I assume you do not look at the French, or the British, and think, "OMG, those nuts could nuke us at any time!" Indeed, the South Koreans are more concerned about the total annihilation of Seoul via conventional artillery bombardment that Kim Jong Il could unleash any time he gets more cranky than usual. The fact is that unstable dictatorships, and whatever weapons they have, is the rational first concern of most Democracies.
It has occurred to me recently (and probably to many others before this), that if your job can successfully be performed via telecommute, it can probably successfully be performed in India. Granted, this is not the entire set of telecommuting jobs, but a large portion of them. To that end I have always avoided job opportunities that included a telecommuting option, and instead focused on job opportunities closer to home in the first place.
I suspect the majority of comments will be whiners about how annoying it is to sit next to a person talking on a cellphone. This is because the majority of people, already sitting in front of their computers talking to other people on an online forum on the internet, find sitting next to another person, whether they are talking on a cellphone or not, annoying. Get over your irrational fear of people talking on cellphones. You are advocating government restrictions on your activities, for no other reason than that you feel it might be uncomfortable. Government restrictions are definitely not a Good Thing (tm). If it turns out to be such a big problem, the airline itself will ban it. I suspect that any airline to do so would realize that it would be shooting itself in the foot, because the customers that drive their business are also those that would prefer to be in constant contact with the ground. Finally, I suspect that the brazilian complaints we will get about the annoying guy with the cellphone in the seat next to them are from people who do not fly more than once a year.
Gmail is a great and useful mail client, but I'm not running up against account limits so much as I am running up against attachment size limits. Email attachments are limited to 10MB, which is far too puny IMO. When I want to send the pictures of my cousin's wedding to him, I would like to be able to set him up with a gmail account, and give him the pass keys. Trying to help my family understand.rar or.torrents is impossible, but they can readily access an email account and get their data.
How about not using automated enforcement because it makes the roads more dangerous? For those too lazy to click, it shows that roads in the UK are actually less safe than they were after the more than 5000 traffic cameras were installed. The injury and death rates both went up! People behave around courts, they do not around cameras. The only thing the cameras were good at, (quite good at actually) was revenue generation. What government of, by, and for the people would want to tax its people at the cost of their lives?
I realize you are probably joking, but my anal retentiveness can't let it slide. Any "wind energy" you could pick up as a result of driving at freeway speed would be in direct trade off to the energy lost due to decreased aerodynamics.
I married a wonderful Deaf lady who is a professor at a public university with a large Deaf program. While I'm hearing, I interact on a daily basis with a large range of hard of hearing individuals. While your experience is largely different from most hard of hearing individuals, there are many programs and technologies out there for you to take advantage of.
Let me preface this by saying that the services are US based, and YMMV greatly in another country with a less established deaf community.
Relay:
In nearly every state in the Union you can dial 711 and reach a relay center. Relay is a free service whereby a hearing operator will make a call for you and type what the person is saying. You need a piece of specialized equipment called a TTY. Since you are a late deafened adult, you probably have excellent speech skills and would prefer using them to typing out what you would like to say. This is called Speech Carry Over, (SCO) and allows you to talk and have the relay operator type back to you what the person is saying. Google "relay services (yourstatehere)" for more information. If you have a computer or internet enabled device available you can make relay calls over the internet for free in the US in 2 separate ways. Point a java-enabled browser at www.ip-relay.com or AIM the buddy "My IP Relay" to get a Relay Operator right away. Of course, these communications will be entirely text based.
QWERTY Cellphones:
By now you've read many comments about T-mobile, and Sidekicks. These devices are not just for Paris Hilton. Nearly every Deaf/HH person under 40 has one, or wants one. T-mobile in the US has several plans geared towards the Deaf/HH including plans that do not include any voicetime at all. My wife and I use T-mobile MDA's which have full featured PDA functionality in addition to a qwerty keyboard and excellent cameraphone. You request a no frills text only cellphone, to which I would point you to a Nokia 68xx series cellphone. The newest of which is the 6822. These phones will do little more than make phone calls and send text/email. These phones are hard to find in stores, but relatively easy to find on ebay, and easy to unlock if they aren't already, so that you can take them to whatever provider will give you the best deal on a grip of texts (usually t-mobile).
You ask for a no frills text-only cellphone, but I would really encourage you to look at the Sidekick. If you feel that you wouldn't use the camera, and of course the mp3 playback would be pointless, the other features are incredibly useful to a hard of hearing individual. The basic deaf sidekick plan from t-mobile is $30 a month, and includes unlimited internet usage. Which allows you to text and aim away as much as you need. This lets you use aforementioned relay services at the drop of a hat so you can call a business or hearing friend whenever you need to. Of course, everyone can text you on your cellphone, but many people are still only available on boring old landlines, especially businesses.
