Re: [Audyssey] Implementing graphic in games with and withoutsidedassistence

2011-04-21 Thread shaun everiss
its a pitty ms are not apple, its been something I have been thinking 
of for a while even though they are a bit expensive.
I have to much to switch to  mac invested in windows, though if I did 
it all over again I'd have mac, maybe linux, and maybe some old 
probably semi alegal windows for gaming or whatever heck I may have 
just skipped this os alltogether.
Though since I have invested in upgrades to use 7 with some systems 
here I can't see myself moving any time soon.

I don't care for touchscreens either.

Don't think they will listen, because the next move Microsoft is 
going towards is touch screen and forget the keyboard.

Just like with them sloughing off accessibility.
At 10:56 PM 4/20/2011, you wrote:

Yep.

When I bought my first xp desktop in 2005, I got a middle of the 
road graphics card on the advice of the nice local place who were 
building my pc, who told me that high end was only necessary to run 
uba 3D games, but low end would drag down everything.


Now, as Tom said, the basic spec for windows has gone up a lot, 
another reason why I'm sticking to xp for the time being, sinse 
hopefuly by the time I need to upgrade, enough people (as I've 
heard those very up in the It services markit say), will be narked 
with the fancy, flashy, system intensive interface enough to force 
ms to give some sort of alternative.


In fairness I'm not just talking about visually impared people 
here, I have friends who are equally annoyed with it, also 
ironically, I do know some people who say they find it too! complex 
and confusing and want something simpler as in previous versions of windows.


I've already heard of an open source alternative called classic 
shell which converts much of the windows 7 and vista gui to look 
like, and resemble the xp model, maybe ms will actually listen, 
 though I admit this is probably a very remote possibility 
sinse ms and listen are two different things.


Beware the grue!

Dark.

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Re: [Audyssey] Implementing graphic in games with and withoutsidedassistence

2011-04-21 Thread shaun everiss
well I know there was some argument with current screen manufacturers 
earlier about ms taking over reader markets and saying it would only 
work with ms stuf.

Narater, well what good is it.
nvda is a glorified narater at any rate.
It will do about 99% of all programs that have coman controls in fact 
with those that use all the ms stuff it runs closer to full use of 
all the features than comercial readers do.

ANd it doesn't care what graphics card you have.

Actually, windows 8 is in early alpha stages and I know a blind user 
who's testing it. Narrator actually is taking on some apple concepts 
of screen navigation, so who knows. Maybe ms will continue it.

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Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 4:03 PM
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Don't think they will listen, because the next move Microsoft is 
going towards is touch screen and forget the keyboard.

Just like with them sloughing off accessibility.
At 10:56 PM 4/20/2011, you wrote:

Yep.

When I bought my first xp desktop in 2005, I got a middle of the 
road graphics card on the advice of the nice local place who were 
building my pc, who told me that high end was only necessary to 
run uba 3D games, but low end would drag down everything.


Now, as Tom said, the basic spec for windows has gone up a lot, 
another reason why I'm sticking to xp for the time being, sinse 
hopefuly by the time I need to upgrade, enough people (as I've 
heard those very up in the It services markit say), will be narked 
with the fancy, flashy, system intensive interface enough to force 
ms to give some sort of alternative.


In fairness I'm not just talking about visually impared people 
here, I have friends who are equally annoyed with it, also 
ironically, I do know some people who say they find it too! 
complex and confusing and want something simpler as in previous 
versions of windows.


I've already heard of an open source alternative called classic 
shell which converts much of the windows 7 and vista gui to look 
like, and resemble the xp model, maybe ms will actually listen, 
 though I admit this is probably a very remote possibility 
sinse ms and listen are two different things.


Beware the grue!

Dark.

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Re: [Audyssey] Implementing graphic in games with and withoutsidedassistence

2011-04-21 Thread shaun everiss

its a pitty ribbons can't be turned off to in such things as office.
Yes the i3 my brother uses is cool and yeah I only use it to keep it 
updated and don't have to

do much bar search for things but then its not mine.
If it was I think I would have done some  major system fiddling ages 
ago though I like bits of the interface.



Hi Dark,

Definitely. There are a lot of people who are turned off by the
high-end graphics and animation in Windows 7. Including me, because I
have to have a pretty high-end computer just to run the OS let alone
any apps. Then, because of all that 3d Windows Arrow interface that 3
GHZ system with 2 GB of ram etc runs no better than a 1 GHZ system
with 512 MB of ram with XP just because of the extra bloat. Here is a
nice little comparison for you.

