Skills can be taught, the right attitude, motivation, and "fit" cannot. So yeah, companies heavily invest in employees that fit the culture and then teach them the skills they need to succeed. I worked at Rackspace Managed Hosting for a while and this is a big factor in getting hired.
I have been working in IT for almost 9 years now. I started back when I was 18 and worked all the way through college. I am married with a 2.5 yr old son and while I do believe the job adds stress, it is not to blame. Late nights and off hours emergencies are part of the job, but as long as the communication is there it isn't an issue. You also have to be conscious about the level of time and effort you put into your marriage and family and make sure it's at or above the committment you have with your job and company.
Security and ease of use are totally different topics. I haven't had to retrain a single one of my users on how to use Office 2k3 or Windows XP and I have by far some of the slowest users ever.
The irony is that everyone is acting like they will need to spend tons of money retraining their staff. Did nobody think that maybe the new UI was built to avoid having to retrain people? Those "huge" icons are all labeled with their functionality. The article explicitly mentions the change was to avoid cumbersome menu digging to find a hidden command. Ribbon eliminates that.
I remember reading about that. I want to say that he actually ran a cable under the water and across the river. If I believe correctly, he was using a VCR inside the "computer" and had rigged the power cable so that it had a coax cable hidden inside it. I'll be damned if I can remember his name or a link to his "product.
Style and substance aren't totally separable, though. Is it part of the substance of her article that she makes such errors as the multiply-noted (by others) claim that males have an additional chromosome, or her very questionable reasoning as to games improving one's cognitive skills?
Her wording was wrong in regards to the "extra" chromosone. It should have been different and it has been noted. Her reasoning about the effects on cognitive skills was derived from the following article on Ars Technica.
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Skills can be taught, the right attitude, motivation, and "fit" cannot. So yeah, companies heavily invest in employees that fit the culture and then teach them the skills they need to succeed. I worked at Rackspace Managed Hosting for a while and this is a big factor in getting hired.
I have been working in IT for almost 9 years now. I started back when I was 18 and worked all the way through college. I am married with a 2.5 yr old son and while I do believe the job adds stress, it is not to blame. Late nights and off hours emergencies are part of the job, but as long as the communication is there it isn't an issue. You also have to be conscious about the level of time and effort you put into your marriage and family and make sure it's at or above the committment you have with your job and company.
Security and ease of use are totally different topics. I haven't had to retrain a single one of my users on how to use Office 2k3 or Windows XP and I have by far some of the slowest users ever.
The irony is that everyone is acting like they will need to spend tons of money retraining their staff. Did nobody think that maybe the new UI was built to avoid having to retrain people? Those "huge" icons are all labeled with their functionality. The article explicitly mentions the change was to avoid cumbersome menu digging to find a hidden command. Ribbon eliminates that.
I remember reading about that. I want to say that he actually ran a cable under the water and across the river. If I believe correctly, he was using a VCR inside the "computer" and had rigged the power cable so that it had a coax cable hidden inside it. I'll be damned if I can remember his name or a link to his "product.
Style and substance aren't totally separable, though. Is it part of the substance of her article that she makes such errors as the multiply-noted (by others) claim that males have an additional chromosome, or her very questionable reasoning as to games improving one's cognitive skills?
Her wording was wrong in regards to the "extra" chromosone. It should have been different and it has been noted. Her reasoning about the effects on cognitive skills was derived from the following article on Ars Technica.
I was unaware that Steve Gibson even had a good reputation around here anymore.
Actually I checked for myself and it said the host was FreeBSD so how do you figure that it was running IRIX?
Umm, Western...no hrm, Micro....not them either.... *scratches head* How about Sony? Is someone suing them right now?
I wouldnt count on it, unless you could justify the amount of effort you put into it and the quality of the work as "real-world caliber".