You've gotten into the ridiculous, now. Living in caves without today's
technology is far from the thread. I never said it, either. And, if you've
been reading my messages, you would have also read that I do agree that
today's technology is good, but that braille does, in my opinion, have it's
place. So does all of the technology we all are using. I've been trying to
point out where I, personally, think that we can use braille rather than
other technology to enjoy our lives, or at least, mine, better. I find it
enjoyable to read a braille book, while others don't. I don't see the need
to use speech output and some sort of method of scanning a playing card when
you can more easily read it with your fingers using no other technology than
the braille on the card.
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you! really! are! finished!
----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the
costofdocumentation-Re:Somepracticalquestionsreguarding theMonopoly game
Hmmm, independence is not relying on technology unless you have to?
Well I hope you enjoy it in that cave with your fire and your club, since
you don't have! to use electricity, just use the nales and teeth you were
born with to hunt creatures in the forest and rely on your skin to keep
out the cold, since who wants all this complex living in houses.
To be hoenst charlse I don't think there's much point continuing this. You
just seem to have a grudge against any technology that isn't braille, and
a beleief that braille is inherently superior for some reason.
Myself I just regard braille as a means to an end and prefer to considder
it so, I've never found anything particularly astounding in it.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
I'd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Rivard" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the cost
ofdocumentation-Re:Somepracticalquestionsreguarding the Monopoly game
Using brailled playing cards rather than an electronic means to access
the symbols is just one less thing you have to hold in your hands. I can
hold the cards in my hand, face down, and read with fingers that I am
already equipped with. No need to stick labels onto the cards when I can
braille them and access those labels with nothing other than what I was
born with.
The technology is available, but can you imagine using a flat bed scanner
and OpenBook to find out what each card is? Fingers are faster, less
cumbersome, and more reliable. Independence is not having to rely on
technology unless you have to.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the cost of
documentation-Re:Somepracticalquestionsreguarding the Monopoly game
Well I do agree that the practical shape of the penfriend sensor would
make it less convenient to scan each card in your hand than reading a
braille label, however I suspect this will change in the future, for
example if you could have a smaller and more compact reading device
which you could hold more easily, say something the size of an actual
pen.
Again though, the Penfriend is the first device of it's type and this is
likely to change in the future, plus the device isn't so awkwkard to use
once you've got the muscle memory in your hands, ---- as i said I use
mine a great deal.
Regarding independence, I'm slightly confused on how using technology
isn't independence, unless your somehow claiming that my Penfriend is
acquivolent to a human helper. Why is writing a braille label and
sticking it onto something any less relying on technology, it's just a
question of the sophistication of the technology, heck if we take this
arguement to it's ultimate conclusion maybe we should all go back to
living like gorillas in the forest and be "independent" of these houses,
electricity etc.
I'm afraid you've lost me entirely here Charlse.
Beware the Grue!
dark.
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