I agree with that. I find it nice that I don't need to get into bed with google or apple - On a BB Q10 and absolutely love it, incuding the OS (although I do dislike the light color scheme that Chen decided to go to. This was one of my fears when I heard they were bringing out an Android device is that the QNX/BB10OS would be left behind. *sigh*
Grade 9 for me in the early '80s, and while I can appreciate it, it was the worst mistake of a class that I ever took. I was already using an Apple ][+ for years, and I had my own touch typing style, was up easily to 100+ wpm. Enter typing class, and Biffffzat, now I'm lucky if I can get back to 50 or 60 wpm, even all these years later. I wish it was as easy as Yoda said, "You must unlearn what you've learned."
As for the 6 key question? What ever hand is closer to it.
I think we are seeing the effects of the expected long hours - that 60-80 work week being a badge of honor; the effects of the dependency on IT services, without the budget/forethought to provide the needed staff/support and maintenance; the get it deployed and fix it later attitude; deliverables forcing the never having the time to do it right, but always time to do it again; unrealistic project management and project goals/deliverables; threat of outsourcing/off-shoring; corporate treating staff as resources rather than as people; etc., etc., etc.
It doesn't surprise me to tell the truth. One of the reasons that I got out of I.T. (although, no one truly never really leaves I.T.)
I refuse to go with Apple, because I don't want a phone that I can't put a memory card in, or change a battery in. I refuse to go with Android because I don't want to get into bed with google and every time there is an Android update, it seems that some of your security settings are over written or everything is transferred to/from google. And most of all, I completely despise touch screen keyboards. 75% of the time when I used my wife's iphone (and past android device) that damn touchscreen/keyboard would never work or respond to my touch/gestures (I'm talking not working/responding, not just fat-fingering an entry) - hence the love for a physical tactile keyboard.
My Blackberry Q10 solves virtually all of that, though occasionally (rarely) I do run into the touchscreen issue. I cant replace the battery, I can upgrade the memory card as needed, I can drop in a new SIM (the Q10 from Verizon is unlocked to begin with) card with no issues. The only real potential problem could be the lack of app support - but honestly, I have never found this to be an issue or a significant concern.
I went from an old Samsung N400 half-flip phone, to a Palm Pilot Treo, and held on to that for almost 6 years, before I went to the BB Q10. I don't have a single regret with that decision - my daughter in laws, son in law, sister/brother in laws all with iPhones, Droids, and Windows phones always seems to have issues (battery life, connectivity, etc.) where my Q10 ends up being the go to phone for when those issues occur. Simply it just works and the year and a half I've had it, I've only needed to do reboot once. Put my vote in for BB for best stability.
I guess I come from the Word*Star days where keyboard shortcuts were king. I still use many of them and odds are I have no idea where they would be located in the ribbon menu. It's much like GUI interfaces - they do work, but there are times I still end up going to the command line to get things done, and when I need to, I have that option. I suppose more annoying is the option was removed - classic interface vs ribbon interface. You know, pick one, or even switch between either would make things much easier and be less annoying - and the coding required would be relative minor. That is something I just don't understand why an option like that isn't included.
Nice to see I'm not the only one... I always keep saying, "If it was up to me, we would still be running Windows 2000". Ironically I said it last night with my gaming buddies.
I couldn't agree more (and I will likely be call an 0ld-Ph@r7 and a progress Luddite that hates change). How long has it been since they started with this "ribbon" crap (2006? 2007?) and still to this day I long for the old simple, intuitive, efficient, File, Edit, etc., menu. What has it been? 8 years now? I think that is plenty of time to "get used to the ribbon" like I was told when it started. Like you said, it still creates aggravation with no upside.
I have no problem with change.... It's just: If it ain't broke, don't fix it > change for the sake of change
I have to agree with you on ESET. It acts the way that the old AV's used to act - easy on the resources, fast to update, and effective. I've gone through the whole works, McAfee, Norton, Symantec, AVG, Comodo, Trend, Avira, and Kaspersky. I just hope they don't go the ways of the others of becoming ineffective, resource hogging pigs.
