The point of the e-books is not to avoid buying the physical books, but to avoid her having to carry a sack full of heavy books everywhere she goes on campus. It's a large place, and she does a lot of walking.
It's a good point about the DRM that I hadn't thought of. I'll have to look into it more to see if we're going to be stuck with Windows...
Hey everyone, I just wanted to say thanks for all of the helpful information offered in this thread. You've offered a lot of interesting ideas and solutions, and given us a lot to go on.
As usual, the Slashdot community comes through.
I'll try to follow up before this thread gets archived with what we looked at, and eventually decided to use.
We haven't tried much so far. I picked up an android tablet to try out, and we've tried a number of apps. The one that seems most useful is Antipaper, but the lack of a fine point stylus and the slow response time makes it impossible to keep up with a fast-paced lecture.
Her physics prof uses a windows tablet with Windows Journal, and that looks like a decent setup, for the additional 500 a windows tablet costs over an android.ipad tablet.
Many in this thread have suggested the IBM tablet with the active stylus. That might make something like antipaper work well enough. The most important thing is freehand writing so she can get equations and other math entered quickly. Many of the note taking apps force you into left-right-up-down sequential writing and that is just out of the question.
That would probably be pretty good if it had a larger writing surface, but maybe if we see one at the store we'll take a look. The fact that it has a firm-tipped stylus already puts it ahead.
When I was in LV, every taxi I took had a camera on the dash recording the passengers and the driver. It was not clear if that stream was fed to the LVPD, or if it was just for the taxi company to monitor their drivers and passengers in case something went wrong.
I'm not against the owner of a taxi recording what goes on inside his car. It's his property and he can do what he wants with it, and impose any conditions he wishes upon my use or occupation of it.
If you think humans are solely responsible, and that all other factors, including changes in solar output, have ZERO effect (which is what you are saying), then you are not much of a scientist.
Don't forget giving your kids their allowance, paying their tuition, receiving your deceased loved one's life insurance benefits, paying your medical bills, paying your rent/mortgage, and buying groceries.
What we really also need to pay attention to is the real motive behind this: eliminating cash and giving government a detailed view of our private financial matters. We would hardly be secure in our papers if we had to show them all to the State.
We have these spotted horses all over the place - many many farms around here have them wandering around in their pastures. Of course, we don't call them spotted horses. We just call them "cows."
That's because Slashdot has turned into just another click-generating AdBoard taking advantage of a previously stellar reputation to generate clicks for advertisers - and the best way to do that is to cater to the lowest common denominator. Now that the last person who cared about Slashdot has been forced out, it can get even worse..
My Android phone with Google Nav gets my spoken directions right about 95% of the time (1 in 20 failure rate). My wife's iPhone w/ Siri has yet to send us to the correct location (100% failure rate).
"such an approach would pull in the opportunity horizon by interlocking horizontal and vertical business units, leveraging synergy and commonality between their respective focus teams, achieving greater velocity in quality function deployment moving forward.":D
I never thought I would see the "Paradigm Shift" return to the common corporate lexicon. Of course, there is also the "Paradigm Shift for Paradigm Shift's sake."
This, right here, is the kind of blue-sky thinking that can create a paradigm shift that will empower key contributors to cover all directions of the compass in the realization of the critical program objectives. The kind of solution that will be the result of joined-up thinking will easily land and expand across all verticals in a process-oriented organization. However it will be a key component of the storyboard to collect the buy-in from key stakeholders to ensure 100% coverage in gating milestones.
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Imagine a beowulf cluster of them!
I'm tired of these software vendors thinking that they own the rights to my hardware that I pay for.
The point of the e-books is not to avoid buying the physical books, but to avoid her having to carry a sack full of heavy books everywhere she goes on campus. It's a large place, and she does a lot of walking.
It's a good point about the DRM that I hadn't thought of. I'll have to look into it more to see if we're going to be stuck with Windows...
Hey everyone, I just wanted to say thanks for all of the helpful information offered in this thread. You've offered a lot of interesting ideas and solutions, and given us a lot to go on.
