Having spent a certain amount of time with disability offices I suggest that you go and find a local Blind Association and see if they can allow her to test out some of the software written for blind people. Jaws is a software that allows you too hear in one ear what's on the screen and what you're typing in the other ear might be more difficult than your mother-in-law can manage. The other thing is that this will probably help her get access two other entertainments such as audio books and people in a similar condition to commiserate. What you're looking for is probably not an out-of-the-box solution sold at the General Market but something you're going to find it's a little more expensive but there's probably a grant for it.
I took a lot special education due to having dyslexia. However the memory that sticks out the most is sitting in a Normal Grade 10 Math Class in High School with 3/4 of the class very upset about the idea of "x" entering into Math. Really they had a HUGE problem with it. Apparently that normal because you actually need to get quiet a long way before you develop abstract thinking skills. Now I'm sure some of the children of people on slashdot are really good at it at a young age however there are limits.
Similar ever try to teach someone in Grade 2 about Irony or Theme in English Lit?
I understand one of the hardest things to do is as Magician is impress 2 years with a rabbit coming out of a top hat because they do not see an reason why that would not be normal.
Get the kids good at factoring and able to handle BEDMAS. It sort like says my child will be independent at 18 therefore at 2 his/she should know 1/9 of all though skills but can't keep their room clean. Younger children may be the best learn but older people can handle more complex ideas if slower.
The Royal Ontario Museum a number of years ago did a poster (think normal movie poster from HMV etc) with all the insects on it life size and the tag line "Bug Your Parents take you to the ROM" I got a free copy as being part of a camp run by the Museum. Very very few of the bugs on that poster were even as large as a chicken wing.Then there would be the reducing to shell them.
I believe for most of the first world there would be a huge cost to grow them in the winter to meet standards of livestock and keep things cleans and that nothing about controlling the populations from breaking out. Even in the "Banana Belt" of Southern Canada we only get 1 crop a year of most things...I not interested in risking it.
Having spend some time during my BA in History reading copy books (books with copys of letter that people sent out) and other stuff they wrote - keeping a collection of selfs is normal. People behave differently to their family, around different friends at work and to neighbors.
My sister I understand when her sisters aren't around is very talkative. At home Mom put in a 30 sound bite summary of the day rule in at dinner when she was in high school because otherwise she'd never tell us anything.
Facebook is what the person lets it become. You can says some really dumb things; it could be an insight into your heart or you can fill it up with quotes write over pictures. As a historian I say fill it up or not...it will make nice essay for future Historians to try pick into something useful later.
As a Canada with Government Health Care and nothing from work I must say this isn't that terrible and I am glad that US is tip toeing into prevent its citizens going broke when their health fails them.
Though I really like to know how many packs a day the programmer who wrote that bug into the system smoked and how he/she/it demo around it at review and demos.
Having recently finished as BA in history I feel it safe to say people are violent creatures. You can read about the Ancient Greek's Gymnasium, Roman Gladiators, Europe Divine Right Trials - who won the duel won the law case b/c God won't let the wrong person win, the range of piting animal v's animal fights, the military as the solution when talks break down and a host of belief around pain removing sin.
Let face it the only thing violent video games allow is people who aren't very good not to get scared up physically while learning. Possible less people die too.
Our team is the user end of Agile and I have to admit; I was really very tired of it about 8 months; at 1.25 yr into the project am really ready to look for something better.I don't want to talk to the programmers every day - they need to talk to each other all the time- I want to take a look at each release doing some testing and give feedback and get stuff fix. The effect of Agile for me on this project is 2-2.5 hrs of meetings every day. The programmers seem to be in meetings about 4 hours a day. The rest of the pEng's in the building are able to get being with thing like walking over and talking to each other without a formal daily chat.
What Star Terk Captions didn't know was that Zapp Brannigan means of dealing with Robot Wars would have worked for them too. Kept seen waves of men until the batteries are drained.
