OK, without resorting to opinion, studies have shown that children, whether hearing or deaf, who pick up signing in their formative years have the apparent gain of learing fasterthan their non-signing peers. ASL is a completely logical, structured language based out of the visual and spatial elements of our enviroment, and stimulates both sides of the brain (the artistic and logical sides). It is difficult to codify this since studies are just beginning, but many mothers report a simple joy in being able to comprehend their child's wants an earlier age than the child's _vocal_ processes would allow.
So what does this mean? While the hearing babies are screeching and wailing and gargling, a simple _gesture_ got the message across so much quicker. So no, I do _not_ agree that a person is better of being able to hear at birth and to acquire a spoken language in contrast to being deaf and acquiring Sign...(your words).
Well, I'm hearing impaired (binaural), and one of the things my folks did to keep my interest in reading and speaking when I was very young was get me tons of those 45 rpm records that came with books. They were usually adaptations of popular movies and other stories (i.e. Star Wars, The Jungle Book... a lot of classic Disney). I would sit and play the records and read along with the narration.
You, however, are much more mature so I'm guessing some audio books on tape are a solution, also you can see if Berlitz still has their English series. Other language formats can help also, the library, or your local 'Adult' education courses down at the college _could_ have some ESL (English as a Second Language) courses available.
Speech Therapy is another route, I had _years_ of speech therapy when I was a child, and it did help. There's nothing 'childish' about it at all, if that's something you're afraid of, because these people are professionals. They'll help you on the 'recieving' end, and give you feedback whether you're forming your vowels and consonants correctly (To this day I still have a problem with 's' sometimes).
This part is a little off topic now. I'm going to be completely forward and ask, can you sign at all? American Sign Languge? Yes, No? Because you can use ASL as a foundation to sign while you talk, it _does_ actually help make the message clearer. You didn't mention in your post whether you signed or not. I'm not talking about learning pure ASL, I mean using simple ASL signs in English word order. If you wrote that post, then English is obviously your first language, I'm willing to bet. This is a stop gap measure should cochlear not be able to capture the remaining percentage of your projected hearing range.
If you want to talk more, you can throw me an e-mail at this address, truefluke at yahoo dot com (you know how to read that). I only offer this as a fellow stuck in a hearing world who has some idea of what you're going through.
You can read my quick (5 minute) review of Programming PHPon www.signalnine.com.
I haven't had the chance to look at this particular book yet but I appreciate this review. Good job. Perhaps I shall pick it up, or at least park my butt at Borders bookstore and give it a more thorough glance the next time I am there.
I actually went to Slack's site about a week back, with the intent to either download stuff or order something from cheapbytes. When I read that they were preparing to release 8.1, I decided to hold off and wait.
I was going to download Slack so I could install the base and just do the./config, make, make install dance for a buncha stuff I like to use, like evilwm. My intentions was to pull something together from installing just the bare libs and packages I need, and create a desktop box for myself that just plain works.
Slackware may not be for everyone, but that doesn't make their efforts any less relevant. They're a proven distro. Looking forward to this!
Learn Sign Language. It's not that hard to learn and you could take comfort in the fact that you're learning a 'neat skill'. You don't even need to learn PURE ASL (American Sign Lang). Just use the signs in English word order. It's a lot cheaper.
But you probably wouldn't be willing to put in the effort. Centuries of 'progress' have taught me otherwise.
No, instead let's wire up the Deaf with some contraption because it's THEIR FAULT/PROBLEM AND NOT MY PROBLEM and there is something wrong WITH THEM after all. Sigh.
I've been waiting for a long time for videophones (a la Dick Tracy) to come into effect. The technology is THERE. The infrastructure is MOSTLY there.
But no one's picking it up, or, there's a fear that no one will 'catch-on' to this technology, or some other lame reason. Or so I'm told.
I disagree. I can sign. I use Amercian Sign Language, and on top of that, I can read _most_ people's lips. The Deaf would have so much LESS of a barrier if this came into widespread adoption.
This technology only benefits hearing people. UNLESS one considers that the deaf MIGHT be willing to have a voice synthesizer perform the auditory acrobatics FOR them. I think you'd have an easier time getting visual phones adopted and much more quickly.
(diversion: although part of me flinches at the comedic pontential of this muscle-recognition technology. If both come into effect, how hard of a time am I going to read someone's lips when their mouths are contorting themselves by HABIT to be understood if this technology gets widespread adoption FIRST)
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Why am i posting here? I dunno. I don't think it's completely off-topic if one considers minority groups being overlooked (again). I'm sure this technology is focused on English speakers.
OK, I risk showing my advanced age here, but work with me on this one. Go to down to your favourite newsstand. Pick up a copy of Rolling Stone, flip to the back, historically that's where the Billboard bits are.
Look for the 'Top 40' listings, if they're still calling it that. I listen to format radio often enough (when I'm driving around in my car) that I can predict what's on there without actually seeing it (I digress here, sorry)... the reason why the recording industry is in a slump?
