The normal Kindle screen is much too small for most PDFs, but the Kindle DX screen is not bad. Both can handle PDFs natively, with some limitations.
Conversion with Calibre or any other currently available software tends to work well for simple, single-column documents without scientific equations, but gives very poor results for scientific papers (believe me, I've tried).
I bought Papers and was really disappointed with it. I use GoodReader instead. I imagine Papers may be good if you own a Mac desktop plus papers for Mac. On the iPad, I find it difficult to get new papers into my Papers library, I needed to manual correct each paper's metadata, and the annotation capability was nowhere near as good as GoodReader.
I bought a Kindle DX for scientific papers, but found it too slow. It takes a noticeable few seconds to turn the pages of large PDFs (whether they are large due to being long technical reports or due to being papers containing complex images). This is not a huge problem when reading straight through, but becomes a big problem when you need to flip back and forth through a reference document.
The Kindle is great (and much better than an iPad) for reading novels, but I've found the iPad better for reading scientific documents. It's faster, you can annotate PDFs on it (and share the annotated papers with others in the standard PDF format) and it has apps that can help file papers and search through them in a logical order. I daresay other tablets are similar in this respect. I recommend GoodReader as the best app I've found for reading and annotating PDFs.
If you, out of the goodness of your heart, don't raise your prices when people have twice as much money to spend (and if everyone else also keeps prices down), then there will instead be shortages of goods and services. Presumably, you won't start working twice as many hours to double the supply of goods for sale, and if you were willing to double your effort, you still won't have twice as much land or twice as much water with which to produce those goods.
Yeah, it guessed I was male, so it got that wrong too. Looking at the details of the twitter algorithm, this, too, would probably mistake me for a man.
I find the girly squee stuff off-putting. Most of the women I follow on twitter are engineers and scientists, so I don't see that much of it. But when I was looking for a forum to get some support regarding pregnancy, I couldn't find anything remotely comfortable. I was looking for a bit of quiet reflection and rational advice, but all the forums were dominated by "OMG yay!" and enourmous sigs with animated gifs of butterflies and babies. It positively gave me the heebie-jeebies.
It's not as straightforward as that. Apple now won't allow app vendors to include a link to their website in their apps, which they have done in the past to avoid using the In App system. And by all reports (http://cnet.co/apple-app-no-buy-link-cnet), "Aside from not having any links to an e-bookstore, you can't even mention your Web site or explain to readers from within the app how to purchase books and get them onto the device."
This is true, and starting to become a problem given the increasing expectation that as much as possible of our scientific work should now be open source. While this is great in theory, in practice, it means I (as a scientist) am under pressure to make my scientific "exoskeleton" code publicly available. I'm not qualified (and don't have the time) to polish it up into a product that is really suitable for distribution, and my employer doesn't have the funds to hire programmers to do this for every piece of code that I and my colleagues write. If half-baked scientific code is released, though, there is a real risk that it will be misunderstood and misused by others.
I'm glad no-one patented "having a power cable *on a computer*", "having a power cable "*on a kitchen appliance*", etc. Patents eventually expire, but not if adding obvious, trivial applications to existing technology makes whole new patents.
I can carry the tablet to and from work every day and on business trips, and it means I don't need to lug around a laptop. I can use the tablet to write long replies to emails that are pushed to my phone, and don't need to boot up a desktop or laptop as the tablet is "always on".
I do carry the tablet around a fair bit, but I don't take it out to dinner or when I'm out and about with my friends.
I bought a 3G iPad just before Apple introduced the "personal wireless hotspot", which was enabled on my iPhone. I'd be happy to rely on the smart phone's 3G access, but I rely on a handful of iPad apps that require GPS, and it seems that is only available with 3G. (I wouldn't pay $50/mo for it, as others have been discussing: instead, I paid $150 for 12Gb prepaid for a year).
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Obesity and obesity-related diabetes are just as big a problem in Australia as in the US, and we make very little use of high fructose corn syrup in Australia: most of our sweet things are sweetened with sugar-cane sugar. (HFCS is cheap in the US only because of heavy subsidisation of the corn industry).
