... they'll adopt WebOS, stick it on top of Meego, include the Qt stuff to keep existing, highly productive Maemo developers on board and have themselves a cheap, vastly superior alternative to Android & iOS.
On the surface, this seems like the way to go. HP/Intel/Samsung/Maemo all pushing a superior alternative that can run Android apps and that can get some marketshare. They all have the same goals - can they get it together?
The real killer here may be that the eye differs greatly from what we see. Eyes focussing on a fixed object have stochastic type movement (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0042698969901126) yet what we see is a stable 3D image.
Any display that moves similarly is likely to be highly distracting.
You're right in the first option. Most other psychotherapists are grossly inept at their job.
It's a surreal experience that I and many like me have lived with for over a decade now.
There's very little incentive to be a decent alternative therapist. Those good at marketing get more clients.
You almost never get referrals because none of your recovered clients want to talk about their old weird problems. The ones I do get are with stuff like cocaine addiction where I get the entire coke circle referred.;) GPs don't take it seriously because there's no accepted studies showing efficacy of what I do (not sure what its like in the US).
Consequently, there's also a complete disconnect between psychiatry and what works. I think with methods like EMDR and EFT, psychiatry will eventually open up to new approaches.. The normal scientific model doesn't work well for psychotherapy. It's not a standardised treatment that you apply to a bunch of different patients. You have to test multiple therapists against each other and against a control. I would happily be a part of such a trial but who's going to fund it and which journal will publish it?
Times are changing though. When CBT came along (something that can be taught in a morning) tens of thousands of Freudians were made irrelevant. EMDR and acupuncture are gradually gaining acceptance. EFT inevitably will and thus the paradigm is changing.
The problem is the research is all methodically skewed to show the drugs work.
A common and accepted trick was to use a sugar pill as a placebo. I can tell the difference between a sugar pill and prozac and I'm not attuned to SSRIs. A ubiquitous and accepted trick is to never test the blind. In these multi-million dollar studies, nobody spends a few thousand asking the patients what they think they took. Why? Because the patients can nearly always guess [my own site] (Fisher and Greenberg 1993). One presumes the doctors know what they're prescribing. Another common trick is to bury studies that don't show what the drug companies want them to do. Yet another common trick is the placebo washout. The researchers run a placebo only stage - anyone who improves is removed. Needless to say, this exaggerates any difference between the drug and the placebo. The last trick which springs to mind is ghostwriting - the drug companies write the paper and then look for anyone to put their name on it.
It might work for a few. The two intermediate causes of depression are: 1. Feeling bad. 2. Believing it's never going to get better.
Now you can't stop people feeling bad ever (and this is the intent of suicide). The second part is where it's easier to help people. But first you have to find out what will convince them.
If someone was hypothetically truly beyond help and determined to commit suicide, I'd strongly suggest something like circletimessquare said. Actually I'd suggest they spend all their money on a holiday doing whatever they want to do before they die.
Now as a psychotherapist, I know that everyone is helpable and in hours rather than years. Heck, depression is pretty much the only thing that CBT works for.
You might also want to look at the thread I following my response where I point out some of the smart things circletimessquare did.
I did appreciate your attempt to virtually relocate the parent and thus am happy for your comment to stand. I just thought it shouldn't stand alone.;)
Something else your post might have helped with. People rarely prioritise long-term happiness. They'll put work, family, pseudo-rationality etc first and then wonder why they're not happy.
As far as I can tell, the biochemical contribution to depression is minimal to non-existent. Many studies have shown the failure of SSRIs to outperform placebo. Indeed SNRIs (which do the opposite) are also prescribed for depression.
That CBT works at all shows that depression in most cases is a largely down to habitually depressing thought patterns. There are other cases where this is not true at all.
Diaspora is what we hope will rescue us from Facebook.
It's a distributed, open source network where you are in charge of your data. Even Michael Chisari, creator of competitor Appleseed, wants Diaspora to succeed.
Slashdot Mirror
64-bit Opera for Windows and OSX came out today.
Maemo already has sufficient apps - how many fart apps do you need? Samsung sell 5m smartphones a year with no apps.
There's Alien Dalvik, there's the shared Linux base, cross-platform toolkits, chrooting...
It's all about the marketing anyway. Android has no marketing. Apple's marketing genius died.
WebOS vs Tizen, they're both doomed. If Tizen adopt WebOS, stick it on top of Meego, win/win/win.
Even if they don't, the Maemo community may adopt it wholesale, reinstate Qt and win for N900 users.
... they'll adopt WebOS, stick it on top of Meego, include the Qt stuff to keep existing, highly productive Maemo developers on board and have themselves a cheap, vastly superior alternative to Android & iOS.
On the surface, this seems like the way to go. HP/Intel/Samsung/Maemo all pushing a superior alternative that can run Android apps and that can get some marketshare.
They all have the same goals - can they get it together?
In 2007 (screened 2008), Gene Simmons gave Kodak the best slogan ever on Celebrity Apprentice USA: It's a Kodak World.
Wikilink to episode
Kodak disagreed, Gene lost, held his ground, could have saved himself but didn't and went out in a blaze of glory.
Best vid I could find, correct episode, Gene isn't shown
Apple zealotry kicks ass. Even Microsoft topics never went on this long.
