Re: are their any manga readers for the blind?

2021-02-16 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: are their any manga readers for the blind? While I've never found an outright transcription of the manga, the Daizenshuu EX podcast had a "Manga Review of Awesomeness" from 2007-2012-ish, wherein they summarized a volume of the Kanzenban chapter by chapter and then reviewed it. There's

Re: PS5 DuelSense Haptic Controller Teardown

2020-11-02 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: PS5 DuelSense Haptic Controller Teardown Now the real question is how hard it's going to be to develop for it. I looked at Chai3d a few years back and saw the haptic version of the nightmare that is OpenGL, and Immerssion sounded highly GUI oriented. But it's been a while; I'm sure they

Re: Braille: do you guys still use it in this digitalized world?

2020-11-05 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Braille: do you guys still use it in this digitalized world? Yes. There's a Braille book right 2beside me at this very moment. I'm typing this using Braille Screen Input.Not as much as I'd like, though. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/587043/#p587043 -- Audiogames-reflector

Re: Tactisplay: Full Page 12000 Cell Braille Display

2020-11-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Tactisplay: Full Page 12000 Cell Braille Display If this is the line I'm thinking of, iirc the refresh rate was somewhat slow, and some digging suggested a price of $7-10k US, or thereabouts, for whichever specific model I was looking at.I want to get the middle one and rig it up to a S

Re: Tactisplay: Full Page 12000 Dot Braille Display

2020-11-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Tactisplay: Full Page 12000 Dot Braille Display Eh, old consoles used 8x8 letters, so I figure that'd be plenty readable with something like this. Except fonts are nowhere near as square, most of the time, so bleh. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/590009/#p590009 -- Audiogam

Re: SpaceX SN8 Starship Adjustments & Testing

2020-11-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: SpaceX SN8 Starship Adjustments & Testing On a dubiously-related note, I watched the Apollo 11 EVA the other day, and just yesterday I had to video-call someone to debug a problem with my computer, and was struck by the similarities. Neal and Buzz were describing things they could see f

Re: The Thoughts and curiosities of a totally blind person on sight

2020-11-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Thoughts and curiosities of a totally blind person on sight So I have no idea how to explain color, other than as the visual equivalent to timbre or texture. And since texture can be visible and is very distinct from color, I'm not sure how good a comparison the latter is.Furthermor

Re: Drama in the blind comunity, why does it happen?

2020-12-16 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Drama in the blind comunity, why does it happen? Because humans Which is way, way less complete/specific / reproduceable an answer than I'd give to the questions in 2 ("because it's so heavy that it's insides started nuclear fusion" and "Because transparent gases scatter light, and

Re: Drama in the blind comunity, why does it happen?

2020-12-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Drama in the blind comunity, why does it happen? Just in case anyone's getting the wrong impression: I, too, went to mainstream school. I became aggressively iconoclastic and everyone just tried to dismiss it with "he's blind." I actually got sent to a school for the blind one summer be

Re: Drama in the blind comunity, why does it happen?

2020-12-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Drama in the blind comunity, why does it happen? 38: Yeah, that not-so-PC word is one I have encountered for "Blind person no do normal thing; must dumb?" reasons. Like, I was at the dentist, and the nurse was trying to make small-talk (you know the tone-of-voice, I'm sure). Apparently

Re: Making Rubies In A Microwave Oven

2021-01-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Making Rubies In A Microwave Oven Is this new, or is this one of those things researchers knew about 50 years ago but somehow never became common knowledge? I'm not sure which would be more impressive / concerning. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/606704/#p606704 -- Audioga

Re: Blind humans and living situations?

2021-01-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Blind humans and living situations? I live alone. Own the property (before this sounds impressive, it's the sort of property where, if I sold it, I might be able to afford two Braille displays.). Were it better insulated and I didn't have college debt, and if I actually put in the effor

Re: A rant about scammers

2021-01-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: A rant about scammers I skipped ahead. By GA, do you mean Georgia? ... The US state is just north of Florida, on the east coast of North America. The European country is ... I forget where, but I think it's somewhere between the Caspian Sea and some mountains (I get the Urals and Caucus

Re: Accessibility in video games

2021-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessibility in video games I have not looked too deeply into the last of us two, and got the impression that "the game plays itself "is roughly half or more correct. What does the player actuallydo that makes it worthwhile?But yeah, I live by myself and require one euphamism of an inc

Re: Accessibility in video games

2021-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessibility in video games @9: Good on you for actually checking the list. And it sounds like a depressing list, tbh, like you're disabling mechanics to make the game less of a game. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/608854/#p608854 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audi