If that were the aim, surely it would make more sense to teach formal logic and critical thinking, instead of maths.
Personally, I've found a lot of the maths I learnt in high school very useful in my day to day life. Probability and statistics most of all, but also geometry and even calculus from time to time.
I learnt a salutory lesson in high school back in the 1980s. Our maths teacher had given us dozens of simple functions and told us to graph them in polar coordinates. the first couple took me ages, calculating and plotting each point by hand. I felt comfortable that I knew how polar coordinates worked and felt I had no need to do each example in the problem set. So I wrote a simple BASIC program to do all the rest for me. I didn't bother to hide the fact, and handed in the results on dot matrix paper. My teacher queried it, and I explained that being able to write a programme to plot functions in polar coordinates proved that I understood the work. So he asked me what patterns I'd noticed. Off the top of my head, what would such-and-such a function look like? It was only then that I realised that in writing my programme, I hadn't just saved myself a lot of rote work, I'd skipped a lesson designed to force me to puzzle out the patterns. (Fortunately, it was a fairly simple set of patterns and it only took a moment's thought before I could answer the question, but if he hadn't asked, I might never have noticed and might have been reduced to plotting these things out one point at a time when exam time came).
Nope. My core body temperature, yes, but I've often found myself unable to operate a touchscreen because my finger-tips were too cold. When that happens, I sometimes resort to using my nose.
Most CFD software is too complex to learn in a reasonable timeframe in a classroom environment, but that doesn't mean the teacher can't learn it, set it up and run it to demonstrate the results to the kids. They won't need to understand the Navier-Stokes equations, they just need to see what can be done computationally, using equations based on the physics that they are learning in school.
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Listen to audiobooks or podcasts while you work out. Suddenly, it's not nearly so dull.
The normal Kindle screen is much too small for most PDFs, but the Kindle DX screen is not bad. Both can handle PDFs natively, with some limitations.
Conversion with Calibre or any other currently available software tends to work well for simple, single-column documents without scientific equations, but gives very poor results for scientific papers (believe me, I've tried).
I bought Papers and was really disappointed with it. I use GoodReader instead. I imagine Papers may be good if you own a Mac desktop plus papers for Mac. On the iPad, I find it difficult to get new papers into my Papers library, I needed to manual correct each paper's metadata, and the annotation capability was nowhere near as good as GoodReader.
I bought a Kindle DX for scientific papers, but found it too slow. It takes a noticeable few seconds to turn the pages of large PDFs (whether they are large due to being long technical reports or due to being papers containing complex images). This is not a huge problem when reading straight through, but becomes a big problem when you need to flip back and forth through a reference document.
The Kindle is great (and much better than an iPad) for reading novels, but I've found the iPad better for reading scientific documents. It's faster, you can annotate PDFs on it (and share the annotated papers with others in the standard PDF format) and it has apps that can help file papers and search through them in a logical order. I daresay other tablets are similar in this respect. I recommend GoodReader as the best app I've found for reading and annotating PDFs.
If you, out of the goodness of your heart, don't raise your prices when people have twice as much money to spend (and if everyone else also keeps prices down), then there will instead be shortages of goods and services. Presumably, you won't start working twice as many hours to double the supply of goods for sale, and if you were willing to double your effort, you still won't have twice as much land or twice as much water with which to produce those goods.
Is stepping on a cockroach wrong? They can feel pain.
Yeah, it guessed I was male, so it got that wrong too. Looking at the details of the twitter algorithm, this, too, would probably mistake me for a man.
I find the girly squee stuff off-putting. Most of the women I follow on twitter are engineers and scientists, so I don't see that much of it. But when I was looking for a forum to get some support regarding pregnancy, I couldn't find anything remotely comfortable. I was looking for a bit of quiet reflection and rational advice, but all the forums were dominated by "OMG yay!" and enourmous sigs with animated gifs of butterflies and babies. It positively gave me the heebie-jeebies.
Yes, but Amazon aren't allowed to tell people that in their iOS app.