Video Phones:
As a late deafened adult, you are unlikely to embrace the deaf community and learn sign language. However, if you do, video phones are the wave of the future, and are offered free to deaf/hh people in california, and possibly other states. These phones connect over a high speed internet connection and allow you to call any other person with one. They are used primarily for sign language communication between 2 deaf people with the phones, but they also have a relay function which is a quantum leap above tty based relay. Sorenson is one of the main companies that provides these phones, and if you are interested, check them out at www.sorenson.com.
T-coil/loop:
Almost all hearing aids have a loop/t setting that allows them to filter out all background noise and only receive a locally transmitted sound. Many cellphones have the option to be compatible with this, so if actual voice communication over the phone is still possible for you, consult your audiologist, who will have a r
Am I the only one that automatically thinks of DIVX whenever I read about DivX the codec? I'm so glad that the open source one is Xvid. That helps me keep it straight. I guess Circuit City scarred me for life with their draconian format.
Yeesh! For most routers, you administer them by pointing your browser to the router's IP address. Get your computer's IP address, default on a linksys would be something like 192.168.0.xxx so try pointing your browser at 192.168.0.1. Sounds like you've never done this before, so the password has probably never been set. Default on linksys should be l:admin and leave the password field blank. That should get you into your router's setup system. From there it's all pretty point and click GUI goodness. On my older linksys if you click on the "Wireless" tab, it defaults to the "basic settings" submenu. You can change the wireless channel here. You will have to decide upon your own security settings, but I recommend at the least changing the password for your router setup so that someone else can't easily lock you out of your own router. On my linksys it's on the "Administration" tab, and the "Management" submenu. Put something, anything, in the router password field.
Good luck. email me at flerchin (a) gmail.com if you have more questions, or just post questions here cuz I'm sure the community knows that answer.
re: your () question. It may have been dishonorable. When the allies actually invaded germany, and/or firebombed dresden... I would think it would have been wrong to not defend eastern germany against the russians. If the soldier gave his word to stay in the army, he should honor his word. Of course, he also gave his word not to follow illegal orders, like slaughtering jews.
I have a tivo, don't mind the cost even though i'm quite poor. I _assume_ he means that the tivo will still do all of the functions that you specify without connecting to, or paying for, the service. It won't get the program guide, and you lose the idiot proof scheduling, but you specifically said you don't need that. You can schedule your own time based recordings, and quite easily. If you ever change your mind and decide you want the paid for service that many tivo users love, you could always decide to start paying for it then, and then cancel again if you decide you don't want it. The service is not mandatory, it just gives the box features that you apparently don't need.
With a deaf wife who loves video games (hot too, aren't you all jealous!), I am acutely aware of how many modern video games do not have subtitles for the cutscenes and/or audio instructions. It just irks me to no end, since I know that at some point in the development cycle, the voiceovers were not completed and in their stead was text. So since approximately 5% of the US population suffers some form of significant hearing loss, the IT community can best reach out to the largest disabled community by ensuring a subtitle option for ALL video games. Not some video games (as it is now), not most, but ALL.
Text messaging, not just for idiots! Here's how and why i use it.
T-mobile has (had?) a plan with unlimited text messages for only $9.99 a month. I bought a nokia 6820 from at&t at full price ($400!) and unlocked it to bring it over to t-mobile because I text so much. I sent over 5000 text messages last month, which would have been nearly $500 with any other carrier i can find. Now verizon has got $5 text and picture messaging to other verizon customers, which is almost as good, except that i don't know anyone on verizon...
Why do I text so much you ask? My wife is deaf and making a phone call to her is pretty useless. She's got a Sidekick II, but I hate how big that thing is. I text AIM, Google, my boss (so i don't have to actually talk to him)... I'm also sure I could beat the morse code dude with my full keyboard. Though I'm not sure about the transmission speed depending on distance and what not.
Indeed, they don't know where the criminals live. However, they do know where people live who probably know how to get in touch with the criminal, but are unwilling to help the police do so. They send a "You've won a free vacation!!!" flier to the criminal's mom, and she gives said criminal the flier. Yadda yadda yaddaa...
