I'm a mathematician but I rarely use Mathematica or MatLab (only occasionally,
for curios)--and don't know what R is. Some mathematicians use these tools in
teaching, but I'm not that enthusiastic about them --and tend not to teach
courses where they would be most appropriate. I do use Latex for
On 1/25/13 9:49 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
So it does reach into the middle of your lifestyle and impacts the
integration of all our digital critters. I am interested in how
others see it.
Freely redistributable source code -> Spouse
Not free -> Not Spouse
Some tend to stray. Happy monogamy i
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Grant Holland
wrote:
> Owen - Great post. Hope some other folks will respond in kind. Might be
> interesting to get an 'inventory of digital lifestyles'. - Grant
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> Thanks! Yeah, I sorta was surprised by how interconnected everything is
.
I rarely need my remote DVD with my MacAir since for almost everything you can
use a remote disk on another computer so I usually don't carry it on trips
(although it weighs almost nothing). Possibly having something else to carry is
offset by the weight difference between an Air and a heavier l
It really comes down to convenience... not having to get up and cross
the room or go downstairs to load a movie in your comp... and while
traveling... getting two things together (laptop and DVD) is hard enough
without adding a third (DVD player).
In my experience, watching movies on DVD is the
Owen - Great post. Hope some other folks will respond in kind. Might be
interesting to get an 'inventory of digital lifestyles'. - Grant
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On Jan 24, 2013, at 10:16 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> Our recent conversation on buying a computer made me repeat a mantra I use
> whene
Pamela,
You can also share the DVD drive of another Mac from your new MacBook Air.
Grant
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On Jan 24, 2013, at 8:40 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote:
> Whoops, more votes coming in. The idea of a MacBook Air plus external CD/DVD
> player is very interesting.
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