But this is changing... slowly. Many teams are starting with TFS as a replacement for bug tracking (currently Product Studio) and work-item tracking (currently... a variety of systems, dependent on team). Last I heard, even Office was experimenting with TFS.
Minor correction to the above: Dynamics CRM Online *is* the full version of Dynamics CRM. They're the same codebase. (A few features are disabled or done differently since it's a shared environment - custom ASPXs, for instance.)
Except it's not true. MSFT grants stock awards, not options, and has since 2001. These can never be underwater the way options would be, although they do go up and down in value.
Also, your average MSFTie's salary is just fine compared to industry averages. It's the other companies' ability to grant options (unbounded upside) that makes MSFT total comp. appear less rosy.
Everyone knows... Backspace moves the cursor to the left and deletes text to the left of the cursor. Delete keeps the cursor in place and deletes text to the right of the cursor.
And that's exactly how it works on my iMac at home and every full-keyboard Mac I can recall using since 2004. On the laptop keyboards, to get Delete functionality you actually press Fn+Backspace, since there's no physical Delete key.
QWERTY was designed first and foremost to reduce jamming of the mechanical arms in typewriters.
We agree. That's the portion of the article I was calling out. This is all in response to someone who claimed that QWERTY intended to "slow typists down". It doesn't; it actually allows typists to type faster than they otherwise could (since, without QWERTY, the arms jammed at higher rates). As I said, I didn't read carefully enough to realize that Dvorak was the main focus of the referenced article.
Hm, sorry, I didn't read the SD column closely enough. I wasn't trying to advocate for or against the Dvorak layout. I was intending to draw attention to the lines:
To solve the jamming problem, Sholes and company, who had originally arranged their keyboard in alphabetical order, decided to put the most commonly used letters (or what they thought were the most commonly used letters) as far apart as possible in the machine's innards.
and
The QWERTY keyboard was designed to place the most commonly used letters on the opposite sides of the keyboard, making jamming mechanically less likely.
Again, I have no idea about the relative merits of Dvorak vs. QWERTY. I just can't believe that anyone still claims QWERTY was designed to "slow typists down".
For what it's worth, I ran this question by my wife, a HR person. She replied that most of the companies she's done hiring for would be more interested in someone who did whatever it took to get the job done right; repeating the classes would be better. Obviously the ideal case is getting it done right the first time, but she felt that the work history and OSS contributions would be mitigating circumstances for why the grades weren't where you wanted them the first time. She's done a little high-tech recruiting/hiring but her primary focus was industrial workers, so take this advice how you will. HTH.
OBS is exactly what I was thinking of when I said that, glad someone agrees. I had it first on tap, and when I saw bottles here in Blacksburg I got really excited... til I tried one. It was OK, but there are far better bottled stouts (I think Brooklyn was already mentioned somewhere else in this discussion). And yeah, I'm a little nervous about the Budweiser purchase. However, I'm hoping it will lead to increased distribution, since I'm moving to Seattle in June and want to be able to get New River Pale Ale regularly.
Several of the Special Dark bars are sold in the impulse-buy areas at the Krogers here in Blacksburg, VA. You're talking about the kind that comes either with or without cranberries, blueberries, and almonds, right?
Judging from the comments in this article, I've got no taste in chocolate, but I really like those. I don't care for milk chocolate, so I wouldn't know if there was a good one out there. I rarely buy good chocolate since it's kinda pricey and not terribly good for my weight =) Plus, I need the financial and caloric budget to drinkgoodbeer.
Good??? Dogfish Head (Delaware) is absolutely amazing. There are other decent East Coast breweries as well; Old Dominion (Virginia) and Duclaw (Maryland) come immediately to mind. (OD's beers aren't that special in bottles, but on tap they really come to life. So give them a chance if you're ever in the northern VA area.)
Several breweries also make one or more Belgian-style beers even though the brewery isn't know primarily for Belgian beer... BeerAdvocate would be the place to find those.
Wow, I moved there (to go to VT) from Tennessee too. Sales tax back then was "only" 8.25%.
Now that you mention it, TN's only went up 1%, to 9.25%. I was in Knox County; I know that sales tax varies slightly from county to county. That happened in maybe 99 or 2000, just before I came to VT. The 5% sales tax (well, 4.5% then) was a "deal" for me because I wasn't making any income in VA, only spending money here. But I agree, I'd rather have a high sales tax and no income tax... How do you feel about FairTax? It seems like a real solution to me.
