David informed her that the brothers would need to obtain the complete set of raw data from the Leica camera. The next day, he went to the museum and collected, from Bridgers, two large blue Metropolitan Museum shopping bags stuffed with more than two hundred CDs, containing every number that the Leica had collected from the Unicorn tapestries. There were at least a hundred billion numbers in the shopping bags.
I think my biggest frustration is that all of this blind/low visibility stuff seems to be dreamt up by seeing geeks who imagine what they'd want if their eyes fell out. There's no thought given to real-world usefulness for anyone who's not already a computer user.
Task oriented applications like you describe seem to be a great approach to these problems...more needs to be done to reduce, say, a linux box running 'mail' and a tts app to the point where the end-user doesn't need to know or even conceptually grasp, say, directory structures, and instead new paradigms for non-visual computing take their place.
Oh, and I dare any of the asshats here who suggest setting up a linux box with elm and whatever else with a tts box to try and explain how to use it to my grandmother. A cd player is confusing enough to her...
The thing that always gets me about computer technologies for the blind is that they seem to focus on providing a described graphical user interface for people who often have never seen anything in their lives. My grandmother went totally blind with macular degeneration (of the unfixable variety) over the past ten years. She doesn't want to learn windows. She doesn't want to learn a mac. She wants to send and recieve email. Explaining concepts like windows and how to use a mouse seem awfully stupid to me.
Building computers that focus on whole-system TTS interfaces via CLI apps seems to be a much better approach. Has anyone done anything like this that is explainable to a computer-illiterate blind grandmother?
Similar to Waking Life, one of my all-time favorite movies. On the dvd, there's a 20 minute segment explaining the technology behind it...very labor intensive, as every curve ultimately still had to be hand-done.
Instead of xcopy, try RoboCopy, included in the windows NT/2k/xp/2k3 resource kit available here. It gives you almost as much control as rsync, including directory synchronization, touch control, ageing, network failure support, and others. I use this at work to move around copies of live production data to backup servers located offsite via vpn without any issues. More information on syntax can be found here.
Simply asking for confirmation before installing isn't good enough anymore...why is it that IE has a "Allow activeX objects from this company" but doesn't have a "Deny all activeX objects from this company" setting? Cometcursor. Gator. All of these companies that i could completely ignore if for that one checkbox. Some sites have the cometcursor activex object code on every page, forcing you to say "no" every page load.
Hmmm...perhaps they could embed this number into a transponder that could be inserted into my forehead or arm, so that I can be easily identified simply by walking by a sensor. Wouldn't that be grand? MAC machines would know who you are the moment you walk up to them...universal computer access...no more library cards. What a candy coated poison apple...
When you move a mouse, you can feel it...there may not be any "force feedback" per se, but you are able to rest your hand on it, and it holds up your arms. Doing direct muscle interactions might be nice, but wouldn't it get fatiguing to hold your arms in mid-air, or jerk your hand around with nothing underneath it?
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What really gets me is the following quote...
The computers were running, but were unable to access data in their memory banks because of the downed server.
Danger Will Robinson! Danger Will Robinson! Memory banks unreachable!
Current napster filtering relies on filenames...this works, because napster's servers receive the search query...This audio fingerprinting, however, appears to require the binary song, which dosn't actually go through Napster's servers (b/c of the peer-to-peer architecture). So how will this work? Unless this software is integrated into current clients, where will this "fingerprinting" take place?
I also consider Hypercard the thing that turned me on to programming. I started messing with it at age 11 and found I could do all sorts of gee-whiz multimedia things (as gee-whiz as a 16mhz 608030 will let you:)...as I got deeper into it, Hypercard managed to give me a fundamental understanding of object oriented programming without the complexity or non-englishness of something like C++. Hypercard could serve as an excellent "programming tutor" for early grade school kids to teach them that programming isn't such a scary concept, and get them on the road to more advanced languages.
This thin server router delivers roundtrip IP unicasting (Internet browsing) and other services including dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), SMTP e-mail, Web hosting, Web caching, NNTP news, FTP, UDP, Telnet, proxy, and firewall.
What if, as a compromise in the trial, M$ would be forced to provide a browser-independent API that would allow 3rd party developers to plug in their own browser that would do all OS level html rendering? Explorer and IE are intertwined so closely that their.exe's are merely containers for the activex objects...why not make the browser a plug-in and allow NS or whoever else (opera?) a shot at fully replacing IE within M$'s operating systems.
Can anyone else see the amazing potentials of an atomic mirror? Cloning might have the potential to become a trivial issue of the past as objects (organic and non-organic) can simply be "replicated". One does have to realize, before getting carried away, that at present this can only be accomplished at extremely low temperatures...but still...
Imagine what the MPAA will say as we use our atomic mirrors to dupicate their precious DVD's, atom by atom.
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David informed her that the brothers would need to obtain the complete set of raw data from the Leica camera. The next day, he went to the museum and collected, from Bridgers, two large blue Metropolitan Museum shopping bags stuffed with more than two hundred CDs, containing every number that the Leica had collected from the Unicorn tapestries. There were at least a hundred billion numbers in the shopping bags.
Bags...and...bags...of numbers!
