Re: IT question

From: 14tonks (mail.2.14tonks_at_recursor.net)
Date: 02/05/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:32:01 -0500

As you say, you learned to type that way. I think the difference was
probably that you wanted to learn to type, and you don't want to learn to
use an expander other than AutoCorrect. That's fine, SR is a perfectly valid
alternate approach, but it makes this whole 20-questions about IT bit pretty
much a waste of time, and I want to get my Friday work done so as to have
tomorrow free, so I'm going to drop out of this discussion at this point. 

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"Su" <.@hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:5T9Nd.37697$BQ2.12070@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> I remember reading that in another forum. I think somebody used it for
5-10 > minutes every hour.
>
> My question is, how do you retain the information if it's only used for
1/2
> hour on the first day, and then presume you increase it by 10 minutes a
day
> thereafter. --- It kind of makes me wonder how I even learned to type.
What
> was it ... 30 minutes a day, a few days a week:  fff space jjj space ...
>
>
> "14tonks" <mail.2.14tonks@recursor.net> wrote in message
> news:36km1lF51riq4U1@individual.net...
> > The usual advice when starting with a new expander is to use it for just
a
> > half hour or so the first day, and gradually increase time using it as
you
> > pick up speed.  Very few people can afford to have their productivity
drop
> > for a week or more while they learn something new.  Almost everyone can
> > afford to take a half hour to work at a little slower rate using
something
> > new, though, whether it is an expander, SR, a new word processor, or
> > whatever.
> > -- 
> >
> > Sheila
> > To reply to me, add the prefix real. to my address.
> >
> > "Karen C" <kcunnin502@aol.com> wrote in message
> > news:36kepjF515pa5U1@individual.net...
> >> "Su" <.@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >> news:M02Nd.37249$BQ2.10245@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> >> > I know that, which is why I quit the product so quickly. The bottom
> >> > line
> >> was
> >> > $$$. I couldn't take that kind of cut in pay. Maybe if I went half my
> >> normal
> >> > speed it would be okay, but I dropped from 11 to 2 pages an hour
first
> >> try.
> >>
> >> Yeah, I recall those days.  It was a good six weeks before I was able
to
> > say
> >> I had picked up my speed back to a good clip.
> >>
> >> And yes, I was working about 16 hours per day during that time.  I
hated
> >> having to put in all those hours, but I knew I had to do it to get over
> > the
> >> hump and have it be working for me.  That's how I've been looking at
> > Dragon.
> >> Haven't yet made the purchase.  Have to see which version I want to get
> >> to
> >> fit my needs.  Probably 90 percent of my work these days is LT, so I'm
> >> not
> >> convinced I need the medical version, though.  Whatever I get, I'm
> > dreading
> >> the slowdown for the learning curve.
> >>
> >> > Getting old is the pitz. I can feel one brain cell after the other
> >> > going
> >> > ka-ching! RIP.
> >>
> >> My poor old arthritic hands are totally in agreement!
> >>
> >> --
> >> Karen C.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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