I can just see the Perl monks coming by, in full regalia, smacking their heads on O'Reilly books and singing that stupid chant from Monty Python, now that this has been answered.
Probably you would be run over and beaten afterwards by people who would complain, that the switch doesn't work. If the switch worked, they would complain too (about lax security measures) if they still could
So, you mean you'd hear complaints from slashdotters?/me ducks.
Actually, Oklahoma (as an example in this case) has its own Educational Internet Group, called OneNet, which is designed to provide Internet connectivity to not just Post-secondary, but also the 500 some odd K12 school districts in our state.
The two major Universities use most of OneNet though (which is connected to Sprint to the rest of the world). My particular University, with 24,000 students, has a Gig Link to the OneNet core in Oklahoma City. We have dual OC-12s to Internet 2 in Abilene.
Time to plan my ski trip to hell./me begins checking the book of Revelations for other signs of the Apocolypse.
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Having tried to find Assistive Technology products in the past for people, to meet specific needs, this really gets my hopes up in two seperate ways:
1. Someone saw a specific need and developed an application around it. As he said in the text, the closest application available would not suffice. 2. Too many Assistive Technology products are horrendously expensive. JAWS, the de facto screen reader for Windows, can be $1500 for an individual user for one computer only. There are discounts, grants, and loans available out there for Assistive Technology, but they can be hard to get.
The only other fully featured screen reader that I've been able to find is emacspeak, but there's little out there in full screen navigation screen readers for Windows, Macintosh, etc. (in terms of Free).
That's nothing. We had a blind comedian come to our school recently. He told us about the drive up from the airport (about 60 miles away).
Of course, you know those bumps on the side of the road? Those aren't things to wake up sleepy drivers. They're Braille dots for blind drivers. He told us how he got pulled over by the Highway Patrol for going 85 MPH in a 70 zone. He told the officer he was speed reading.
It is apparently a huge social taboo in the deaf culture to do anything to try and cure your deafness.
I've heard of this, but I've never met anyone who has tried to "repair" hearing damage get this kind of treatment (perhaps because those that have tried have not been Deaf/Hard of Hearing for their entire life or a great part of it). I've also heard of such attitudes occuring in the other disability communities as well.
I believe this negative attitude towards those that attempt to repair/replace their disabilities through such means stems from two different reasons:
1. The likelihood that the procedure will fail, make the problem worse, or, in the case of the article above, subject the person to "re-learning how to live". They have lived a great deal of their life with this disability, and it has not hindered them at all, merely given them an alternate view of the world. To change this view, forces the person to change the way they do even simple matters, and can disrupt everything they do.
2. The disabled community is very tight-knit. They have had to be in past, and many I know have called the last 15 to 20 years the Civil Rights movement for disabilities. Some of these people, can be a little extreme, granted. As I said in my previous post, most of the people in the disabled community don't consider themselves disabled, merely requiring alternate and equal access. When one of the members of their community attempts to remove their disability through surgery or other invasive medical means, it is as though that person is admitting defeat and admitting that they have a severe, crippling debilitation. An example, going back to the Civil Rights Movement analogy, would be a prominent African American pop-star taking on a progressively paler complexion to his skin over a few years (I won't name any names, but his initials are Michael Jackson).
I would like to point out, that this is not my view, personally, but I'm sure I'll get flamed to hell for it. I understand where the community is coming from, and why they think the way they do. But I sure don't agree with it personally. I feel that if someone wishes to overcome their disability through such a means, then that is their wish, and it is their body to change as they please. If someone else doesn't agree to it, then they have a Constitutional right to that opinion.
Ironically, being able to see again has meant Mr May has had to re-learn some activities, such as skiing or crossing the road, where he had become proficient when blind."
Interestingly, most blind people don't really consider blindness a "disability" per se, but simply a challengee to get used to. I've met countless people with various types of disabilities that really don't count them as "disabilities". For instance, I've spoken with the Deaf/Hard of Hearing who don't consider themselves "disabled", merely more of a "linguistic minority".
The problems they run into are simply a lack of equal access that people without a disability (or a severe disability) take for granted. For instance, in that old building that has yet to be renovated, a person with full usage of their legs will have no issue getting up the stairs, but someone who requires the use of a wheelchair, or might be in crutches, or has to use a walker, etc., will find it impossible to get into that building.
What most people forget, when responding to ADA laws, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, W3C WAI, etc., is that these principles of equal and timely access do not just help those with disabilities, but those without as well.
For instance, trying to move a big cart full of computer equipment into that building? It sure would be easier with curbcuts, an elevator, and recessed door frames. Trying to access the web via that shiny new PDA you just bought? Too bad the site uses Flash navigation without a text equivalent... ad nauseum
The fact that this disability was part of his life, means that it wasn't a roadblock for him, merely an alternate route. He simply did things a different way.
