I do wear my wallet in the front pocket (from years ago where I read it is harder to pickpocket from the front) but all keys and everything else in the fanny pack.

I am glad someone else was willing to expose themselves to ridicule. I also use a fanny pack, but it must be smaller than the one above. No room for a Glock in mine.

Patent keeping the not side hot and the cold side cold.

Mr Roger's testimony also helped Stevens writer the majority opinion about Video Taping : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers#Mister_Rogers_and_the_VCR

I concur. Through high school I missed out on Geometry. When I got to college and started Calculus the prof asked if anyone had not had Geometry and Trigonometry, so I raised my hand. He tutored me for a few hours and I was good to go. Much of geometry and trig is taking the time to prove the various relationships. I just had to accept that they were correct, never went through the pain of the proof process. One could argue that I missed something valuable, but it has never come up in 30 yrs of working as a scientist.

I attended a small liberal arts college and the professors were all about teaching. My prof was a very good teacher, so that may account for his skill in getting me up to speed. So try to seek out the best teachers (small colleges, maybe community colleges) and pay for a tutor, these profs can always use the cash.

I agree with an earlier post that I have used calculus rarely (and just went to the book to look up the integration/ differentiation rules). On the other hand in the last 10 years the use of statistics has really jumped in industry (I am a chemist/mauf engineer not a programmer) with Six Sigma and the like. So again you don't need to learn all the proofs behind the statistics, but you need to know how to run software for analyzing the data and what the results mean. How to run a DOE, how to plot an M&IR, how to use ANOVA to prove that a statistically significant exists/doesn't exist with data sets.

Your mileage may vary, since you might be in a vastly different arena. And of course there is the internet and various web sites where you could get help if you get in too deeply.

Blame the publishers for hanging onto their "agency" model (where publishers set the prices and the ibookstore is just the agency). The Amazon model will eventually win out, but the publishers have to go through their death throws.

In the mean time, look at the indie authors on Kindle. They set their own prices. There are some very good books and authors out there. The Amazon book review and rating method helps you find good quality books. You are no longer beholden to some publisher's decision about what is good writing. It is truly liberating.

It is like one of those time travel conundrums - did we name it Enterprise because we saw the future, or was the future influenced by what we named it here in the present?

Our company six sigma training included two weeks of collecting and analyzing data with a stats package. I got enough experience to even train me how to use the program. I can still do a few things that come up regularly. Probably the best thing to come out of six sigma (for me at least).

Sign of the times. I thought the question was if I had employment, not if at that instant was I at work reading slashdot.

You don't want to be on a floor higher than the tallest ladder available to your local firefighters. Normally in the US this is 7th story. I attended a conference a few years ago and the fire marshall for the city basically said they could not reach you above 7 and thus reducing your chances for survival in case of a fire.

Are you trying to get to Kelvin to double the temperature of water? Water boils at 373 Kelvin x 2 = 746 K

I would love to replace my POS HP cheap as dirt laptop with my sweet MB Pro. I would even furnish the computer myself, so they would save the $1000 on the laptop. And in fact there is a few brave souls using Macs, some of them even dual booting when required (see below). I am seriously considering joining them when my lease is next up. I have seen the next generation laptops that are coming in to the corporation and the machine is not faster and has an annoying refresh entire screen every 30 seconds.

This company is standardized on XP and explorer 6 with Lotus Notes. We are in a "tight controlled" network. You get software patches 3x week and you have to accept. We have virus software that prevents us from using our science instruments any more without an IT intervention. The computer takes 8 minutes to boot up and 5 minutes to shut down. All internal "paperwork" requires IE6, not even Firefox allowed. Telcons require you "see" the screen of others, requiring IE6... you get the picture. We are considering Win7 (never got to Vista, in fact we removed the preloaded Vista and put on XP) but will still need a year to work on the bugs.

If the lack of IE6 was not enough there are some specialized software that is not on the Mac. This is where dual booting would work, but I would have to become the dual boot expert, don't expect any help. Lotus updates Notes on the Mac so slowly that there would be periods of goofiness during the lag time. Also, they like the straight jacket they can put on our computers, I wonder if the Mac and even be constrained in a similar manner?

In their minds this is the cheapest solution, maybe so as they would screw up a Mac installation as they have screwed up the XP computers . It would require switching completely to Mac to regain the comfort level. But that seems unlikely. But then h-e-l-l is close to freezing over outside.

I am interested in your experience using the Smartpen. Do you have time to go back and review your notes or listen to the audio? Do you transfer the notes to PDF and file the documents in your normal folders on your computer? Seems like a good product. In grad school we took notes in class and then re-wrote them into another notebook. We consulted with classmates in case our notes were vague or missing. We then used our condensed notes to study for the qualifying exams. But that took a great deal of time and had very high value, so we put in the time. At work I might not have too much "review time" but it would be nice to have my notes somewhere in one place that I can search upon. Currently handwritten notes go into folders, but you have to remember which folder you might have stored the note. If I write clearly enough it sounds like you can search entire notebooks.

My wife is an indie author and has been following this debate. She found a really good description of what is going on here . A basic conflict between Amazon's business model vs the book publisher's legacy business model.

Interesting video but how often do you get to have an open flame of methanol to heat your laptop on a plane?

The more likely problem is with overcharging Li ion batteries (another post had a link to a battery being charged at LAX and catching fire).Newer battery technology has a inherent property preventing overcharging caused failures.