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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
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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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Yes - my first thought was Gmail to Hotmail is reminiscent of the frying pan and fire analogy.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I don't think that it will provide you any benefit, it won't be long before Microsoft does the same... anyway on hotmail you can setup plenty of Aliases ie use different addresses pointing to the same one, so xx@outlook.co, xxx@live.com or what ever does not matter at all.
Personally for proper stuffs I use my own domain emails, for all the rest I use a junk hotmail addresses and aliases, they can hack it, spy it to their heart content, it's just full of useless junk.
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As mentioned above, an alternative approach would be to use your own domain rather than a specific email provider's domain. I currently use Exchange Online as my provider (I pay $8/month for unlimited storage, and unlimited aliases with one being designated as the alias I send emails from), but since I am using my own domain, I can always change my provider without changing my email address.
As far as handling the people aspects, let people know your new address, if you have a contact list (making sure to BCC them, of course). Then, set an auto-reply to say "hey, this is an auto-reply to let you know my email has changed... contact me to get my new address" (don't indicate your new email address in the auto-reply, as that may lead to somebody unscrupulous getting their hands on it). Also, set your old address to forward emails to your new address.
Or, in checklist form:
- Use a domain you own.
- BCC your contacts to let them know your new address (from your old address).
- Set an auto-reply to indicate the address is old.
- Auto-forward emails to the new address.
- Change all your accounts to use the new address.
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My primary e-mail service is provided by a small company that is staffed by volunteers.
In 10+ years, I've not had any problems with the service, and they're decent chaps, who I doubt would do more than laugh, if they got requests from people who have decided that protecting me means treating me as a criminal.
IMO, smaller is better. The big boys have got enough income, and I trust them less.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Shameel wrote: 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?
when it launched i was able to get common.variant.of.my.name@outlook.com. I be astonished if was still available ~20 years after hotmail launched; so I'm all but certain hotmail users didn't get a free matching @outlook.com address.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I would go buy my own domain(fairly cheap) and setup my own email server in my house and use that. If your really worried.
PS. I own my own domain. It works for me. Yes I actually pay for my email. But isn't that what it is. MY email?
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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If you're going to switch just for that, then better switch to a private email server with your own domain, if you read the terms of service of outlook.com and it didn't say that they share your information with advertiser, they could still share your information with US government (although this is true for any US based company), because they may be forced to by law.
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