I mean, really though, those who watch this, are they really paying attention to the latest George W. Bush sound clip?
I mean, I'm all for bewbies, but has our society really gotten to the point where the only way we can get people to be interested in current events is if the ignorant public gets to see primo mammary glandage?
$40/month for broadband isn't too bad b/c I can get free music.
Apparently, I'm the only one who says $40/month for broadband isn't too bad b/c I can get free pr0n.
Seriously, though, the reason why I got broadband was not because of free music or even pr0n. I got it because I game, I work from home occassionally, and I like having a reliable, stable, fast connection. As a matter of fact, I just recommended broadband to a friend of mine (a newbie user even) because he wanted something faster, always-on, and more reliable than a modem (plus, he can talk on the phone while surfing), for the exact same reasons as me (i.e., not music sharing or pr0n).
jubblies -N(slang, G.B.). Women's breasts. (Et. Slang combination of the words bubble, indicating a well-rounded shape, and joy, which, of course, springs forth from said breasts in abundance).
Compare to "jumbly":
jumbly -N(slang, G.B.). 1. A jumble sale. 2. The unwanted goods and possessions which are sold at a jumble sale.
If you've found female breasts at a garage sale, please let me know. I know from being a long-time garage sale addict myself, that prices are very reasonable. Perhaps then, I won't have to go to Vegas and spend $100+ per hour to "rent" a set of jubblies to play with.
Do they usually offer the rest of the woman with the breasts? If so, are they usually trainable? I'm hoping to find one that I can teach such common tricks as "Make me a sandwich", "Clean", and the ever-popular "Get me a beer."
If they simply sell "assorted breasts", are they surgical removals? I'm just trying to see what's out there.
Before I get flamed to a Kingdom Come, I am kidding. (Hops on over and makes a donation to the National Organization of Women).
it would have been helpfull if someone would have mentioned that this was Dungeons and Dragons we were talking about.
Yes, because Wizards of the Coast puts out so many other high-quality, well-loved games, it's hard to tell them apart. Such as Magic: The Gat...uhhh, well, there's always Lord of the Five...
Harry Potter the Trading Card popularity milking?
NFL Showdown?
Hello? Is this thing on?
/me sighs.
The only other game that I respect Wizards/Hasbro/whatever for is Call of Cthulhu. Now that's a fun game.
Damn you for making me buy something else to keep up with current D&D gaming! Damn you for not respecting the gamers, your true source of...
Wait, you mean I can download it?
Without Kazaa?
I'm dead sure I'll get modded to hell for this, but for the cynicism impaired, I'm making a slight social commentary on bi*ching gamers who have, for years, complained about first about T$R, then about Wi$ard$ of the Coa$t, now about Ha$bro, if you catch my drift. Oddly, I don't hear that many Warhammer fans who bitch about GW though, and they actually have some very good reasons to (80 dollars for a few pieces of unpainted plastic? Some assembly required, of course).
And I'd personally rather have a lifesize working duplicate of Evangelion Unit 01. Because I don't care if Vanessa Kensington has machine gun jubblies, Eva 01 can kick her ass any day.
In case you have a problem with using something (at least partially) from HiSoftware (I know some Assistive Tech. Specialists who do), you might be interested in using the WAVE.
Here's a Google of some resources and info, as well.
Ultimately, the biggest problem I have, is that too many web designers utterly rely on these validators. The problem is, they can only check for a few different parts of the standard. For instance, an automated validator may only be able to verify compliance with maybe half of the W3C WAI (Web Accessibility Intiative)'s 65 checkpoints (that's in all 3 priorities). The other things have to be done manually, which is not really that bad if you understand what needs to be done and how to do it.
It's simply a matter of rearanging your design style slightly to accomodate some minor design principles. Unfortunately, most web designers think that a validation or repair tool will solve all of their problems. It won't.
Slashdot Mirror
Reminds me of the old joke...
Jesus saves. All others take 1d10 from the fireball.
I can just see the Perl monks coming by, in full regalia, smacking their heads on O'Reilly books and singing that stupid chant from Monty Python, now that this has been answered.
Probably you would be run over and beaten afterwards by people who would complain, that the switch doesn't work. If the switch worked, they would complain too (about lax security measures) if they still could
/me ducks.
So, you mean you'd hear complaints from slashdotters?
No no no!
Lawsuits, since they are not a physical deliverable, are a service.
The product they produce, is apparently press releases, with FUD as "value-add".
