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an official member of the ACM[^]. I just signed up for the student membership plus, which has a number of benefits, such as Microsoft DreamSpark access, full access to the ACM Digital Library, and a whole host of other goodies.
The process took less than five minutes, and the ACM website is very well designed. Which makes sense, as they are a Technology related organization.
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Please define which "ACM" you mean. ...and how about a link the web-site?
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- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Which makes sense, as they are a Technology related organization.
I have seen some horrid sites for "Technology related organizations"
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So have I, but those usually have some ID-TEN-Ts working the backend.
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I've been a member, on and off, of IEEE since computers were analog and programmed with jumper cables, but I have yet to find any benefit.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I think the IEEE and the ACM are different.
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Not really - they both want your money as the main thing.
If not so much now while you are a student, but when you are out in the real world? That's when they want you as a member!
Or am I just a cynical old hector?
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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The ACM does a lot of work with students, and the Ivy Tech ACM chapter does a lot of tours of data centers and factories.
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Of course they do! They want you as members so that when you have nice deep pockets later on, you will remember them and share the wealth! 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Membership in the ACM looks very nice on a resume.
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No; because YOU have to pay for it, it is not an "exclusive" club, any other schmuck can shell out $100 and be a member.
Nihil obstat
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Membership in the Active participation in ACM looks very nice on a resume.
FTFY 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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OK, you're right.
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I was going to join the BCS (British Computer Society) back when you had to be well qualified, very experienced and recommended by someone else (PhD, 20+ years of experience [at that time, 35+ now] and several admirers [all dead now]). I didn't at the time as I didn't see the point and didn't want to pay the modest annual fee. Now anyone with enough money can BUY one of several membership levels for enough money and keep it going with a large annual fee - definitely not worth it anymore.
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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I can't help wondering what sort of a modification has been done to you 
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Walletectomy
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Well, the more Wals that are removed, the better.
... No, wait...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It only costs $42. Per year.
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The Argentinian Cow Matadors?
Or The Atlantic Chaos Mongers?
The Annonymous Charcoal Manufacturers?
And yes, they are really fond of acronyms, They seem to have one for everything. That's what we call 'AbKüFi" here. 'Abkürzungsfimmel', certainly the next word to be borrowed to the English dictionary.
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I'm not accusing you of this, and I hope your chapter is better, but honestly, the ACM office at my school was mostly full of people with the pretentious "I'm more important/better than everything" attitude. While some of the SIGs worked on some cool projects, and ACM hosted some nice events, overall, the non-ACM and ACM people within the Computer Science department didn't mix very much.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Our ACM 'chapter' is actually run by several professors from the CS department, so they get along well. There are no 'I am better than everyone' people there, and anyone who does things like that gets knocked down pretty quickly, as the people working the group are very strict on not having such an attitude towards others. The ACM chapter at Purdue is the same way.
The group also does a lot of different things, like rebuilding and selling old computers to students for a deep discount (e.g. a desktop with ~4GB RAM and a 250GB HDD will cost about $20-$40, depending on the number available and a few other factors. We also fix laptops.)
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: There are no 'I am better than everyone' people there, and anyone who does things like that gets knocked down pretty quickly, as the people working the group are very strict on not having such an attitude towards others.
I think one of the big problems that our ACM office had (I wasn't a member) was that there actually were people that were better than everyone else, at least on an academic/programming level.
There were a couple kids in particular that I can think of that were amazingly smart, but were complete douches about it. They viewed everyone else in the department as stupid, even though every single one of us was an intelligent person, otherwise we never would have been accepted into the department.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Well, we do have people who have various strengths, but Ivy Tech in general discourages this kind of 'I am the MASTER! Everyone bow down to me or be thrown to the depths-of-Hades' kind of behavior. The college wants to create an equal learning environment for everyone, and they are doing a rather nice job at it.
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