Lots of room for potential abuse, but an interesting judgement. I wonder if there will now be laws stating that dead hardware must be kept beyond the statute of limitation in case a lawsuit ensues. So what about all those "catastrophic failures" right before the suit if filed? A double edged sword none the less.
Remeber, this was the mainstream distribution media for software for ~30 years (how often did you have to return original SW due to a bad floppy?). It only started to go down hill after the push to obsolete the floppy by Apple. By this point, it was just a race to the bottom and a checkmark option offered by the x86 PC manufacturers.
I remember having to send a bunch of floppies with WordPerfect for Dos back to WordPerfect.... But that wasn't due to a bad floppy, well it was, but not due to unreliability... It was due to WordPerfect being shipped from the factory with the Jerusalem-B virus on it.
I had a similar experience with a set of progressive lens also. My doctor didn't push the progressives, but did recommend that I give them a try. He did say they are not for everyone. So I though, hey, why not give it a go.
Worst mistake I had made with those damn progressives. I had an zone of focus that amounted to looking through a straw, and everything else being out of focus. Any time that I moved my head to look at something else, the out of focus areas would rise and fall in a wave like motion as they came into the focused zone. Now, I'm not typically one to get motion sickness, or seasick, but I tell you, those progressives did mess with me. I gave them a good six weeks to "get used to them" and it didn't happen. Took them back and had the lens replaced with regular ones, and haven't looked back since.
I know people that have progressives and love them, but I have talked with just as many people that hated them. I'm in the latter group. I would not recommend them at all.
I question if this working 60-80hrs per week being the badge of honor in the US seems to value so highly is skewing those results, along with the culture of not taking holiday/vacation (or the guilt of taking it). And even though, I'd also question the amount of hours worked (on paper) vs. the actual number of hours worked. If you are working 40/wk, but if you actually put in more hours (either unpaid overtime, flex time that is never taken, telecommute work from home, etc.) you have skewed results. Often the numbers do not reflect the true numbers.
Time off in the EU is encouraged, in the US, time off is certainly not encourage in the same way that the EU does. I also think it would be interesting to see what the productivity vs. quality of life would compare? Is productivity the measure that should be so highly valued? I suppose it depends on what your perspective is.
Yeah, just sell me the hardware and let my choose my OS or OSes. I Would be perfectly happy with that. If I want multiboot, I'm make my system multiboot. What is this crap about Microsoft/Google not wanting to share space with Google? WTF - it isn't even their hardware, it's the purchaser's hardware!
I can completely agree with this. I've had both - the most disturbing had a background as an accountant, that would micromanage to the Nth degree. Giving crap about how I was wasting time by answering my phone (when it was the deputy minister (aka his boss's boss's boss's boss), who regularly called me directly when he had a technical problem or question - we were on a first name basis) for a measly 10 minutes. Yet would have no problem if it was him (the micromanager), discussing his trip down to Mexico with his new g/f for hours upon hours. \\shaking head\\
Yet, another great manager I had, it was - "Ok, they want us to do this. You have this much $$$ to do it... Can you make the 'car' go Vroom Vroom?" He would take our answers and was able to converse with the upper echelons that this project would be a failure given the amount of $$$ and resources. And the funny thing was, he was always able to get the appropriate resource and money for the projects. Don't know how he did, but he was always able to (except one time, where it was a complete incompatibility that would break the existing processes in place (was an old ancient piece of sw).
I tell you, I hope you can guess what manager was the best to work for?
Managers come in all shapes, sizes and abilities. The one with the abilities are the ones that you want - even if they only have limited technical knowledge.
Especially with the governments overarching reach. Wonder how long communications would last when the gov't presses that internet kill switch (which they claim they don't have - yeah, perhaps a bit tinfoil hat wearing, but after all, we were all assured there were no illegal phone monitoring/data harvesting either). Guess we should all go back to shortwave radio - unfortunately it has become a lost art now a days.
