In January, Yammer's data model will be moved over to the Office Graph, the same data model that runs Teams. So you will be able to use Yammer or Teams on the same data set. Yammer and teams will just be different views into the same model.

I will say this much. There is a reason a lot of corporations are going Cloud. It's because there are a lot of folks in the basement in IT who agree with you, and there are a lot of folks in the rest of the business who disagree and the rest of the business is starting to win out as the Cloud providers are starting to be able to pass audits more often than the on-premise data centers.

Not every part of a companies processes are related to their competitive advantage. So you identify the processes that are not a competitive advantage and use an out of the box process to standardize it.

From the article: "So, is online poker now dead? Destined to be crushed by robots? Not quite: No limit Texas Hold'Em—in which any amount of bet in any dollar amount can be made—is by far the most popular, and while robots can play that game quite well, we're no where close to solving it. Limit poker has roughly 3 x 10^14 permutations; no limit poker has 3 x 10^48, which is many orders of magnitude harder to solve."

I recommend you give the following a read:

http://www.amazon.com/Superint...

Thanks you got my meaning and made it clear than I could myself.

The best answer that I have heard is that the existential nihilism that is covered by the book is an important aspect of Jewish / Christian traditions and that all wise people must confront it and think about it. The idea is so central that it even suggests the idea that God himself wrestles with this question and more specifically in the Christian Tradition this is what the Christ wrestled with on the cross when he cried out "Why have you forsaken me?" The saints, holy people, and mad men through out history have all struggled with this and were all changed by the questions asked by this book.

Here is the a good summary of the work in a PDF of a PPT.

http://www.saifmohammad.com/WebDocs/LaTeCH-emotions-in-books.pdf

Ted

You say: I have a dog
I ask: What color is your dog?
You say: That would depend, as a dog can have many colours.

At this point would think you are not trying to communicate or you are a computer.

I'm not saying this makes sense to -me- I was saying this is what you have to overcome. People created the imperial system after things they could visualize. Over time the system became a part of the culture. At that point its almost impossible to change, in order to hack culture, you have to overload and redefine the symbols and the rituals of that culture. This has been the chief problem with the Metric system, its hard for the common man to know if 1 Kg of a substance for $10 is a better deal that 1 Lbs of the same substance for $10.

Now in order for the metric system to catch on we are going to need to come up with good ways to get people to think in meter, liter, or gram units.

In the United States the Liter is the soda bottle. This is good. The gram... drug use is popular enough among certain groups and but in the states where the legalization process is underway most of the substances is not sold by the gram. As for the meter, we are already making an impact on the health nuts with the 5K/10K runs, but there needs to be something people can get their minds around. 5,000 or 10,000 doesn't work.

The funny thing about the United States is that HR 596 was passed by the 39th congress in 1866 which authorized its use.

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/laws/metric-act-bill.html

Opps

1 mile = 8 furlongs

The reason that the old system still holds is that it makes more sense to the people who are not scientists.

100 degrees F = HOT!
0 degrees F = COLD!
1 inch = thumb
1 foot = foot
1 yard = 1 persons stride
1 Rod = 1 oxe in length
1 furlong = distance a oxe could plow without resting
1 acre = amount of land an oxe can plow in one day
1 mile = 8
1 cup = 1 glass of liquid
1 pint = beer
1 quart = 2 beers
1 gallon = drunk
1 lbs = 1 Rock
1 grain = 1 grain of sand

I could go on, but basically the reason that its hard to do away with the Imperial systems.

Plus the Metric system was a part of revolutionary France, and some of it has still to catch on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

I swear by my Pilot Vanishing Point Pens. I have a set of 3 of them.

http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEMPLATES/PRODUCT/Product.asp?Params=category=8-1073%7Clevel=2-3%7Cpageid=1761

+1 for me on this.

I loved my Atari ST.