"Stupid" is not a recognized medical condition, but more of a behavior. If you make the statement that someone with Down's Syndrome cannot be a neurosurgeon, then I might agree with you, but your generalities are fairly meaningless.
What's wrong with that? COULD be a trend If there more datapoints emerge. Conversely it could be a troubling datapoint if more incidents fail to arise.
OK, I'll let you get back to not having to discuss the issue (never mind that you're posting to this article's discussion), after a few points:
"We're predisposed to getting RSI, through one way or another."
Actually, no one knows why- given the same behaviors- some people will develop RSI and some won't. Some people are more pre-disposed, though, it seems.
Given that, it seems pedantic to say that:
"...people need to shut up about typing causing RSI, as it just aggravates what gets you RSI..."
Next, regarding:
"So, if you have RSI, talk to the people with RSI"
...I actually recommend seeing an Occupational Therapist.
and, finally:
:...stop bothering people like me..."
Fine, all of/. will now collectively stop holding the gun to your head that forces you to read (and post to) articles on keyboard standards.
I think you missed my larger (though admittedly not directly stated) point. Poor body mechanics is the primary cause of most RSI. Therefore, ANYONE can help avoid RSI by using proper body mechanics as they go about their daily activities. I referred to typists because this post is about keyboarding, not about golfing or being a longshoreman.
Roofers have a similar incidence of RSI to typists. That does not mean typing poorly doesn't cause RSI (nor, of course, does it prove the opposite). Just about everybody has everyday tasks that can cause onset of RSI if they are performed incorrectly. For Typists, that means keying.
Yes, mousing is a worse culprit.
Yes, bad body position is terrible for your whole body. Slouching DOES impact your wrists while typing.
Switching to a new keyboard layout does provide one with an opportunity to unlearn bad habits, though, so I wouldn't write it off as a suggestion for helping with, say, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
It is true that Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is not caused by typing. It is caused by poor body mechanics. Proper technique and body positioning (with attendant adaptaions to equipment placement) should be enough to ensure that most typists never need worry about developing an RSI of the wrists/hands/arms.
"RSI is associated with *rapid* repetitive motions."
Actually, rapidity has little to do with it. Force has much more bearing (pardon the pun). Somewhat counter-intuitively, touch-typists tend to be better at avoiding Carpal Tunnel Syndrome than hunt-n-peck typists.
No. It shows that his pain had not yet become chronic, and his adoption of a change in keying came right in time. RSI's aren't like broken bones, they tend to have a gradual onset and chronic pain can be headed-off fairly quickly if dealt with proactively.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is caused by compression of the Median Nerve within the carpal tunnel. Given the same stressors to this nerve, not everyone will develope this RSI, but the more abuse you dish out to your Median nerve, the more likely you are to suffer.
Use of a standard keyboards doesn't help prevention of CTS, but it is no guarantor of it either. Common sense ergonomic practices (placement of the keyboard, location of the mouse, location of the monitor, sitting posture, frequent stretch breaks, the ability to touch-type, etc) are far more important than keyboard layout to keep you free of Repetative Strain Disorders.
I highly recommend the free eBook
Making Your Workstation Safe, the quick guide to Office Ergonomics available at: http://www.health-hack.com/members.php It can save much grief on down the line!
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In its most basic form SEO is about best practices to ensure that your content gets seen by people other than your mother or (if you're lucky) girlfriend. You can write the best content in the world, but if you have minimal search engine coverage, you are the proverbial tree falling in the woods.
The interesting thing is, most likely your doctor has conflicting feelings on this.
On the one hand, I'm sure he/she would love to discuss with you the ins and outs of a variety of treatment approaches to your ailment.
That said, he probably won't spend much if any time actually doing this, as insurance really will only pay for about thirteen minutes of face-time with the doctor and he/she probably will feel a responsibility to get you onboard with his treatment preference very quickly so you can have a meaningful evaluation in the time allotted.
This is not me being cynical, it is something doctors admit all the time.
OK, I missed the bottom of the artical where it was mentioned that old surveys of third-world plant life are moldering away unread in libraries.
This still doesn't seem to have anything to do with ethics, though. Unless "ethics" is merely used as a term for balming the guilty consciences of first-world drug executives.