I've seen a couple people mention this and, at least at the post office in fresno, california, it's not true. I bought a certified letter yesterday with my credit card which has 'ask for ID' on it. They swiped my card, asked for my id, then noticed that my card has 'ask for id' on the signature panel, and then completed the transaction. I'm almost always cashless (since I love to rack up those frequent flyer miles), and I've never, ever, not even once, had my 'ask for id' card rejected, not in europe, asia, best buy, or the post office.
While it is not a physical good, you obviously stole from him, because he no longer has his 1k widgets/dollars/pesos/etc. If you instead simply added 1k to your account and left his account alone, you certainly didn't steal from him. You did counterfeit money, which is what the whole FA is about, counterfeit goods.
I just watched the price go from $7300 with 3 min 47 seconds left, to $11500 at the auction end. I really have a penchant for my old video games, but half the joy is that they're my old video games and all the damage and general scumminess brings fond reminiscings.
What I just don't get is why they are bleeding money? Since they don't actually make or sell the recorders it seems to me that the only thing the tivo company is responsible for is collating the tv guide data, making bux fixes, and distributing said data and bug fixes. I fail to see how $10/month from each and every customer doesn't already pay for those services. They should already have a viable and profitable business based on what they have. Forget growth! What they have now should be quite the lucrative business. Let's do the math $10/month times 200k plus subscribers is $2 million a month. Argh, I realize the parent of this post doesn't have the answer to my question, but i sure wish someone did!
P.S. I am a tivo subscriber and user, and yes it's only $3 more per month, but that's my money!
I'll create a new product called RAD-DSL, you can find information about it at our "corporate" geocities website, most of the content I'll copy from @home or something similar. I'll have a form for ppl to send me $100 (the actual amount doesn't matter) for their new RAD-DSL FM radio via credit card. (Trust us, anywhere you can get FM radio reception, you can get our "service") I'd only need about 1,000 customers with $1k credit limits to rip-off a cool million. Then, off to the carribean for me!
Aye lad, we cannae always back down from a fight, especially when they're killing our women and bairns. But they dinnae have to punch you back to win. If enough of them want peace, they can just sit on you until you have nae more punches in you.
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I assume you do not look at the French, or the British, and think, "OMG, those nuts could nuke us at any time!" Indeed, the South Koreans are more concerned about the total annihilation of Seoul via conventional artillery bombardment that Kim Jong Il could unleash any time he gets more cranky than usual. The fact is that unstable dictatorships, and whatever weapons they have, is the rational first concern of most Democracies.
It has occurred to me recently (and probably to many others before this), that if your job can successfully be performed via telecommute, it can probably successfully be performed in India. Granted, this is not the entire set of telecommuting jobs, but a large portion of them. To that end I have always avoided job opportunities that included a telecommuting option, and instead focused on job opportunities closer to home in the first place.
I suspect the majority of comments will be whiners about how annoying it is to sit next to a person talking on a cellphone. This is because the majority of people, already sitting in front of their computers talking to other people on an online forum on the internet, find sitting next to another person, whether they are talking on a cellphone or not, annoying. Get over your irrational fear of people talking on cellphones. You are advocating government restrictions on your activities, for no other reason than that you feel it might be uncomfortable. Government restrictions are definitely not a Good Thing (tm). If it turns out to be such a big problem, the airline itself will ban it. I suspect that any airline to do so would realize that it would be shooting itself in the foot, because the customers that drive their business are also those that would prefer to be in constant contact with the ground. Finally, I suspect that the brazilian complaints we will get about the annoying guy with the cellphone in the seat next to them are from people who do not fly more than once a year.
Just my suspicions....
Gmail is a great and useful mail client, but I'm not running up against account limits so much as I am running up against attachment size limits. Email attachments are limited to 10MB, which is far too puny IMO. When I want to send the pictures of my cousin's wedding to him, I would like to be able to set him up with a gmail account, and give him the pass keys. Trying to help my family understand .rar or .torrents is impossible, but they can readily access an email account and get their data.
Good writing. As an Objectivist, I found it both spot on, and irrefutable. I still had fun playing the game though.
Didn't it? When was the last time tobacco peddlers had a shootout in your local "inner-city"?
How about not using automated enforcement because it makes the roads more dangerous? For those too lazy to click, it shows that roads in the UK are actually less safe than they were after the more than 5000 traffic cameras were installed. The injury and death rates both went up! People behave around courts, they do not around cameras. The only thing the cameras were good at, (quite good at actually) was revenue generation. What government of, by, and for the people would want to tax its people at the cost of their lives?
