It also ignores the real reason many students opt for online only classes, which is asynchronous learning. Prof answers emails in the morning, goes to a committee meeting. One student eats lunch at work and does the homework during the rbeak. Another student starts during the afternoon while her baby is asleep. Yet another one doesn't get to dig into the assignment until after he's returned from working in an area with no Internet access. Prof can answer all their emails and questions in the evening, grades assignments, and the cycle repeats day after day.

The problem is that isn't taught as part of most project management courses - sure, the theory is, but the actual HOW is something you have to learn on your own. And that's the hard part.

Microsoft won't and can't test all of the hundreds of thousands of applications out there. It's not a problem with the OS, it's a problem with the in-house apps that interaction with the OS or whatever component of it that Microsoft updated. For example, my company is finally going to Office 2013, and I've spent some quality time this week verifying that an application we build that reads Word doc templates and spits them out as PDFs didn't choke on Word 2013. There's no way Microsoft could have tested that application, because maybe 15 computers in the world have it installed.

Yup, back when I did the patches for about a thousand computers, I'd always roll them out sloooooowly. First my test system, then my system, then the rest of my office (we know not to panic), then our smallest clients, and then snowballing up to a final massive push to 500 or so systems at our biggest client just before the next round of patches came out. If there was ever a problem anywhere along the line, we could halt before too much damage happened.

A friend of mine wrote a little tutorial thing called 2K to 10K about increasing your word count as a writer. It's about properly planning what you intend to write, maximizing the output during your prime writing time, and getting excited about your writing. ("Drunk on writing" is a phrase in there that makes me giggle every time.)

Nowhere in the entire thing does she mention typing speed, at least not that I remember.

And legal battles across international borders means international lawyers, which means more and more money. I'm surprised they didn't also keep up the fight in Korea, though - assuming they had any fights going on there at all.

Yeah, I recall hearing about the Condition 1 or whatever it is down in the Antarctic where they cannot go outside because it is so damn windy.

Some of them are trying to get booted up. Atlanta Web Design Group recently organized a bit more strongly and even considered filing as a 501(c) group. (Didn't quite raise enough money in their last Kickstarter for that.)

I think that IT as an umbrella is too broad, but an American Association of Developers might be a great start.

There is also a quality guarantee depending on the industry. I know that plumbing unions, for example, hold their members to a higher standard of work and require more thorough training than just "took a class at a comprehensive high school." Hiring a union member isn't an automatic guarantee of quality, but the odds of getting quality work are higher than you would have hiring Random Guy Off Craigslist.

For example, I adore the Web Afternoon conferences I've attended, but unless you work on websites, then there might not be a lot of useful content there for you.

A lot of tech conferences can also be sorted by industry. Medical tech is huge, for example, and has its own set of regular gatherings.

I've heard that real estate in Fremont is as horrific as downtown San Fran. A friend's parents sold a house they had pay $200K for back in the 90s for about two million in 2006. (They retired to Livermore off the proceeds.)

At this rate you guys are going to be out of water forever. Unless Tesla invest a rain-making machine.

The CDC accidentally sent a batch of H1N1 bird flu to a research lab in my town. No reported cases of the illness from that "oops" yet, except for the unfortunate chickens that received it.

As the summary says, their market, the casual gamer, can get their fix on their cell phones. Candy Crush did more damage to Wii U sales than the PS4 or Xbone could do.

Most people I know are still holding out until the next Zelda game, which might finally be the killer app Nintendo so desperately needs.

Yeah, that's my question as well.