As well as Black & White movies. They might be colorized and referred as films of color.

Fortunately, I have my own domain. I created an email address "DoNotReply@DomainName.com" for emails that are immediately and automatically deleted. I created an email address "Info@DomainName.com" for emails that are just that, for any requests for information. These emails go into my info folder, which if worthy, are either saved. The rest are deleted. My primary email address is for friends and family. They all still get spam, but are much easier to manage.

Several years ago, when I was still working, I was discussing music preferences with a 30 something Black coworker and I mentioned Nina Simone as a favorite. He said he had never heard of her. :laugh:

I'm guessing that like in the US, most countries have two ways of determining capital gains: short term and long term. In the US short term gains are those that are less than one year, they are taxed at a higher rate than those that are held for one year and 1 day. Be mindful of the income tax consequences.

Working from home, not wearing pants, has already had a negative effect on one sector of the ^economy.

I had similar experience early in my career and now have another. I worked on a banking application where I needed to calculate APR (annual percentage rate). I asked several mortgage bankers how they do the calculation, not a one knew. Each stated the rate was on the docs they received from the intake clerk. I asked the clerk, she said she used her mortgage calculator, a hand held device. Currently, I am investigating solar panels for my home. I have 4 companies responding each with proposing different configurations despite using the same utilization rates published by my electric provider. Accuracy, it appears, is in the math of the beholder.

I don't believe in wallpaper, I just have paint. :laugh:

I’ve been retired now for almost 8 years. I spent the last 15+ years preceding my retirement as a consultant (contractor), working for banks, specializing in lending applications, commercial and mortgage lending. I spent the previous 30 years working for three major banks, specializing in lending applications. As a consultant, I was able to charge upwards of $175.00 per hour, always triple digit rates, expenses included. Most assignments lasted about 6 months. Although the longest was 2 ½ years. I’ve worked on every continent except Antarctica. I enjoyed the work and especially the money. I mention the foregoing not to brag, but to point out that I didn’t have much variety in my specialty domain nor much choice in computer languages, yet made worthwhile career. Banks still have applications in COBOL, but many other ancillary applications in languages popular for the time: dBase, Clipper, and Visual Basic 6. I sold my time and my expertise, which many companies were willing to pay my rate and terms most often without question. I studied changes in lending laws as well as kept up with computer languages popular for the time. Becoming the best at what I did made me known as an expert in my domain. Computer languages , most often weren’t even a consideration. I enjoy programming, I’ve been studying C# and SQL Server. Being able to exploit software features wasn’t an objective, providing a solution to a problem was. Early in my career my manager gave me the following advice: Work to live, not live to work. There’s just too much more in life than twiddling bits.

That's what a donut looks like to me befgore I put on my eyeglasses each morning.:cool:

It's not just Microsoft. Ever try to upgrade your iPhone without your iTunes account? Something you used only once nearly 5 years before.

For those of you that are not married, I offer my example of an explanation of entropy and matter being transformed from one state to another. Those of you that are married, regardless of how long, will understand. Entropy occurs when the balance on your credit cards gradually erode, the balances moving ever so close to extinction. The currency, associated with that credit card, is transformed into shoes, dresses, jewelry, etc. Fortunately, the cycle begins over each month. Mr. Einstein would have made this explanation way to complicated. Hopefully, I've simplified it.

I remember Gregory Yob.I recall him being mentioned in an article about cryogenics. Since we are several months apart in age and in the same occupation, I was curious why a computer programmer would believe that preserving one's brain in ice is viable. It appears he was a bit strange, so that would explain it.Nevertheless, great minds are often a bit wacky.

NEVER, EVER, EVER reconsider. Especially from a company that has already reneged on their original offer. NEVER, EVER, EVER reconsider.

Just wait for some politically active 22 year old who decides s/he doesn't like your politics so s/he shuts you down or deletes your data. Cloud hosting is a nice idea. That's it, just a nice idea.

I started my professional career wiring Control Panels for Unit Record Equipment or Tabulating Machines. I moved on to programming in AutoCoder for an IBM1401, IBM System/360 series using COBOL. Using punched cards, via a 2540 card reader, were the only input medium and IBM 2401 tape drives for storage, followed by IBM 2311 disk drives. Those beginnings were great. Loved programming the “Big Iron”. I then transitioned to the PC, programming every language compatible with MS operating systems. Wrote my first Windows program using VB3 on Windows 3.0. I still program, have been even after retiring nearly 10 years ago, I still support the company from which I retired, but from 3000 miles away. In my “datacenter” I am running 2 Dell T110’s, One is a database server, with 500G of storage, and the other is a web server. Each have 16G of Ram. The database server is running MS Windows Server 2008R2 Datacenter. Desktop is Windows 7 Professional with 32G of Ram. More computing power than I could have ever imagined, and all in my spare bedroom. Through the intervening years I’ve programmed on all of the popular languages, primarily with the Microsoft Stack. I’ve programmed using IBM’s IMS DB/DC using COBOL and MS SQL Server 4.2 and every version up to SQL 2008 (I’m beginning a project to upgrade from 2008 to 2017, as well as “upgrading” from VB6 (I know, I know) to the Web). As programmers, technologists, we have to adapt to not only what ‘s “popular” but also what’s practical. The web is incredible, allowing people like myself, for example, to continue to contribute, but on my terms. I agree that there have been perhaps an unreasonable proliferation of languages and frameworks. Every 24 year old has invented something, convincing investors that this is the next great thing. But then, we could all still be wiring Control Panels or on Big Iron using 026 Key Punch machines fed into an IBM 360 with 80x25 display.

I'm retired now, so I don't worry about preserving my employers operational data. But I do have nearly a terabyte of personal images. Images not only of children and family, but we've travelled extensively. How does one replace the images of the children growing up? Or the videos of the birth of the grandchildren? Or our visit to Normandy (Caen France), images of us shopping in Casablanca, or riding a camel with the Great Pyramid in the background, or watching penguins at Tierra del Fuego? Precious moments the we relive on occasion. Also leaves a record, a memorialization of one's life, a legacy for future generations.

I'd say you don't have enough project or projects. :laugh:

Exactly. I've been a contractor (Consultant) for most of my 45 year it IT. Early on I learned two things; 1. Behave like a mercenary, if they want you to kill it, as long as its not illegal, unethical or immoral, kill it. 2. They can pay me now or they'll pay me later, either way I get paid. Every one of my clients were happy with me.

A plain-old bread-knife can replace a flathead or slotted screwdriver in a pinch, therefore making as the standard, in my opinion.

plan 9 from outer space