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Damn! CP and a few other online technical forums are one of the best places to learn real world issues. It is not there in the list! damn!
I assume information here is specific to programming. Even if my assumption is wrong, Lounge has enlightened more souls than anything ever that has ever existed in any of the universes.
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wouldn't CP count as 'Online Articles/Tutorials'? 
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I really like to read e-books. So I can test what the material explains at the same time in few easy moves. Online tutorials and articles are useful too.
I appreciate your help all the time...
CodingLover 
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With occassional notable exceptions, such as Doug Crockford's excellent JavaScript series on JavaScript[^], I find video tutorials painful. Usually I find they take an hour to convey information I could find in 5 minutes from an article. Further, they are typically poorly indexed and it is hard to scan through to the relevant information and are the bane of any attempts at accessibility.
I think companies such as Microsoft use them simply because it saves someone typing a transcript.
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Amen to that! Videos are a horrible waste of time and bandwidth (except in limited instances, as you say)
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I agree.
Ignorance of the ability brings disability.
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The kind of bandwidth I am enjoying these days, any video is horrible.
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Video is horrible for anything you need while working on something else. I don't have time to put on headphones, close out all of my code, my email, my instant messengers, my design documents, my nethack terminal, Kingdom of Loathing, Echo Bazaar, ICanHasXXXX, (and the ADD/mulitasker support chat I should probably join!) to focus on a training video, ignoring the people who come by to ask for my help, when I just need something searchable that I can read *while* I work.
Quick tip, though: download the video and drop it in OneNote. Turn on indexing media files in OneNote and it will let you search sound and video, jumping you to right when the search term is said. Making a transcript of a recording is hard, but indexing phonemes is much easier and OneNote does a quite passable job of it.
Sadly, while it will happily OCR images and let you search (and copy), it won't OCR video frames (understandably) so you can't search for text shown, only words said.
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Rob Grainger wrote: I think companies such as Microsoft use them simply because it saves someone
typing a transcript.
I suspect the real reason they are moving so heavily to video is becuase the PMs a) don't have time to write articles and b) don't know how to write good articles (without training and support). They can spend 20 minutes making a deck and grabbing some sample code, then jump in front of a camera and talk very well--that's the kind of thing they do all the time. Total PM investment is ~2 hours and the quality of the content is reasonable (due to familiarity and access to presentation skills training). Writing a white paper takes a lot more time and writing a good training article not only takes more time but requires technical writing skills they aren't trained in.
So it does mean we get more things documented and we get it earlier. We just get it in a format that languishes unused and unsearched.
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Videos are good if it shows what and when to click in a new software tool.
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While not strictly "training" videos, the GDCVault[^] uses Digitally Speaking's services to power their recorded presentations. In most cases, they have not only a video feed of the presentation/powerpoint, but also a feed of the presenter and also a quick seek pane. An example of this (which doesn't require you to have a subscription) can be found here: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012332/Single-Player-Multiplayer-MMOG-Design[^]
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One-on-one: Who is 'the one'? I know some people I would not want to get tutored by...
Classroom: Who are my classmates (and teacher) because I know some people I would not want to be tutored with 
Anything that can get me on my way at my own pace and in my own interest is fine by me. Usually books and online articles (CP, hell yeah!) 
It's an OO world.
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Articles are fine, but for a large volume of information, I rather have a book. Video could be very annoying - most corporate training I've taken, the "video" is just narrating the slides. I don't need that, I can read thank you very much...
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CListCtrl appears in every survey. Am I the only moron here? (Yes, I know that this is true, but I am still curious...)
P.S. Fill free to vote 1, I like morons' activity!
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If you have to explain it, it's not funny any more.
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)
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I am also inquisitive.. What is CListCtrl?
Yeah. I know it is MFC class, derived from CWnd! 
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Don't worry, I'm "out" of the CListCtrl "in" joke as well.
If I'm not mistaken, it's often rivaled with Bacon (because they're both in the diets of old school programmers?). If I'm not mistaken even further, the first rule of CListCtrl is, don't talk about CListCtrl. However, I may be getting my topics confused 
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Well, we can call it CListCtrl-22.
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Thanks to all, now I will add CListCtrl answer to every survey.
BTW, what the hell is MFC?
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Microsoft Foundation Classes[^]. A sort of precursor to .NET. Only much, much crapper.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Thanks, dude, your answer really saves my life!
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Alex Fr wrote: MFC?
Black magic and only the Wizards who used it can reveal it's true secrets.
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Alex Fr wrote: BTW, what the hell is MFC?
An alternative to OWL.
Seriously, this kind of questions makes me feel old 
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