Hi trouble.
True, by the end of it I was hating dos, 1 task at once.
And yes win 9x compaired to what we have is just as sucky now.
Its probably more the fact that we have been stagnating using windows
and not having to work for access which is the problem.
Ms are actually trying to release development test systems to the
reader previders.
And with nvda we are constantly going up and up.
So its not all bad, it is sertainly not as bad or expensive as it
used to be but to some extent it still is.
We have however had the same stuff for to long, but cash is the thing.
I have seen win7 and live it a bit more than xp.
Though saying that I will stay 32 bit as long as I can really.
At 07:39 a.m. 12/12/2011 -0500, you wrote:
As far as change. You have to have it or stuff don't get done.
People get lazy doing the same old stuff, and when something comes
out that makes something better to use or at least lets us use it in
a normal fashion. Progress moves even faster. We use to have to wait
until the first or second upgrade to a op before we got to have speech on it.
The main reason it took a long time to get out of text is mainly the
cost of computers and speech was not all that good.
Once more sighted people started buying computers the blind had it
made, because that forced a push to make them useful. Now a big
portion of the blind community has computers. More talk back and
forth and no one has to wait for letters that never come or are out
of date when gotten.
I remember when apple came out with the first talking computer. It
was so basic, but didn't do a thing for the blind as much as it does
now. If I had the computers I have had in the past when I was going
to school. I might of not had as much time doing that work and
learned even more. My girlfriend's niece is only 7 in third grade.
That kid gets computer homework every night. By the time she hits
high school. She will be able to run it without having to pay anyone
to fix problems with it. computers have bridged the learning curve
for schools that if the kids would just learn it instead of waste
it. We might be doing the Buck Rogers thing buy now.
You find more things going forward then staying in the past and
becoming outdated and useless! Just think about 8tracks. They came
and gone like dust and about as useless. The same routine just gets
borring, daul and mindless. If never progressed then nothing else
gets made to work with those that are disabled.
The last example is windows and our games. No win95, no VB6 and all
those games you like to play. Don't say text based was good. No one
wanted to write commands for everything on the computer. i knew a
secratary that used a computer every day at work. When I came up
with my talking computer using the command line. She didn't even
know how to do that. She was a spoon fed macro sighted world. I
passed her college learned computer tasks in about 1 munth thanks to
my talking computer and windows.
I will move right along with these computers, because each move is
more i can do!
At 05:58 AM 12/12/2011, you wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Yeah, you know allot of people just do not like change. Routine is
comfortable. And learning a new way of doing things may not be
easy for some. And then there is that often our access is
behind. That is our screen reader of choice may not support the
newest version of an operating system as it comes out. And then I
don't think that the graphical user interface is as intuitive for
us as it is for sighted folks. So when it totally changes it may
be harder for us to get a grip on what is going on with it. Heck
it took allot of blind people a very long time to move on from the
text based command line to the graphical user interface.
BFN
Jim
A long time ago I changed my name from Ron Moore.
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http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440) 286-6920
Chardon Ohio USA
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