Re: Accessibility in video games

2021-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessibility in video games @9: Good on you for actually checking the list. And it sounds like a depressing list, tbh, like you're disabling mechanics to make the game less of a game.So I am still wondering ... with navigation and environmental hazards and all that disabled, what do yo

Re: Accessibility in video games

2021-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessibility in video games I still say it can be done under the right circumstances. But I also notice that the right circumstances involves an uncomfortable number of grappling hooks and magic equivalents. By which I mean, before I got anywhere near here, and was designing 3d level c

Re: Accessibility in video games

2021-01-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessibility in video games But realistically, if you're dealing with a human-sized avatar, an accessible resolution of 1ft^3 is quite optimistic, yeah. I do get the impression that, unless you're talking FPS type controls where precise aiming matters, most mainstream games actually ar

Re: Accessibility in video games

2021-01-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessibility in video games So I went looking for TLoU2 information on the forum ... And somehow it seems there is no straightforward explanation of anything. After a few pages in the TLoU2 topic, I think I got enough of an impression of sorta-kinda-maybe what the gameplay is like (not

Voice Acting - Indie Rates Guide

2020-03-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Voice Acting - Indie Rates Guide Stumbled across this list of recommendations on how much voice actors should generally be paid. The focus is on indie productions, though productions with a substantial budget get mentioned as well.http://www.voiceactingclub.com/rates/?f … j8GRtVfhC8Hopefull

Re: block quotes, how do you make them?

2020-03-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: block quotes, how do you make them? It use to be [blockquote]blockquote, in brackets[/blockquote] . I want to think this was removed at some point?Alternatively, just [quote]quoted text[/quote]There are links on the reply page somewhere for help with both smilies and bb code, though I t

Re: socializing - any tips?

2020-03-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: socializing - any tips? I have no [euphamism] idea.@turtlepower: my parents had the exact same attitude. Friends are a path to the dark side; good grades are The path to success. In their defense, I've been looking up 80s commercial compilations lately, and their are all kinds of PSAs s

Re: Reliable sites about quantum physics

2020-04-01 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Reliable sites about quantum physics If you want very basic information, without any accessible math or Feynman diagrams, there's always Hyperphysics. I tried requesting their entire bibliography from NLS in high school, but they didn't have any of it.PBS Spacetime and the Fermilab Yout

Re: The give me something to do topic.

2020-04-05 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The give me something to do topic. Preserve all the tapes. Defeat entropy!Then, completely unrelatedly, go watch compilations of old TV commercials on Youtube.Mangez lArc en ciel. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/516397/#p516397 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogame

Re: Something of interest to Sound Audio Manipulators

2020-11-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Something of interest to Sound Audio Manipulators In this case, I don't mind the necropost so much, because there were only 3 original posts, and the topic was very open-ended. Still, the time-gap is absurd, and an auto-lock for old posts would surely have archived it long ago, if we ha

Re: family/future. Need advice

2020-12-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: family/future. Need advice To add:There's no way you're getting out of this without talking to a lot of people.IME, there's enough turnover among VR counselors that, if you have trouble getting one to be especially helpful, you need "only" hold out for a couple years and try a new one.

Re: does anyone know what these things are called?

2020-12-10 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: does anyone know what these things are called? These have nothing whatsoever to do with fax machines. Fax machines are basically photo-copiers connected to telephone lines.I've heard the things in question referred to by many names, and remember none of them. Other than the ones mention

Re: An alternative to the audiogames forum.

2020-12-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: An alternative to the audiogames forum. I use old.reddit because apparently my technology is in retrograde, so the new Reddit just plain doesn't work on my phone. I can view the main page of a subreddit, and top-level posts, but comments and most controls just don't appear. Meanwhile, o

Re: how old are you when you register in this forum?

2020-04-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: how old are you when you register in this forum? 48 is the reason we no longer have a thumbs down button . Well, that, and the people who considered misspelling English as a thumbsdownable offense. ... where did they go, anyway?I got here in 2010. I was born in 1988. I registered in the

Re: How to fight the lack of motivation?

2020-04-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: How to fight the lack of motivation? The only thing I've found to help consistently is what they use to call "getting a life". Unfortunately, they don't sell those on Amazon, so I can't offer the slightest help in that regard. IMO, the main reason people turn into NFB evangelists after

Re: Haptic gaming aids for blind gamers

2020-04-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Haptic gaming aids for blind gamers (Replying to this one since it has the full list of questions.)How long: more or less since ... let's go with 1990, although as a two-year-old with just one functioning eye, I wasn't very good at Pacman or Mario. I suppose things escalated from there.