Actually, Oklahoma (as an example in this case) has its own Educational Internet Group, called OneNet, which is designed to provide Internet connectivity to not just Post-secondary, but also the 500 some odd K12 school districts in our state.
The two major Universities use most of OneNet though (which is connected to Sprint to the rest of the world). My particular University, with 24,000 students, has a Gig Link to the OneNet core in Oklahoma City. We have dual OC-12s to Internet 2 in Abilene.
Time to plan my ski trip to hell. /me begins checking the book of Revelations for other signs of the Apocolypse.
Having tried to find Assistive Technology products in the past for people, to meet specific needs, this really gets my hopes up in two seperate ways:
1. Someone saw a specific need and developed an application around it. As he said in the text, the closest application available would not suffice.
2. Too many Assistive Technology products are horrendously expensive. JAWS, the de facto screen reader for Windows, can be $1500 for an individual user for one computer only. There are discounts, grants, and loans available out there for Assistive Technology, but they can be hard to get.
The only other fully featured screen reader that I've been able to find is emacspeak, but there's little out there in full screen navigation screen readers for Windows, Macintosh, etc. (in terms of Free).
Of course, this skin condition--also known as Leukoderma--has NOTHING to do with the fact that he now has no nose.
Or that he's somehow become a woman?
He could freakin ski when he was blind??!!
That's nothing. We had a blind comedian come to our school recently. He told us about the drive up from the airport (about 60 miles away).
Of course, you know those bumps on the side of the road? Those aren't things to wake up sleepy drivers. They're Braille dots for blind drivers. He told us how he got pulled over by the Highway Patrol for going 85 MPH in a 70 zone. He told the officer he was speed reading.
--Credit and thanks given to Alex Valdez.
It is apparently a huge social taboo in the deaf culture to do anything to try and cure your deafness.
I've heard of this, but I've never met anyone who has tried to "repair" hearing damage get this kind of treatment (perhaps because those that have tried have not been Deaf/Hard of Hearing for their entire life or a great part of it). I've also heard of such attitudes occuring in the other disability communities as well.
I believe this negative attitude towards those that attempt to repair/replace their disabilities through such means stems from two different reasons:
1. The likelihood that the procedure will fail, make the problem worse, or, in the case of the article above, subject the person to "re-learning how to live". They have lived a great deal of their life with this disability, and it has not hindered them at all, merely given them an alternate view of the world. To change this view, forces the person to change the way they do even simple matters, and can disrupt everything they do.
2. The disabled community is very tight-knit. They have had to be in past, and many I know have called the last 15 to 20 years the Civil Rights movement for disabilities. Some of these people, can be a little extreme, granted. As I said in my previous post, most of the people in the disabled community don't consider themselves disabled, merely requiring alternate and equal access. When one of the members of their community attempts to remove their disability through surgery or other invasive medical means, it is as though that person is admitting defeat and admitting that they have a severe, crippling debilitation. An example, going back to the Civil Rights Movement analogy, would be a prominent African American pop-star taking on a progressively paler complexion to his skin over a few years (I won't name any names, but his initials are Michael Jackson).
I would like to point out, that this is not my view, personally, but I'm sure I'll get flamed to hell for it. I understand where the community is coming from, and why they think the way they do. But I sure don't agree with it personally. I feel that if someone wishes to overcome their disability through such a means, then that is their wish, and it is their body to change as they please. If someone else doesn't agree to it, then they have a Constitutional right to that opinion.
Ironically, being able to see again has meant Mr May has had to re-learn some activities, such as skiing or crossing the road, where he had become proficient when blind."
Interestingly, most blind people don't really consider blindness a "disability" per se, but simply a challengee to get used to. I've met countless people with various types of disabilities that really don't count them as "disabilities". For instance, I've spoken with the Deaf/Hard of Hearing who don't consider themselves "disabled", merely more of a "linguistic minority".
The problems they run into are simply a lack of equal access that people without a disability (or a severe disability) take for granted. For instance, in that old building that has yet to be renovated, a person with full usage of their legs will have no issue getting up the stairs, but someone who requires the use of a wheelchair, or might be in crutches, or has to use a walker, etc., will find it impossible to get into that building.
What most people forget, when responding to ADA laws, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, W3C WAI, etc., is that these principles of equal and timely access do not just help those with disabilities, but those without as well.
For instance, trying to move a big cart full of computer equipment into that building? It sure would be easier with curbcuts, an elevator, and recessed door frames. Trying to access the web via that shiny new PDA you just bought? Too bad the site uses Flash navigation without a text equivalent... ad nauseum
The fact that this disability was part of his life, means that it wasn't a roadblock for him, merely an alternate route. He simply did things a different way.
