[Leica] iPad and textbooks

[jsjgroups at gmail.com (Jerry Justianto)]

You have to know that iPad is not a notebook replacement. Since it
required a pc, notebook or an imac to sync it.

I am curious to see whether the import photo feature will be able to
view M9 DNG files.

Jsj


On 2/5/10, rickfloyd at comcast.net <rickfloyd at comcast.net> wrote:
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> My kids are excited about the iPad for exactly the same reason.? Their 
> input
> is that for classes they need to take and couldn't care less about the book
> afterward, they will order hardcopies so they can resell once the class is
> done.? But, for classes in their major area of study, they are very
> interested in the eBook and iPad.? They too complain the MacBooks and text
> books are too large and cumbersome to carry all the time.
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> I'm excited about the iPad to replace this crummy HP netbook I'm sharing
> with HP service department.? It's beginning to collect frequent flyer miles
> from FedEx!
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> Rick
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>
> To: "Leica LUG" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 5, 2010 9:41:04 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [Leica] iPad and textbooks
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> Frank is right about textbooks. ?My daughter is in college and, while iPad
> would not replace her MacBook, it could easily replace the 10 lbs of
> textbooks she has to cart around in her backpack all over campus. That 
> alone
> would be well worth the price of the iPad. In fact, she would be able to
> leave her MacBook back in the dorm more often if she could use the iPad to
> study and write, then bring it back, sync with her MacBook and continue
> working.
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> --Jim
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> Why so many college textbooks at $50 a pop? Many colleges, including mine,
> look for a magic number in evaluating professors for promotion. Our college
> counts the number of papers published in academic journals as a major 
> index.
> Three peer reviewed papers equal one textbook. Judging from personal
> experience it is quicker, and often easier, to write a textbook for
> undergraduate courses than to do the research for a substantive paper.
> Naturally the publishers want to sell co-pies of the books that they print
> so the professors are encouraged to require all students to buy the latest
> edition of the book. The iPad, using books accessed from the internet, will
> kill that market. The colleges will be forced to use a different metric 
> than
> "Publish or perish."
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> Larry Z
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