Easy to fix...
- Set up a new domain and email address for her.
- Configure the old email to forward to the new one.
- Keep the old email for a year or two.
- Have her send out new business cards and an email change notice to all clients, add a vCard .vcf attachment to make it easy to add to contacts
- Use the new email address to send all replies and to remind customers to update their contact lists if they send to the old address.

Eventually all active clients will have the new email address. It takes time, but it does work....

I received a free HP48G as an award for having one of the top 10 grades for first year university students in the CS program at our university. I loved it because it was programmable, had a stack so you could mimic stack operations in a computer, was great for solving statistics problems, and I could play pac-man on it... (grin).

I hung on to it for a few years after university, but never found another use for it. I eventually sold it on eBay. The person who bought it was very happy as theirs had died and the HP48 was becoming hard to find, even in the used market.

In some ways I got lucky. One of my first jobs was supporting point-of-sale systems and pump controllers at 100 gas stations, about 30% were 24-hour. There is nothing like walking a minimum wage cashier through resetting a pump controller and being woken up at 3:00am in the morning as trucks are lining up and they can't pump gas... If you have the patience to do that, you can support just about anything...

It taught me how to be patient, professional, to ask all kinds of questions, and to pay attention to any and all details that are provided. It also taught me how to put myself in the place of the person on the other end of the phone and how to calm them down.

I was thinking the same thing....

They need Electrolytes... So... Brondo???

The answer, like always, is "It depends...."

Is a CS degree valuable to a programmer? Yes, it teaches the theory that a programmer needs to handle advanced situations such as creating algorithms, handling matrices, etc.

Is a CS degree needed to get work as a programmer? No. Most HR departments look for a degree, but it can be in anything as long as you have some experience in the position that you are applying for.

As usual, most people here are debating the value of a degree and whether it is worth it. In today's job landscape, it would be silly not to get a degree. Mainly because having one gives you more options by exposing you to a wider range of concepts and theory. Plus it gets your foot in the door. However, It doesn't have to be a CS degree. But, if you are determined to be a programmer, it would be the one that would fit the best. That doesn't mean that you couldn't take another degree and minor in CS.

What you get out of college is up to you. Unlike high school, you will not be nagged by the professors to do the work or study. It's up to you to be mature enough to direct your own life. Yes, you can spend the whole time in college partying. You can also take the opportunity to make an effort to learn. Most learn that there is a balance to College, much like there is in life.

That's because it costs Apple no more than $5 to give you the 32Gb version over the 16Gb version. It's cheaper than having to ship a replacement to you. It's also good customer service, which is one of things you pay for when you buy an Apple product. Personally, I buy Android devices because you get a better device for your money (in my opinion), but there are some perks for paying the Apple tax....
 

They took a photo of 3D atoms and printed it out... making them 2D... (grin)

And that's why, if you can, you go back to college to get a Bachelor or Masters degree when you get into your late 30's early 40's. I was fortunate in that I was able to take advantage of our corporate education benefits to complete mine. If nothing else, it shows that you still have the capacity and drive to learn and develop new concepts and skills outside of your current job.

Yes, the new Tile interface did scare a lot of people off, including the enterprise. It works well with a touch screen but sucks for anyone without it. However, there are number of inexpensive (under $10) and free utilities that fixes the interface so that you boot to the desktop and never see it. But... most consumers wouldn't be smart enough to know this. They were forced to use the new UI.

If you take a step back and look at the latest phones and tablets, the majority of them have tile interfaces in some form or another. So, it looks like some form of tiles will be here to stay. That being said, it doesn't make it a useful UI for a desktop or laptop without touch.

Windows 8 and 8.1 has been just as stable and is faster than Windows 7. You could argue that 8.1 is the odd version, though...

No, he means fanboy. Normal console customers will see that all of the new games are being released on the PS4 or Xbox One and move on. Also, it's unrealistic to expect a company that has the next gen product out to make any changes to the old product. The reason why is because they have put any new R&D into the new console and need to recover their investment.

Sounds like one of the potions from Skyrim...

resistance to cold: +50%, stamina: -5%, cure disease: +100%, maple syrup addiction: +500%

mmmmmm... maple syrup.....

I need the cover art to jug my memory to remember the DETAILS, yes. I have no problem remembering the basic plot. Of course I haven't picked it up in over two weeks. Some of us push stuff to the back of our minds when we are working on more important stuff.

So, no, I'm not weird and nor are you a super genius. Either you have been reading your book much more recently than I have or you have a much less demanding life....

If you asked me what the plot line is for the book that I am currently reading, I couldn't tell you off of the top of my head. However, after picking up the text and reading for five minutes, I would be able to spell out the plot, the characters, and their back story. When I read a physical book, I have better memory of what's going on. The reason is that a physical book provides clues that aids in memory recall, such as the cover art, size, shape, etc. These clues can be more easily recalled and associated with the story than plain text.

However, with a text book it's somewhat different. You read the text book over a longer period of time and, presumably, you have lectures and homework which re-enforces the ideas.

I still have the old keyboard Kindle. I've thought about getting the new Paperwhite but I prefer the physical buttons for turning pages. However, I'd buy a new Kindle in an instant if Amazon came out with a high resolution colour e-Ink version that showed cover art, etc. I'm not interested in the Kindle Fire, simply because I enjoy reading books on the beach.

This is just a precursor towards a future where construction is handled by machines controlled from home office. For example, if you have a large enough 3D printer, you could print whole walls, foundations, etc. and machines could put them together similar to the way cars are built today. This is more of a small scale example of what can be done.

Microsoft mice are still popular... (grin)

The XBox and PS3 were pretty much even, there was no clear definitive advantage for Microsoft. Plus, we don't even know if Microsoft ever broke even with the Xbox.

Microsoft's bread-n-butter has always been MS Office, Desktop OS, and the Enterprise space. MS is developing Office Apps for the iPad and Android, PC/Laptop sales have stabilized as people realize that they still need them to edit and create content, and the Enterprise space is doing better than ever with the advent of virtual servers.

I'm not saying that Microsoft doesn't have challenges but saying that they are "struggling just to remain relevant" shows a lack of understanding about the business as a whole. As proof, in Q4 2014 Microsoft enterprise sales "increased $2.3 billion or 6%, due primarily to increased revenue from our server products". A $2.3 billion dollar increase in one quarter is nothing to sneeze at...

http://www.microsoft.com/Inves...