There can be a problems with this, especially with tele/web-based/distance therapy. The resources to intervene within a crisis environment do not exist. For example, if someone is suicidal or homicidal, how does one intervene appropriately? What if a patient/client in a tough situation (ie divorice) and their coping skills are less than adequate, and they just terminate the session after stating "they hate their spouse. There is no way to ensure that the patient is safe. Even a 911 call to the police for a wellness check, the 10-12 minute response time is not immediate enough for crisis intervention. This could potentially setup any therapist using this type of session to have there A$$ sued off, even more than they already are.
Certain patients/clients would be appropriate for this type of delivery for therapy - Any of the various paranoid flavored diagnoses would likely not work well (after all, we all used to be called paranoid when we thought the NSA was tracking our internet usage eh?). Border-line personality disorder are extremely difficult to work with in the first place... they can go from I love you, to I hate you in seconds - try and deal with that over the web, when their first instinct will be to disconnect the session. Leaves the therapist in an extremely vulnerable situation.
The other issue is, as a therapist, you don't have control over the environment. What about the phone ringing during a session, or the young child that constantly wants to see mommie or daddy or the or the interruptions from the over-caffeinated teenager? Often people in therapy are lacking in coping skills and/or boundaries. That is where the office visit will be superior, because those boundaries are more clearly defined.
The security/confidentiality/privacy of sessions would be extremely difficult to keep under control. Most relevant code of ethics have specific rules (and not to mention federal and state regulations) regarding this. If you are cross-state, which laws apply? Those of the therapist, those of the patient, or a blending of the two? In this regard, the duty/responsibility generally falls onto the therapist - talk about a liability nightmare.
I'm not saying this method of delivery is not completely without value... there are circumstance that make it necessary or even desirable. Long distance, and/or limited access to mental health services, those that are constantly traveling for work, etc. would be some examples. In my own practice, this method of delivery would only be used in limited and very specific circumstances.
encrypted or not, with the access the bad-guys had, would it not be likely that the encryption keys would be the first things they would have harvested? A lock box is not good when the keys are stole with it.
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I agree with that. I find it nice that I don't need to get into bed with google or apple - On a BB Q10 and absolutely love it, incuding the OS (although I do dislike the light color scheme that Chen decided to go to. This was one of my fears when I heard they were bringing out an Android device is that the QNX/BB10OS would be left behind. *sigh*
How fun! Now we can advance right past the next Y2K type bug...
Grade 9 for me in the early '80s, and while I can appreciate it, it was the worst mistake of a class that I ever took. I was already using an Apple ][+ for years, and I had my own touch typing style, was up easily to 100+ wpm. Enter typing class, and Biffffzat, now I'm lucky if I can get back to 50 or 60 wpm, even all these years later. I wish it was as easy as Yoda said, "You must unlearn what you've learned." As for the 6 key question? What ever hand is closer to it.
Don't be touching my Blackberry Microsoft!!!!
I think we are seeing the effects of the expected long hours - that 60-80 work week being a badge of honor; the effects of the dependency on IT services, without the budget/forethought to provide the needed staff/support and maintenance; the get it deployed and fix it later attitude; deliverables forcing the never having the time to do it right, but always time to do it again; unrealistic project management and project goals/deliverables; threat of outsourcing/off-shoring; corporate treating staff as resources rather than as people; etc., etc., etc.
It doesn't surprise me to tell the truth. One of the reasons that I got out of I.T. (although, no one truly never really leaves I.T.)
That should read "I CAN replace the battery"
I refuse to go with Apple, because I don't want a phone that I can't put a memory card in, or change a battery in. I refuse to go with Android because I don't want to get into bed with google and every time there is an Android update, it seems that some of your security settings are over written or everything is transferred to/from google. And most of all, I completely despise touch screen keyboards. 75% of the time when I used my wife's iphone (and past android device) that damn touchscreen/keyboard would never work or respond to my touch/gestures (I'm talking not working/responding, not just fat-fingering an entry) - hence the love for a physical tactile keyboard.
My Blackberry Q10 solves virtually all of that, though occasionally (rarely) I do run into the touchscreen issue. I cant replace the battery, I can upgrade the memory card as needed, I can drop in a new SIM (the Q10 from Verizon is unlocked to begin with) card with no issues. The only real potential problem could be the lack of app support - but honestly, I have never found this to be an issue or a significant concern.