Re: The Best Advisor This World Has Ever Seen

2018-12-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The Best Advisor This World Has Ever Seen At first, I read the first one not as "your horrible friends," but "your adorable friends," which alters the whole dynamic @4: that started out as very good advice! By the time the intestines showed up, though... URL: http://forum.audiogames.ne

Re: Traveling (abroad) and getting independent: let's share some experienc

2018-12-31 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Traveling (abroad) and getting independent: let's share some experienc I wandered around in Indianapolis for a few days by myself once? I agree that most popular tourist attractions are easily replaced by a 3d video, for which audio would be omitted because it contributes nothing to the

Re: Do the sighted have a good representation and perception of us?

2019-01-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Do the sighted have a good representation and perception of us? Random Encounter with would-be faith-healers is not too rare in the parts of the US I'm familiar with, but in the since that Random Encounter with a miniboss is not rare: most RE will be "Na, I've got it" grind-sessions, an

Re: Do the sighted have a good representation and perception of us?

2019-01-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Do the sighted have a good representation and perception of us? @26: thanks The Jihova's Witnesses that show up hereabouts only ever acknowledged my blindness in asking if I had a means of reading the Watchtower magazines they give out. They also might have cited Genesis 1:27-28 as defi

Re: Your WSB Arkansas Stories

2019-01-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Your WSB Arkansas Stories I was there in 2014. I left because I didn't feel like I was learning anything and also that time I tried to ask a question and accidentally got a staff member to rant about how blind people can't go to Wal-mart without meticulous planning and handlers was a sp

Re: The End of Men

2019-01-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The End of Men Hm.I'm bad at engaging with broad-scale facts and stats. Let's play the Anecdote game instead, even though any points that might come of it are much, much weaker:Re: college. Primary and secondary education, on reflection, were fairly androgynous, as gender stereotypes go

Re: The End of Men

2019-01-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The End of Men @4/5: the assaults vs false accusation argument has never, ever, gone anywhere productive, in my experience. Both sides always talk past each other, the stats are a mess that can be framed in any number of ways, and if really wanted to continue the list of problems with t

Re: The End of Men

2019-01-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The End of Men Called it. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/405403/#p405403 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

Re: The End of Men

2019-01-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The End of Men I'm lost. The subject has become nebulous oppression-related soup.I remember a conversation I had with my maternal grandmother, like, 20-something years ago. My mother had, at one point, declared an intention to keep having children until at least one was a girl. At one p

Re: The End of Men

2019-01-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The End of Men Apparently, women don't ask for raises as much as men do. So, uh, maybe those outreach programs to schools need to encourage women to ask for raises more.Though, tbh, I'd never have thought of asking for a raise as an essential part of the process, either. It's not like t

"Can't get ye dll"

2019-01-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
"Can't get ye dll" (After trying to set up all the things... again)Sometimes, dealing with post-XP technology feels like Thy Dungeonman.>get ye flaskCan't get ye flask.>sign inInvalid password>check emailEnter the words in the image>can't see ye imageTry a different one?>Fuck offYour answer

Re: The End of Men

2019-01-16 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The End of Men I'm reminded of Ernest Hemingway explaining his eventual suicide by saying that being alive without being able to enjoy it, not because of civilization, but because of biology, wasn't worth it. The old people I've known who did relax in their later years died slow, agoniz

Re: The End of Men

2019-01-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The End of Men Re: being taught skills, I think that's just been slacking all around the board, and we've had people getting out of college with no idea how to take care of themselves or their belongings / home / etc. I almost feel like being blind is an advantage, when this problem aff

Re: how to produce big_smile etc. tags?

2019-01-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: how to produce big_smile etc. tags? :) = :D = :lol: = :/ = :( = URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/405979/#p405979 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogame

Re: What is a Man?

2019-01-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a Man? What is a man"A miserable pile of secrets. But enough talk; have at you!... I'm like 10 years late with that, amn't I? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/406047/#p406047 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://

Re: how to produce big_smile etc. tags?

2019-01-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: how to produce big_smile etc. tags? :o = :mad: = :cool: = (I think that's a smiley with sunglasses?)That's all I've found so far. Unless works ( ;) ) URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/406048/#p406048 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahatti

Re: What are your prodictions for the blind the future?

2019-01-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What are your prodictions for the blind the future? The future of the blind: same as the past. Stuff will get sorta-kinda better, then technology will take a huge leap, we'll be left out for a decade or fifty, repeat ad machina. Kings come and go, empires rise and fall, but the poor you

Re: What is a Man?

2019-01-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a Man? I think one can identify as male, have lived for 16-30 years, and still not identify as man. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/406422/#p406422 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cg

Re: What are your prodictions for the blind the future?

