I take it this is in America and not an international study?

I love this! Loved this game back in the day, love that Elite has been remade and frogger as CrossyRoad now I'm just waiting for ChaseHQ to be the next tablet blockbuster.

I have two accounts and a spreadsheet.

Money goes into one account, then I work out all my expenses for the month, rent, petrol, food, isp bills etc. This amount is then transferred to my bill paying account. As the month wears on this account is depleted automatically as bills are taken then next month I refill it.

The other account is a play money account. Anything I need/want during the month comes out of this. At the end of the month any left over is transferred into a saving account.

Been doing this for 15 years and it works pretty well for me.

They are also getting more broken imho.

Case point, multiple Apple TVs on the same network, quite often broken. iTunes WiFi sync often breaks without a plug in and fiddle session, I guess they really want you to use iCloud.

App crashes on iOS are quite significant now where they used to be very rare imo.

OS X is even worse. Up until Mountain Lion I could easily left my Mac on for weeks without needing to reboot (except for crucial updates). Since Mavericks and even more so Yosemite it has gotten out of hand. I need to reboot at least once a week, WiFi is broken and Finder regularly hangs up on me.

I'm playing with the El Capitan beta right now on a ~4 year old MBP and I will say that it seems very snappy and I haven't needed to reboot except for updates, and I haven't had any wifi issues (had a lot on Mavericks). That said, it's a clean install and I've been pretty gentle with it. I'm cautiously optimistic that they're improving these matters.

At the os level I have only had a more stable system with every OS upgrade.

Wifi is back to its old happy self with the last few patches and seems more stable, Yosemite early days it was a bear I will give you that.

What I have found is that some things just don't play nice with the OS. Openvpn is kind of a bear and I'm not sure what the underlying cause is, but its easy to kill and restart so not a major issue there.

I do regular heath checks and cleanup though. EtreCheck is a great way to get a look at all the cruft in your system and make some calls on what to clean out/up!

I love things like this. Sad to say I doubt the future will be quite so open.

Unfortunately you may be right (unless we change it ofc!)

Says you as a freelancer have to pay??? Is that a subscription or a commission fee?

$69 dollars a month for a potential fee of 300-3000... hmm. Could be good but sounds like a lot if all you get is 300 leads.

Fair play to Microsoft. Thats some impressive tech.

Indeed. I wonder if they'll also want to call it Babel Fish? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Babel_Fish just confused me more, and I've now no idea who actually owns the trademark rights to that term. (It was AltaVista, bought by Yahoo!, spun-off into Bing Translate, which was partially bought by Microsoft, and ... I'm lost... )

Yahoo/Altavista Bablefish and Google Translation (til 2007) were based on SYSTRAN software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systran (a desktop version for offline usage is even available)

Now, both Bing Translator and Google Translation use a technology called statistical machine translation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_machine_translation

Back in the 90s they used to do these quite often. I remember reading one for the same reasons, self taught network engineer and programmer and wanted to get under the hood. I say do it and bring the concept upto date.

Here's an examplehttp://www.amazon.com/Developing-32-Bit-Operating-System-Cd-...