Also I wonder how long until people deaths are put down not see the real world but only at their screen. Headphones are bad but visual distraction is worst.
One the best ideas I would do is to visit the local public library and the school library and talk to the librarian. (Aka not the person checking the books but with a desk and likely a catalog of books handy) That way you know the books are accessible and don't have to worry about the kids not having the money. They might not only know what books they have in but more importantly YOU would be about to ensure they know that this is something that might come up again next year so they BUY books targeted to meet such needs. Running a library isn't a one way thing. If nothing else you can then spend some happy time looking at all the books and see if anything looks good.
In the mean time:
- For the highly Regulus: The Cross and the Abacus
->More math than science but very interesting.
-The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900
->Not a long book but one chapter might make a good report
The security laws in the US after 9/11 force alot of big corps to encrypt. As far as I tell it slow down boot time and forces IT to take 2 days to turn around anything as there is 12hrs to decrypt the hdd and then 12 to re-crypt.This month we got told to put stickers on all documents to state it security level...I'm really sure those stickers "CORP. INTERNAL ONLY" will really slow down those outsider eyes. Soon I'm sure we will have to us a secret de-coder ring to read the print out. Really have you guys read most internal documents? They are of little interest to the people who are PAID to read them.
In a 4th history close we looked at the Mismeasure of a Man. One of the largest topics was IQ testing. One of the earliest wide scale tests was done on soldiers in the US army. In tents...without verbal directions or written directions..on a primary migrates and child of farms who had never been to school. This test taker were pressured with louds to GO! Oddly almost everyone could solve a maze puzzle (think children placemate) but when it came to complete the picture people did badly. These people might never have seen a Gramma phone or a modern light bulb. At the rules where very strick that the bowling ball had to be in the man hand not in the air or rolling down the alley. The Avg. was further dropped by the fact that many soldiers where confused or didn't understand so they didn't do anything and left there exam blank. Today people take IQ tests in quiet rooms and in schools. They are reading the directions and often have seen similar problems before. No we're not getting smart we are just better prepped to take the test. In fact the test orginally was designed to find weaknesses in a child learn skills not designed to find the brightest and the best.
They don't know if the reactor is still leaking, all they do know is that the fish are at the similar level as before. It seems to me that something is still reacting under all that water. The problem is that radioactivity is a pollutant at doesn't solve itself in a few years even if everything is cleaned up the waste is still creating reacting. The problem with earthquakes is that there is nothing to protect the fragile..Do not shake stuff in our world.
While I disagree personally with not chooicing to have a baby due it "likely" gender. As a historian I feel that long term it could work out. If the population becoming to ratio one way then the value of the smaller group tends to increase. This can be seen in tradions of a "bride price" ie the man has to pay the bride's family. Having a shortage of woman could also force there to be a drop in the population. As an added bouns drop number of woman below that of men tends to cause wars which also tend to kill lots of the poplulation. It's not a nice way to get the population down but it does give all though men not getting any something to died for.
As a rescently minted BA in History I really hate to point out that while dropping and hitting targets at these speeds is impressive. It really doesn't help with the age old problem of "holding the ground taken". Why does it feel like so many of the latest in remote controll drones, million per charge hand held missle lauchers and similar would be of more use to the "EVIL" terrost rathern then a large army attempting to control a upset and radical forgien localation?
Historicaly blowing stuff up wasn't even all that big a thing because you, the soilder/general/other military leader, got paid by the amount of booty taken. War historicaly made money for the invantion force if they won (slaves to sale, new land to grown crops on, metal/art/cloth etc) ; today it's unprofitable there seems to be a problem with the cost model here with the tools of death.
Wow, nothing tech to restore lost tech, tho I doubt in 123 years time the lost mp3 codex will be able to be restored by taking photographs of a few broken hdds. Very cool that it was possible to get anything back.