I realize you are probably joking, but my anal retentiveness can't let it slide. Any "wind energy" you could pick up as a result of driving at freeway speed would be in direct trade off to the energy lost due to decreased aerodynamics.
I married a wonderful Deaf lady who is a professor at a public university with a large Deaf program. While I'm hearing, I interact on a daily basis with a large range of hard of hearing individuals. While your experience is largely different from most hard of hearing individuals, there are many programs and technologies out there for you to take advantage of.
Let me preface this by saying that the services are US based, and YMMV greatly in another country with a less established deaf community.
Relay:
In nearly every state in the Union you can dial 711 and reach a relay center. Relay is a free service whereby a hearing operator will make a call for you and type what the person is saying. You need a piece of specialized equipment called a TTY. Since you are a late deafened adult, you probably have excellent speech skills and would prefer using them to typing out what you would like to say. This is called Speech Carry Over, (SCO) and allows you to talk and have the relay operator type back to you what the person is saying. Google "relay services (yourstatehere)" for more information. If you have a computer or internet enabled device available you can make relay calls over the internet for free in the US in 2 separate ways. Point a java-enabled browser at www.ip-relay.com or AIM the buddy "My IP Relay" to get a Relay Operator right away. Of course, these communications will be entirely text based.
QWERTY Cellphones:
By now you've read many comments about T-mobile, and Sidekicks. These devices are not just for Paris Hilton. Nearly every Deaf/HH person under 40 has one, or wants one. T-mobile in the US has several plans geared towards the Deaf/HH including plans that do not include any voicetime at all. My wife and I use T-mobile MDA's which have full featured PDA functionality in addition to a qwerty keyboard and excellent cameraphone. You request a no frills text only cellphone, to which I would point you to a Nokia 68xx series cellphone. The newest of which is the 6822. These phones will do little more than make phone calls and send text/email. These phones are hard to find in stores, but relatively easy to find on ebay, and easy to unlock if they aren't already, so that you can take them to whatever provider will give you the best deal on a grip of texts (usually t-mobile).
You ask for a no frills text-only cellphone, but I would really encourage you to look at the Sidekick. If you feel that you wouldn't use the camera, and of course the mp3 playback would be pointless, the other features are incredibly useful to a hard of hearing individual. The basic deaf sidekick plan from t-mobile is $30 a month, and includes unlimited internet usage. Which allows you to text and aim away as much as you need. This lets you use aforementioned relay services at the drop of a hat so you can call a business or hearing friend whenever you need to. Of course, everyone can text you on your cellphone, but many people are still only available on boring old landlines, especially businesses.
Video Phones:
As a late deafened adult, you are unlikely to embrace the deaf community and learn sign language. However, if you do, video phones are the wave of the future, and are offered free to deaf/hh people in california, and possibly other states. These phones connect over a high speed internet connection and allow you to call any other person with one. They are used primarily for sign language communication between 2 deaf people with the phones, but they also have a relay function which is a quantum leap above tty based relay. Sorenson is one of the main companies that provides these phones, and if you are interested, check them out at www.sorenson.com.
T-coil/loop:
Almost all hearing aids have a loop/t setting that allows them to filter out all background noise and only receive a locally transmitted sound. Many cellphones have the option to be compatible with this, so if actual voice communication over the phone is still possible for you, consult your audiologist, who will have a r
Am I the only one that automatically thinks of DIVX whenever I read about DivX the codec? I'm so glad that the open source one is Xvid. That helps me keep it straight. I guess Circuit City scarred me for life with their draconian format.
Yeesh! For most routers, you administer them by pointing your browser to the router's IP address. Get your computer's IP address, default on a linksys would be something like 192.168.0.xxx so try pointing your browser at 192.168.0.1. Sounds like you've never done this before, so the password has probably never been set. Default on linksys should be l:admin and leave the password field blank. That should get you into your router's setup system. From there it's all pretty point and click GUI goodness. On my older linksys if you click on the "Wireless" tab, it defaults to the "basic settings" submenu. You can change the wireless channel here. You will have to decide upon your own security settings, but I recommend at the least changing the password for your router setup so that someone else can't easily lock you out of your own router. On my linksys it's on the "Administration" tab, and the "Management" submenu. Put something, anything, in the router password field.
Good luck. email me at flerchin (a) gmail.com if you have more questions, or just post questions here cuz I'm sure the community knows that answer.
I'd probably laugh.
re: your () question. It may have been dishonorable. When the allies actually invaded germany, and/or firebombed dresden... I would think it would have been wrong to not defend eastern germany against the russians. If the soldier gave his word to stay in the army, he should honor his word. Of course, he also gave his word not to follow illegal orders, like slaughtering jews.
