy a figure.. they're > pretty rare. Instead, you find your words in someone else's work when > googling, send them a nice note asking for attribution, and get an offended, > "it was on the web, so I used it, whaddya gonna do'bout it.". I'm just > codger-like this morning.. get offa my lawn you whippersnappers > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. - Einstein _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