I can not say I run all of this apps but my personal testing has seen:
iTunes 7 - worked just fine until the Vista patch then ran like a memory hog and wouldn't load the GUI
QuickTime - I installed without iTunes first works like a charm
AppleUpdates - Windows didn't scream when I installed it
Video iPod 60 - Works like a charm
I've try them all out on both 32/64 Vista Ulm.
Personally I think it funny what with all of Apples Upgading a PC is Bad ads that they could not pull it together to get there software working.
I must say I'm really enjoying Winamp again while I wait for Apple to get it's Music Store working again.
I can see it now. Take that old "usless" penny jar and turn it in bills or at least larger charge to keep North America happy and as charity to 3rd World dev. projects. Now if we could move the penny to being just copper "coloured" or make out of an easy to find metel. We're all set.
Of course saddly most people can't name the OS they run at home or at the office so this really isn't all that shocking. I personally doubt that if the media stopped coving computer virus and without all the e-mail from IT the general public would be clueless as to what is protecting there pcs.
Here going my personal troll post I guess...
Reason why I enjoy using Windows:
*I've worked with MAC...It was a lab so they where shine and new and froze every time the mouse fell out, at the time my Win98 box at home could deal with it's mouse being unplug.
*The One button Mouse thing...Thing me that Right Click is slower then Mac button mouse
*Dependents- Windows has gotten alot better over the years about *.dll, they don't mess up other applicates much anymore. Linux, I have personally to say this, IF your package need somthing *THEN* included in it in the package. I can deal with an update screen but two hours flopping for the net for some little package..no
*When my boss comes to call it's easier to show a nice GUI screen with perfer a little icon then a screen to a theard running in Text from the command prompt.
*SMS is nice, I can block my server into group, no need to run around tell me when Linux can do THAT one.
*IF I say I'm running Linux, most people look at you weird and shake there head, if your running MAC that will but 30% more and next year.
*Under Windows my drivers for whatever bit of hardware my little has bought from Future Shop will be a) in the package b) on the website...no need to rebuild kernals just 10min to plug in the hardware and double check it's work (30min if it's a card)
*Active Directory...It's large, it's not pretty, but for user mangment, to let Sally use Bob computer 'cause hers is in the shop.
*Free google software *wink*
Of course saddly it would take a real big torrent to fill that kind of download stream. I remeber upgrading to DSL after a few years on 56kbps and the biggest probelm was that most of the net still came in at about the same speed due to back bone. Good new that the last mile is becoming much closer to the max speed with huge cable replacments.
I personal enjoy watching anime on my PSP. I take a lot of buses and the PSP is the right size to fix in my purse and get it in and out ok. Plus it saves taking to some of the crazy old ladies. (Some times they even watch with me! *weird but true*)
I thought when I got my PSP I'd spent alot of gaming but really I use it as a portable tv and a small web browser when we're in a hurry but need a map of where we're going. As the PSP doesn't refresh we walk out the door and no worries about did I copy the map right or whats on the back of the paper I used to print it.
Having said all that I have a 4th Gen B&W iPod with alot of audio books on it and some music. It plays music and Audi books well but give the fact I have a hard time with that SUPER bright/battary killer or too dark to see in indoor lighting screen. I really think that iPod should stick to what it was designed to do. Play songs. It very good at it, lets not mess with the design to make it more complexe then it needs to be. (We have OS to do that *lol*)
I agree, personally I think the biggest thing prevent alot of e only stuff is the format of the files. When people feel in ten years the files will still be readable is when the first-world will start the true paperless office untill then we just created a faster way to copy lots of infomation fast onto paper.
This is one of the reason I'm glad I live in Canada where currenty min wage in is 10 somthing an hour.
