Of course blind people are unhappy at how visual television is; they can't see it. So, they'd like to have an alternative that provides them with comparable information. Nothing changes for you. Why is this "beyond ridiculous"?
one word: RADIO
R A D I O
Lemme spell it out: R-A-D-I-O
Its a device wich recieves bordcast of the news and entertainment in an audio only format. Maybe you've never heard of it.
I think it's odd that you seem so hostile to this, since nowhere in the article, not even in the quote you site, does anyone suggest changing the way things work for people who can see.
What would that have to do with anything? Oh! You think I'm one of those "they better not change things I know to accomodate other people" type. I'm not, I'm a "they are living proof of the eternal stupidity of Man" type. I'm not hostile to blind people getting the news, I'm hostile to people bitching about how a device to receive VISUAL information is discriminating against people who can't see. I'm all for wheelchair ramps, close captionning, braille on buttons and seeing eye miniature ponies, but television for the blind? F0ck! Gimme a freakin' break.
Videogames adapted for the blind: sweet, I had thought about it, thought it to be impossible (it has the word "video" in it), but I can see how audio cues can help them get a feel of the virtual world. But television for the blind? Just plain stupid: They are blind: they have lost an important source of information. TV is meant to provide info both visually and from audio. Whining about how its too visual is stupid because THAT IS THE POINT of tv, to be visual.
BTW If I seem hostile now its because I'm drunk and angry at the world, and I'm annoyed at your obvious lack of comprehension of something I see as obvious, not because I have something against blind people, people helping blind people, or whatever. Sorry for the agressivity.
Television channels deliver breaking news via silent tickers along the bottom of the screen. Instead of knobs to change the channel, televisions often use on-screen pop up menus, said Curtis Chong, director of technology for the National Federation of the Blind.
''Over the last five years,'' Chong said, ''we have become increasingly concerned that the rising use of digital media will leave out the blind.''
You have got to be kidding me. They are unhappy at how visual television is?
Geez, what next, the "hearing imared" will complain that radio is too focused on sound?
I'm all for making things less hard for handicaped, but this is beyond ridiculous.
PS Anyone feeling the need to attack me with a barrage of politically correct nonsense à la "handy-capaple" should just punch temselves in the face right now, thanks.
THINK before you speak...he did say "more than five years old"...
I do think before I speak, my mistake was to assume that others would think as they read...
Yeah, a brand new engine burns fuel cleaner than an old beat up dirty engine. But you're still burning MORE FUEL with an SUV. Buy a brand new SMALL engine. Geez, is that so abstract?
You guyz got some kind of magic anti-pollution device that stops carbon mon/dioxyde from being produced when you burn things? Because if you don't, burning twice as much fuel produces twice as much of it. Simple math...VERY simple math, actually.
The Earth will not expire in 2050. Simple economics will keep it from doing so. When certain resources become scarce, they will become expensive, and people will be forced to stop using them and seek alternatives.
Yeah, I can't wait to see you seek alternatives to food and water. How do you take your soylent green?
Interesting they compare the United States' use of resources to that of Burundi. This comparison is truly startling.
Yes, its is truly startling that you stuck on that comparison, and not on the better document and much more relevant case of the UK. (The United States places the greatest pressure on the environment, it takes 12.2 hectares of land to support each American citizen and 6.29 for each Briton.)
And Timothy, you might want to encourage your brother to go ahead and buy that new SUV. If his current car is more than five years old, that new SUV will be adding less pollution to the atmosphere.
Wow! Totally unsuported wild claim...sweet! Lets see, small car pollutes more than car that burns twice as much fuel. Suuuuure.
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It wouldn't be suitable in midaeval times (due to the wheel on the arm), but is quite easy to do for modern designs
Yes. As we all know, Sir John C. Wheel only invented and patented the Wheel (tm) in 1876. Along with Fritz Von Brakes, he was the most important contributor the modern car...
> why hasn't there been a slashdot review of Lilo and Stitch?
Because a lot of us are adults and/or prefer adult-oriented humor (not porn, but some post-grade school wit is always appreciated).
Yeah, and some of us are adults who SEE THE FREAKIN' MOVIE before assuming its got no adult-grade wit and humour (or read reviews to see if it does, hence the original question).
I saw the movie, its pretty damn funny, with lots of grown-up laughs that the kiddies did not get (and plenty of zany antics so the toddlers will laugh their heads off).
Sheesh, you sound like my dad: "Cartoons are for kids, don't watch cartoons!"
