If you play tag with a group of kids, how much do you think about turning around and tagging someone? This type of technology will be awkward for us old people at first, but soon the moment it's occurred to us that we want to visit a link, it will be loading on the screen.
Autmobilies must yield to pedestrians and bicyclists at all times. Just because someone isn't in a crosswalk doesn't mean you get a free chance to kill.
No doubt, I had a mobo that would take up to a PentiumOne 200 Mhz OR at 400 Mhz AMD K6. Years later I got my hands on the K6 for cheap and saw no speed increase at all.
Except the "WhereTheHellsMyPictures" exploit that occurs whenever you plug in a digital camera, or the ever present "WhyCantBloodyLinuxSeeMyAccessPoint" when trying to use a wireless connection.
According the link, the BEST braile converter, does 80 characters across, which it touts as ideal because it's the same number of letters across the screen.
WHOA--old school alert. Outputting modern day screens to these things must be a pain.
To use this with the internet, I think it would be ideal for the blind to use sites formatted for cell phones. The machine can use "extra" bumps to suggest where the cursor is, perhaps a bump can indicate if the cell is part of a link--then add a link clicker button for each cell.
I assume the grandparent is an American. I am as well, and I have to think a bit to get some of the jokes--I we talk funny over here.
Or maybe he just meant that most of the book is dialog, whereas most movies today are action--clever bantering wordplay makes the *idea* of a whale falling from the sky hilarity. How do you make the image of this funny, without making it cartoony or something?
I know it's not exactly what you want to hear, but perhaps you should think about doing a "video mail" kind of thing.
With a web cam one records a little video of themselves with voice, and then attaches to an email (if it's short enough) or get some space on the interwow to hold it before someone comes online to download it. Family and friends would get a web cam and do that same thing.
For interactivity you have IM text only messages.
Is there a website that makes this easy? Should there be one?
One thing I know for sure, if we do nothing then eventually we will live in a world where you have to pay every time you read your kid a bedtime story.
It is then that I will make up bedtime stories. If you like I'll write them down and send them to you, for free! Some people still do things because they love to, they have hobbies that involve things other than watching TV.
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See the difference is that I'm working hard to be the guy buying the polo ponies.
The delusion that this is possible is the reason capitalism works.
You are correct that we enjoy more freedoms than many other countries. However, that doesn't make the the grandparent any less correct.
I suppose you don't buy Magazines or Cable Television then. As a comsumer, you don't "deserve" anything. If you don't like the service a company provides you are free not to do business with them.
Well we did have record turnout, the problem is the people like Bush. They'd rather turn the middle east into glass than increase their personal security.
That's nice, but having the Darwin Kernel which has the same look and feel as the average linux distro, and having the elegant and refined OSX is pretty darn different, wouldn't you say?
I'm afraid I don't see that as justification for me subsidising band-aids for people who insist on running a broken OS.
They make up well over half of all users. So ISP's cater to them, or they will lose the majority of thier revenue.
To avoid subsidizing, there needs to be an ISP that caters to "l33t" users likes yourself. Why isn't there? Economies of scale, it's simply impossible to make money on the small number of spread out "l33t" users.
I would be slightly more happy if that money went into subsidising the conversion of these people to a proper OS.
These people don't want to be converted. They have instructions written down, pasted to the wall, of what buttons to click to get things done. They don't want to learn a new system, they don't *really* know how to use the current system.
But the money can't be used for that anyway, because it belongs to the users that you want to convert, but they don't want to be converted.
I feel the same way as you, really I do. But you have to understand how things work outside the computer, in the real world. In the real world, people know to do and enjoy doing other things--they view the computer as a merely tool. Which it is. A good tool just works, and "lusers" feel that thier Wintel box should just work.
I'm going to sound arrogant, and I'm sorry for that, but perhaps a certain caliber of people (those which you choose to mainly befriend apparently) are predisposed to smoke Mary Jane. Maybe 10% of my friends smoke. Though if we average the two percentages, 45% of the populations smokes, so maybe you're on to something.
Right, I agree but I feel compelled to play devils advocate, so here goes!
Laws reflect the majority of the populations morality.
Don't believe me, consider this:
Because alcohol was always legal (and it's relatively safe and really fun!) so it was very socially acceptable. The some dumb quakers ban it for some reason, and the majority of people dissagree with this new law, so they break it. Mary Jane, probably only because it was never legal, never enjoyed the same social acceptance and is of course seen as immoral.
on the other hand, if less than one third of the population "blazes up", then mary jane users would have a higher percentage of fatalities over thier non-f'ed up counterparts. Am I right? I do hope that less than 1/3 of the population uses marijuana, as it's illegal.
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If you play tag with a group of kids, how much do you think about turning around and tagging someone? This type of technology will be awkward for us old people at first, but soon the moment it's occurred to us that we want to visit a link, it will be loading on the screen.
Autmobilies must yield to pedestrians and bicyclists at all times. Just because someone isn't in a crosswalk doesn't mean you get a free chance to kill.
