Try tape autoloaders using Sony's rather expensive AIT-2 format: 50GB (uncompressed) raw capacity per tape. Small format, so a smaller capacity autoloader cartridge can be easily couriered off-site.
Some AIT-2 library links for more info:
Sony's autoloaders (4 tapes per cartridge, 1 drive).
Tapelibrary.com's offerings (12 to 360 tape libraries, up to 12 drives).
Of course, for true storage freaks in all formats, nothing can beat ADIC libraries, and while their higher capacity AIT libraries (up to 46,656 tapes, 256 drives) are not exactly portable, they do have more reasonably sized machines as well (11 tapes, up to 2 drives).
Anyway, the point is that solutions do exist for those people worrying about the expanding MP3 collections on their drives and all that money in their bank accounts...
There is always a large gap between using formal communication skills in another language developed through academic courses, listening to the radio/TV, reading, etc. , and suddenly being thrown into the situation of having to use the informal, idiomatic everyday language.
I can only suggest to grab every chance to speak, stutter, and be corrected by native speakers; both you and they will need patience and persistence, but learning to communicate in the language idiomatically will be worth it.
You might also take a look at John Walker's language learning resources which has a lot of useful material, especially for anglophones learning French.
IBM's Trackpoint researchers have implemented a dual Trackpoint keyboard. See
Two-handed Keyboard
for a brief description, rationale, and further links.
I recall seeing a few years ago (on IBM's Alphworks site??) the "TechExplorer" browser plugin, which accepts and displays a large subset of Latex macros.
But remember the old mantra: HTML as an SGML application marks structure not appearance. Granted, it allows only a relatively small set of content elements (e.g. headings, text, multimedia, etc.)--that's why there is all the brouhaha around XML (and its derivatives) as a more flexible, extensible markup for applications where the full generality of SGML's structure definition is not needed.
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Try tape autoloaders using Sony's rather expensive AIT-2 format: 50GB (uncompressed) raw capacity per tape. Small format, so a smaller capacity autoloader cartridge can be easily couriered off-site.
Some AIT-2 library links for more info:
Anyway, the point is that solutions do exist for those people worrying about the expanding MP3 collections on their drives and all that money in their bank accounts...
There is always a large gap between using formal communication skills in another language developed through academic courses, listening to the radio/TV, reading, etc. , and suddenly being thrown into the situation of having to use the informal, idiomatic everyday language.
I can only suggest to grab every chance to speak, stutter, and be corrected by native speakers; both you and they will need patience and persistence, but learning to communicate in the language idiomatically will be worth it.
You might also take a look at John Walker's language learning resources which has a lot of useful material, especially for anglophones learning French.
IBM's Trackpoint researchers have implemented a dual Trackpoint keyboard. See Two-handed Keyboard for a brief description, rationale, and further links.
I recall seeing a few years ago (on IBM's Alphworks site??) the "TechExplorer" browser plugin, which accepts and displays a large subset of Latex macros. But remember the old mantra: HTML as an SGML application marks structure not appearance. Granted, it allows only a relatively small set of content elements (e.g. headings, text, multimedia, etc.)--that's why there is all the brouhaha around XML (and its derivatives) as a more flexible, extensible markup for applications where the full generality of SGML's structure definition is not needed.