Well, you could do it to keep a promise (the states were supposed to make the switch at the same time as Canada...bunch of liars).
My theory is that the freemasons are the ones preventing the switch because the international units would mess up their fancy mystical brickworks. (Check out your one dollar bill to verify freemason influence over the US)
That...and the rednecks not wanting to change their ways 'cause if they're doing something different from the foreigners, it means they are doing it better than the damn foreigners.
I think people in the US don't want to switch because there is no advantage to a switch. Really, what would the point be? There are 260 million people happy with the current system, why should they switch?
Yeah, but most heating in Québec is done by hydroelectricity, wich is plentyfull, unless a freakish one-week ice storm destroys the infrastructure. (we're talking 10cm of ice on top of everything here.)
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Well, the RIAA apparently has started doing that on its own, so we don't need to.
Ain't that nice, the left hand doesn't know its in the right hand's way!:)
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to assert their right to exist
No, no one challenges their right to exist, what they are trying to protect is their "right" to impose an outdated buisness model on the public. They want complete control on the music, they want their oligopoly to be able to set extravagant prices on low quality products so they can keep getting their 8 digit salaries. And above all, they do not want to either 1-get with the times and adapt to new technology nor 2- give the public what they want.
I used to buy a lot more CDs when I could sample them freely on napster. Now that they've shut it down and called me a thief, I'm boycotting them.
I hope they go bankrupt...at least then N'sync will be forced to go back to being regular male strippers.
Although the first movie was enjoyable, why do they always make movies based on books we've all already read? Because they know for a fact that you are willing to give them money to see it.
But to tell the truth, I hadn't read Starship Troopers before I saw the movie...
Bah! The CIA has been human-testing those on drunken hicks for YEARS! That's not news.
And if you don't want it to ring when you're asleep, what you've got to do, see, is you've got to make yourself one of 'em "tin-foil" hats...those'll block them CIA tooth-messages real good and dandy!
If somebody jerks off to virtual porn they are safe!?!? I will lay hard money that these individuals will eventually seek to fulfill their fantasy with an innocent.
Yes, anyone watching porn will get a hard-on and go out and rape someone. EVERYONE, EVERYTIME!
AND if you play violent games, its 100% sure that you'll go out and KILL YOUR NEIGHBOURS!
Also, -all- kids who watch superman cartoons put on a bath-towel as a cape and JUMP OFF THE ROOF!
Hell, jus this week, several hundred thousand kids dropped anvils on unsespecting ducks!
Hey, the other day, I watched Steve Irwin's The Crocodile Hunter, guess what I did right after that? Yes, I went to the zoo and attacked the crocodiles bare handed! I then proceeded to manhandle the poisonous snakes...yup, its all automatic imitation of art.
Remember, no one is ever responsible for their own actions, its always the tv/videogame/magazine/internet that made 'em do it. Also, before TV came along, violence did not exist and people were nice to everyone all the time.
"You have an entire generation of people thinking content should be available for free, and that's just not a sustainable long-term business model for the labels," said Hank Forsyth, media analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
Its called radio! Hell, we've got an entire industry that thinks people should like what they are told to, THAT's not a "sustainable long-term business model".
"Fossil fuel supplies are plentiful, and what will limit the usage of fossil fuels is the potential climatic and ecosystem changes you may see as a result of rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere," said Los Alamos researcher Manvendra Dubey.
Oh, yeah, fossil fuel reserves are ENDLESS! There will be there for ever and ever! Amen!
And on top of that, this magic neverending fuel source burns so cleanly that we oly have to worry about the CO2, there aren't any other molecules released after buring fossil fuels, no soot, no nothing!
By all means, lets not waste our time and energy (pun?) with research in renewable energy sources when we have magic petra oleum lying around begging to be burned!
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Bah, this is just a celebrity boxing deal. Keaton is gonna totally cream Reeves, I mean c'mon! He's paralysed!
The depths at wich fox will sink...
Of course blind people are unhappy at how visual television is; they can't see it. So, they'd like to have an alternative that provides them with comparable information. Nothing changes for you. Why is this "beyond ridiculous"?
one word: RADIO
R A D I O
Lemme spell it out: R-A-D-I-O
Its a device wich recieves bordcast of the news and entertainment in an audio only format. Maybe you've never heard of it.
I think it's odd that you seem so hostile to this, since nowhere in the article, not even in the quote you site, does anyone suggest changing the way things work for people who can see.