I agree that it is unforunate that if you want to DFT online as a normal person that Paypal is the only major option. I really wish that the major world banks would go after this mark and try to make the systems work a touch better.:(
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Having spent a certain amount of time with disability offices I suggest that you go and find a local Blind Association and see if they can allow her to test out some of the software written for blind people. Jaws is a software that allows you too hear in one ear what's on the screen and what you're typing in the other ear might be more difficult than your mother-in-law can manage. The other thing is that this will probably help her get access two other entertainments such as audio books and people in a similar condition to commiserate. What you're looking for is probably not an out-of-the-box solution sold at the General Market but something you're going to find it's a little more expensive but there's probably a grant for it.
I took a lot special education due to having dyslexia. However the memory that sticks out the most is sitting in a Normal Grade 10 Math Class in High School with 3/4 of the class very upset about the idea of "x" entering into Math. Really they had a HUGE problem with it. Apparently that normal because you actually need to get quiet a long way before you develop abstract thinking skills. Now I'm sure some of the children of people on slashdot are really good at it at a young age however there are limits. Similar ever try to teach someone in Grade 2 about Irony or Theme in English Lit? I understand one of the hardest things to do is as Magician is impress 2 years with a rabbit coming out of a top hat because they do not see an reason why that would not be normal. Get the kids good at factoring and able to handle BEDMAS. It sort like says my child will be independent at 18 therefore at 2 his/she should know 1/9 of all though skills but can't keep their room clean. Younger children may be the best learn but older people can handle more complex ideas if slower.
BB side loading would seem to meet the bill is the add "fun" of never being sure if all the required dll from Google Play are their or not.
The Royal Ontario Museum a number of years ago did a poster (think normal movie poster from HMV etc) with all the insects on it life size and the tag line "Bug Your Parents take you to the ROM" I got a free copy as being part of a camp run by the Museum. Very very few of the bugs on that poster were even as large as a chicken wing.Then there would be the reducing to shell them. I believe for most of the first world there would be a huge cost to grow them in the winter to meet standards of livestock and keep things cleans and that nothing about controlling the populations from breaking out. Even in the "Banana Belt" of Southern Canada we only get 1 crop a year of most things...I not interested in risking it.
Having spend some time during my BA in History reading copy books (books with copys of letter that people sent out) and other stuff they wrote - keeping a collection of selfs is normal. People behave differently to their family, around different friends at work and to neighbors. My sister I understand when her sisters aren't around is very talkative. At home Mom put in a 30 sound bite summary of the day rule in at dinner when she was in high school because otherwise she'd never tell us anything. Facebook is what the person lets it become. You can says some really dumb things; it could be an insight into your heart or you can fill it up with quotes write over pictures. As a historian I say fill it up or not...it will make nice essay for future Historians to try pick into something useful later.
As a Canada with Government Health Care and nothing from work I must say this isn't that terrible and I am glad that US is tip toeing into prevent its citizens going broke when their health fails them. Though I really like to know how many packs a day the programmer who wrote that bug into the system smoked and how he/she/it demo around it at review and demos.
Having recently finished as BA in history I feel it safe to say people are violent creatures. You can read about the Ancient Greek's Gymnasium, Roman Gladiators, Europe Divine Right Trials - who won the duel won the law case b/c God won't let the wrong person win, the range of piting animal v's animal fights, the military as the solution when talks break down and a host of belief around pain removing sin. Let face it the only thing violent video games allow is people who aren't very good not to get scared up physically while learning. Possible less people die too.
Our team is the user end of Agile and I have to admit; I was really very tired of it about 8 months; at 1.25 yr into the project am really ready to look for something better.I don't want to talk to the programmers every day - they need to talk to each other all the time- I want to take a look at each release doing some testing and give feedback and get stuff fix. The effect of Agile for me on this project is 2-2.5 hrs of meetings every day. The programmers seem to be in meetings about 4 hours a day. The rest of the pEng's in the building are able to get being with thing like walking over and talking to each other without a formal daily chat.
