I've always made it policy that no one gives out any information about any types of equipment installed on our network. I've seen a lot of these types of scams, they also will call, always claiming to be from "the warehouse" or "facilities", asking about what types of light fixtures are in your office and bill exorbitant amounts for light bulbs. Another useful trick I've found is to install a mid-sized copier/scanner/fax at each office location. Since the annual maintenance agreement typically covers the cost of toner (up to X pages/month) you don't have any invoices for toner and those that come across are fraud. (You can also tell the toner people you do this even if you don't to get them to stop calling).

At first, I wondered which holiday you were referring to as well. In the US, we follow the definition of holiday as "a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.", whereas in other parts of the world it is used to describe vacation. I've often wondered why British English speakers don't use the term vacation.

Counting binary on your fingers again? You could always throw in 260 for good measure.

Viewed the Apple Pay site after I got home and it says it is compatible with an iPhone 5 AND an Apple Watch (In store only) so that answers that question. Now to figure out if $349 is worth NFC payments and the health tracking apps.

Your wife's issues all stem from iOS being out of memory. She's keeping her phone too full. If she maintains adequate space on her phone she'll stop getting all those application crashes. I had this on my iPad. I wanted to keep all my apps and barely had any room left and it started crashing. All. THE. TIME. Plus, it was running abysmally slow. Once I decided to dump some apps (ironically because I wanted an app that wouldn't fit) it started working normally again. Haven't had any problems since.

It basically acts as a remote control for your iphone. Instead of pulling out your phone every time you receive a notification, you can now read them on your wrist. There's also an watch to watch scribble feature where you can draw on your watch and it will send the drawing to the other person. It also has some basic pulse rate monitoring and movement tracking so you can see how active you are. It was mentioned that it requires an iPhone, and the health monitoring and tracking appeared to be done from the iphone itself. The part I was most interested in was glossed over at the very end of the presentation. They mentioned that the apple watch works with the iPhone 5 and up. The iPhone 6 and 6+ have NFC payment options (I think they call their service apple pay) available. They use a special chip to create the payments. Tim said that the apple watch had everything in it to use apple pay. I wanted to know if users of an iPhone 5 or 5s will be able to use apple pay with an apple watch.

"Nope, first of all you have to use "windows" key in place of ctrl, OK that's just a who moved my cheese thing, but really, every other OS I've used uses ctrl." Ironically, the Mac OS was the first commercial GUI and when they sued Microsoft for copying code in Windows one of the arguments was "look, you've even used all of our shortcut keys, c for copy, v for paste..." The reality is that Microsoft moved the command key to control because non-Mac keyboards didn't have a command key. Newer keyboards later added the alt and windows keys, but the shortcuts were already mapped to the control key at that point. "Only windows-x doesn't cut the folder, it didn't even seem to copy properly. One of the regular mac users said it doesn't work, you have to copy, then delete, or use a mouse like a peasant." The Mac OS was designed for use with a mouse. A simple drag and drop suffices for most uses. You can hold down combinations of the command key, shift key, and option key while dragging to copy, move, or create a shortcut. "I can only seem to save to the equivalent of MyDocuments, or subfolders within it, no apparent way to even go up in the folder hierarchy." Not sure if you were in a save dialog box, Finder, or terminal, but in the Finder command (windows key) clicking the title bar will give you the folder hierarchy in a pull down menu. The save dialog box has a similar feature. I'm not near a Mac so I can't tell you exactly how, but it's there. Terminal is the same as any other *nix. Be aware though that the *nix OSes moved the dir command to ls. ;) I'm much more comfortable using Mac OS X than any other operating systems (even though I make my living in a Windows only environment), most everything feels more natural to me. I have run into the "Why can't I cut and paste a file" issue before, but most of my gripes go the other way -like if I select a bunch of files and double click on the selected group why does Windows only open one file? (or press ctrl-O while a group of files is selected for that matter) Or why can't I select the text in a Windows dialog box to paste somewhere else? (On a Mac, not only can you select the text, you can drag and drop it to the desktop to create a text clipping file)

I would add Google voice to your list. A) It gives you a permanent number, which they let you customize which you can then set to forward to any number of phones. B) Voicemail services are terrific, you can screen calls, setup custom voicemails for different people, have it text you a transcript of the voicemail. C) Google has integrated their Hangouts technology into Google Voice so you can call from your computer or a smartphone as well as send SMS messages.

I think it was pretty well explained here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxJ4M7tyLRE&list=TLoPX9feW7CLMi6NoAa4eRV78j77s_09n9[^]

Most IT positions are let go as they turn in notice, but I have (rarely) seen an employee kept on for the full notice period due to staffing shortages. If you work in an "at-will" state, there's nothing you can do about being let go early after giving notice except file for unemployment. However, let your current employer know your intentions up front. If you plan on working for the full two weeks, then let them know that you won't start at the new company and intend to either work or collect unemployment for the notice period. Most companies don't want to take the hit on their unemployment insurance and will opt to keep you on at that point or pay you severance. Also, everyone else is correct that the new employer probably needs someone sooner rather than later and will let you start early. (Training with the outgoing person is usually a good thing.)

While it is true that the name can be duplicated, the "username" is unique (Try it out, go to https://www.facebook.com/zuck to go directly to Mark Zuckerberg's account), as is (are) the email account(s) associated with said account. I signed up for quite a few services for the same reason, to secure my username. My Facebook account went unused for years before I realized that I could reconnect with people I had lost touch with over the years. Also, I find it ironic that people are complaining about an online forum (Facebook) on an online forum. ;P

I don't know about Inappropriately-Appropriate Code Comments, but I recently took over a project and was pouring through the code and found:

ReDim Preserve F__kMe as BS

The underscores weren't used, but you get the idea. Quite a lot of this type of variable naming.