I agree with the poster upthread that JAWS is powerful (and Kurzweil has been a standard for years), but in my experience it is also pretty complicated for a novice user.
Have a look at what the Trace R&D Center has to offer on the topic. In addition to developing accessibility standards and technology, they are an amazing resource for information on AT in general. They used to have a very good "information and referral" service, though I'm not sure if that's part of their mission now.
If you live in the upper midwest and feel like shelling out a few bucks to have your mind blown by current trends in AT, make a point of attending the Closing the Gap conference in Minneapolis next October.
Probably this is more information than you were looking for, but it does make for interesting reading!
I'm curious, why no mention _at_all_ of uscellular? Are they like the aol of phone companies?
They were the only provider available in my neck of the woods when I first signed up several years ago. The price is reasonable, coverage is pretty good (I have the unlimited roaming though, so I don't pay much attention), and they offer a blackberry if that's what you like.
You will be walking some night in the comfortable dark of your yard and suddenly a great light will shine round about you, and behind you will be a wall you never saw before. It will be clear to you suddenly that you were about to escape, and that you are guilty: you misread the complex instructions, you are not a member, you lost your card or never had one. And you will know that they have been there all along, their eyes on your letters and books, their hands in your pockets, their ears wired to your bed. Though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed. They will want you to kneel and weep and say you should have been like them. And once you say you are ashamed, reading the page they hold out to you, then such light as you have made in your history will leave you. They will no longer need to pursue you. You will pursue them, begging forgiveness. They will not forgive you. There is no power against them. It is only candor that is aloof from them, only an inward clarity, unashamed, that they cannot reach. Be ready. When their light has picked you out and their questions are asked, say to them: "I am not ashamed." A sure horizon will come around you. The heron will begin his evening flight from the hilltop.
I suppose I posted my own digression; I'm more concerned with how many other countries besides the US do this than specific countermeasures users can take.
Is it just the US and Canada? Should we be concerned that this is becoming a global issue? What has your experience been?
And besides, though I'm sure it's a great product, you TrueCrypt people are starting to remind me of the Ron Paul spammers.
Last year while I was crossing at Sault Ste Marie the Canadian border patrol (whatever the agency is called) flipped through my journal, and then asked me to log into my laptop. They had me stand well out of visual range while they went through it. It was totally unexpected by me, and it left me feeling violated and angry.
I checked my logs for USB activity during that time and there was none, fortunately. Actually a history of their session showed Gnome help had been accessed before they apparently gave up.
Since, I've configured my desktop to prompt for both username and password. I have two logins: will and william (not their real names). will is my actual account, while william is essentially empty. From the "asked me to show a recent document" in TFA, I guess now I should have a little sample data to make it somewhat convincing.
A small consolation for us lucky Wisconsin residents: starting this fall, a state-wide 'no call' list will be available. This means that I can sign up (for free) and be on a list sent to any telemarketers operating in this state. If they call anyone on that list (and get reported) they get a very large fine. And you can bet that the people who take the trouble to sign up for no-call will raise a hue and cry if any telemarketers break that rule.
No matter what satalite phone/ip phone/ CB->telephone transfer you use... you're still CONNECTING with someone whose telephone data is non private. This means that even _you_, mr off-the-grid, are having (at least part of) your telephone history sold to the highest bidder.
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I was looking for something to enable me to rip from audio cassette (dialog/speech only) to wav and then mp3/ogg. Audacity was the only (or best) product I found that allowed me to visually see the tracks so I could splice and dice the two sides of the tape together, remove the pops, and so on.
I downloaded audicity for a quick look, to compare with my preffered audio recording software, snd. I found that audacity's recording interface is just a little too basic, lacking snd's analog-style vu meters with peak- and mean-level displays. The advanced features of Audacity, however (envelope, effects, multiple track editing, etc) were a lot simpler to use than corresponding features (where they exist) in snd.
