Dear Friends,
This is not JAWS or Blind Computing related, and I beg David's and those
not interested indulgence, but I must tell you this.
Out of the top 10 rated Blind Chess Players out of a field of 50 active
members of our
United States Braille Chess Association,
Well 5 of the top 10 are over 70, 1 is 75, one is 80, 1 is 85, and one is 89
years old!
So either Chess is indeed "Gymnastics for the Brain" and will help keep you
sharp, or it is just a strange coincidence.
By the way 3 of these distinguished gentlemen are rated higher than myself,
rated number 5, and can beat me most always, and I have been playing Chess
since I was 8 years old!
With Best Regards,
Alan
Miami, Florida
Alan Dicey, President
United States Braille Chess Association - USBCA
"Yes, Blind or Visually Impaired People Can, and Do, Play Chess!!!"
United States Braille Chess Association Home Page:
http://AmericanBlindChess.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marilyn Walker" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Upgrading from XP to Windows 7
Mike, I beg your pardon, but age is really irrelevant in generalizing about
people's capacities. Age doesn't make me wiser than a `26 year old; nor
does age make me a doddering old fool who can't learn any longer. I am
older but I wouldn't label myself as elderly.I cannot, however, run and on
some days just taking the garbage out is an all day endeavor. But I have a
wealth of experience and reading beehind me and I continue to add to it. I
can only hope that people who are younger than I will look past the halting
of step and realize that I probably can structure a valid argument better
than i could when I was in my twenties.
So Chris and others just had a learning experience that should make them
stop and think the next time they make age assumptions that blanket all
"older" people. Marilyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike & Barbara Arcadia" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Upgrading from XP to Windows 7
: HI George;
The 70's are the new 50's, and that makes you a hell of a lot wiser than
: someone in their 40's! LOL Take care.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Marshall" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Upgrading from XP to Windows 7
What does that make me at 76?
George R. Marshall
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Levy" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Upgrading from XP to Windows 7
The "elderly" members of your family are in their 40's? I guess that
makes me a doddering old geezer at the age of 60.
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "chris hallsworth" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Upgrading from XP to Windows 7
No I completely understand that. Me and my sister both use Windows 7,
but my elderly members of my family are using XP, simply because I didn't
want them to learn a whole new operating system as they are in their 40's!
They just want to turn on a computer, surf the web, turn off
again.
That's all. So thought why not go for XP as it's something they're used
to. They have both a desktop and a netbook running XP Home and they're
happy with it.
From Chris H in Derbyshire
On 10/09/2010 21:19, Marilyn Walker wrote:
Chris, it is all a matter of opinion. Most of us are not computer
experts
or developers or geeks or whatever. If xp is working for many of us
it seems sort of silly to change and spend all that money just to say you
have the latest of whatever. I have college teacher friends who are being
forced into windows 7 at work (the college skipped Vista for good reason)
and
they are having fits about the new stuff. I don't see that Microsoft or
anyone else takes into consideration that a lot of already harried educators
keep getting slammed into all the new stuff whether it is necessary to do
it or not. Then constant Blackboard upgrades enter the mix with the end
result that all their time is devoted to computer hassles rather than to
teaching
students history, literature and the other things that they are in
college to learn. Just my opinion. In my former life, I was quite able to
teach just fine with chalk, walk and talk. I'm not convinced that all the
newest technology can substitute for that unless one such as we cannot see
without the technology. If xp serves one well, he or she could do worse
than to change until forced to do so.
: >>> What exactly, is so great about windows 7? Marilyn
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