Microsoft's desktop monopoly was threatened like never before or since by OS/2 Warp which genuinely ran Windows software better than Windows did.
It wasn't so much the Win95 upgrade but the new 32-bit API with pretty new applications. DirectX was also a factor.
I'm one. Mind you, Britain's welfare state probably costs 4x per person that of the US.
The real killer here may be that the eye differs greatly from what we see. Eyes focussing on a fixed object have stochastic type movement (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0042698969901126) yet what we see is a stable 3D image.
Any display that moves similarly is likely to be highly distracting.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotional Freedom Technique.
You could easily have Googled them alongside the word "therapy".
And is /. ever going to make it possible to insert links without typing that a href gobbledegook?
Doug says 30mins to 3 sessions. The latter might mean 3 hours or he might mean 6.
I've taken as long as 12 hours with very complex cases.
You're right in the first option. Most other psychotherapists are grossly inept at their job.
It's a surreal experience that I and many like me have lived with for over a decade now.
There's very little incentive to be a decent alternative therapist. Those good at marketing get more clients.
You almost never get referrals because none of your recovered clients want to talk about their old weird problems. The ones I do get are with stuff like cocaine addiction where I get the entire coke circle referred. ;)
GPs don't take it seriously because there's no accepted studies showing efficacy of what I do (not sure what its like in the US).
Consequently, there's also a complete disconnect between psychiatry and what works. I think with methods like EMDR and EFT, psychiatry will eventually open up to new approaches..
The normal scientific model doesn't work well for psychotherapy. It's not a standardised treatment that you apply to a bunch of different patients. You have to test multiple therapists against each other and against a control. I would happily be a part of such a trial but who's going to fund it and which journal will publish it?
Times are changing though. When CBT came along (something that can be taught in a morning) tens of thousands of Freudians were made irrelevant. EMDR and acupuncture are gradually gaining acceptance. EFT inevitably will and thus the paradigm is changing.
The problem is the research is all methodically skewed to show the drugs work.
A common and accepted trick was to use a sugar pill as a placebo. I can tell the difference between a sugar pill and prozac and I'm not attuned to SSRIs.
A ubiquitous and accepted trick is to never test the blind. In these multi-million dollar studies, nobody spends a few thousand asking the patients what they think they took. Why? Because the patients can nearly always guess [my own site] (Fisher and Greenberg 1993). One presumes the doctors know what they're prescribing.
Another common trick is to bury studies that don't show what the drug companies want them to do.
Yet another common trick is the placebo washout. The researchers run a placebo only stage - anyone who improves is removed. Needless to say, this exaggerates any difference between the drug and the placebo.
The last trick which springs to mind is ghostwriting - the drug companies write the paper and then look for anyone to put their name on it.
Ben Goldacre is writing a book about all this.
Lastly, SSRIs encourage suicidality in some young patients, hence the much publicised FDA warning.
It might work for a few. The two intermediate causes of depression are:
1. Feeling bad.
2. Believing it's never going to get better.
Now you can't stop people feeling bad ever (and this is the intent of suicide). The second part is where it's easier to help people. But first you have to find out what will convince them.
If someone was hypothetically truly beyond help and determined to commit suicide, I'd strongly suggest something like circletimessquare said. Actually I'd suggest they spend all their money on a holiday doing whatever they want to do before they die.
Now as a psychotherapist, I know that everyone is helpable and in hours rather than years. Heck, depression is pretty much the only thing that CBT works for.
You might also want to look at the thread I following my response where I point out some of the smart things circletimessquare did.
I did appreciate your attempt to virtually relocate the parent and thus am happy for your comment to stand. I just thought it shouldn't stand alone. ;)
Something else your post might have helped with. People rarely prioritise long-term happiness. They'll put work, family, pseudo-rationality etc first and then wonder why they're not happy.
As far as I can tell, the biochemical contribution to depression is minimal to non-existent. Many studies have shown the failure of SSRIs to outperform placebo. Indeed SNRIs (which do the opposite) are also prescribed for depression.
That CBT works at all shows that depression in most cases is a largely down to habitually depressing thought patterns. There are other cases where this is not true at all.
Diaspora is what we hope will rescue us from Facebook.
It's a distributed, open source network where you are in charge of your data. Even Michael Chisari, creator of competitor Appleseed, wants Diaspora to succeed.
Isn't it just easier to get help?
CBT is pretty successful with depressive issues, most of wich would stick around no matter where you go.
There's also hypnotherapy, NLP, EMDR, EFT...
As a psychotherapist with a success rate exceeding 80%, I'd have to say your advice isn't great.
You're welcome - I'm glad I had people to share it with. I have zero geek friends, even on FB.
His posts on Apple have been great. He talks about Apples' BeOS vs Jobs decision with humility too.
Someone fix /. already.
PS. Gassée's blog is the best I've read.
Turning to HP, this week was their Board’s opportunity to solidify its reputation for incompetence and bad manners. They rose to the occasion.
http://www.mondaynote.com/2011/09/25/how-bad-boards-kill-companies-hp/
Whilst you're right about clauses, courts don't override written law aka the will of Parliament.
Presumably it would trigger a constitutional crisis if the Supreme Court did.
I posted it separately to get more views/feedback.
Being part of a consitution would imply these laws are either better protected than other laws or override subsequent ones.