[ale] [Fwd: James Gosling will be speaking at the Sept. AJUG meeting]

[Richard Kolkovich]

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On 08/30/06 18:18, fd0man??The Magical Floppy Man blabbered::
> On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:47 -0600, JK wrote:
> 
>> Amen, brother!
>>
>> Though "expensive" is a relative term. K&R goes for about $45
>> nowadays, and not every budding programmer can afford even that.
>> Don't even talk to me about the prices of Lisp books.
>>
>> Incidentally, safari.oreilly.com is a really nice deal, if you
>> can come to terms with reading books online.  $20/month gets
>> you access to essentially all of the O'Reilly and Addison-Wesley
>> catalog, plus some other publishers that escape me right
>> now. Sure, thats $240 a year, but I could probably only
>> actually afford to *buy* five of those books for that
>> amount. You also get really nice discounts on paper
>> copies.
>>
> 
> 
> Someone just told me about O?Reilly?s Safari service, and that seems
> very cool.  It looks like it is a much better deal than Books24x7.com,
> which I used to have access to as an employee somewhere in the past.  I
> think that I am going to have to try out Safari next Pell check I get? I
> could probably make very good use of it.  :-)
> 
>     ? Mike
> 
> --
> The fd0man??The Magical Floppy Man! (fd0man at gmail.com) 
> "One world, one web, one program"  ?Microsoft promotional ad 
> "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer"  ?Adolf Hitler 

I read it every chance I get.  I have the cheapest membership,
$14.99/mo.  It is very useful for learning and previewing books.  If it
is a good reference book, buy it for 30% off in dead-tree format. ;)


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Richard Kolkovich
sarumont at sigil.org


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