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RE: iPad: Five Things I Didn’t Expect
[quote author="wab95" date="1285832849"]I had expected to use the iPad more for reviewing manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals, which come in pdf format, and which I consistently do every week. Opening them up in Doc Anywhere, which seems to render pdfs better than Docs to Go, at least in my experience, and then switching back and forth…

RE: A Luddite Reacts to iPhone 4
[quote author="Photodan" date="1276020614"]Location-based apps aren’t useful to you because you don’t go to many unfamiliar places but a drawback to the phone is that you can’t pop a new sim card when you travel to unfamiliar places?[/quote] We go abroad about once per year. I'd love to be able to swap out a SIM card to turn an iPhone…

RE: U.S. Chamber Chastises Apple CEO for "Forfeiting Opportunity" on Climate Change
[quote author="Bosco" date="1254965441"]How do you generate electricity with wind when it isn’t windy? Or with solar when it isn’t sunny, or at night? Do demand patterns match the winds and the intensity of the sun? One possible solution is batteries, which have always been extremely environmentally friendly. Just kidding, they are anything…

RE: U.S. Chamber Chastises Apple CEO for "Forfeiting Opportunity" on Climate Change
[quote author="Bosco" date="1254952774"]The reason that we continue to literally move mountains to extract coal is because doing so is the least expensive, most reliable way of producing electricity for these regions[/quote] Bosco-- Well, I have to bite back on this one. :-) Fossil fuels are the least expensive energy source because they…

RE: U.S. Chamber Chastises Apple CEO for "Forfeiting Opportunity" on Climate Change
[quote author="Bosco" date="1254918607"]Bryan, Google Bastiat on broken windows, then get back to us on compelling evidence of this being good economic policy. I’ll give you the short version. Destroying wealth to “create jobs” makes us poorer. [/quote] Careful, Bosco -- This is tricky. I'll put my chips down with Bryan on this:…

 

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