VA has two different sales tax levels, one for staples and the other for everything else. The normal sales tax is 5%; for staples it's either 4% or 4.5% (I can't remember, although I just went to the grocery tonight).
The main reason I noticed is because I moved here 5.5 years ago from Tennessee, which has no income tax but 9.5% sales tax (at least in the county I'm from). Even 5% seems like a deal;)
Only if you use the mean. The only people who use the mean are the ignorant and people trying to twist the numbers around (politicians, mostly, I would think). Although there are a lot of ignorant people, through no fault of their own... I remember being taught "mean, median, and mode" in school, and thinking "OK, this mode thing is crap, but why would you have both mean AND median?". No one pointed out to me how bad mean really is for most applications... it gives almost NO information, and for the reason you stated.
While I'll grant you that in popular usage, the word "average" often means "mean", it shouldn't, and my post was intended to gently point that out:
Well, OK, if someone were silly enough to use the mean when they look at an average...
Using your example and median, the "average" IQ is 40, so 80% have the average and 1 person is above the average, with the bonus that the "average" better represents the entire group's properties!
I don't have much to say about your overall conclusions or arguments, but this struck me as needing some explanation:
Remember that in any sufficiently large group, half the people are dumber than average.
Where "sufficiently large" means "2-member or larger". After all, what is an average? (Well, OK, if someone were silly enough to use the mean when they look at an average, then half the people wouldn't necessarily be "below the average".)
Annoying! Although after seeing that page, it makes sense: they removed the eMac and created a new lowest-end iMac to replace it. The "base model" iMac that I have (the $1200 model) is now the "first step up" model, and the replacement-for-eMac lacks BlueTooth because no school system would ever be stupid enough to install a lab with wireless mice... for obvious reasons.
Not sure how I feel about it, but at least I understand what they were thinking there.
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But this is changing... slowly. Many teams are starting with TFS as a replacement for bug tracking (currently Product Studio) and work-item tracking (currently... a variety of systems, dependent on team). Last I heard, even Office was experimenting with TFS.
Missing from that TechSoup article is the other Dynamics CRM deployment model, CRM Online. Details here.
Minor correction to the above: Dynamics CRM Online *is* the full version of Dynamics CRM. They're the same codebase. (A few features are disabled or done differently since it's a shared environment - custom ASPXs, for instance.)
I am not personally aware of any EASY option of storing OneNote data remotely - although I wouldn't be surprised if there is one
Sharepoint. (Not that Sharepoint itself is easy... but once you have Sharepoint set up, it's really easy to use OneNote with it.)
Except it's not true. MSFT grants stock awards, not options, and has since 2001. These can never be underwater the way options would be, although they do go up and down in value.
Also, your average MSFTie's salary is just fine compared to industry averages. It's the other companies' ability to grant options (unbounded upside) that makes MSFT total comp. appear less rosy.
In OSX I have to drag it to the Trash Can.
Cmd+Delete.
Everyone knows... Backspace moves the cursor to the left and deletes text to the left of the cursor. Delete keeps the cursor in place and deletes text to the right of the cursor.
And that's exactly how it works on my iMac at home and every full-keyboard Mac I can recall using since 2004. On the laptop keyboards, to get Delete functionality you actually press Fn+Backspace, since there's no physical Delete key.
Auto's voice is credited to Macintalk. (Not sure if that's entirely distinct from your point #6, but worth mentioning.)
None of the "Microsoft workspaces" pictures are typical Microsoft offices.
Minor nitpick: Dynamics is the brand under which AX, GP, CRM, and the others sit. It's not, by itself, a product name.
We agree. That's the portion of the article I was calling out. This is all in response to someone who claimed that QWERTY intended to "slow typists down". It doesn't; it actually allows typists to type faster than they otherwise could (since, without QWERTY, the arms jammed at higher rates). As I said, I didn't read carefully enough to realize that Dvorak was the main focus of the referenced article.
Hm, sorry, I didn't read the SD column closely enough. I wasn't trying to advocate for or against the Dvorak layout. I was intending to draw attention to the lines:
and
Again, I have no idea about the relative merits of Dvorak vs. QWERTY. I just can't believe that anyone still claims QWERTY was designed to "slow typists down".