As usual, the Slashdot community comes through.
I'll try to follow up before this thread gets archived with what we looked at, and eventually decided to use.
Thanks again!
We haven't tried much so far. I picked up an android tablet to try out, and we've tried a number of apps. The one that seems most useful is Antipaper, but the lack of a fine point stylus and the slow response time makes it impossible to keep up with a fast-paced lecture.
Her physics prof uses a windows tablet with Windows Journal, and that looks like a decent setup, for the additional 500 a windows tablet costs over an android.ipad tablet.
Many in this thread have suggested the IBM tablet with the active stylus. That might make something like antipaper work well enough. The most important thing is freehand writing so she can get equations and other math entered quickly. Many of the note taking apps force you into left-right-up-down sequential writing and that is just out of the question.
I've yet to see a typing application that had a fast enough method for drawing math symbols... most of her notes are math.
That would probably be pretty good if it had a larger writing surface, but maybe if we see one at the store we'll take a look. The fact that it has a firm-tipped stylus already puts it ahead.
Thanks!
Thanks for the tip on this one. It looks very promising, so we'll have to check it out!
When I was in LV, every taxi I took had a camera on the dash recording the passengers and the driver. It was not clear if that stream was fed to the LVPD, or if it was just for the taxi company to monitor their drivers and passengers in case something went wrong.
I'm not against the owner of a taxi recording what goes on inside his car. It's his property and he can do what he wants with it, and impose any conditions he wishes upon my use or occupation of it.
That's precisely what Google wants. They want you buying an Android phone.
Ditto for South Carolina. Putting "zero" on that line on the tax return form is an instant audit.
If you think humans are solely responsible, and that all other factors, including changes in solar output, have ZERO effect (which is what you are saying), then you are not much of a scientist.
Why? It's extra cost for most people who don't need it because they can tether it through their Android phone.
First of all, 3G is obsolete, so there's no reason to include it.
Second, why pay for a second data plan when I can just tether the tablet through my Android phone? Or, does Apple not let you do that?
Don't forget giving your kids their allowance, paying their tuition, receiving your deceased loved one's life insurance benefits, paying your medical bills, paying your rent/mortgage, and buying groceries.
What we really also need to pay attention to is the real motive behind this: eliminating cash and giving government a detailed view of our private financial matters. We would hardly be secure in our papers if we had to show them all to the State.
We have these spotted horses all over the place - many many farms around here have them wandering around in their pastures. Of course, we don't call them spotted horses. We just call them "cows."
That's because Slashdot has turned into just another click-generating AdBoard taking advantage of a previously stellar reputation to generate clicks for advertisers - and the best way to do that is to cater to the lowest common denominator. Now that the last person who cared about Slashdot has been forced out, it can get even worse..
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
Correlation is not causation.
Seriously? I know for a fact that there have been quakes much stronger than 5.6.
Wasn't the one that hit Chile last year almost a 9 or something?
ESXi 5.0 has native driers for Realtek 8111/8168 and many more consumer-level devices, just so you know.
My Android phone with Google Nav gets my spoken directions right about 95% of the time (1 in 20 failure rate). My wife's iPhone w/ Siri has yet to send us to the correct location (100% failure rate).
Siri is disappointing at best.
Jesus, what the hell kind of article summary is this? I RTFA, and it's all speculation and conjecture. Almost every word of it.
Allow me to word that slightly differently:
"such an approach would pull in the opportunity horizon by interlocking horizontal and vertical business units, leveraging synergy and commonality between their respective focus teams, achieving greater velocity in quality function deployment moving forward." :D
I never thought I would see the "Paradigm Shift" return to the common corporate lexicon. Of course, there is also the "Paradigm Shift for Paradigm Shift's sake."
This, right here, is the kind of blue-sky thinking that can create a paradigm shift that will empower key contributors to cover all directions of the compass in the realization of the critical program objectives. The kind of solution that will be the result of joined-up thinking will easily land and expand across all verticals in a process-oriented organization. However it will be a key component of the storyboard to collect the buy-in from key stakeholders to ensure 100% coverage in gating milestones.