Interesting information in this article, but it is really badly written, as if by a college kid the morning the paper is due. Sloppy thinking.
The "negative" is that "westerners" (a laughable term when talking about, say, indigenous Brazilians vs US Drug companies, as this article begins with) ask native Shamen for information about useful plants, then take that powerful knowledge and make lucrative drugs without allowing compensation to flow back to the indigenous people.
OK, that is a negative, I concede. But. The article says that the issue is somewhat negated by not asking the shamen, but going to the written record.
Anyway, what ancient texts do the Yanomamo people have, anyway? Are there ancient medicinal texts of Madagascar? The cultures that tend to have these texts probably don't have the issues this article is talking about.
Seems like a case of an author with information to present, but no good idea for an angle.
As a blogger, I would think that sites who pay to host AP content would not mind being linked by bloggers, as links bring in readers, and more readers = more potential ad revenue.
Now when it comes to quoting, up to a certain amount is fair use, and there's nothing AP can do about that, but as a rule, I try to qoute only the bullet points, then link to the article with a recommendation for my readers to RTFA.
"you are Petros and on this Petros I will build my church"
Being not a Catholic, but rather a former classics major, perhaps it is not for me to say, but the standard interpretation I'm familiar with is:
"You are Peter, and on this bedrock(foundation) I will build my church", wherein the pun is that Peter is both Petros and the rock.
Now, I want to say I am not arguing the veracity of Peter's account, just the interpretation. It may be accurate, or it may be just another case like the Donation of Constantine
Perhaps if I had chosen Classical Greek over Latin as my core language I would now be in possesion of a highly lucrative Bachelor of Classics degree.;)
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OK, but see, the rhetorical power of the line hinges on a pun. Would the pun still hold if the gender of the nouns were made to agree? I don't know Koine Greek, myself.
Can a rock be referred to in a masculine way, and would it still sound vaguely like "Petros"?
If not, then you have to allow for that relatively minor quibble.
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"Stupid" is not a recognized medical condition, but more of a behavior. If you make the statement that someone with Down's Syndrome cannot be a neurosurgeon, then I might agree with you, but your generalities are fairly meaningless.
Thank you for the clarification and your expertise. Your 2 preceding comments were among the most insightful in this entire discussion.
I just read the link you provided and I don't think it is germane to these workers, as:
"The typical age-of-onset for HNPP is adolescence, however it may present in early childhood."
This would seem to indicate that the condition this test supposedly works for is CTS secondary to something other than what caused theirs.
Or I may be missing something. If so, please let me know.
What's wrong with that? COULD be a trend If there more datapoints emerge. Conversely it could be a troubling datapoint if more incidents fail to arise.
Actually, no one knows why- given the same behaviors- some people will develop RSI and some won't. Some people are more pre-disposed, though, it seems. Given that, it seems pedantic to say that: Next, regarding:
and, finally:
I think you missed my larger (though admittedly not directly stated) point. Poor body mechanics is the primary cause of most RSI. Therefore, ANYONE can help avoid RSI by using proper body mechanics as they go about their daily activities. I referred to typists because this post is about keyboarding, not about golfing or being a longshoreman.
Roofers have a similar incidence of RSI to typists. That does not mean typing poorly doesn't cause RSI (nor, of course, does it prove the opposite). Just about everybody has everyday tasks that can cause onset of RSI if they are performed incorrectly. For Typists, that means keying.
Yes, mousing is a worse culprit.
Yes, bad body position is terrible for your whole body. Slouching DOES impact your wrists while typing.
Switching to a new keyboard layout does provide one with an opportunity to unlearn bad habits, though, so I wouldn't write it off as a suggestion for helping with, say, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
It is true that Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is not caused by typing. It is caused by poor body mechanics. Proper technique and body positioning (with attendant adaptaions to equipment placement) should be enough to ensure that most typists never need worry about developing an RSI of the wrists/hands/arms.
Some people fail to recognise this, but mousing actually accounts for far more cases of RSI than typing.
"RSI is associated with *rapid* repetitive motions."
Actually, rapidity has little to do with it. Force has much more bearing (pardon the pun). Somewhat counter-intuitively, touch-typists tend to be better at avoiding Carpal Tunnel Syndrome than hunt-n-peck typists.