It's not as straightforward as that. Apple now won't allow app vendors to include a link to their website in their apps, which they have done in the past to avoid using the In App system. And by all reports (http://cnet.co/apple-app-no-buy-link-cnet), "Aside from not having any links to an e-bookstore, you can't even mention your Web site or explain to readers from within the app how to purchase books and get them onto the device."
This is true, and starting to become a problem given the increasing expectation that as much as possible of our scientific work should now be open source. While this is great in theory, in practice, it means I (as a scientist) am under pressure to make my scientific "exoskeleton" code publicly available. I'm not qualified (and don't have the time) to polish it up into a product that is really suitable for distribution, and my employer doesn't have the funds to hire programmers to do this for every piece of code that I and my colleagues write. If half-baked scientific code is released, though, there is a real risk that it will be misunderstood and misused by others.
I'm glad no-one patented "having a power cable *on a computer*", "having a power cable "*on a kitchen appliance*", etc. Patents eventually expire, but not if adding obvious, trivial applications to existing technology makes whole new patents.
2580 is the only set of 4 digits in a straight line on the keypad (straight down the middle).
Yep, Telstra.
I can carry the tablet to and from work every day and on business trips, and it means I don't need to lug around a laptop.
I can use the tablet to write long replies to emails that are pushed to my phone, and don't need to boot up a desktop or laptop as the tablet is "always on".
I do carry the tablet around a fair bit, but I don't take it out to dinner or when I'm out and about with my friends.
I carry my phone everywhere, but not my tablet. It is still worth having a smart phone for me.
I bought a 3G iPad just before Apple introduced the "personal wireless hotspot", which was enabled on my iPhone. I'd be happy to rely on the smart phone's 3G access, but I rely on a handful of iPad apps that require GPS, and it seems that is only available with 3G. (I wouldn't pay $50/mo for it, as others have been discussing: instead, I paid $150 for 12Gb prepaid for a year).
Obesity and obesity-related diabetes are just as big a problem in Australia as in the US, and we make very little use of high fructose corn syrup in Australia: most of our sweet things are sweetened with sugar-cane sugar. (HFCS is cheap in the US only because of heavy subsidisation of the corn industry).
If that were the aim, surely it would make more sense to teach formal logic and critical thinking, instead of maths.
Personally, I've found a lot of the maths I learnt in high school very useful in my day to day life. Probability and statistics most of all, but also geometry and even calculus from time to time.
I learnt a salutory lesson in high school back in the 1980s. Our maths teacher had given us dozens of simple functions and told us to graph them in polar coordinates. the first couple took me ages, calculating and plotting each point by hand. I felt comfortable that I knew how polar coordinates worked and felt I had no need to do each example in the problem set. So I wrote a simple BASIC program to do all the rest for me. I didn't bother to hide the fact, and handed in the results on dot matrix paper. My teacher queried it, and I explained that being able to write a programme to plot functions in polar coordinates proved that I understood the work. So he asked me what patterns I'd noticed. Off the top of my head, what would such-and-such a function look like? It was only then that I realised that in writing my programme, I hadn't just saved myself a lot of rote work, I'd skipped a lesson designed to force me to puzzle out the patterns. (Fortunately, it was a fairly simple set of patterns and it only took a moment's thought before I could answer the question, but if he hadn't asked, I might never have noticed and might have been reduced to plotting these things out one point at a time when exam time came).
Nope. My core body temperature, yes, but I've often found myself unable to operate a touchscreen because my finger-tips were too cold. When that happens, I sometimes resort to using my nose.
The "Company" in the title is misleading, too. CSIRO is a government agency, akin to the USGS or NASA.
I've had to show 3 forms of ID to get a prepaid SIM both times I've done so in Australia.
Most CFD software is too complex to learn in a reasonable timeframe in a classroom environment, but that doesn't mean the teacher can't learn it, set it up and run it to demonstrate the results to the kids. They won't need to understand the Navier-Stokes equations, they just need to see what can be done computationally, using equations based on the physics that they are learning in school.
Of course there are. Uniform initial density, zero (or uniform) initial currents, and a source at one grid point.
I'm guessing they're 3rd or 4th year engineering or science undergraduates, though, not kids who would only have encountered CFD in high school.