I don't know why I feel so indifferent about this. Maybe its because I have an Uncle who worked for Kodak (in Rochester NY). I remember when I was about age 11 or so, He was telling me how Kodak lost their battle in court to continue making their Instamatic (sp?) cameras. Polariod has a history of trying to edge out competition, just like any other corporation. If they can't keep up, hey, what goes around...
I needed to be fingerprinted before they would give me my green card, what fascinated me was this machine they took my fingerprints on.
At first glance it looks like a photocopier gone haywire, with a largish monitor. This is where your fingerprint image gets projected. There are several squares of different sizes, and they look similar to the glass partition of an everyday photocopier.
No ink involved, He just asked me to lightly place my fingers on the glass, and he held my fingers at some points to keep them from jiggling (he was very exacting about it).
When he was satisfied, he brought the images of my prints up on the screen in front of us. He remarked "Well, no life of crime for you". He was referring to the fact that I had "excellent patterning". He remarked that "You have excellently defined fingertips" etc. etc. He then showed me the neatest thing he magnified my prints to the point that he could COUNT the skin pores between the whorls of my thumbprint
Actually I was impressed, since up til that point it had always involved me getting my fingers full of that stupid ink and having to roll them around on a piece of paper. That machine was much cooler.
Hi there. As I have moved down here into the United States from Canada, you would think I would be having difficulty, but this is not the case.
Royal have been extremely helpful for me with their 1-800 service whenever I have had questions, or needed to get something done. In fact, it is the American banks down here that give me more grief, relatively speaking:)
And in answer to your initial question, IIRC I have no problems with their web interface, using either Netscape (Linux or otherwise) or MSIE when needed. It is simple and straighforward scripting, no fancy stuff.
Hope this helps:)
~darren
Let them keep their graphics software for some profit, but open source Word Perfect. The filters are very very good IMHO and I'm sure all could benefit of it. It might do well in showing even more goodwill to the community? No?
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Thanks for that clarification. I just felt the tone was a dismissal of signing outright. I feel better now.
So what does this mean? While the hearing babies are screeching and wailing and gargling, a simple _gesture_ got the message across so much quicker. So no, I do _not_ agree that a person is better of being able to hear at birth and to acquire a spoken language in contrast to being deaf and acquiring Sign...(your words).
You, however, are much more mature so I'm guessing some audio books on tape are a solution, also you can see if Berlitz still has their English series. Other language formats can help also, the library, or your local 'Adult' education courses down at the college _could_ have some ESL (English as a Second Language) courses available.
Speech Therapy is another route, I had _years_ of speech therapy when I was a child, and it did help. There's nothing 'childish' about it at all, if that's something you're afraid of, because these people are professionals. They'll help you on the 'recieving' end, and give you feedback whether you're forming your vowels and consonants correctly (To this day I still have a problem with 's' sometimes).
This part is a little off topic now. I'm going to be completely forward and ask, can you sign at all? American Sign Languge? Yes, No? Because you can use ASL as a foundation to sign while you talk, it _does_ actually help make the message clearer. You didn't mention in your post whether you signed or not. I'm not talking about learning pure ASL, I mean using simple ASL signs in English word order. If you wrote that post, then English is obviously your first language, I'm willing to bet. This is a stop gap measure should cochlear not be able to capture the remaining percentage of your projected hearing range.
If you want to talk more, you can throw me an e-mail at this address, truefluke at yahoo dot com (you know how to read that). I only offer this as a fellow stuck in a hearing world who has some idea of what you're going through.
There is one, its called scriptbasic.
http://www.scriptbasic.com/html/index.html
it looks interesting.
The DBI isn't included in standard Perl. You have to download it from CPAN. Unless you've installed (or someone has for you) Indigo or NuSphere.
I haven't had the chance to look at this particular book yet but I appreciate this review. Good job. Perhaps I shall pick it up, or at least park my butt at Borders bookstore and give it a more thorough glance the next time I am there.
evilwm is a minimalist window manager. Here is a link to a review of evilwm on signalnine.coma little while back. It's quite nice.
I was going to download Slack so I could install the base and just do the ./config, make, make install dance for a buncha stuff I like to use, like evilwm. My intentions was to pull something together from installing just the bare libs and packages I need, and create a desktop box for myself that just plain works.
Slackware may not be for everyone, but that doesn't make their efforts any less relevant. They're a proven distro. Looking forward to this!
Learn Sign Language. It's not that hard to learn and you could take comfort in the fact that you're learning a 'neat skill'. You don't even need to learn PURE ASL (American Sign Lang). Just use the signs in English word order. It's a lot cheaper.
But you probably wouldn't be willing to put in the effort. Centuries of 'progress' have taught me otherwise.
No, instead let's wire up the Deaf with some contraption because it's THEIR FAULT/PROBLEM AND NOT MY PROBLEM and there is something wrong WITH THEM after all. Sigh.
