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Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download

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Post by bobo123 »

adrianm wrote: post #18
kfogel wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, right now it's still technically illegal to download them, unless & until Springer actually says some different license. Not that anyone would be prosecuted, obviously; one could clearly claim that it was obvious that Springer intended to distribute them at the very least for personal non-commercial use, even if Springer didn't say so explicitly anywhere. If the terms are even more liberal than that, so much th…

Why is it technically illegal to download them?

The quote says it is legal to download them

--edit: apologies, should be a response to parent

Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download

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Post by pki »

adrianm wrote: post #18
kfogel wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, right now it's still technically illegal to download them, unless & until Springer actually says some different license. Not that anyone would be prosecuted, obviously; one could clearly claim that it was obvious that Springer intended to distribute them at the very least for personal non-commercial use, even if Springer didn't say so explicitly anywhere. If the terms are even more liberal than that, so much th…

Why is it technically illegal to download them?

there is somewhat of a difference between "purchasing something for 0.00 with appropriate distribution after creating an account at a webshop" and "torrenting a pdf"

Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download

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Post by rswier »

Searched for "Compiler" and was not disappointed.

Tim Budd's "An APL Compiler" is a classic.

I love the goofy title of Mads Tofte's: "Compiler Generators What They Can Do, What They Might Do, and What They Will Probably Never Do"

Paid a handsome amount for these and many others at Reiter's Books back in the day!

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Post by mturmon »

Larry Wasserman's All of Statistics is there at http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-21736-9.

Optimization by Lange is at http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4757-4182-7

Time Series Analysis and Its Applications by Shumway and Stoffer (http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4757-3261-0), who developed the EM tools for fitting state space models to time series by maximum likelihood, but were largely uncredited by the NIPS crowd.

Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download

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Post by msie »

Sooo many good books! I'm exhausted! Here are some good ones:

MPEG Video Compression Standard:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b115884

Chaos and Fractals:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b97624

Proofs from THE BOOK:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-05412-3

Joel on Software:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-0753-5

Programming Challenges:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/b97559

Re: Springer Textbooks More Than 10 Years Old Available for Free Legal Download

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Post by forgotten_pw »

BorisMelnik wrote: post #16

Amazing! Right off the bad I found some great topics: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-6383-8 http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-30241-1 Looked like great reads right off the bad. Thanks OP!

Maybe you already know this, but I think the phrase you're looking for is "right off the bat". I'm not really sure where it comes from though. Just thought you might want some stranger on the internet to correct your usage of idioms (seriously though; I'm not trying to be a dick, just trying to share some knowledge).
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