You need to control your data! Now more than ever.

We hate Microsoft, but at least you have some control there. They sell you bad software, but at least you sorta have it in your possession (until they sunset the license / activation servers).

Luckily, I learned a few lessons early on with the loss of Yahoo Photos. I now have nicely named folders of the selected good family photos for relatively quick online upload (again) if I have to move services. Or I can roll my own web server if I had to, just for photos.

You need to be prepared to download your documents and switch your email if needed.

I was about to start up full-force with g+, but after this reader nonsense I went and make an account at joindiaspora.com and tried out Diaspora. It looks pretty solid now and they are trying to do it the way God intended for the internet, open standards and software so you can roll your own. I only use g+ now to bitch and moan about google...

It did not have a camera. I don't think it did mp3 or video playback either.

Palm had a wireless PDA for a bit, but it was not that great. Email and crappy browser, no music or camera.

I have tried various things over the years. The best I ever found was to make myself run every day. Get in the habit of roll out of bed, go run, shower, go to work.

One day I went to work, then after eight hours I realized that I never even stood up. I was busy all day long, with all of my meetings coming to my office. I never got thirsty or had the call of nature. I realized that I had been sitting on my rear for a full eight hours. I try to at least go get coffee now...

There are ways to make it look like GoogleReader I think. In the top right gear / settings, I tried "Timeline View" which gives you a blurb and image. Decent shortcuts as well.

The point was, it did everything the iPhone did and more.

It had features the iPhone still does not have.

Go back to your shiny little toys and let the men work with their tools.

Some other iPhone limitations (that Treo could do)

-No video recording
-No editing MS Office documents
-No EVDO (iPhone Edge was slow)
-No laptop tethering

But the iPhone was shiny!

Palm had the first integrated smartphones, the Treo series. Camera, PDA, net connectivity, music and media all in one.

They were far ahead of the first iPhone in terms of features. Stereo bluetooth and copy paste were there way before iPhone implemented them. Palm had stuff iPhone never will have, like hardware keyboard, SD card slot, user-replaceable battery, install any program, multi-day battery, and actual physical buttons.

Too bad the OS was dated...

Post-doc requirement for industry depends on your field.

Our engineering PhD students generally get industrial spots without a post doc. However, academics do need them now. That changed 10-15 years back, so maybe engineering industrial slots are headed the same way?

I had a short summer, as my undergrad got out late and my grad school started early. Lucky for me, my little brother had just graduated from high school.

We started hiking the southern end of the Appalachian Trail, starting at Springer Mountain. After about three weeks, we managed to get to Clingman's Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This experience changed my life. I absolutely loved it.

Brother and and I got struck by lightning. On separate occasions. (more like shocked)

We stopped for a full day about every week to rest and recover. At the start it was hard to do 10-12 miles per day with a full pack. At the end we were doing 20-25 with no trouble.

Out with nature, relaxing, nothing to really think about but getting to the next stopping point and feeding yourself.

Awesome experience!

The windows installer installs and configures it all automatically, so you don't have to worry with the LaTeX stuff. I think Mac is similar, just click to install. Linux variants generally install LaTeX with ease for most distributions.

LyX has had version control for a long time. CVS was standard years ago, I think they are open to various version control now. It may not be multi-user simultaneous edits, but many version control systems will sort out non-conflicting edits.

I use tgif for vector graphics editing fairly well.

I have managed to get a couple of scripts to automatically run that let me have WYSIWYG type 1 eps equations in tgif. Click on the equation object in LyX, edit, save and close, the lyx file is dumped to ps then eps and pulled into tgif.

I have even gotten that to work on a cygwin PC too.

LyX is a great free cross-platform document processor that uses LaTeX on the back end for export.

Not exactly WYSIWYG, but close enough. You export to PS or PDF as needed.

You can see basically what your equations look like while editing before you tex it. You can still use normal LaTeX commands too, but anyone with basic Word experience can jump right in.

I have used it for tons of things for over a decade now.

I agree natural resources are not going to last forever. But the proposed "solutions" do nothing significant to fix the "problem" while allowing India and China a free pass.

WRT to links, here is one sowing how raw data is adjusted http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/fig_7-ghcn-averages.jpg

And here is one on how data sets keep changing:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/09/nasas_rubber_ruler.html#ixzz27YZRxqIW

Here is a little animation showing some modifications:
http://klimaforskning.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=825.0;attach=2823;image

Changing past data just seems sketchy to me. Especially if it is not transparent on your modeling and methodology.

I am not a climate scientist. I do not rely on Fox News for science information. But thanks for the ad hom insults!

I have seen that the climate scientists keep making modifications to the temperature records. "Normalization" efforts that push down older temperatures while increasing more recent temps. Seems sketchy to me, but I am not a climate scientist.

I have seen that climate scientist make predictions that fail to come true. "Millions of climate refugees by 2010" "x amount of increase in the next 10 years" If their methods fail to accurately model future events, why do we trust them?

I have seen efforts to change behavior that are dubious at best. Carbon tax that has minimal if any impact, best case? If you can't get China and India to follow along, you are wasting your time.

Things like the divergence issue bother me. Modeling issues related to solar sensitivity and cloud response worry me. I am not saying they are wrong, I just don't know if they are right at this point. There seem to be issues that may not adequately be addressed.

Global cooling was taught in my middle school science text books. I remember the "Igloo Effect" specifically.

Popular press seized on it as well. You may not be old enough to remember, but it was out there in the MSM.

I really like the new rationalization, "blizzards and snow are caused by global warming." Or just cover all the bases and stick with "Climate Change" so you are always right.