This product is huge in the deaf community. It hits the sweet spot with the price and features. My mother is deaf and she has one along with all her friends and co-workers.
It is true that the quality on the SK has been terrible. My mother is on her third or fourth one.
I use native
win32 ports of gnu tools daily. Why? Because they are small and just work.
The application is king. I don't really care where I run it.
quixotal
Linus was also on Charlie Rose a few weeks back.
I am sure the regular Charlie Rose viewer was going "Huh?". Charlie didn't seem to have a clue about what Linux is or why it exists.
I forget the details but we kicked TCI out or they left after their franchise was up. We ended up creating our own cable system-CoMPAS.
As you can see on the CoMPAS website, the regular cable is competively priced and has a fair selection of channels. It is also reliable as I can never remember my cable being out in the years I have had CoMPAS.
The only drawback is that the infrastructure was not built with broadband in mind. Therefore we only have one-way broadband and it is prohibitively expensive.
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I also used touchscreen in Burke County, North Carolina for the first time on Tuesday. It was expensive for the county to upgrade but it will produce accurate elections and will pay for itself over the long run.
You told the worker your name and moved down the line to have the system explained to you. Then a tech at the end of the line told you the booth to go to. The system opens a session for the booth and locks it once voting is completed. You can't just go up to any old booth and start messing with it.
The touchscreens were clear and legible with nice big letters. The only problem was that you had to stick your head into the booth to vote, they could not be viewed from an extreme angle. I guess that is a "privacy feature".
I spent about 2 minutes to go through the screens and that included double checking my ballot.
The best thing is that I didn't have to deal with putting my ballot in some machine hoping I didn't screw up.
I wish they would make it clearer what files one needs to grab to install debian.
Go look the disks for installing debian. It is full of redunancies and confusion. There are docs explaining it all and they are confusing too. They should have zips of popular configurations. That way you only have to grab one file. Thank goodness you only have to install once.
The main problem I had with installing potato was broken tasks. It is easy to work around though.
How many of us have gotten the "Windows 95 Companion CD"? What a WOMBAT! It had the complete OS but was unbootable! I had to get the right setup files and copy them over so I could do a fresh install which happens fairly often. It's pretty easy but most users wouldn't know how to do this and end up wiping their disk.
I have also gone through the trouble of creating new cabs with edited config that doesn't install the old internet software. WOMBAT!
And now it is going to get even worse...
Looks like the last version of Windows I will ever have is Win95a. It still works fine.
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This product is huge in the deaf community. It hits the sweet spot with the price and features. My mother is deaf and she has one along with all her friends and co-workers.
It is true that the quality on the SK has been terrible. My mother is on her third or fourth one.
I use native win32 ports of gnu tools daily. Why? Because they are small and just work. The application is king. I don't really care where I run it. quixotal
What GUI browsers need are numbered links and forms like Lynx has.
IMO this is the only way to have total control with your keyboard. Otherwise, users waste time tabbing around.
quixotal
Linus was also on Charlie Rose a few weeks back. I am sure the regular Charlie Rose viewer was going "Huh?". Charlie didn't seem to have a clue about what Linux is or why it exists.
I live in Morganton, NC.
I forget the details but we kicked TCI out or they left after their franchise was up. We ended up creating our own cable system-CoMPAS.
As you can see on the CoMPAS website, the regular cable is competively priced and has a fair selection of channels. It is also reliable as I can never remember my cable being out in the years I have had CoMPAS.
The only drawback is that the infrastructure was not built with broadband in mind. Therefore we only have one-way broadband and it is prohibitively expensive.
I also used touchscreen in Burke County, North Carolina for the first time on Tuesday. It was expensive for the county to upgrade but it will produce accurate elections and will pay for itself over the long run.
You told the worker your name and moved down the line to have the system explained to you. Then a tech at the end of the line told you the booth to go to. The system opens a session for the booth and locks it once voting is completed. You can't just go up to any old booth and start messing with it.
The touchscreens were clear and legible with nice big letters. The only problem was that you had to stick your head into the booth to vote, they could not be viewed from an extreme angle. I guess that is a "privacy feature".
I spent about 2 minutes to go through the screens and that included double checking my ballot.
The best thing is that I didn't have to deal with putting my ballot in some machine hoping I didn't screw up.
apt-get install fttools
It includes mkttfdir.
I wish they would make it clearer what files one needs to grab to install debian.
Go look the disks for installing debian. It is full of redunancies and confusion. There are docs explaining it all and they are confusing too. They should have zips of popular configurations. That way you only have to grab one file. Thank goodness you only have to install once.
The main problem I had with installing potato was broken tasks. It is easy to work around though.
How many of us have gotten the "Windows 95 Companion CD"? What a WOMBAT! It had the complete OS but was unbootable! I had to get the right setup files and copy them over so I could do a fresh install which happens fairly often. It's pretty easy but most users wouldn't know how to do this and end up wiping their disk.
I have also gone through the trouble of creating new cabs with edited config that doesn't install the old internet software. WOMBAT!
And now it is going to get even worse...
Looks like the last version of Windows I will ever have is Win95a. It still works fine.
The US Navy Sailors have e-mail. I e-mail my brother on the USS George Washington all the time. You should ask them how they do it. heh
Yes Junkbuster can block cookies on a per-site basis and can do other cool things with cookies. It's very easy to do and has an added bonus: you will see what sites start refusing you because you don't have cookies turned completly on. Read the cookies docs here: Junkbuster and cookies.