Windows XP  500 MHZ processor, 128 MB ram, and 1 GB free hard
drive space. That's the initial system requirements for the OS as I
recall. Here is Windows 7.

Windows 7  1 GHZ processor, 1 GB ram, and at least 4 GB hard drive
space. Which is way more than XP in terms of basic specs. It requires
four times the hard drive space, twice the processor power, and 10
times the memory. Talk about bloat!

This is one reason my wife and I are looking at open source
alternitives. Even though Ubuntu is looking at more graphics intensive
user interfaces like Unity you still have the option to turn it off
and use the classic desktop if you want to. Plus they have a XUbuntu
version that was designed for low-end machines and low memory
environments. So I think Linux has the right idea here.


For new Windows users the only option is something like Classic Shell.
I've tried it and it is a really nice piece of software. It basically
gives you options to turn off Windows Arrow, a lot of the animations,
use classic folder views, use classic start menu, etc which is 100
times more accessible than the defaults you get with Windows 7. Plus
by turning off all that graphical garbage the OS runs better too.
H..I wonder why?

Cheers!

On 4/20/11, dark  wrote:
> Yep.
>
> When I bought my first xp desktop in 2005, I got a middle of the road
> graphics card on the advice of the nice local place who were 
building my pc,

> who told me that high end was only necessary to run uba 3D games, but low
> end would drag down everything.
>
> Now, as Tom said, the basic spec for windows has gone up a lot, another
> reason why I'm sticking to xp for the time being, sinse hopefuly 
by the time

> I need to upgrade, enough people (as I've heard those very up in the It
> services markit say), will be narked with the fancy, flashy, system
> intensive interface enough to force ms to give some sort of alternative.
>
> In fairness I'm not just talking about visually impared people here, I have
> friends who are equally annoyed with it, also ironically, I do know some
> people who say they find it too! complex and confusing and want something
> simpler as in previous versions of windows.
>
> I've already heard of an open source alternative called classic shell which
> converts much of the windows 7 and vista gui to look like, and resemble the
> xp model, maybe ms will actually listen,  though I admit this is
> probably a very remote possibility sinse ms and listen are two different
> things.
>
> Beware the grue!
>
> Dark.
>
>
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Re: [Audyssey] Implementing graphic in games with and withoutsidedassistence

2011-04-21 Thread Pitermach
Actually, windows 8 is in early alpha stages and I know a blind user who's 
testing it. Narrator actually is taking on some apple concepts of screen 
navigation, so who knows. Maybe ms will continue it.
- Original Message - 
From: "Trouble" 

To: "Gamers Discussion list" 
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Implementing graphic in games with and 
withoutsidedassistence



Don't think they will listen, because the next move Microsoft is going 
towards is touch screen and forget the keyboard.

Just like with them sloughing off accessibility.
At 10:56 PM 4/20/2011, you wrote:

Yep.

When I bought my first xp desktop in 2005, I got a middle of the road 
graphics card on the advice of the nice local place who were building my 
pc, who told me that high end was only necessary to run uba 3D games, but 
low end would drag down everything.


Now, as Tom said, the basic spec for windows has gone up a lot, another 
reason why I'm sticking to xp for the time being, sinse hopefuly by the 
time I need to upgrade, enough people (as I've heard those very up in the 
It services markit say), will be narked with the fancy, flashy, system 
intensive interface enough to force ms to give some sort of alternative.


In fairness I'm not just talking about visually impared people here, I 
have friends who are equally annoyed with it, also ironically, I do know 
some people who say they find it too! complex and confusing and want 
something simpler as in previous versions of windows.


I've already heard of an open source alternative called classic shell 
which converts much of the windows 7 and vista gui to look like, and 
resemble the xp model, maybe ms will actually listen,  
though I admit this is probably a very remote possibility sinse ms and 
listen are two different things.


Beware the grue!

Dark.

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Re: [Audyssey] Implementing graphic in games with and withoutsidedassistence

2011-04-21 Thread Trouble
Don't think they will listen, because the next move Microsoft is 
going towards is touch screen and forget the keyboard.

Just like with them sloughing off accessibility.
At 10:56 PM 4/20/2011, you wrote:

Yep.

When I bought my first xp desktop in 2005, I got a middle of the 
road graphics card on the advice of the nice local place who were 
building my pc, who told me that high end was only necessary to run 
uba 3D games, but low end would drag down everything.