Dude! Low UID! heh.
I have a tivo, don't mind the cost even though i'm quite poor. I _assume_ he means that the tivo will still do all of the functions that you specify without connecting to, or paying for, the service. It won't get the program guide, and you lose the idiot proof scheduling, but you specifically said you don't need that. You can schedule your own time based recordings, and quite easily. If you ever change your mind and decide you want the paid for service that many tivo users love, you could always decide to start paying for it then, and then cancel again if you decide you don't want it. The service is not mandatory, it just gives the box features that you apparently don't need.
With a deaf wife who loves video games (hot too, aren't you all jealous!), I am acutely aware of how many modern video games do not have subtitles for the cutscenes and/or audio instructions. It just irks me to no end, since I know that at some point in the development cycle, the voiceovers were not completed and in their stead was text. So since approximately 5% of the US population suffers some form of significant hearing loss, the IT community can best reach out to the largest disabled community by ensuring a subtitle option for ALL video games. Not some video games (as it is now), not most, but ALL.
Text messaging, not just for idiots! Here's how and why i use it.
T-mobile has (had?) a plan with unlimited text messages for only $9.99 a month. I bought a nokia 6820 from at&t at full price ($400!) and unlocked it to bring it over to t-mobile because I text so much. I sent over 5000 text messages last month, which would have been nearly $500 with any other carrier i can find. Now verizon has got $5 text and picture messaging to other verizon customers, which is almost as good, except that i don't know anyone on verizon...
Why do I text so much you ask? My wife is deaf and making a phone call to her is pretty useless. She's got a Sidekick II, but I hate how big that thing is. I text AIM, Google, my boss (so i don't have to actually talk to him)... I'm also sure I could beat the morse code dude with my full keyboard. Though I'm not sure about the transmission speed depending on distance and what not.
Indeed, they don't know where the criminals live. However, they do know where people live who probably know how to get in touch with the criminal, but are unwilling to help the police do so. They send a "You've won a free vacation!!!" flier to the criminal's mom, and she gives said criminal the flier. Yadda yadda yaddaa...
I've seen a couple people mention this and, at least at the post office in fresno, california, it's not true. I bought a certified letter yesterday with my credit card which has 'ask for ID' on it. They swiped my card, asked for my id, then noticed that my card has 'ask for id' on the signature panel, and then completed the transaction. I'm almost always cashless (since I love to rack up those frequent flyer miles), and I've never, ever, not even once, had my 'ask for id' card rejected, not in europe, asia, best buy, or the post office.
While it is not a physical good, you obviously stole from him, because he no longer has his 1k widgets/dollars/pesos/etc. If you instead simply added 1k to your account and left his account alone, you certainly didn't steal from him. You did counterfeit money, which is what the whole FA is about, counterfeit goods.
I just watched the price go from $7300 with 3 min 47 seconds left, to $11500 at the auction end. I really have a penchant for my old video games, but half the joy is that they're my old video games and all the damage and general scumminess brings fond reminiscings.
What I just don't get is why they are bleeding money? Since they don't actually make or sell the recorders it seems to me that the only thing the tivo company is responsible for is collating the tv guide data, making bux fixes, and distributing said data and bug fixes. I fail to see how $10/month from each and every customer doesn't already pay for those services. They should already have a viable and profitable business based on what they have. Forget growth! What they have now should be quite the lucrative business. Let's do the math $10/month times 200k plus subscribers is $2 million a month. Argh, I realize the parent of this post doesn't have the answer to my question, but i sure wish someone did!
P.S. I am a tivo subscriber and user, and yes it's only $3 more per month, but that's my money!
I'll create a new product called RAD-DSL, you can find information about it at our "corporate" geocities website, most of the content I'll copy from @home or something similar. I'll have a form for ppl to send me $100 (the actual amount doesn't matter) for their new RAD-DSL FM radio via credit card. (Trust us, anywhere you can get FM radio reception, you can get our "service") I'd only need about 1,000 customers with $1k credit limits to rip-off a cool million. Then, off to the carribean for me!
Holy mother of god, what is this about?!!
Just reading the question makes me want to cry in my proverbial beer. In fact I think I need to go get a drink, just to lessen the pain.
In summary: HUH?
Aye lad, we cannae always back down from a fight, especially when they're killing our women and bairns. But they dinnae have to punch you back to win. If enough of them want peace, they can just sit on you until you have nae more punches in you.