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 <n...@verizon.net> wrote: > I dropped my membership a couple of years ago. Every single thing cost > money; I couldn't even skim through papers to see if they were > applicable without paying full price and it became increasingly > difficult to justify membership PLUS paying for browsing privileges > especially when there is actually very little of direct practical use. > > > On 06/05/12, Attila Kinali<att...@kinali.ch> wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:26:56 -0700 > Hal Murray <[1]hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote: > > The IEEE is particularly behind the times. I assume it's left over > from when > > they could get away with it because they only had to jack up the > price of > > printed stuff by a small amount. Some of this may trace back to their > > standards work where they could get away with high prices. > Actually they are getting worse. IEEEs Computer Society started to send > out yearly reminders that it's not ok to share documents you legaly > acuired with your coworkers and friends. Telling them a few times that > this is in contradiction to local law, which explicitly allows me to do > that didn't change anything... That and also the wording that strongly > suggests that anyone who is subscribed to the CDL is a thief > ("illegaly" > copying files and sharing them with the world) led me to the decision > to cancel my subscription. > Attila Kinali > -- > It is upon moral qualities that a society is ultimately founded. All > the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of no > use without that foundation. > -- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [2]time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > [3]https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > References > > 1. mailto:hmur...@megapathdsl.net > 2. mailto:time-nuts@febo.com > 3. https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.