Now, as Tom said, the basic spec for windows has gone up a lot, 
another reason why I'm sticking to xp for the time being, sinse 
hopefuly by the time I need to upgrade, enough people (as I've heard 
those very up in the It services markit say), will be narked with 
the fancy, flashy, system intensive interface enough to force ms to 
give some sort of alternative.


In fairness I'm not just talking about visually impared people here, 
I have friends who are equally annoyed with it, also ironically, I 
do know some people who say they find it too! complex and confusing 
and want something simpler as in previous versions of windows.


I've already heard of an open source alternative called classic 
shell which converts much of the windows 7 and vista gui to look 
like, and resemble the xp model, maybe ms will actually listen,  
though I admit this is probably a very remote possibility sinse ms 
and listen are two different things.


Beware the grue!

Dark.

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Re: [Audyssey] Implementing graphic in games with and withoutsidedassistence

2011-04-20 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark,

Definitely. There are a lot of people who are turned off by the
high-end graphics and animation in Windows 7. Including me, because I
have to have a pretty high-end computer just to run the OS let alone
any apps. Then, because of all that 3d Windows Arrow interface that 3
GHZ system with 2 GB of ram etc runs no better than a 1 GHZ system
with 512 MB of ram with XP just because of the extra bloat. Here is a
nice little comparison for you.

Windows XP  500 MHZ processor, 128 MB ram, and 1 GB free hard
drive space. That's the initial system requirements for the OS as I
recall. Here is Windows 7.

Windows 7  1 GHZ processor, 1 GB ram, and at least 4 GB hard drive
space. Which is way more than XP in terms of basic specs. It requires
four times the hard drive space, twice the processor power, and 10
times the memory. Talk about bloat!

This is one reason my wife and I are looking at open source
alternitives. Even though Ubuntu is looking at more graphics intensive
user interfaces like Unity you still have the option to turn it off
and use the classic desktop if you want to. Plus they have a XUbuntu
version that was designed for low-end machines and low memory
environments. So I think Linux has the right idea here.


For new Windows users the only option is something like Classic Shell.
I've tried it and it is a really nice piece of software. It basically
gives you options to turn off Windows Arrow, a lot of the animations,
use classic folder views, use classic start menu, etc which is 100
times more accessible than the defaults you get with Windows 7. Plus
by turning off all that graphical garbage the OS runs better too.
H..I wonder why?

Cheers!

On 4/20/11, dark  wrote:
> Yep.
>
> When I bought my first xp desktop in 2005, I got a middle of the road
> graphics card on the advice of the nice local place who were building my pc,
> who told me that high end was only necessary to run uba 3D games, but low
> end would drag down everything.
>
> Now, as Tom said, the basic spec for windows has gone up a lot, another
> reason why I'm sticking to xp for the time being, sinse hopefuly by the time
> I need to upgrade, enough people (as I've heard those very up in the It
> services markit say), will be narked with the fancy, flashy, system
> intensive interface enough to force ms to give some sort of alternative.
>
> In fairness I'm not just talking about visually impared people here, I have
> friends who are equally annoyed with it, also ironically, I do know some
> people who say they find it too! complex and confusing and want something
> simpler as in previous versions of windows.
>
> I've already heard of an open source alternative called classic shell which
> converts much of the windows 7 and vista gui to look like, and resemble the
> xp model, maybe ms will actually listen,  though I admit this is
> probably a very remote possibility sinse ms and listen are two different
> things.
>
> Beware the grue!
>
> Dark.
>
>
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Re: [Audyssey] Implementing graphic in games with and withoutsidedassistence

2011-04-20 Thread dark

Yep.

When I bought my first xp desktop in 2005, I got a middle of the road 
graphics card on the advice of the nice local place who were building my pc, 
who told me that high end was only necessary to run uba 3D games, but low 
end would drag down everything.


Now, as Tom said, the basic spec for windows has gone up a lot, another 
reason why I'm sticking to xp for the time being, sinse hopefuly by the time 
I need to upgrade, enough people (as I've heard those very up in the It 
services markit say), will be narked with the fancy, flashy, system 
intensive interface enough to force ms to give some sort of alternative.


In fairness I'm not just talking about visually impared people here, I have 
friends who are equally annoyed with it, also ironically, I do know some 
people who say they find it too! complex and confusing and want something 
simpler as in previous versions of windows.


I've already heard of an open source alternative called classic shell which 
converts much of the windows 7 and vista gui to look like, and resemble the 
xp model, maybe ms will actually listen,  though I admit this is 
probably a very remote possibility sinse ms and listen are two different 
things.


Beware the grue!

Dark. 



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