No doubt, I had a mobo that would take up to a PentiumOne 200 Mhz OR at 400 Mhz AMD K6. Years later I got my hands on the K6 for cheap and saw no speed increase at all.
Except the "WhereTheHellsMyPictures" exploit that occurs whenever you plug in a digital camera, or the ever present "WhyCantBloodyLinuxSeeMyAccessPoint" when trying to use a wireless connection.
According the link, the BEST braile converter, does 80 characters across, which it touts as ideal because it's the same number of letters across the screen.
WHOA--old school alert. Outputting modern day screens to these things must be a pain.
To use this with the internet, I think it would be ideal for the blind to use sites formatted for cell phones. The machine can use "extra" bumps to suggest where the cursor is, perhaps a bump can indicate if the cell is part of a link--then add a link clicker button for each cell.
"Click to Play" It puts a little play button where the flashy is. If you don't want to view the flash, you don't clicky the play button.
Don't know where to get it off hand, quick google search yielded some kids blog which may or may not help.
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The sky divers in the article fashioned handstraps for the DS so they wouldn't drop them ;)
Burning Man? Never been, but it sure looks like an interesting 'experiment'.
I assume the grandparent is an American. I am as well, and I have to think a bit to get some of the jokes--I we talk funny over here.
Or maybe he just meant that most of the book is dialog, whereas most movies today are action--clever bantering wordplay makes the *idea* of a whale falling from the sky hilarity. How do you make the image of this funny, without making it cartoony or something?
I know it's not exactly what you want to hear, but perhaps you should think about doing a "video mail" kind of thing.
With a web cam one records a little video of themselves with voice, and then attaches to an email (if it's short enough) or get some space on the interwow to hold it before someone comes online to download it. Family and friends would get a web cam and do that same thing.
For interactivity you have IM text only messages.
Is there a website that makes this easy? Should there be one?
It is then that I will make up bedtime stories. If you like I'll write them down and send them to you, for free! Some people still do things because they love to, they have hobbies that involve things other than watching TV.
The delusion that this is possible is the reason capitalism works.
You are correct that we enjoy more freedoms than many other countries. However, that doesn't make the the grandparent any less correct.
I suppose you don't buy Magazines or Cable Television then. As a comsumer, you don't "deserve" anything. If you don't like the service a company provides you are free not to do business with them.
I think he's saying that a Mac Mini sized device would slide into a laptop keyboard and monitor. It's still a crap idea though.
Yeah, yeah, you're right! He hates gays too! Man that Bush is teh awesome!
Sigh.
I love the "Drawn Together" with God at the end saying how much he loves gays. It makes me smile all over.
Well we did have record turnout, the problem is the people like Bush. They'd rather turn the middle east into glass than increase their personal security.
That's nice, but having the Darwin Kernel which has the same look and feel as the average linux distro, and having the elegant and refined OSX is pretty darn different, wouldn't you say?
They make up well over half of all users. So ISP's cater to them, or they will lose the majority of thier revenue.
To avoid subsidizing, there needs to be an ISP that caters to "l33t" users likes yourself. Why isn't there? Economies of scale, it's simply impossible to make money on the small number of spread out "l33t" users.
I would be slightly more happy if that money went into subsidising the conversion of these people to a proper OS.
These people don't want to be converted. They have instructions written down, pasted to the wall, of what buttons to click to get things done. They don't want to learn a new system, they don't *really* know how to use the current system.
But the money can't be used for that anyway, because it belongs to the users that you want to convert, but they don't want to be converted.
I feel the same way as you, really I do. But you have to understand how things work outside the computer, in the real world. In the real world, people know to do and enjoy doing other things--they view the computer as a merely tool. Which it is. A good tool just works, and "lusers" feel that thier Wintel box should just work.
Because you are the minority.
Yay! Command-line only computing! Thanks Darwin on Intel!
AH! I am wrong! I fail. But I knew it had something to do with those crazy quakers!
HAHA, thanks but I'm not on that crusade, really!
I'm going to sound arrogant, and I'm sorry for that, but perhaps a certain caliber of people (those which you choose to mainly befriend apparently) are predisposed to smoke Mary Jane. Maybe 10% of my friends smoke. Though if we average the two percentages, 45% of the populations smokes, so maybe you're on to something.
Right, I agree but I feel compelled to play devils advocate, so here goes!
Laws reflect the majority of the populations morality.
Don't believe me, consider this:
Because alcohol was always legal (and it's relatively safe and really fun!) so it was very socially acceptable. The some dumb quakers ban it for some reason, and the majority of people dissagree with this new law, so they break it. Mary Jane, probably only because it was never legal, never enjoyed the same social acceptance and is of course seen as immoral.
on the other hand, if less than one third of the population "blazes up", then mary jane users would have a higher percentage of fatalities over thier non-f'ed up counterparts. Am I right? I do hope that less than 1/3 of the population uses marijuana, as it's illegal.
I looked at the girl, went "WHOA, is that Brittny Spears?!?!?!" Then looked at the case for four times longer. Oh, but I am a homo.