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On 4/13/10 1:51 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:00:05 -0400,
wrote:

You are truly stupid. Have you never heard of a Public Library? Guess who
pays for the Public Library. You should really stop embarassing yourself
with stuff like this.

In fact, you *cannot* get it all on the internet...only superficial
"students" believe that.

The problem with that idea is that a whole lot of books have been
digitized these days for the Kindle/Ipad crowd. They show up on binary
newsgroups all the time.
In fact I seldom ever use my hard copy National Electrical Code book
these days, or any other hard copy code documents. They are all online
and I have the NEC CD that is a whole lot better than a book (built in
search facilities, commentaries etc).

I do agree, if your idea of the internet is reading blogs and BBs like
this, you will get a very slanted view of things.
On the other hand there are a lot of technical forums with good
moderators that are a very valuable source of current information.

My wife's doctoral dissertation cites about 300+ references, including
books, expert articles from professional journals, research of others,
"published" or not, et cetera. She is an expert researcher and has
direct access to many expen$ive research tools. When I was looking over
her dissertation, I asked her what percentage of her "cites" she found
"on-line." About 15%, she said. The rest were found only at the LC, at
her university library, through university library exchange systems, and
through direct contact with others in her field. I don't think this is
peculiar to her field.

Her disseration, when it is published, is going to be a "blockbuster." :)

I'm not surprised "code" info is on line. It should be.

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