What would that have to do with anything? Oh! You think I'm one of those "they better not change things I know to accomodate other people" type. I'm not, I'm a "they are living proof of the eternal stupidity of Man" type. I'm not hostile to blind people getting the news, I'm hostile to people bitching about how a device to receive VISUAL information is discriminating against people who can't see. I'm all for wheelchair ramps, close captionning, braille on buttons and seeing eye miniature ponies, but television for the blind? F0ck! Gimme a freakin' break.
Videogames adapted for the blind: sweet, I had thought about it, thought it to be impossible (it has the word "video" in it), but I can see how audio cues can help them get a feel of the virtual world. But television for the blind? Just plain stupid: They are blind: they have lost an important source of information. TV is meant to provide info both visually and from audio. Whining about how its too visual is stupid because THAT IS THE POINT of tv, to be visual.
BTW If I seem hostile now its because I'm drunk and angry at the world, and I'm annoyed at your obvious lack of comprehension of something I see as obvious, not because I have something against blind people, people helping blind people, or whatever. Sorry for the agressivity.
Television channels deliver breaking news via silent tickers along the bottom of the screen. Instead of knobs to change the channel, televisions often use on-screen pop up menus, said Curtis Chong, director of technology for the National Federation of the Blind.
''Over the last five years,'' Chong said, ''we have become increasingly concerned that the rising use of digital media will leave out the blind.''
You have got to be kidding me. They are unhappy at how visual tele vision is?
Geez, what next, the "hearing imared" will complain that radio is too focused on sound?
I'm all for making things less hard for handicaped, but this is beyond ridiculous.
PS Anyone feeling the need to attack me with a barrage of politically correct nonsense à la "handy-capaple" should just punch temselves in the face right now, thanks.
oh man, the submission didn't provide much detail, so i did something i, and most other /.'ers don't do often, i read the article
/.ers don't read the article! Could you imagine the slashdot effect if they did! The whole internet would blow up!
Good lord! Its a good thing most
Don't encourage them!
THINK before you speak...he did say "more than five years old"...
I do think before I speak, my mistake was to assume that others would think as they read...
Yeah, a brand new engine burns fuel cleaner than an old beat up dirty engine.
But you're still burning MORE FUEL with an SUV. Buy a brand new SMALL engine. Geez, is that so abstract?
You guyz got some kind of magic anti-pollution device that stops carbon mon/dioxyde from being produced when you burn things? Because if you don't, burning twice as much fuel produces twice as much of it. Simple math...VERY simple math, actually.
Water doesn't get 'used up'.
Please put an ounce of gasoline and a pound of arsenic in every glass of water you drink, thanks.
dumbass?
I know you are, but what I am?
Geez, all them talks 'bout pollution 's just lies of the devil. I can dump anything I want in the ground water supply!
The Earth will not expire in 2050. Simple economics will keep it from doing so. When certain resources become scarce, they will become expensive, and people will be forced to stop using them and seek alternatives.
Yeah, I can't wait to see you seek alternatives to food and water. How do you take your soylent green?
Interesting they compare the United States' use of resources to that of Burundi. This comparison is truly startling.
Yes, its is truly startling that you stuck on that comparison, and not on the better document and much more relevant case of the UK.
(The United States places the greatest pressure on the environment, it takes 12.2 hectares of land to support each American citizen and 6.29 for each Briton.)
And Timothy, you might want to encourage your brother to go ahead and buy that new SUV. If his current car is more than five years old, that new SUV will be adding less pollution to the atmosphere.
Wow! Totally unsuported wild claim...sweet!
Lets see, small car pollutes more than car that burns twice as much fuel. Suuuuure.
It wouldn't be suitable in midaeval times (due to the wheel on the arm), but is quite easy to do for modern designs
Yes. As we all know, Sir John C. Wheel only invented and patented the Wheel (tm) in 1876.
Along with Fritz Von Brakes, he was the most important contributor the modern car...
(Man, I hope someone mods me up as Informative!)
> why hasn't there been a slashdot review of Lilo and Stitch?
Because a lot of us are adults and/or prefer adult-oriented humor (not porn, but some post-grade school wit is always appreciated).
Yeah, and some of us are adults who SEE THE FREAKIN' MOVIE before assuming its got no adult-grade wit and humour (or read reviews to see if it does, hence the original question).
I saw the movie, its pretty damn funny, with lots of grown-up laughs that the kiddies did not get (and plenty of zany antics so the toddlers will laugh their heads off).
Sheesh, you sound like my dad: "Cartoons are for kids, don't watch cartoons!"
the writing gives the movie the feel that it is a quick cash in for a buck and that is it.