Summary: for recording backups of your LP's, use snd. Then edit tracks with Audacity.
while aptitude is somewhat better laid out that dselect, I would hardly call it user-friendly. The curses based menus do, however, provide for a certain amound of nostalgia
Of course, it also gives me a non-obvious way to play mine-sweeper right under the nose of my manager.
From a post further down in the discussion, we are told that Mozilla does this as well. However, I can find no mention of browser.tracking.enabled in prefs.js. Have you (or anyone) a clue on what the Mozilla equivalent is?
I don't think it's ever going to be possible to prevent copying anyways- that's not even legal under fair use! (as I understand it)
At the risk of being moderated redundant, fair use gives you the right to make a copy under certain circumstances. It does not mean that content distributors have to provide the means to allow you to do it. In fact, they can quite legally make it technically challenging for you to do so.
if it works well enough that people take it for whatever it is, disregarding the OS it's running.
This poster has a really good point -- usability is what really counts to the consumer. Does your mom really care what processor her cell phone uses? Does she care it can run Java? No. She cares that she can afford it, and it does what she requires. Therefore it is a successful product.
Now, please mod the parent as insightful or something.
I have no problems with them taping me walking home but if they want to see inside my house or tape what I say to friends then that's a different matter
If they are taping you walking home, then they are also presumably taping all your friends and associates who visit your home. How does that make you feel?
You could probably play the entire song by pressing two keys at once, per note. When you do this, on most phones you get only one component of the two-tone dial signal or whatever it's called.
Unfortunately, I can't give you the grid of note/key-combo values, since the digital phones here at work just make a little 'chik!' sound when I press a key.
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I agree with the poster upthread that JAWS is powerful (and Kurzweil has been a standard for years), but in my experience it is also pretty complicated for a novice user.
Have a look at what the Trace R&D Center has to offer on the topic. In addition to developing accessibility standards and technology, they are an amazing resource for information on AT in general. They used to have a very good "information and referral" service, though I'm not sure if that's part of their mission now.
A couple of other good resource are ABLEDATA assistive tech database, and assistivetech.net.
If you live in the upper midwest and feel like shelling out a few bucks to have your mind blown by current trends in AT, make a point of attending the Closing the Gap conference in Minneapolis next October.
Probably this is more information than you were looking for, but it does make for interesting reading!
hth
I'm curious, why no mention _at_all_ of uscellular? Are they like the aol of phone companies?
They were the only provider available in my neck of the woods when I first signed up several years ago. The price is reasonable, coverage is pretty good (I have the unlimited roaming though, so I don't pay much attention), and they offer a blackberry if that's what you like.
"DO NOT BE ASHAMED"
by Wendell Berry
You will be walking some night
in the comfortable dark of your yard
and suddenly a great light will shine
round about you, and behind you
will be a wall you never saw before.
It will be clear to you suddenly
that you were about to escape,
and that you are guilty: you misread
the complex instructions, you are not
a member, you lost your card
or never had one. And you will know
that they have been there all along,
their eyes on your letters and books,
their hands in your pockets,
their ears wired to your bed.
Though you have done nothing shameful,
they will want you to be ashamed.
They will want you to kneel and weep
and say you should have been like them.
And once you say you are ashamed,
reading the page they hold out to you,
then such light as you have made
in your history will leave you.
They will no longer need to pursue you.
You will pursue them, begging forgiveness.
They will not forgive you.
There is no power against them.
It is only candor that is aloof from them,
only an inward clarity, unashamed,
that they cannot reach. Be ready.
When their light has picked you out
and their questions are asked, say to them:
"I am not ashamed." A sure horizon
will come around you. The heron will begin
his evening flight from the hilltop.
I suppose I posted my own digression; I'm more concerned with how many other countries besides the US do this than specific countermeasures users can take.
Is it just the US and Canada? Should we be concerned that this is becoming a global issue? What has your experience been?