Thus a layout was chosen, which was not based on ergonomic principles, but to slow the typer done.
I'm mildly surprised that people still believe this. I thought it had been well-debunked.
I was waiting for someone to post this! "Digests, digests of digests, digest-digests of digest" (or something to that effect)...
For what it's worth, I ran this question by my wife, a HR person. She replied that most of the companies she's done hiring for would be more interested in someone who did whatever it took to get the job done right; repeating the classes would be better. Obviously the ideal case is getting it done right the first time, but she felt that the work history and OSS contributions would be mitigating circumstances for why the grades weren't where you wanted them the first time. She's done a little high-tech recruiting/hiring but her primary focus was industrial workers, so take this advice how you will. HTH.
OBS is exactly what I was thinking of when I said that, glad someone agrees. I had it first on tap, and when I saw bottles here in Blacksburg I got really excited... til I tried one. It was OK, but there are far better bottled stouts (I think Brooklyn was already mentioned somewhere else in this discussion). And yeah, I'm a little nervous about the Budweiser purchase. However, I'm hoping it will lead to increased distribution, since I'm moving to Seattle in June and want to be able to get New River Pale Ale regularly.
Several of the Special Dark bars are sold in the impulse-buy areas at the Krogers here in Blacksburg, VA. You're talking about the kind that comes either with or without cranberries, blueberries, and almonds, right?
Judging from the comments in this article, I've got no taste in chocolate, but I really like those. I don't care for milk chocolate, so I wouldn't know if there was a good one out there. I rarely buy good chocolate since it's kinda pricey and not terribly good for my weight =) Plus, I need the financial and caloric budget to drink good beer.
Good??? Dogfish Head (Delaware) is absolutely amazing. There are other decent East Coast breweries as well; Old Dominion (Virginia) and Duclaw (Maryland) come immediately to mind. (OD's beers aren't that special in bottles, but on tap they really come to life. So give them a chance if you're ever in the northern VA area.)
Actually, that would be Washington. Sorry--I'm moving there in June so Washington-related trivia is at the forefront of my mind. =)
Why go to Belgium for Belgian-style beer? North America has some amazing offerings...
Several breweries also make one or more Belgian-style beers even though the brewery isn't know primarily for Belgian beer... BeerAdvocate would be the place to find those.
Pull down any menu from the menubar... pinstripe-y goodness abounds.
Now that you mention it, TN's only went up 1%, to 9.25%. I was in Knox County; I know that sales tax varies slightly from county to county. That happened in maybe 99 or 2000, just before I came to VT. The 5% sales tax (well, 4.5% then) was a "deal" for me because I wasn't making any income in VA, only spending money here. But I agree, I'd rather have a high sales tax and no income tax... How do you feel about FairTax? It seems like a real solution to me.
VA has two different sales tax levels, one for staples and the other for everything else. The normal sales tax is 5%; for staples it's either 4% or 4.5% (I can't remember, although I just went to the grocery tonight).
;)
The main reason I noticed is because I moved here 5.5 years ago from Tennessee, which has no income tax but 9.5% sales tax (at least in the county I'm from). Even 5% seems like a deal
Only if you use the mean. The only people who use the mean are the ignorant and people trying to twist the numbers around (politicians, mostly, I would think). Although there are a lot of ignorant people, through no fault of their own... I remember being taught "mean, median, and mode" in school, and thinking "OK, this mode thing is crap, but why would you have both mean AND median?". No one pointed out to me how bad mean really is for most applications... it gives almost NO information, and for the reason you stated.
While I'll grant you that in popular usage, the word "average" often means "mean", it shouldn't, and my post was intended to gently point that out:
Using your example and median, the "average" IQ is 40, so 80% have the average and 1 person is above the average, with the bonus that the "average" better represents the entire group's properties!
Annoying! Although after seeing that page, it makes sense: they removed the eMac and created a new lowest-end iMac to replace it. The "base model" iMac that I have (the $1200 model) is now the "first step up" model, and the replacement-for-eMac lacks BlueTooth because no school system would ever be stupid enough to install a lab with wireless mice... for obvious reasons.
Not sure how I feel about it, but at least I understand what they were thinking there.