May I recommend also having a trackball handy for teaching as well, and learn your windows keyboard mappings and make a chart to give them to do their navigation from the keyboard (difficult but possible in most cases). Arthritis isn't the only senior-predominant medical condition that can do funky things to fingers, hands, wrists and forearms, and you'll likely find that some of your senior clients can use one or two of the three, but not the other(s). My mother-in-law has arthritis and carpal tunnel, and works in a newspaper office. They regular mouse was impractical and sometimes painful to use. They tried her out on a couple of other tools and settled on one of the larger Logitech trackballs.
She was back up to speed in no time.
Puh-lease. This is an entirely non-issue. The point of view you are representing here is thankfully dying out with other such flat-earth flathead memes that could only flourish in an environment of widespread ignorance. That time is coming to an end; *has* come to an end. Stay healthy, you may die out the last of your breed. For an example of how people may see your point of view, and as an illustration to the rest of/. of the aberrant mindset you're coming from, I humbly submit http://www.godhatesfags.com - a truly deranged site. Lorenzo
Just a suggestion; all these savvy minds out here, surely 10 or so of them could, say, get together and get a loan to produce a movie that could portray the culture better than it has, and still be dramatic somehow (picture japanese animation cut-to's of abstract or unrelated images intended to evoke a response in similarity to the actual event at hand). Surely some of you out there have good credit and some good film school buddies... not to mention a decent plot. Hit the independent/alternative film festivals and you're almost guaranteed a hit these days. Lorenzo
Your assertion makes no sense. In the first place, *all* areas of human endeavor are built on the economic foundation prevalent at the time it is undertaken. In the *second* place, what were you planning on using to pay for internet technology's ubiquity? Lorenzo
I was thinking _Earth_ as well while reading the article. The net being hooked into everything, the jaw-motion interfaces, Tru-Vu goggles, having to read a minimum threshold of daily news in order to keep the right to vote, the cultish NorAChuGa and Ra Boys, the horrifying description of the Helvetian war, Sea State, intelligent software agents of inestimable subtlety and power, the social marginalization of waste, hamburgers, and cigarettes, the whole ball of wax. Brin made a future we can visualize. An amazing work everyone should read. Lorenzo Smythe
And it was Robert A. Heinlein. For any who wish to read "The Man Who Sold The Moon", it is bundled in at least one of his short story/novella collections; _The Past Through Tomorrow_. A really good book and a *really* good story...in my opinion the best way we *could* generate enough economic interest in the moon to finally set up shop there. Longshot
Read their marketing brochures. Check out their website. Then read _Earth_, by David Brin. IBM's workin' fast and furious for the 30-50-year payoff, IMHO. Lorenzo
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May I recommend also having a trackball handy for teaching as well, and learn your windows keyboard mappings and make a chart to give them to do their navigation from the keyboard (difficult but possible in most cases). Arthritis isn't the only senior-predominant medical condition that can do funky things to fingers, hands, wrists and forearms, and you'll likely find that some of your senior clients can use one or two of the three, but not the other(s). My mother-in-law has arthritis and carpal tunnel, and works in a newspaper office. They regular mouse was impractical and sometimes painful to use. They tried her out on a couple of other tools and settled on one of the larger Logitech trackballs.
She was back up to speed in no time.
Longshot
Puh-lease. This is an entirely non-issue. The point of view you are representing here is thankfully dying out with other such flat-earth flathead memes that could only flourish in an environment of widespread ignorance. That time is coming to an end; *has* come to an end. Stay healthy, you may die out the last of your breed. For an example of how people may see your point of view, and as an illustration to the rest of /. of the aberrant mindset you're coming from, I humbly submit http://www.godhatesfags.com - a truly deranged site. Lorenzo
Just a suggestion; all these savvy minds out here, surely 10 or so of them could, say, get together and get a loan to produce a movie that could portray the culture better than it has, and still be dramatic somehow (picture japanese animation cut-to's of abstract or unrelated images intended to evoke a response in similarity to the actual event at hand). Surely some of you out there have good credit and some good film school buddies... not to mention a decent plot. Hit the independent/alternative film festivals and you're almost guaranteed a hit these days. Lorenzo
Your assertion makes no sense. In the first place, *all* areas of human endeavor are built on the economic foundation prevalent at the time it is undertaken. In the *second* place, what were you planning on using to pay for internet technology's ubiquity? Lorenzo
I was thinking _Earth_ as well while reading the article. The net being hooked into everything, the jaw-motion interfaces, Tru-Vu goggles, having to read a minimum threshold of daily news in order to keep the right to vote, the cultish NorAChuGa and Ra Boys, the horrifying description of the Helvetian war, Sea State, intelligent software agents of inestimable subtlety and power, the social marginalization of waste, hamburgers, and cigarettes, the whole ball of wax. Brin made a future we can visualize. An amazing work everyone should read. Lorenzo Smythe
And it was Robert A. Heinlein. For any who wish to read "The Man Who Sold The Moon", it is bundled in at least one of his short story/novella collections; _The Past Through Tomorrow_. A really good book and a *really* good story...in my opinion the best way we *could* generate enough economic interest in the moon to finally set up shop there. Longshot
Read their marketing brochures. Check out their website. Then read _Earth_, by David Brin. IBM's workin' fast and furious for the 30-50-year payoff, IMHO. Lorenzo