"Which showed that your pain was in your head."
No. It shows that his pain had not yet become chronic, and his adoption of a change in keying came right in time. RSI's aren't like broken bones, they tend to have a gradual onset and chronic pain can be headed-off fairly quickly if dealt with proactively.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is caused by compression of the Median Nerve within the carpal tunnel. Given the same stressors to this nerve, not everyone will develope this RSI, but the more abuse you dish out to your Median nerve, the more likely you are to suffer.
Use of a standard keyboards doesn't help prevention of CTS, but it is no guarantor of it either. Common sense ergonomic practices (placement of the keyboard, location of the mouse, location of the monitor, sitting posture, frequent stretch breaks, the ability to touch-type, etc) are far more important than keyboard layout to keep you free of Repetative Strain Disorders.
I highly recommend the free eBook Making Your Workstation Safe, the quick guide to Office Ergonomics available at:
http://www.health-hack.com/members.php
It can save much grief on down the line!
OTOH, touch-typists are less likely to develop Carpal Tunnel: http://www.health-hack.com/archives/2005/06/14/12/ 56/touch-typing-reduce-carpal-tunnel/
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SEO is like a weapon that can be a tool for good or evil depending on who wields it.I've recently been on some webmaster advice forums where they're all about SEO, but people are usually given the cold shoulder when they start asking about setting up the kind of dodgy sites to which you refer.
In its most basic form SEO is about best practices to ensure that your content gets seen by people other than your mother or (if you're lucky) girlfriend. You can write the best content in the world, but if you have minimal search engine coverage, you are the proverbial tree falling in the woods.
Could you elaborate on that, please?
The interesting thing is, most likely your doctor has conflicting feelings on this.
On the one hand, I'm sure he/she would love to discuss with you the ins and outs of a variety of treatment approaches to your ailment.
That said, he probably won't spend much if any time actually doing this, as insurance really will only pay for about thirteen minutes of face-time with the doctor and he/she probably will feel a responsibility to get you onboard with his treatment preference very quickly so you can have a meaningful evaluation in the time allotted.
This is not me being cynical, it is something doctors admit all the time.
OK, I missed the bottom of the artical where it was mentioned that old surveys of third-world plant life are moldering away unread in libraries.
This still doesn't seem to have anything to do with ethics, though. Unless "ethics" is merely used as a term for balming the guilty consciences of first-world drug executives.
Interesting information in this article, but it is really badly written, as if by a college kid the morning the paper is due. Sloppy thinking.
The "negative" is that "westerners" (a laughable term when talking about, say, indigenous Brazilians vs US Drug companies, as this article begins with) ask native Shamen for information about useful plants, then take that powerful knowledge and make lucrative drugs without allowing compensation to flow back to the indigenous people.
OK, that is a negative, I concede. But. The article says that the issue is somewhat negated by not asking the shamen, but going to the written record.
Anyway, what ancient texts do the Yanomamo people have, anyway? Are there ancient medicinal texts of Madagascar? The cultures that tend to have these texts probably don't have the issues this article is talking about.
Seems like a case of an author with information to present, but no good idea for an angle.
#1432 at 1:15 EST. Wee-hoo!
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If only more classical authors had written in modern spanish, I'd have had a fighting chance!
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Being not a Catholic, but rather a former classics major, perhaps it is not for me to say, but the standard interpretation I'm familiar with is: "You are Peter, and on this bedrock(foundation) I will build my church", wherein the pun is that Peter is both Petros and the rock.
Now, I want to say I am not arguing the veracity of Peter's account, just the interpretation. It may be accurate, or it may be just another case like the Donation of Constantine
Perhaps if I had chosen Classical Greek over Latin as my core language I would now be in possesion of a highly lucrative Bachelor of Classics degree. ;)
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I swear I must be a crackhead for my inability to give up ff, but I HATE Safari. I keep hoping my problems will be fixed in the next build, but sadly, I keep being dissapointed.
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Can a rock be referred to in a masculine way, and would it still sound vaguely like "Petros"?
If not, then you have to allow for that relatively minor quibble.
-Tut
http://www.health-hack.com/
There is an article on the touchstream keyboard system at my site Health-Hack.com
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