But no one's picking it up, or, there's a fear that no one will 'catch-on' to this technology, or some other lame reason. Or so I'm told.
I disagree. I can sign. I use Amercian Sign Language, and on top of that, I can read _most_ people's lips. The Deaf would have so much LESS of a barrier if this came into widespread adoption.
This technology only benefits hearing people. UNLESS one considers that the deaf MIGHT be willing to have a voice synthesizer perform the auditory acrobatics FOR them. I think you'd have an easier time getting visual phones adopted and much more quickly.
(diversion: although part of me flinches at the comedic pontential of this muscle-recognition technology. If both come into effect, how hard of a time am I going to read someone's lips when their mouths are contorting themselves by HABIT to be understood if this technology gets widespread adoption FIRST)
.Why am i posting here? I dunno. I don't think it's completely off-topic if one considers minority groups being overlooked (again). I'm sure this technology is focused on English speakers.
OK, I risk showing my advanced age here, but work with me on this one. Go to down to your favourite newsstand. Pick up a copy of Rolling Stone, flip to the back, historically that's where the Billboard bits are.
Look for the 'Top 40' listings, if they're still calling it that. I listen to format radio often enough (when I'm driving around in my car) that I can predict what's on there without actually seeing it (I digress here, sorry)... the reason why the recording industry is in a slump?
The records/tapes/albums/CDs are boring.
I don't know why I feel so indifferent about this. Maybe its because I have an Uncle who worked for Kodak (in Rochester NY). I remember when I was about age 11 or so, He was telling me how Kodak lost their battle in court to continue making their Instamatic (sp?) cameras. Polariod has a history of trying to edge out competition, just like any other corporation. If they can't keep up, hey, what goes around...
... at this rate, pretty soon they're going to have to change their namesake to "Hydra".
I needed to be fingerprinted before they would give me my green card, what fascinated me was this machine they took my fingerprints on.
At first glance it looks like a photocopier gone haywire, with a largish monitor. This is where your fingerprint image gets projected. There are several squares of different sizes, and they look similar to the glass partition of an everyday photocopier.
No ink involved, He just asked me to lightly place my fingers on the glass, and he held my fingers at some points to keep them from jiggling (he was very exacting about it).
When he was satisfied, he brought the images of my prints up on the screen in front of us. He remarked "Well, no life of crime for you". He was referring to the fact that I had "excellent patterning". He remarked that "You have excellently defined fingertips" etc. etc. He then showed me the neatest thing he magnified my prints to the point that he could COUNT the skin pores between the whorls of my thumbprint
Actually I was impressed, since up til that point it had always involved me getting my fingers full of that stupid ink and having to roll them around on a piece of paper. That machine was much cooler.
And for the record, I don't have one :)
Hi there. As I have moved down here into the United States from Canada, you would think I would be having difficulty, but this is not the case. Royal have been extremely helpful for me with their 1-800 service whenever I have had questions, or needed to get something done. In fact, it is the American banks down here that give me more grief, relatively speaking :)
And in answer to your initial question, IIRC I have no problems with their web interface, using either Netscape (Linux or otherwise) or MSIE when needed. It is simple and straighforward scripting, no fancy stuff.
Hope this helps :)
~darren
Let them keep their graphics software for some profit, but open source Word Perfect. The filters are very very good IMHO and I'm sure all could benefit of it. It might do well in showing even more goodwill to the community? No?
The last paragraph is .. unsettling. But Linux will survive because MacOS X is still not "free" software.
I can buy MacOSX as a spit n polish BSD based GUI.
I would continue running Linux because I *enjoy* it.
I don't think I'm the only one who thinks like this.
Actually its a pun. And a pretty bad one, considering, these guys don't get the GNU sense of humour at all.
(G)/Nutella (notice the slash). "Nutella" is a chocolate hazelnut spread, commonly put on toast.See? I told you it was lousy. :\
Are you referring to the Govenor General? All he does is submit reports to her HRH.
And the only powers she has is "advisory".
I believe it works this way: The BNA act, which was created c.1867 was repealed by HRH in 1982 with the Canada act, 1982 under Pierre Trudeau.
http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/ Canada_Act_1982.html
Canada is no longer a part of the British empire. Hasn't been for quite some time.
"Microsoft Enticed To Move To Brisith Columbia[ Microsoft ] Posted by Hemos on Friday June 02, @07:06AM from the probably-not-going-to-happen dept."
Damn Americans.
Brisith Columbia? 100 milez from See-addle?
Now if I could just build this kinda processing power in my head maybe it wouldn't take me so long to learn sh ... er new stuff ;)
Penthouse will come out with issues that smell like ... well you know ... Mark my words.
Aide: Sir, are you seriously considering nuking the moon?
President: (pause) Would you miss it? Well?!!
(paraphrased, but if you've seen it, you will recall this scene) ;)
just for yucks they shouda had a screen shot showing 'i love you' in the del bin heh heh