I have tried mightily to move completely to my Pixel Chromebook. The one thing that prevents a complete migration is actually what Google is claimed to be quite good at: searching. I have a couple of apps on my PC, DTSearch and X1 that index my files and are searchable by a variety of means. Google's own search of my Google Drive comes up very deficient at doing what DTSearch and X1 can do.

I guess if your kid is named Alexa you are in for lots of fun in the future.

eM Client lets me set up Gmail as my primary account and basically acts as a shell over Gmail. I can even edit email Subject lines for those nonsensical Subject lines that make no contextual sense.

Biggest complaint I have with Gmail is its inability to let the user change the email Subject line to something relevant to my needs. Enter eM Client http://www.emclient.com/

Use eM Client to get Gmail, Google Calendar, Contacts and can do everything needed to be done, including dealing with mass changes to labels, starred messages, etc. Not to mention the fact that exporting all messages within eM Client into locally stored folders for backup is now easily possible.

After Windows Creator update lost connection to Onedrive. Accessing onedrive.live.com results in and unsolvable issue:

This site can’t provide a secure connection

login.live.com sent an invalid response.
ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

Not even disabling the firewall solves the problem

Just kill Cortana process from the task manager. Will require killing it about six times or so before it actually remains off...until you restart...then just repeat the process.

Just use Magnavision tinted glasses for computer use:

http://www.amazon.com/Magnivis...

The coddling of the American Mind:
http://www.theatlantic.com/mag...

Sigh

Tell her about the Good News:

Romans 3:23
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Romans 10:9
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:13
For "whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."

If you use Chrome, the Auto Text Expander extension will become a must have. Create some text trigger shortcut, enter it, and it expands to any sort of text you want to enter into a textual field that you find yourself entering often.

Mr. Wolfram,

Will Mathematica progress to the point of being able to parse plain language such that it can extract the mathematical concepts into its underlying language for processing?

I have used the software for many years but find the input grammar required to be the single biggest barrier to putting the tool to its fullest potential.

As indicated herein, the company could use Dropbox with the Packrat added feature. With Packrat, each and every past saved version of a doc are stored on the cloud and can be downloaded at anytime.

Sending 4 at a time starting in 2018 every 2 years seems not a productive strategy for colonization. The last four in the mix will have waited nearly a lifetime before getting aboard. Hopefully the management has sorted out possible reproductive pairings such that life can perpetuate without too much consanguinity issues.

Prima facie evidence to the contrary:

Randal Schwartz (of perl notability).

After teaching electrical engineering at universities (you, too should consider some adjunct professor part-time teaching) I moved into industry. I sought out positions that needed my quantitative skills versus my skills in theoretical topics. My EE doctorate is related to stochastic queueing theory and the mathematics was what I knew could be parlayed into other areas. I landed a position in a quality control department working on design for manufacturability aspects of a SONET add-drop multiplexer project. So my day was basically crunching numbers. Tedious indeed.

While attending a project review of the add-drop mux development the instability of the laser electro-optical interface was delaying the project month after month. I chatted up the project manager and he agreed to let me peek over the shoulder of the engineer designing the interface. After a week of review of the design it was clear to me that the designer did not understand the mathematics of PLL stability and I was able to recommend some changes to the design that resolved the stability issue of the electro-optical interface. Within another month I was transferred out of the QA department to the actual design team. From there, it was on to Motorola, Intel, etc. At Intel I managed an R&D lab full of PhDs, often hired by me not to leverage the specifics of their PhD but for the fact that their doctorate meant that they could take punishment, were able to synthesize a wide body of knowledge into something coherent, and had a degree of mental discipline that could be shaped for the needs of my lab.

Look for areas that your doctoral studies can be leveraged in other domains. Grab the position even if it pays poorly. Excel at your job and the rest will take are of itself.