I think my biggest frustration is that all of this blind/low visibility stuff seems to be dreamt up by seeing geeks who imagine what they'd want if their eyes fell out. There's no thought given to real-world usefulness for anyone who's not already a computer user.
Task oriented applications like you describe seem to be a great approach to these problems...more needs to be done to reduce, say, a linux box running 'mail' and a tts app to the point where the end-user doesn't need to know or even conceptually grasp, say, directory structures, and instead new paradigms for non-visual computing take their place.
Oh, and I dare any of the asshats here who suggest setting up a linux box with elm and whatever else with a tts box to try and explain how to use it to my grandmother. A cd player is confusing enough to her...
The thing that always gets me about computer technologies for the blind is that they seem to focus on providing a described graphical user interface for people who often have never seen anything in their lives. My grandmother went totally blind with macular degeneration (of the unfixable variety) over the past ten years. She doesn't want to learn windows. She doesn't want to learn a mac. She wants to send and recieve email. Explaining concepts like windows and how to use a mouse seem awfully stupid to me.
Building computers that focus on whole-system TTS interfaces via CLI apps seems to be a much better approach. Has anyone done anything like this that is explainable to a computer-illiterate blind grandmother?
Actually, bluetooth's physical bandwidth is only 721kb. It's amazing what google will tell you if you ask it.
http://www.mobileinfo.com/Bluetooth/FAQ.htm#t5
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1086977875.html
There should be a -1 (Don't know jack shit) mod option. On the other hand, I'm glad you've mastered your buzzwords.
Similar to Waking Life, one of my all-time favorite movies. On the dvd, there's a 20 minute segment explaining the technology behind it...very labor intensive, as every curve ultimately still had to be hand-done.
Donald Good, is that you? That's one of my crowing achievments of high school audio tech!
Instead of xcopy, try RoboCopy, included in the windows NT/2k/xp/2k3 resource kit available here. It gives you almost as much control as rsync, including directory synchronization, touch control, ageing, network failure support, and others. I use this at work to move around copies of live production data to backup servers located offsite via vpn without any issues. More information on syntax can be found here.
No, that would make it GNU/Quaoar. The GNU project provides the underlying construct for which said planet, Quaoar, exists. Quaoar is merely a planet.
Simply asking for confirmation before installing isn't good enough anymore...why is it that IE has a "Allow activeX objects from this company" but doesn't have a "Deny all activeX objects from this company" setting? Cometcursor. Gator. All of these companies that i could completely ignore if for that one checkbox. Some sites have the cometcursor activex object code on every page, forcing you to say "no" every page load.
Irstfay ostpay!
Hmmm...perhaps they could embed this number into a transponder that could be inserted into my forehead or arm, so that I can be easily identified simply by walking by a sensor. Wouldn't that be grand? MAC machines would know who you are the moment you walk up to them...universal computer access...no more library cards. What a candy coated poison apple...
When you move a mouse, you can feel it...there may not be any "force feedback" per se, but you are able to rest your hand on it, and it holds up your arms. Doing direct muscle interactions might be nice, but wouldn't it get fatiguing to hold your arms in mid-air, or jerk your hand around with nothing underneath it?
What really gets me is the following quote...
The computers were running, but were unable to access data in their memory banks because of the downed server.
Danger Will Robinson! Danger Will Robinson! Memory banks unreachable!
Current napster filtering relies on filenames...this works, because napster's servers receive the search query...This audio fingerprinting, however, appears to require the binary song, which dosn't actually go through Napster's servers (b/c of the peer-to-peer architecture). So how will this work? Unless this software is integrated into current clients, where will this "fingerprinting" take place?
If you ask me, NetUniverse is a much better platform for developing inter-galactic life forms.
The company in question is GoldAge, not e-Gold...if you take a look at the site, it does beg the question of legitimacy... http://www.gold-age.net/ga-post-index.html
I also consider Hypercard the thing that turned me on to programming. I started messing with it at age 11 and found I could do all sorts of gee-whiz multimedia things (as gee-whiz as a 16mhz 608030 will let you:)...as I got deeper into it, Hypercard managed to give me a fundamental understanding of object oriented programming without the complexity or non-englishness of something like C++. Hypercard could serve as an excellent "programming tutor" for early grade school kids to teach them that programming isn't such a scary concept, and get them on the road to more advanced languages.
This thin server router delivers roundtrip IP unicasting (Internet browsing) and other services including dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), SMTP e-mail, Web hosting, Web caching, NNTP news, FTP, UDP, Telnet, proxy, and firewall.
I'm so glad it supports UDP!
What if, as a compromise in the trial, M$ would be forced to provide a browser-independent API that would allow 3rd party developers to plug in their own browser that would do all OS level html rendering? Explorer and IE are intertwined so closely that their .exe's are merely containers for the activex objects...why not make the browser a plug-in and allow NS or whoever else (opera?) a shot at fully replacing IE within M$'s operating systems.
Can anyone else see the amazing potentials of an atomic mirror? Cloning might have the potential to become a trivial issue of the past as objects (organic and non-organic) can simply be "replicated". One does have to realize, before getting carried away, that at present this can only be accomplished at extremely low temperatures...but still...
Imagine what the MPAA will say as we use our atomic mirrors to dupicate their precious DVD's, atom by atom.
Microsoft Bob users of the world Unite!