Well DUH!
What did you expect? A road to spritual enlightenment? The secret to world peace?
Switching a couple billion road signs to km don't make the trip go faster.
;-)
It does if you don't tell anybody about it
Well, you could do it to keep a promise (the states were supposed to make the switch at the same time as Canada...bunch of liars).
My theory is that the freemasons are the ones preventing the switch because the international units would mess up their fancy mystical brickworks. (Check out your one dollar bill to verify freemason influence over the US)
That...and the rednecks not wanting to change their ways 'cause if they're doing something different from the foreigners, it means they are doing it better than the damn foreigners.
I think people in the US don't want to switch because there is no advantage to a switch. Really, what would the point be? There are 260 million people happy with the current system, why should they switch?
This would be the point
Yeah, but most heating in Québec is done by hydroelectricity, wich is plentyfull, unless a freakish one-week ice storm destroys the infrastructure. (we're talking 10cm of ice on top of everything here.)
Well, the RIAA apparently has started doing that on its own, so we don't need to.
:)
Ain't that nice, the left hand doesn't know its in the right hand's way!
to assert their right to exist
No, no one challenges their right to exist, what they are trying to protect is their "right" to impose an outdated buisness model on the public. They want complete control on the music, they want their oligopoly to be able to set extravagant prices on low quality products so they can keep getting their 8 digit salaries. And above all, they do not want to either 1-get with the times and adapt to new technology nor 2- give the public what they want.
I used to buy a lot more CDs when I could sample them freely on napster. Now that they've shut it down and called me a thief, I'm boycotting them.
I hope they go bankrupt...at least then N'sync will be forced to go back to being regular male strippers.
Ah! I'm in a far away country wich they have never heard of! No way they'll get me!
Although the first movie was enjoyable, why do they always make movies based on books we've all already read?
Because they know for a fact that you are willing to give them money to see it.
But to tell the truth, I hadn't read Starship Troopers before I saw the movie...
Besides that, how will vending machines and change machines, etc, be able to adapt?
Oh, vending machines are very adaptable, I've been teaching the one at work to play dead and go fetch...
Bah! The CIA has been human-testing those on drunken hicks for YEARS! That's not news.
And if you don't want it to ring when you're asleep, what you've got to do, see, is you've got to make yourself one of 'em "tin-foil" hats...those'll block them CIA tooth-messages real good and dandy!
Man, this Walker guy sure keeps busy, he's a Texas Ranger, a Taliban, he's a scientist...wow!
If somebody jerks off to virtual porn they are safe!?!?
I will lay hard money that these individuals will eventually seek to fulfill their fantasy with an innocent.
Yes, anyone watching porn will get a hard-on and go out and rape someone. EVERYONE, EVERYTIME!
AND if you play violent games, its 100% sure that you'll go out and KILL YOUR NEIGHBOURS!
Also, -all- kids who watch superman cartoons put on a bath-towel as a cape and JUMP OFF THE ROOF!
Hell, jus this week, several hundred thousand kids dropped anvils on unsespecting ducks!
Hey, the other day, I watched Steve Irwin's The Crocodile Hunter, guess what I did right after that? Yes, I went to the zoo and attacked the crocodiles bare handed! I then proceeded to manhandle the poisonous snakes...yup, its all automatic imitation of art.
Remember, no one is ever responsible for their own actions, its always the tv/videogame/magazine/internet that made 'em do it.
Also, before TV came along, violence did not exist and people were nice to everyone all the time.
"You have an entire generation of people thinking content should be available for free, and that's just not a sustainable long-term business model for the labels," said Hank Forsyth, media analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
Its called radio!
Hell, we've got an entire industry that thinks people should like what they are told to, THAT's not a "sustainable long-term business model".
"Fossil fuel supplies are plentiful, and what will limit the usage of fossil fuels is the potential climatic and ecosystem changes you may see as a result of rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere," said Los Alamos researcher Manvendra Dubey.
Oh, yeah, fossil fuel reserves are ENDLESS! There will be there for ever and ever! Amen!
And on top of that, this magic neverending fuel source burns so cleanly that we oly have to worry about the CO2, there aren't any other molecules released after buring fossil fuels, no soot, no nothing!
By all means, lets not waste our time and energy (pun?) with research in renewable energy sources when we have magic petra oleum lying around begging to be burned!
My glasses are pure titanium! (the frame, not the glass..duh)
:)
AND they don't have any screws...they're almost indestructible (that is why I wanted 'em...I'm accident prone).
+ they're super light and they look real good!