I went from an old Samsung N400 half-flip phone, to a Palm Pilot Treo, and held on to that for almost 6 years, before I went to the BB Q10. I don't have a single regret with that decision - my daughter in laws, son in law, sister/brother in laws all with iPhones, Droids, and Windows phones always seems to have issues (battery life, connectivity, etc.) where my Q10 ends up being the go to phone for when those issues occur. Simply it just works and the year and a half I've had it, I've only needed to do reboot once. Put my vote in for BB for best stability.
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Xyst
I guess I come from the Word*Star days where keyboard shortcuts were king. I still use many of them and odds are I have no idea where they would be located in the ribbon menu. It's much like GUI interfaces - they do work, but there are times I still end up going to the command line to get things done, and when I need to, I have that option. I suppose more annoying is the option was removed - classic interface vs ribbon interface. You know, pick one, or even switch between either would make things much easier and be less annoying - and the coding required would be relative minor. That is something I just don't understand why an option like that isn't included.
Nice to see I'm not the only one... I always keep saying, "If it was up to me, we would still be running Windows 2000". Ironically I said it last night with my gaming buddies.
"Gee Brain, I guess that's what the children would look like if me and Pippi Longstocking got married"
For those that don't get the reference
I couldn't agree more (and I will likely be call an 0ld-Ph@r7 and a progress Luddite that hates change). How long has it been since they started with this "ribbon" crap (2006? 2007?) and still to this day I long for the old simple, intuitive, efficient, File, Edit, etc., menu. What has it been? 8 years now? I think that is plenty of time to "get used to the ribbon" like I was told when it started. Like you said, it still creates aggravation with no upside.
I have no problem with change.... It's just: If it ain't broke, don't fix it > change for the sake of change
I have to agree with you on ESET. It acts the way that the old AV's used to act - easy on the resources, fast to update, and effective. I've gone through the whole works, McAfee, Norton, Symantec, AVG, Comodo, Trend, Avira, and Kaspersky. I just hope they don't go the ways of the others of becoming ineffective, resource hogging pigs.
Lots of room for potential abuse, but an interesting judgement. I wonder if there will now be laws stating that dead hardware must be kept beyond the statute of limitation in case a lawsuit ensues. So what about all those "catastrophic failures" right before the suit if filed? A double edged sword none the less.
Remeber, this was the mainstream distribution media for software for ~30 years (how often did you have to return original SW due to a bad floppy?). It only started to go down hill after the push to obsolete the floppy by Apple. By this point, it was just a race to the bottom and a checkmark option offered by the x86 PC manufacturers.
I remember having to send a bunch of floppies with WordPerfect for Dos back to WordPerfect.... But that wasn't due to a bad floppy, well it was, but not due to unreliability... It was due to WordPerfect being shipped from the factory with the Jerusalem-B virus on it.
I had a similar experience with a set of progressive lens also. My doctor didn't push the progressives, but did recommend that I give them a try. He did say they are not for everyone. So I though, hey, why not give it a go.
Worst mistake I had made with those damn progressives. I had an zone of focus that amounted to looking through a straw, and everything else being out of focus. Any time that I moved my head to look at something else, the out of focus areas would rise and fall in a wave like motion as they came into the focused zone. Now, I'm not typically one to get motion sickness, or seasick, but I tell you, those progressives did mess with me. I gave them a good six weeks to "get used to them" and it didn't happen. Took them back and had the lens replaced with regular ones, and haven't looked back since.
I know people that have progressives and love them, but I have talked with just as many people that hated them. I'm in the latter group. I would not recommend them at all.
Buggars... I also forgot to mention, after a brief review of the article that you mentioned....
I question if this working 60-80hrs per week being the badge of honor in the US seems to value so highly is skewing those results, along with the culture of not taking holiday/vacation (or the guilt of taking it). And even though, I'd also question the amount of hours worked (on paper) vs. the actual number of hours worked. If you are working 40/wk, but if you actually put in more hours (either unpaid overtime, flex time that is never taken, telecommute work from home, etc.) you have skewed results. Often the numbers do not reflect the true numbers. Time off in the EU is encouraged, in the US, time off is certainly not encourage in the same way that the EU does. I also think it would be interesting to see what the productivity vs. quality of life would compare? Is productivity the measure that should be so highly valued? I suppose it depends on what your perspective is.
