On Thu, 21 May 2015 21:50:51 -0500, "R. C. White" wrote:

Hi, Char.

In the beginning, I remember seeing lots of "balance your checkbook!" and
"organize your recipes!" types of claims. :-)

When was the last time you printed out your biorhythms?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biorhythm

That was the big selling tool in the late 1970's.

Now that you mention it, I remember a biorhythm fad, although I stayed well
away from it. Pet rocks, anyone? At least a pet rock won't leave hair all
over your keyboard like a cat might.

Char Jackson wrote:
In the beginning, I remember seeing lots of "balance your checkbook!" and
"organize your recipes!" types of claims. :-)

I don't need a computer to help me with either of those tasks, so I'm glad
that more uses were realized over time.

I've been balancing my accounts using Quicken for probably 25 years, and
while "need" is slightly too strong a word, I really wouldn't want to be
without it.

I've also sorted SWMBO's recipe book (the sort with dozens or possibly
hundreds of scraps of paper) by scanning the useful bits and making them
available on the kitchen iPad, in alphabetical order. She loves it.

--
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

On Thu, 21 May 2015 13:13:22 -0700, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2015 20:05:28 +0100, mechanic
wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2015 09:22:10 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

Which is all to say that the file system is *so* adaptable and
flexible that I don't see why anyone who actually uses it would
pay attention to "My *" folders or libraries.

They don't call them "My" anything in Win8

Sorry, but that's not correct. My Music, My Pictures, and My Videos
are sub-folders of Documents.

On here they aren't.

| When was the last time you printed out your biorhythms?
|

That's an interesting reminder, as fitness nonsense
for cellphones seems to be currently making it big
in the marketplace of tech gadgetry. People are now
paying $300+ for a "smart watch", and so far the only
use seems to be for recording one's pulse rate during
exercise -- a sort of high-tech, high-price calorie counter.

On the bright side, at least people don't have to print
out their pulse records. That's what the cloud is for.

On Fri, 22 May 2015 07:30:40 +0100, Mike Barnes
wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
In the beginning, I remember seeing lots of "balance your checkbook!" and
"organize your recipes!" types of claims. :-)

I don't need a computer to help me with either of those tasks, so I'm glad
that more uses were realized over time.

I've been balancing my accounts using Quicken for probably 25 years, and
while "need" is slightly too strong a word, I really wouldn't want to be
without it.

It's probably been 20 years since I balanced any accounts in the traditional
sense, as a bulk activity at the end of the month, but when I did, I used an
actual calculator (and before that, just pen and paper). It's a task that
takes at most 2-3 minutes, so I was never wowed by the fact that a computer
can do it. Since you're using Quicken, I'm guessing your needs far surpass
mine.

I've also sorted SWMBO's recipe book (the sort with dozens or possibly
hundreds of scraps of paper) by scanning the useful bits and making them
available on the kitchen iPad, in alphabetical order. She loves it.

We very rarely use recipes here. I think there's a single recipe (for tuna
casserole) in a kitchen drawer, and a Betty Crocker recipe book in one of
the cabinets, but I've not seen either of them used, ever.

On Fri, 22 May 2015 07:30:40 +0100, Mike Barnes
wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
In the beginning, I remember seeing lots of "balance your checkbook!" and
"organize your recipes!" types of claims. :-)

I don't need a computer to help me with either of those tasks, so I'm glad
that more uses were realized over time.

I've been balancing my accounts using Quicken for probably 25 years,


25 years is about the same for me too.


and
while "need" is slightly too strong a word, I really wouldn't want to be
without it.


Ditto! It makes it *much* easier and faster.

On Fri, 22 May 2015 09:20:17 -0500, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Fri, 22 May 2015 07:30:40 +0100, Mike Barnes
wrote:


I've also sorted SWMBO's recipe book (the sort with dozens or possibly
hundreds of scraps of paper) by scanning the useful bits and making them
available on the kitchen iPad, in alphabetical order. She loves it.

We very rarely use recipes here. I think there's a single recipe (for tuna
casserole) in a kitchen drawer, and a Betty Crocker recipe book in one of
the cabinets, but I've not seen either of them used, ever.



I do most of the cooking in our house, and I almost *always* use a
recipe. I don't think of myself as being a good cook, in the sense of
being adventurous and inventing new dishes, or making improvements to
existing ones, but I'm very good at following directions in recipes,
and I use good recipes, so the dishes I make almost always turn out to
be very good.

On Fri, 22 May 2015 11:51:37 +0100, mechanic
wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2015 13:13:22 -0700, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2015 20:05:28 +0100, mechanic
wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2015 09:22:10 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

Which is all to say that the file system is *so* adaptable and
flexible that I don't see why anyone who actually uses it would
pay attention to "My *" folders or libraries.

They don't call them "My" anything in Win8

Sorry, but that's not correct. My Music, My Pictures, and My Videos
are sub-folders of Documents.

On here they aren't.


Then there's something strange about your computer.

Char Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 22 May 2015 07:30:40 +0100, Mike Barnes
wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
In the beginning, I remember seeing lots of "balance your checkbook!" and
"organize your recipes!" types of claims. :-)

I don't need a computer to help me with either of those tasks, so I'm glad
that more uses were realized over time.

I've been balancing my accounts using Quicken for probably 25 years, and
while "need" is slightly too strong a word, I really wouldn't want to be
without it.

It's probably been 20 years since I balanced any accounts in the traditional
sense, as a bulk activity at the end of the month, but when I did, I used an
actual calculator (and before that, just pen and paper). It's a task that
takes at most 2-3 minutes, so I was never wowed by the fact that a computer
can do it. Since you're using Quicken, I'm guessing your needs far surpass
mine.

They must do: I would have to reconcile transactions at the rate of
about one per second to do it in that time.

--
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

On Fri, 22 May 2015 07:36:41 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

On Fri, 22 May 2015 11:51:37 +0100, mechanic
wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2015 13:13:22 -0700, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2015 20:05:28 +0100, mechanic
wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2015 09:22:10 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

Which is all to say that the file system is *so* adaptable and
flexible that I don't see why anyone who actually uses it would
pay attention to "My *" folders or libraries.

They don't call them "My" anything in Win8

Sorry, but that's not correct. My Music, My Pictures, and My Videos
are sub-folders of Documents.

On here they aren't.


Then there's something strange about your computer.

On my Win 7 system, My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, and My Videos are
all peers of each other, residing at the same level in the hierarchy.

On my Win 8 system, they are also peers of each other, but none of the four
have the "My" prefix.

Are we different?