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That's a good example or a bad example. It depends on what your point is.
AOL was an invasive shoddy software. But, most people found it easy to use. Surely you don't think the ordered vomit of icons that make up the iOS and Android interfaces are stellar interfaces do you?
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tgrt wrote: AOL was an invasive shoddy software.
And the difference between AOL and Win8 is? 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: And the difference between AOL and Win8 is?
Huge. Apparently, you haven't used Windows 8. It's far from perfect. I wouldn't even call it great. But it's a far cry from shoddy. I prefer it to the options out there.
Note: I'm taking your messages tongue in cheek.
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"ordered vomit of icons"
That is meme-worthy ! Upvoted.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Printed out the daily numbers from one of our other fields to make it easier to read off the numbers and punch into the daily report generator for the region rather than flick back and forth.
The printout was ejected by the printer, shot off the printer, off the desk, glided under the desk and into the mouth of the paper shredder which automatically started and duly consumed the printout.
Tried to re-create the moment by printing again and videoing, but alas it wouldn't play ball...
Edit: After much experimenting, it turns out there is a 3rd piece of equipment that is key to all this, the hot air fan that is under my desk! Still not managed to re-create the moment despite numerous attempts, nearest I've got was the paper brushing the front of the shredder. Going to be a long day to day....... 
modified 13-Oct-13 6:07am.
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DaveAuld wrote: Tried to re-create the moment by printing again and videoing, but alas it wouldn't play ball...
Sorry Dave, no video, so didn't happen 
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
"I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!"
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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Sounds like something straight out of one of the Final Destination movies. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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 don't say that
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I've approached that scene. My printer sits on a shelf over my desk. The overly-aggressive paper handling(*) routinely tosses printed sheets onto the floor. I've occasionally had them make it into the trash can beneath the desk.
(*) Making the paper handling more aggressive reduces warranty returns triggered by excessive paper jams. Most of the commodity paper you buy in Wal-Mart/Target/Office Depot is utter crap and has usually not been handled or stored well, which causes more problems. Moisture is usually the worst culprit.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Exclaiming in surprise about the amazing coincidence of the paper path is one thing, spending the next hour or more trying to recreate it so you can video it is well, very big bangish!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Where is Penny when I need her...
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Will you get the frik out of my fantasies please!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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619 about-to-be college students at St. Edwards University (Austin, Texas) were interviewed in the summer of 2013: [^]. The article covers what form-factor computers they were bringing with them, what hardware platforms, and OS's they use, browser and e-mail client choices, etc.
Looking at the results, how do you think Windows is doing ?
I'm not familiar with the demographics of St. Edwards's student body. Their web-site claims that U.S. News and World Report listed them as 15th. among the best Colleges for 2013.
I'd expect to see a difference if a similar survey was carried out a large state University, like the University of Tennessee, where I once taught; like most land-grant colleges in the southern U.S.: at the time I taught there, U. of T. had to admit anyone who wanted to come who had a "C," or better, average in high-school. As a result, the enormous incoming freshpeople class was very diverse, and the attrition rate, when I was there, was very high for the first-year class. Only about 60% made it to the sophomore year, as I remember.
Of course the reasons for the attrition rate varied: some students just couldn't make it economically; some couldn't handle the transition from very rural communities to what was, for them, the "big city;" some flunked out; others boozed and drugged out; some just figured out that going to work, or joining the armed forces, was a better "deal" for who they were, and their future.
I'd also expect to see some differences if such a survey were carried out at the really top-end technology and computer-science institutions for higher education, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, Stanford, and so on. And, if such a survey were carried out at some of the big-ticket tuition schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, I'd expect to see a lot more fancy iRetina Mac $tuff.
Separate link to the infographic: [^].
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
modified 13-Oct-13 1:50am.
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My daughter is a senior at Ohio University[^]. She uses a Windows laptop, a Kindle, a Google Nexus tablet, and a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone. She uses the laptop for document and presentation authoring, and running class-required applications. She's a wildlife biology major, and they use a variety of statistical and simulation packages. The Kindle and the Nexus share textbook duties. The smartphone lets her keep up with e-mail, which is the primary communication medium with her professors outside of class.
