Here's my question: how are they going to make sure people only have one account each? What's to prevent people from getting dosens and backing up their harddrive?
Microsoft's TTS is about what Apple had ten years ago. All it does is churp out window titles and text without much intelligence; something fairly useless to those who can't see it in the first place.
Apple's solution actually helps them navigate and perform tasks.
If Apple wants to get into a new market, this is it. Give out a free screen reader, make it work with major applications like Office and Safari, and you've just cornered the entire blind market.
The linux pill's huge, but you can chop it up into tiny pieces and just swallow what you want. The Windows pill, however, is a suppository and makes you gain 300 lbs in a few days.
I agree, Jewel cases are way too fragile. I backup all my cds onto ten brands of media (ten times), wrap them in bubble wrap and titanium, and scatter them to ten different countries (in case of natural disaster or political uprising).
You can never be too careful.
The point of it is that it's a very low power device - low enough to use batteries that would add very little to the weight of the "paper." If not, the technology will die before it's born.
It does not need user interaction, it needs Windows User interaction. Users will have gotten the memo going around and deleted it, Windows Users will have recieved the memo, ignored it, and bugged tech support after their "magic boxes" stop working.
Hey! This is slashdot! You can't get away with saying limitless here! There's very much a limit to the file sizes! In this case, as in most, it's larger than the hard drives themselves, but there is a limit!
There's one reason to only support one operating system: support.
These people are going to have the dreaded "everyday users" both as clients and staffers for the tech support required to pull this off. If you go with Macs, you need to have a completely seperate support section. If you go with Linux, the ten people using it will need $100,000 worth of funding just so they don't have to use someone else's computer.
Making it a Windows requirements saves this headache from becoming fatal. For a small beta test such as this, that surely has limited resources, restricting it to 95% of users makes sense.
My question is how the hell do they plan on "destroying" someone's computer? Come over to your house and kick it in? The article made it sound like it would happen over the internet, which I can't imagine a way of doing.
I disagree.
With open source, you get either no software support, or you pay for it (like redhat) and then it eventually becomes unavailable, just like closed source. At least when you buy closed source you are guarenteed product support, rather than having to hire full-time geeks who understand it.
If there's a problem with MS Office, you can call them up, pay them their fee, and have a solution right away. If you go with OpenOffice, you get no tech support, and instead hope that whoever you hired can fix the problem.
Is this a joke? I want my browser to be fast, small, and stable. Torrent works fine as a separate app. The last thing we need is to throw in every other thing we can think of.
Just remember that to the average user, a 128k ISDN line with relatively low latiency is going to feel much faster at their normal tasks than a faster connection with higher pings, such as satellite or even some cable modems. Broadband should include more than just throughput, it should be the sum of many factors.
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Overestimate.
So how soon until someone releases a program to overcome these limitations and do everything automatically?
Here's my question: how are they going to make sure people only have one account each? What's to prevent people from getting dosens and backing up their harddrive?
The blind are at a slight disadvantage at most video games... though it would explain some of the people online in UT2004.
Microsoft's TTS is about what Apple had ten years ago. All it does is churp out window titles and text without much intelligence; something fairly useless to those who can't see it in the first place. Apple's solution actually helps them navigate and perform tasks.
If Apple wants to get into a new market, this is it. Give out a free screen reader, make it work with major applications like Office and Safari, and you've just cornered the entire blind market.
Too late.
No.
And the great thing is, most of those old Macs still function. I'd like to see you bring out a working PC from 1984.
The linux pill's huge, but you can chop it up into tiny pieces and just swallow what you want. The Windows pill, however, is a suppository and makes you gain 300 lbs in a few days.
I agree, Jewel cases are way too fragile. I backup all my cds onto ten brands of media (ten times), wrap them in bubble wrap and titanium, and scatter them to ten different countries (in case of natural disaster or political uprising). You can never be too careful.
The point of it is that it's a very low power device - low enough to use batteries that would add very little to the weight of the "paper." If not, the technology will die before it's born.
It does not need user interaction, it needs Windows User interaction. Users will have gotten the memo going around and deleted it, Windows Users will have recieved the memo, ignored it, and bugged tech support after their "magic boxes" stop working.
Pissing on wires can be a bad thing. Check the darwin awards: one mentions someone who's genitals exploaded. Not worth chancing it.
Hey! This is slashdot! You can't get away with saying limitless here! There's very much a limit to the file sizes! In this case, as in most, it's larger than the hard drives themselves, but there is a limit!
There's one reason to only support one operating system: support.
These people are going to have the dreaded "everyday users" both as clients and staffers for the tech support required to pull this off. If you go with Macs, you need to have a completely seperate support section. If you go with Linux, the ten people using it will need $100,000 worth of funding just so they don't have to use someone else's computer.
Making it a Windows requirements saves this headache from becoming fatal. For a small beta test such as this, that surely has limited resources, restricting it to 95% of users makes sense.
My question is how the hell do they plan on "destroying" someone's computer? Come over to your house and kick it in? The article made it sound like it would happen over the internet, which I can't imagine a way of doing.
I disagree. With open source, you get either no software support, or you pay for it (like redhat) and then it eventually becomes unavailable, just like closed source. At least when you buy closed source you are guarenteed product support, rather than having to hire full-time geeks who understand it. If there's a problem with MS Office, you can call them up, pay them their fee, and have a solution right away. If you go with OpenOffice, you get no tech support, and instead hope that whoever you hired can fix the problem.
Is it me or is this exactally the thing the DOJ had them in court for so long to prevent? And finally won?
Is this a joke? I want my browser to be fast, small, and stable. Torrent works fine as a separate app. The last thing we need is to throw in every other thing we can think of.
No! If they get rid of leap seconds, that'll cut my sex time in half!
Just remember that to the average user, a 128k ISDN line with relatively low latiency is going to feel much faster at their normal tasks than a faster connection with higher pings, such as satellite or even some cable modems. Broadband should include more than just throughput, it should be the sum of many factors.
Obviously they're running their web server on one of these.