ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), anyone member, or member of similar - how useful?

[tleslie]

they are not overly specific, thats what worries me 



>From their flyer ..

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Ent., O'Reilly, Cisco Press, and Addison Wesly

Free and unlimited access to 1200 online course via  Thomson NETg

they dont give specifics about any particular book, just broad subject
categories.

have to check out the web site, maybe they give more info

one hates to sign up, then find out what they give is already free if
you dig, or maybe its slightly outdated stuff.

must be that ACM gets rights to put some authors books online for a fee,
on that note RMS is probably not a member of ACM ;)

if no member can post current insight (may no one on list is current
member), i will dig deeper, maybe even risk a years membership.

-tl

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 00:29 -0500, R.R. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What kind of papers or essays would one expect to find in the Library of the
> ACM? Do you have any examples or snippets?
> 
> Thx
> 
> - Rick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of David C.
> chipman
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 11:42 PM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), anyone
> member, or member of similar - how useful?
> 
> 	Hi tl, 
> 
> 		Back when I had a job I was a member of the ACM. I
> found much of the stuff discussed in "The Communications of" to be over
> my head, but occasionally interesting. I didn't use the on-line library
> as much as I thought I might, again, it was over my head, and esoteric.
> However, if that's what you want, and you end up finding it useful,
> then go ahead! Later, 
> 
> -David Chipman
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