For today's college students, the laptop is a requirement from the start. The smartphone becomes a must, at least by the time they become upper classmen. E-book readers are a matter of economics. A brand new textbook can be $300, a used one $275, and a rental for a semester $200. The e-book version might be $150 or less. An e-book reader can pay for itself in a single semester.BillWoodruff wrote: the enormous incoming freshpeople class was very diverse, and the attrition rate, when I was there, was very high for the first-year class. Only about 60% made it to the sophomore year, as I remember
The attrition rate for my class at Wright State University[^] was fairly high. As I recall, we lost over half the freshman class. During my final year, my advisor told me that the 'survival rate' in computer science was 10%, and in my program computer engineering, 4%. Of course a lot of these losses were due to changes in major or transfers to other schools.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Hi Gary,
I enjoyed hearing about your daughter's formidable technical chops, and I congratulate her for her good taste in genes (parents) !
You make a telling point, I think: that college people these days are probably multi-device users if they can afford it.
The cost of the textbooks you describe is mind-boggling ! I used to think shelling out US $30 or so for a used textbook was plundering me bank-account back when I was in grad school (early 1980's).
I'm behind the times, to say the least 
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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BillWoodruff wrote: college people these days are probably multi-device users if they can afford it.
Compared to the basic expense of college tuition, room and board, the devices are diddly. My daughter bought the Kindle and the Nexus out of her own pocket. The smartphone is a wee bit expensive, but worthwhile.
Software Zen: delete this;
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As a direct result of the recent changes to Google's privacy terms where it belligerently states that it shares your personal information with the government and in advertisements (and hell knows where else), I have decided to change my primary email from gmail to hotmail (aka outlook). I already have a hotmail id that I created long ago and that used to be my primary id before I switched over to gmail.
I have few questions about this transformation:
1. Does anyone have a checklist? What are the steps, precautions that needs to be taken? ( I mean things like letting your contacts know about it, etc., not the technical stuff)
2. What would be my email address? is it xxx@hotmail.com or xxx@outlook.com or it simply doesn't matter? I have tried and I received emails sent to both Ids in my inbox. Is MS trying to retire the hotmail alias? In that case I should start using outlook.com alias, right?
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What I did last time was to set up an auto-reply to my contact list that would let them know I changed addresses. You can forward your email if you want or just look through and find the people you want to know and do a BCC mailing to tell everybody. You should also archive all your email somewhere so that when you turn off your account you have access to the stuff you had previously.
As far as I know, yes, Microsoft is retiring hotmail and I would use the outlook.com address instead of the hotmail one (plus outlook.com sounds more professional than hotmail).
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It doesn't matter what you change it to. The filth at 'IT Scam Board' will find it and bombard it.
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I think hotmail is being phased out and retired and outlook is the way forward to align with the whole Office365 etc. I would use the outlook one.
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Microsoft retires hotmail doesn't mean your email address will "expire" or something. You can continue using your @hotmail.com address, and it will be supported.
However, they're pushing people to use the @outlook.com address, and you can do what you want.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Yes. I still have an @netscape.net email address from thousands of years back that now goes to aol.com - I don't use for anything except emergency backup for my gmail and hotmail/outlook accounts but it still works.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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When I last did it, I set up both accounts to read to different folders in Outlook - the new account to the Inbox, and the old account to a folder with the old email name: in your case I'd call it "Gmail". When anything appeared in the Gmail folder, I'd either reply and remind them of the new address or decide I didn't care to get messages from them any more. After three or six months, nothing I wanted any more was coming through so I deleted the account.
You can also set up an auto-reply rule in Outlook to send a reminder automatically - but that can be risky if you ever receive spam! This shows you how: http://www.extendoffice.com/documents/outlook/498-outlook-auto-reply.html[^]
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Microsoft is/will be doing the same thing (maybe not the ads thing .. yet), they're just less transparent about it.
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