Hi all, I'm not sure what kind of recognition is appropriate, but the phrase that came to my mind (as the name for an award) is the one from the movie, "This is Spinal Tap" where Nigel Tufnel says, "This one goes to 11" speaking about his amplifier. I was reminded of the 1-5 rating scale that Greg introduced for the new directory of accessible apps. The quote about the background context for the phrase, "This one goes to 11", makes it clear that you generatlly just got more distortion, not amplification.
"A posting to the Internet group alt.fan.spinal-tap by Ray Abbitt shed some light on the history of powered amps: 'Early Fender Champs (a small, low-powered amp, probably intended for practice) had no controls except for a volume control that went to 11. And from about 5 on up, they didn?t get any louder?just more distorted.' " It's a nice idea that someone is listening without the distortion. (Sorry if this discussion is too silly. For those of you not familiar with Spinal Tap, the movie is a spoof -- a documentary [or "rockumentary"] of Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands.) Cheers, Esther On Tuesday, May 08, 2007, "Patrick Neazer" wrote: >Good morning Greg and all: > >Here is a silly question. > >Let me start by saying I agree with Greg. we should give this guy >some kind of prize. > >Here is my question. what kind of prize? > >If anyone is still reading this here is my point. the prize idea ... >which does not necessarily have to mean money ... is a great idea. >there has to be a way to reward and recognize people who actually >take into consideration the programming needs and wants of the >consumer who uses this list. there is a considerable amount of time >spent, and rightly so, pointing out when an application falls short. >this could be an opportunity for the list to think about a way to say >good job to someone who might be encouraged to do it again. > >On May 7, 2007, at 9:40 PM, Greg Kearney wrote: > >> We should give this guy some kind of prize. This is about the most >> accessible application from a third party I've seen even has VO >> help. No footnotes or endnotes that I can find but everything else >> is there even a non-visual way to set tab stops! It get a 5 for >> sure just added to to the database.
