Hi Ann and all, Though I agree that ones needs are high priority, extensibility has shown itself to be a topselling requirement and marketing criterian of late, and one which, in my opinion, is seized at almost any cost - financial, learning or otherwise - by blind and vision-impaired persons as much as their sighted counterparts. Whole organisations are being formed around this theory, with fundamentally mainstream-first approaches to this problem (see the talking mobile phone options). That's no accident - it is essential that pocket-sized devices do amazing things within their capacities and with full concession to industry standard, whatever their basic functions allow. True, the BrailleNote tends to be implicated in educational settings and in the no-brainer variety of user (no insult meant here!), but that still leaves no real excuse for infidelity, which is something you'll hit hard with BrailleNote if you're the beyond- productivity, non-discriminative type at this moment. If any future customer were a member of this list for long enough, they might conceive that this state of affairs would remain this way for, in theory, an indefinite length of time if each and every one of their "Can BrailleNote do X?" comes back with a "Sorry, no, it can't." It is essential, in my opinion, that people making choices are aware of this danger. Make no mistake - I'm not about to drop a ton bomb on PulseData, but there is no doubt that I feel somewhat stranded with my two-year-old BrailleNote at the moment, purely because I have fundamentally exhausted all of its capabilities, even though it could remain excessively useful were it extended even slightly. Since PulseData are working on the SDK, this may change, and I may be at last able to get the best of both worlds. In the meantime, though, the work has already been done on other competitive notetakers and people making a choice should use the company history and user feedback made to it to their advantage in this respect.
On 14 Nov 2004 at 7:25, akp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke, thus: [...] > BTW, if you're going to use the second person singular in it's > archaeic form, got to get it right. Thy, is the word you wanted, not > thou. Thou is the subject, Thy is the possessive, also thine, when used > before a word that starts with a vowel, e.g. thine apples, thine eyes, etc. > <smiling> Sorry, can't resist discussing words. And hear I was, hoping no-one would notice or care about that little mistake. Darn. <Grin> Yeah, spotted that error after I'd sent my mail, but thanks anyway! Interested in words? Try http://wordsmith.org/ - that's a good one, a word a day in your inbox. Plain text too, so the BrailleNote will have no problem with them. I love words and language, English less due to the language's tremendous set of flaws and needless western-world ambiguities, but since I learnt the language out of a book since babyhood, it's been altogether necessary for me to do the thing right most times. I'm thinking of learning Esperanto, a truely better language in my opinion in both grammar and root formation and in general one-to-one correspondences in both meaning and phonetic formation, but no synthesiser or braille code exists for it to the best of my knowledge. Darn. Cheers, Sabahattin -- If an email tells you to forward it to all your friends, please temporarily forget that I am your friend. Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 20 88008915 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Skype: SabahattinGucukoglu (requires authorisation, add me to your list first)
