No, to physically remove items from the library you must get a card. Everyone is welcome to browse the stacks.
Well, that may be true, but at my local library, in our state capitol, to use the computers one must have a library card. There's even noise in the state capitol about charging for said card.
...between the ideals of the intenet literate cognoscenti and the real world. People complain about a "soul sucking registration" but want all this info at their fingertips. It is no different in the real world and the online world. If you want to look up info at the library, you still have to get a library card. To get that card, you are going to have to give a physical address, a telephone number and frequently a social security number.
Wake up people, we live in an age where the only real currency is information. If another entity isn't going to value what you necessarily value, you are going to have to give them something they value to get what you value. If your PERL programing skills aren't something they value in that instance you're going to have to give them something that they DO value, in this case, some information.
Last time I looked, you can't buy a car with sand dollars.
If you value your charade of "privacy" more than the information you seek, don't bitch if you either have to forgo the info entirely, or work a whole lot harder to get said info.
> Now for the part that people may disagree with:
When I first got started with FreeBSD, I would have agreed. I asked for info on disk spanning software on mailing.questions.freebsd. I got a two word answer: man vinum.
It took me a while to realize that folks aren't necessarily rude, they just expect a certain level of "due diligence" on my part.
I'm glad it is that way, it forces me to think more for myself and actually learn a bit about it as opposed to cutting and pasting the answers into my OS.
RTFM can be a good thing (TM)
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No, to physically remove items from the library you must get a card. Everyone is welcome to browse the stacks.
Well, that may be true, but at my local library, in our state capitol, to use the computers one must have a library card. There's even noise in the state capitol about charging for said card.
I hear your alarm clock ringing. Time to wake up.
...between the ideals of the intenet literate cognoscenti and the real world. People complain about a "soul sucking registration" but want all this info at their fingertips. It is no different in the real world and the online world. If you want to look up info at the library, you still have to get a library card. To get that card, you are going to have to give a physical address, a telephone number and frequently a social security number.
Wake up people, we live in an age where the only real currency is information. If another entity isn't going to value what you necessarily value, you are going to have to give them something they value to get what you value. If your PERL programing skills aren't something they value in that instance you're going to have to give them something that they DO value, in this case, some information.
Last time I looked, you can't buy a car with sand dollars.
If you value your charade of "privacy" more than the information you seek, don't bitch if you either have to forgo the info entirely, or work a whole lot harder to get said info.
> Now for the part that people may disagree with:
When I first got started with FreeBSD, I would have agreed. I asked for info on disk spanning software on mailing.questions.freebsd. I got a two word answer: man vinum. It took me a while to realize that folks aren't necessarily rude, they just expect a certain level of "due diligence" on my part. I'm glad it is that way, it forces me to think more for myself and actually learn a bit about it as opposed to cutting and pasting the answers into my OS. RTFM can be a good thing (TM)