And besides, though I'm sure it's a great product, you TrueCrypt people are starting to remind me of the Ron Paul spammers.
Actually, Canada does this, too.
Last year while I was crossing at Sault Ste Marie the Canadian border patrol (whatever the agency is called) flipped through my journal, and then asked me to log into my laptop. They had me stand well out of visual range while they went through it. It was totally unexpected by me, and it left me feeling violated and angry.
I checked my logs for USB activity during that time and there was none, fortunately. Actually a history of their session showed Gnome help had been accessed before they apparently gave up.
Since, I've configured my desktop to prompt for both username and password. I have two logins: will and william (not their real names). will is my actual account, while william is essentially empty. From the "asked me to show a recent document" in TFA, I guess now I should have a little sample data to make it somewhat convincing.
Man my 'advanced graphics algorithm' basically stops at 'thou shalt not blink' -- and I forget how I even did that.
400 poke(32768 + pos +1, 219)
410 poke(32768 + pos, 32)
or something like that.
(now I'm all grown up and all I do is database and web app stuff)
This must be why my (work) computer now starts up with "java.exe has caused an error and will be closed."
the car that they ultimated ran worked fine..
This thing isn't a freaking car, man -- it's a freaking cruise missile!
How could I not post this -- it's been my sig for a year or more: (see sig)
The image behind you is rendered in 2-d, which means that this only works if the onlooker has one eye closed (or is blind in one eye).
Actually, it's not just per server -- it's per cpu which can get expensive in a hurry if your loadballancing accross a couple 4-cpu sun boxes.
A small consolation for us lucky Wisconsin residents: starting this fall, a state-wide 'no call' list will be available. This means that I can sign up (for free) and be on a list sent to any telemarketers operating in this state. If they call anyone on that list (and get reported) they get a very large fine. And you can bet that the people who take the trouble to sign up for no-call will raise a hue and cry if any telemarketers break that rule.
No matter what satalite phone/ip phone/ CB->telephone transfer you use... you're still CONNECTING with someone whose telephone data is non private. This means that even _you_, mr off-the-grid, are having (at least part of) your telephone history sold to the highest bidder.
MS declares victory... and retreats?
This could be good news for Linux! ;*)
I downloaded audicity for a quick look, to compare with my preffered audio recording software, snd. I found that audacity's recording interface is just a little too basic, lacking snd's analog-style vu meters with peak- and mean-level displays. The advanced features of Audacity, however (envelope, effects, multiple track editing, etc) were a lot simpler to use than corresponding features (where they exist) in snd.
Summary: for recording backups of your LP's, use snd. Then edit tracks with Audacity.
Of course, it also gives me a non-obvious way to play mine-sweeper right under the nose of my manager.
From a post further down in the discussion, we are told that Mozilla does this as well. However, I can find no mention of browser.tracking.enabled in prefs.js. Have you (or anyone) a clue on what the Mozilla equivalent is?
Typical.
I'm running the 'testing' disro, and it only shows version 2.3.1-14. How long before we can see 3.0 in Testing?
At the risk of being moderated redundant, fair use gives you the right to make a copy under certain circumstances. It does not mean that content distributors have to provide the means to allow you to do it. In fact, they can quite legally make it technically challenging for you to do so.
This is great! Too bad, though, it will not make much difference to me out in the sticks with my 56k dialup.
You gotta be kidding. Isn't this one of the key components of what make Linux a force in the commercial enterprise environment?
This poster has a really good point -- usability is what really counts to the consumer. Does your mom really care what processor her cell phone uses? Does she care it can run Java? No. She cares that she can afford it, and it does what she requires. Therefore it is a successful product.
Now, please mod the parent as insightful or something.
If they are taping you walking home, then they are also presumably taping all your friends and associates who visit your home. How does that make you feel?
Unfortunately, I can't give you the grid of note/key-combo values, since the digital phones here at work just make a little 'chik!' sound when I press a key.