What Star Terk Captions didn't know was that Zapp Brannigan means of dealing with Robot Wars would have worked for them too. Kept seen waves of men until the batteries are drained. Also I wonder how long until people deaths are put down not see the real world but only at their screen. Headphones are bad but visual distraction is worst.
One the best ideas I would do is to visit the local public library and the school library and talk to the librarian. (Aka not the person checking the books but with a desk and likely a catalog of books handy) That way you know the books are accessible and don't have to worry about the kids not having the money. They might not only know what books they have in but more importantly YOU would be about to ensure they know that this is something that might come up again next year so they BUY books targeted to meet such needs. Running a library isn't a one way thing. If nothing else you can then spend some happy time looking at all the books and see if anything looks good. In the mean time: - For the highly Regulus: The Cross and the Abacus ->More math than science but very interesting. -The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 ->Not a long book but one chapter might make a good report
The security laws in the US after 9/11 force alot of big corps to encrypt. As far as I tell it slow down boot time and forces IT to take 2 days to turn around anything as there is 12hrs to decrypt the hdd and then 12 to re-crypt.This month we got told to put stickers on all documents to state it security level...I'm really sure those stickers "CORP. INTERNAL ONLY" will really slow down those outsider eyes. Soon I'm sure we will have to us a secret de-coder ring to read the print out. Really have you guys read most internal documents? They are of little interest to the people who are PAID to read them.
In a 4th history close we looked at the Mismeasure of a Man. One of the largest topics was IQ testing. One of the earliest wide scale tests was done on soldiers in the US army. In tents...without verbal directions or written directions..on a primary migrates and child of farms who had never been to school. This test taker were pressured with louds to GO! Oddly almost everyone could solve a maze puzzle (think children placemate) but when it came to complete the picture people did badly. These people might never have seen a Gramma phone or a modern light bulb. At the rules where very strick that the bowling ball had to be in the man hand not in the air or rolling down the alley. The Avg. was further dropped by the fact that many soldiers where confused or didn't understand so they didn't do anything and left there exam blank. Today people take IQ tests in quiet rooms and in schools. They are reading the directions and often have seen similar problems before. No we're not getting smart we are just better prepped to take the test. In fact the test orginally was designed to find weaknesses in a child learn skills not designed to find the brightest and the best.
They don't know if the reactor is still leaking, all they do know is that the fish are at the similar level as before. It seems to me that something is still reacting under all that water. The problem is that radioactivity is a pollutant at doesn't solve itself in a few years even if everything is cleaned up the waste is still creating reacting. The problem with earthquakes is that there is nothing to protect the fragile ..Do not shake stuff in our world.
While I disagree personally with not chooicing to have a baby due it "likely" gender. As a historian I feel that long term it could work out. If the population becoming to ratio one way then the value of the smaller group tends to increase. This can be seen in tradions of a "bride price" ie the man has to pay the bride's family. Having a shortage of woman could also force there to be a drop in the population. As an added bouns drop number of woman below that of men tends to cause wars which also tend to kill lots of the poplulation. It's not a nice way to get the population down but it does give all though men not getting any something to died for.
As a rescently minted BA in History I really hate to point out that while dropping and hitting targets at these speeds is impressive. It really doesn't help with the age old problem of "holding the ground taken". Why does it feel like so many of the latest in remote controll drones, million per charge hand held missle lauchers and similar would be of more use to the "EVIL" terrost rathern then a large army attempting to control a upset and radical forgien localation? Historicaly blowing stuff up wasn't even all that big a thing because you, the soilder/general/other military leader, got paid by the amount of booty taken. War historicaly made money for the invantion force if they won (slaves to sale, new land to grown crops on, metal/art/cloth etc) ; today it's unprofitable there seems to be a problem with the cost model here with the tools of death.
Wow, nothing tech to restore lost tech, tho I doubt in 123 years time the lost mp3 codex will be able to be restored by taking photographs of a few broken hdds. Very cool that it was possible to get anything back.