Aquaman sucks!
Welcome to the Hotel Apple iPhone... You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Geez, Rickrolled semi-old school fashion.....Would have been old school if it was all in CAPS....
Yeah, just sell me the hardware and let my choose my OS or OSes. I Would be perfectly happy with that. If I want multiboot, I'm make my system multiboot. What is this crap about Microsoft/Google not wanting to share space with Google? WTF - it isn't even their hardware, it's the purchaser's hardware!
I can completely agree with this. I've had both - the most disturbing had a background as an accountant, that would micromanage to the Nth degree. Giving crap about how I was wasting time by answering my phone (when it was the deputy minister (aka his boss's boss's boss's boss), who regularly called me directly when he had a technical problem or question - we were on a first name basis) for a measly 10 minutes. Yet would have no problem if it was him (the micromanager), discussing his trip down to Mexico with his new g/f for hours upon hours. \\shaking head\\
Yet, another great manager I had, it was - "Ok, they want us to do this. You have this much $$$ to do it... Can you make the 'car' go Vroom Vroom?" He would take our answers and was able to converse with the upper echelons that this project would be a failure given the amount of $$$ and resources. And the funny thing was, he was always able to get the appropriate resource and money for the projects. Don't know how he did, but he was always able to (except one time, where it was a complete incompatibility that would break the existing processes in place (was an old ancient piece of sw).
I tell you, I hope you can guess what manager was the best to work for?
Managers come in all shapes, sizes and abilities. The one with the abilities are the ones that you want - even if they only have limited technical knowledge.
Especially with the governments overarching reach. Wonder how long communications would last when the gov't presses that internet kill switch (which they claim they don't have - yeah, perhaps a bit tinfoil hat wearing, but after all, we were all assured there were no illegal phone monitoring/data harvesting either). Guess we should all go back to shortwave radio - unfortunately it has become a lost art now a days.
There can be a problems with this, especially with tele/web-based/distance therapy. The resources to intervene within a crisis environment do not exist. For example, if someone is suicidal or homicidal, how does one intervene appropriately? What if a patient/client in a tough situation (ie divorice) and their coping skills are less than adequate, and they just terminate the session after stating "they hate their spouse. There is no way to ensure that the patient is safe. Even a 911 call to the police for a wellness check, the 10-12 minute response time is not immediate enough for crisis intervention. This could potentially setup any therapist using this type of session to have there A$$ sued off, even more than they already are.
Certain patients/clients would be appropriate for this type of delivery for therapy - Any of the various paranoid flavored diagnoses would likely not work well (after all, we all used to be called paranoid when we thought the NSA was tracking our internet usage eh?). Border-line personality disorder are extremely difficult to work with in the first place... they can go from I love you, to I hate you in seconds - try and deal with that over the web, when their first instinct will be to disconnect the session. Leaves the therapist in an extremely vulnerable situation.
The other issue is, as a therapist, you don't have control over the environment. What about the phone ringing during a session, or the young child that constantly wants to see mommie or daddy or the or the interruptions from the over-caffeinated teenager? Often people in therapy are lacking in coping skills and/or boundaries. That is where the office visit will be superior, because those boundaries are more clearly defined.
The security/confidentiality/privacy of sessions would be extremely difficult to keep under control. Most relevant code of ethics have specific rules (and not to mention federal and state regulations) regarding this. If you are cross-state, which laws apply? Those of the therapist, those of the patient, or a blending of the two? In this regard, the duty/responsibility generally falls onto the therapist - talk about a liability nightmare.
I'm not saying this method of delivery is not completely without value... there are circumstance that make it necessary or even desirable. Long distance, and/or limited access to mental health services, those that are constantly traveling for work, etc. would be some examples. In my own practice, this method of delivery would only be used in limited and very specific circumstances.
encrypted or not, with the access the bad-guys had, would it not be likely that the encryption keys would be the first things they would have harvested? A lock box is not good when the keys are stole with it.