It would make much more sense to design and write software for blind and disabled people. Even maintaining forks of existing projects that have customizations would make sense. But from a software engineering perspective, such features are just bloat for everyone who is not disabled, which is indeed the majority of users. So, the blind can't use GMail? Instead of say.. recommending an IMAP client designed specifically for the blind, let's jump straight to the lawsuits..
There needs to be a way to use the software on my machine that doesn't require me to open a MAN page and edit a config file. There's a simple reason for this; people do not have TIME to do these things.
So, your configuration GUI supports full text search of its options and help system? I suppose you can also search the system's entire configuration easily to find the thing that you want to change in the first place? Yes, time is where this argument breaks down, because unless you know exactly where to go in the configuration GUI, you are going to spend a lot of time flailing around in it. If you do know exactly where to go, in either case you aren't going to be looking at a man page/help system, are you?
Also every time I have resorted to the Windows help system to find out how to do something, I have wanted to chew my own leg off. The best help system for Windows is made by Google..
IIRC, you need to verify that you have a mobile (or POTS) number to sign up for a Voice account, so anyone who can get an account already has access to the POTS network.
Also, if Gizmo5 offered the same access, why wasn't it a problem for them? Or was it?
But there are thousands of languages that they don't translate. There are hundreds if not thousands of languages that are not documented either. So, all you have to do is make friends with some aging Native Americans and learn their language! Some native languages of (North and South) America only have a handful of speakers left and are sparsely documented or undocumented and dying out as national languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese) displace them. There are also lots of undocumented languages in remote areas of the world, particularly in rainforest areas (turns out high biodiversity in the environment correlates with high linguistic diversity among human populations).
Or.. Many widely spoken languages have lots of dialects that are difficult if not impossible for non-dialect speakers to understand.
Maybe the volume isn't the problem, it's the music! Trade in your Chopin, Beatles, or [insert current popular artists here]* for Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, or Iron Maiden. You'll never hear anyone ever again!
In their last term/quarter/semester? Sure, I've been stuck with some clueless people in group projects in university CS, but by the time you get to the senior level, those people have either gained a clue or quit.
Well, when you get in the ballot box and you don't know who any of those people are, it is much easier just to pick 'all Republican/Democrat'.;( I think making those choices go away would help some people to at least think about for whom they vote.
That is no deterrent at all. That is only an encouragement to acquire your own arsenal so that there actually is a real deterrent. There is a great deal of evidence that they do have nuclear weapons, yet they don't want to play by any international agreements regarding their arsenal either.
When I was in the Army, despite always lugging around a PLGR (GPS receiver), actually using it was seen as an acknowledgment that you were lost. Which meant that it hardly ever got used except for fixing your position (reports to higher, fire mission, etc).
Technology is good to have, but you should have the skills not to have to rely on the tech, or know what to do when the tech fails.
I have a hard time believing that an informant would be let anywhere near anyone "high level" without so much as a cursory search, nevermind at the gate..
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It would make much more sense to design and write software for blind and disabled people. Even maintaining forks of existing projects that have customizations would make sense. But from a software engineering perspective, such features are just bloat for everyone who is not disabled, which is indeed the majority of users. So, the blind can't use GMail? Instead of say.. recommending an IMAP client designed specifically for the blind, let's jump straight to the lawsuits..
So, your configuration GUI supports full text search of its options and help system? I suppose you can also search the system's entire configuration easily to find the thing that you want to change in the first place? Yes, time is where this argument breaks down, because unless you know exactly where to go in the configuration GUI, you are going to spend a lot of time flailing around in it. If you do know exactly where to go, in either case you aren't going to be looking at a man page/help system, are you?
Also every time I have resorted to the Windows help system to find out how to do something, I have wanted to chew my own leg off. The best help system for Windows is made by Google..
IIRC, you need to verify that you have a mobile (or POTS) number to sign up for a Voice account, so anyone who can get an account already has access to the POTS network.
Also, if Gizmo5 offered the same access, why wasn't it a problem for them? Or was it?
But there are thousands of languages that they don't translate. There are hundreds if not thousands of languages that are not documented either. So, all you have to do is make friends with some aging Native Americans and learn their language! Some native languages of (North and South) America only have a handful of speakers left and are sparsely documented or undocumented and dying out as national languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese) displace them. There are also lots of undocumented languages in remote areas of the world, particularly in rainforest areas (turns out high biodiversity in the environment correlates with high linguistic diversity among human populations).
Or.. Many widely spoken languages have lots of dialects that are difficult if not impossible for non-dialect speakers to understand.
Lastly, you could just make up your own language!
Maybe the volume isn't the problem, it's the music! Trade in your Chopin, Beatles, or [insert current popular artists here]* for Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, or Iron Maiden. You'll never hear anyone ever again!
Just keep it heavy. \m/
* I really have no clue about these. Really.
In their last term/quarter/semester? Sure, I've been stuck with some clueless people in group projects in university CS, but by the time you get to the senior level, those people have either gained a clue or quit.
Ved Balders baller!
By itself, that is an interesting figure. However, an aircraft carrier is just a bit bigger than a car. Even a big car!
Some anecdote about eggs and a basket comes to mind.
If you don't want to bother with a graphical client like Thunderbird, I would recommend OfflineIMAP for backing up your remote mail accounts.
Well, when you get in the ballot box and you don't know who any of those people are, it is much easier just to pick 'all Republican/Democrat'. ;( I think making those choices go away would help some people to at least think about for whom they vote.
That is no deterrent at all. That is only an encouragement to acquire your own arsenal so that there actually is a real deterrent. There is a great deal of evidence that they do have nuclear weapons, yet they don't want to play by any international agreements regarding their arsenal either.
Machiavelli, is that you?
> Can you point me to an Android phone which is not "locked"?
Nexus One?
What is my favorite color? 0x0000ff! No, 0xffff00! Aaaaaaaaaa........!
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When I was in the Army, despite always lugging around a PLGR (GPS receiver), actually using it was seen as an acknowledgment that you were lost. Which meant that it hardly ever got used except for fixing your position (reports to higher, fire mission, etc).
Technology is good to have, but you should have the skills not to have to rely on the tech, or know what to do when the tech fails.
We're stuck in an 8-bit universe?!
Ah, hypocrisy at its finest.
I have a hard time believing that an informant would be let anywhere near anyone "high level" without so much as a cursory search, nevermind at the gate..
Even stealing has a cost, if only time.
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Yeah, you couldn't pay me to sign up either.
Easy to do with a browser like uzbl.