I can not say I run all of this apps but my personal testing has seen: iTunes 7 - worked just fine until the Vista patch then ran like a memory hog and wouldn't load the GUI QuickTime - I installed without iTunes first works like a charm AppleUpdates - Windows didn't scream when I installed it Video iPod 60 - Works like a charm I've try them all out on both 32/64 Vista Ulm. Personally I think it funny what with all of Apples Upgading a PC is Bad ads that they could not pull it together to get there software working. I must say I'm really enjoying Winamp again while I wait for Apple to get it's Music Store working again.
I can see it now. Take that old "usless" penny jar and turn it in bills or at least larger charge to keep North America happy and as charity to 3rd World dev. projects. Now if we could move the penny to being just copper "coloured" or make out of an easy to find metel. We're all set.
Of course saddly most people can't name the OS they run at home or at the office so this really isn't all that shocking. I personally doubt that if the media stopped coving computer virus and without all the e-mail from IT the general public would be clueless as to what is protecting there pcs.
Good thing 1 in Million chances come up 9:10 ;)
Here going my personal troll post I guess... Reason why I enjoy using Windows: *I've worked with MAC...It was a lab so they where shine and new and froze every time the mouse fell out, at the time my Win98 box at home could deal with it's mouse being unplug. *The One button Mouse thing...Thing me that Right Click is slower then Mac button mouse *Dependents- Windows has gotten alot better over the years about *.dll, they don't mess up other applicates much anymore. Linux, I have personally to say this, IF your package need somthing *THEN* included in it in the package. I can deal with an update screen but two hours flopping for the net for some little package..no *When my boss comes to call it's easier to show a nice GUI screen with perfer a little icon then a screen to a theard running in Text from the command prompt. *SMS is nice, I can block my server into group, no need to run around tell me when Linux can do THAT one. *IF I say I'm running Linux, most people look at you weird and shake there head, if your running MAC that will but 30% more and next year. *Under Windows my drivers for whatever bit of hardware my little has bought from Future Shop will be a) in the package b) on the website ...no need to rebuild kernals just 10min to plug in the hardware and double check it's work (30min if it's a card)
*Active Directory...It's large, it's not pretty, but for user mangment, to let Sally use Bob computer 'cause hers is in the shop.
*Free google software *wink*
Of course saddly it would take a real big torrent to fill that kind of download stream. I remeber upgrading to DSL after a few years on 56kbps and the biggest probelm was that most of the net still came in at about the same speed due to back bone. Good new that the last mile is becoming much closer to the max speed with huge cable replacments.
I personal enjoy watching anime on my PSP. I take a lot of buses and the PSP is the right size to fix in my purse and get it in and out ok. Plus it saves taking to some of the crazy old ladies. (Some times they even watch with me! *weird but true*)
I thought when I got my PSP I'd spent alot of gaming but really I use it as a portable tv and a small web browser when we're in a hurry but need a map of where we're going. As the PSP doesn't refresh we walk out the door and no worries about did I copy the map right or whats on the back of the paper I used to print it.
Having said all that I have a 4th Gen B&W iPod with alot of audio books on it and some music. It plays music and Audi books well but give the fact I have a hard time with that SUPER bright/battary killer or too dark to see in indoor lighting screen. I really think that iPod should stick to what it was designed to do. Play songs. It very good at it, lets not mess with the design to make it more complexe then it needs to be. (We have OS to do that *lol*)
I agree, personally I think the biggest thing prevent alot of e only stuff is the format of the files. When people feel in ten years the files will still be readable is when the first-world will start the true paperless office untill then we just created a faster way to copy lots of infomation fast onto paper.
This is one of the reason I'm glad I live in Canada where currenty min wage in is 10 somthing an hour. I agree that it is unforunate that if you want to DFT online as a normal person that Paypal is the only major option. I really wish that the major world banks would go after this mark and try to make the systems work a touch better. :(