I think this is the ultimate form of "interactive" journalism...
The Naked News, The program with nothing to hide.
I mean, really though, those who watch this, are they really paying attention to the latest George W. Bush sound clip?
I mean, I'm all for bewbies, but has our society really gotten to the point where the only way we can get people to be interested in current events is if the ignorant public gets to see primo mammary glandage?
Good grief.
You know, my friend and I have said it for the last several months about a webcomic we're working on.
"We don't have to think it up, we just have to write it down when it happens."
/me flips you the bird.
/me's glove attempts to translate it as "Eagle".
/me's glove BSOD's.
Dammit...
Wait for it...
Lobbyist: All your government are belong to me.
Would that make the entire executive branch the Ministry of Smart?
Hmmmm...
MiniSmt
After the Ken Starr report, that does seem to fit.
$40/month for broadband isn't too bad b/c I can get free music.
Apparently, I'm the only one who says $40/month for broadband isn't too bad b/c I can get free pr0n.
Seriously, though, the reason why I got broadband was not because of free music or even pr0n. I got it because I game, I work from home occassionally, and I like having a reliable, stable, fast connection. As a matter of fact, I just recommended broadband to a friend of mine (a newbie user even) because he wanted something faster, always-on, and more reliable than a modem (plus, he can talk on the phone while surfing), for the exact same reasons as me (i.e., not music sharing or pr0n).
I always thought it was "jumblies"
jubblies -N(slang, G.B.). Women's breasts. (Et. Slang combination of the words bubble, indicating a well-rounded shape, and joy, which, of course, springs forth from said breasts in abundance).
Compare to "jumbly":
jumbly -N(slang, G.B.). 1. A jumble sale.
2. The unwanted goods and possessions which are sold at a jumble sale.
If you've found female breasts at a garage sale, please let me know. I know from being a long-time garage sale addict myself, that prices are very reasonable. Perhaps then, I won't have to go to Vegas and spend $100+ per hour to "rent" a set of jubblies to play with.
Do they usually offer the rest of the woman with the breasts? If so, are they usually trainable? I'm hoping to find one that I can teach such common tricks as "Make me a sandwich", "Clean", and the ever-popular "Get me a beer."
If they simply sell "assorted breasts", are they surgical removals? I'm just trying to see what's out there.
Before I get flamed to a Kingdom Come, I am kidding. (Hops on over and makes a donation to the National Organization of Women).
it would have been helpfull if someone would have mentioned that this was Dungeons and Dragons we were talking about.
/me sighs.
Yes, because Wizards of the Coast puts out so many other high-quality, well-loved games, it's hard to tell them apart. Such as Magic: The Gat...uhhh, well, there's always Lord of the Five...
Harry Potter the Trading Card popularity milking?
NFL Showdown?
Hello? Is this thing on?
The only other game that I respect Wizards/Hasbro/whatever for is Call of Cthulhu. Now that's a fun game.
Damn you for making me buy something else to keep up with current D&D gaming! Damn you for not respecting the gamers, your true source of...
Wait, you mean I can download it?
Without Kazaa?
I'm dead sure I'll get modded to hell for this, but for the cynicism impaired, I'm making a slight social commentary on bi*ching gamers who have, for years, complained about first about T$R, then about Wi$ard$ of the Coa$t, now about Ha$bro, if you catch my drift. Oddly, I don't hear that many Warhammer fans who bitch about GW though, and they actually have some very good reasons to (80 dollars for a few pieces of unpainted plastic? Some assembly required, of course).
You mean 36 of D, right?
And I'd personally rather have a lifesize working duplicate of Evangelion Unit 01. Because I don't care if Vanessa Kensington has machine gun jubblies, Eva 01 can kick her ass any day.
Imagine a beowulf... *SMACK*
(You owe the Oracle a band-aid and an abacus with a range to 70 sextillion).
"When he's underwater does he get wet, or does the water get him in..."
Ah forget it.
In case you have a problem with using something (at least partially) from HiSoftware (I know some Assistive Tech. Specialists who do), you might be interested in using the WAVE.
Here's a Google of some resources and info, as well.
Ultimately, the biggest problem I have, is that too many web designers utterly rely on these validators. The problem is, they can only check for a few different parts of the standard. For instance, an automated validator may only be able to verify compliance with maybe half of the W3C WAI (Web Accessibility Intiative)'s 65 checkpoints (that's in all 3 priorities). The other things have to be done manually, which is not really that bad if you understand what needs to be done and how to do it.
It's simply a matter of rearanging your design style slightly to accomodate some minor design principles. Unfortunately, most web designers think that a validation or repair tool will solve all of their problems. It won't.