What about the elderly
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America still has a rather large problem with people over 50 being technilogicaly illiterate. With the brief work I've had showing computers to the elderly, a entirely electronic system is a great way to keep track of the ballots, but it isolates part of the population...
Time to imagine a short scenario, imagine you've just turned 71, the 20XX elections have rolled around. They're asking you to vote on that toy that your grandson plays with, the one with all the keys, and the lights. This doesn't seem to good, I mean what if you break it, they're worth alot of money right? And don't people say they're hard to learn, when the people that say its easy never teach. Ah! wait, they say its only a touch screen, with very large buttons (this one goes one of two ways normaly, in my limited experience) (Way one)Well, I don't know, the buttons are easy for me to see and all that, but I don't know if I can use this touch-screen... it has to be more complicated than this, I'll go home, read up on it a bit, and wait until the next local election to practice. Then next presidential election I can do it.(Note:this pattern of thoughts never gets broken without some help on the part of other, help most of these poor souls never recieve), (Way two) So, the buttons are big enough for my bad eyes, the layout is simple enough for my feeble comprehension, its no a ballot, its a large joke to insult my intelligence.
Answer one simple question to yourself when you debate technilogical advances that border on rewriting a part of american living, is it simple and non-frightening enough for everyone, yet not dumbed down to the point of being insulting.
Dear starwars obsessive lego artists
May I please take the time to point out on your work that the George Lucas, horendously bombing, teddy bear merchandise race more commonly know as ewoks, should be portrayed in a somewhat different light that to place micky mouse ears on the head of a standard sized lego figure.
I would suggest removing the legs, for not only will it promote a more realistic size ratio, but being the standard evil overlords the empire is, it makes them a easier target to hit, and may give a few of their troops the ability to aim within at least ten feet of a 'main' character.
My second suggestion would be in the form of changing the 'ears' to anything other than a headdress that makes me think their about to break out into a round of "M-I-C-K-E-Y...".
It has come to the point of artistic genius in the field of legos is only understood by the true artist.
Forget the minmalist, and forget the keyboard, lets just make numerous controlers that are rectangular, and carry every key a "keyboard" has, that way we never run out of buttons, hell... with a little but of work this new gaming controller can be used for things such as, code, typing long and excrutiating documents that before only a keyboard could do, and if all else fails, it can be used to write depresingly bad haikus.
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America still has a rather large problem with people over 50 being technilogicaly illiterate. With the brief work I've had showing computers to the elderly, a entirely electronic system is a great way to keep track of the ballots, but it isolates part of the population...
Time to imagine a short scenario, imagine you've just turned 71, the 20XX elections have rolled around. They're asking you to vote on that toy that your grandson plays with, the one with all the keys, and the lights. This doesn't seem to good, I mean what if you break it, they're worth alot of money right? And don't people say they're hard to learn, when the people that say its easy never teach. Ah! wait, they say its only a touch screen, with very large buttons (this one goes one of two ways normaly, in my limited experience) (Way one)Well, I don't know, the buttons are easy for me to see and all that, but I don't know if I can use this touch-screen... it has to be more complicated than this, I'll go home, read up on it a bit, and wait until the next local election to practice. Then next presidential election I can do it.(Note:this pattern of thoughts never gets broken without some help on the part of other, help most of these poor souls never recieve), (Way two) So, the buttons are big enough for my bad eyes, the layout is simple enough for my feeble comprehension, its no a ballot, its a large joke to insult my intelligence.
Answer one simple question to yourself when you debate technilogical advances that border on rewriting a part of american living, is it simple and non-frightening enough for everyone, yet not dumbed down to the point of being insulting.
Dear starwars obsessive lego artists May I please take the time to point out on your work that the George Lucas, horendously bombing, teddy bear merchandise race more commonly know as ewoks, should be portrayed in a somewhat different light that to place micky mouse ears on the head of a standard sized lego figure. I would suggest removing the legs, for not only will it promote a more realistic size ratio, but being the standard evil overlords the empire is, it makes them a easier target to hit, and may give a few of their troops the ability to aim within at least ten feet of a 'main' character. My second suggestion would be in the form of changing the 'ears' to anything other than a headdress that makes me think their about to break out into a round of "M-I-C-K-E-Y...". It has come to the point of artistic genius in the field of legos is only understood by the true artist.
Forget the minmalist, and forget the keyboard, lets just make numerous controlers that are rectangular, and carry every key a "keyboard" has, that way we never run out of buttons, hell... with a little but of work this new gaming controller can be used for things such as, code, typing long and excrutiating documents that before only a keyboard could do, and if all else fails, it can be used to write depresingly bad haikus.