2019-01-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What are your prodictions for the blind the future? #deletefacebook #TwitterDalendaEst #trogdor2020, because Trogdor BURNiNATES everyone equally. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/406463/#p406463 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.c

Re: Is Artificial Intelligence Continuing The Culture War?

2019-01-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Is Artificial Intelligence Continuing The Culture War? Haha no. You don't need Deepfakes for people to be fooled. Even before Photoshop, people could be fooled by shallow fakes. War of the Worlds, that Fairy photo, TV psychics, a ton of UFO footage, more recent stuff I won't get specifi

Re: Rethinking Accessibility In Space

2019-01-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Rethinking Accessibility In Space Apparently a guy did go blind in space, at least once. Not while on break, or in a vehicle, but while conducting an EVA. Blind in space, not in a spaceship. And there were absolutely no negative consequences, and he recovered once he was back inside. (I

Re: Rethinking Accessibility In Space

2019-01-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Rethinking Accessibility In Space @3: lol Iknowright? You'd think the NFB would bug blind vets about it until something came of it. ... Maybe they do, and just annoy all of them too much. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/408167/#p408167 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list A

Re: Rethinking Accessibility In Space

2019-01-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Rethinking Accessibility In Space I think the blind people who sit at home and demand more money are not the people who would have become astronauts if not for that pesky blindness getting in the way. We already have blind people doing the Earth side of things, in terms of designing and

Re: Changes to YouTube mobile site?

2019-02-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Changes to YouTube mobile site? Yep, same thing here. It's annoying. I tried the app a few months ago, but it was almost exactly the same experience as the site, so I deleted it. If they made the site worse solely to get people on the app, I might have to march down Silicon Valley and i

Re: how do some people do that?

2019-02-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: how do some people do that? [url="" url[/url] URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/409503/#p409503 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

Re: Does anyone know of a program that can remove one sound from another?

2019-02-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Does anyone know of a program that can remove one sound from another? It should be possible if you have the both the mixed file and the file you want to remove. Maybe someone could write an audacity plugin, if they haven't already? If you can identify where the offending file begins, al

Re: Does anyone know of a program that can remove one sound from another?

2019-02-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Does anyone know of a program that can remove one sound from another? @10: basically what I was hinting at . Programattically, I was thinking one could go through and subtract the offending sound from the mix, which is the same as mixing the inverse, except mixing probably deals with e

Re: how do you all handle using public restrooms?

2019-02-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: how do you all handle using public restrooms? Lots of paper. Always. Is it clean? Too bad; better safe than syphilis.In the absence of paper, and also the presence of seats... curse the combination, and tear reality a sunder. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/410506/#p410506 -

Re: Absolute truth, the testament of truth.

2019-02-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Absolute truth, the testament of truth. Would this be a bad time to mention that the thread title keeps making me think of the Terrain of Testament from the Ultimate Warrior comics? I'm assuming Destrucity doesn't figure in to either the original topic, or the other one, but if I wanted

Re: Absolute truth, the testament of truth.

2019-02-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Absolute truth, the testament of truth. I think the issue with the privilege framing is that the emphasis is on something that could be described as unearned advantages. We have the phrase "x is a privilege, not a right." Even if you don't intend privilege to imply that privilege-havers

Re: What do You Guys Want to See in an Independence Training Center

2019-02-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What do You Guys Want to See in an Independence Training Center My post on LCB:https://forum.audiogames.net/post/297231/#p297231(Post 95, if the link is uncooperative.)I ran the numbers at one point on cost, since some people (some more jokingly than others) would occasionally express i

Re: What do You Guys Want to See in an Independence Training Center

2019-02-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What do You Guys Want to See in an Independence Training Center At 4: GPS and asking for help are forbidden in LCB's drops, but expected for out-of-town assignments (including both bus-travel and the solo out-of-town trip). I think the point is to demonstrate that being lost without hel

Re: What do You Guys Want to See in an Independence Training Center

2019-02-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What do You Guys Want to See in an Independence Training Center Regular O and M might as well be useless, for what good it is beyond the original context in which it was received. Also, America is a vast, pedestrian unfriendly land, with more facets than you can shake a cane at. There w

Re: What do You Guys Want to See in an Independence Training Center

2019-02-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What do You Guys Want to See in an Independence Training Center I think some would argue that services literally everywhere are that bad, and the privately-operated centers work because there's enough demand (and also the government is almost always the one fronting the bill).Just leavi

Re: What do You Guys Want to See in an Independence Training Center

2019-02-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What do You Guys Want to See in an Independence Training Center Oh. The punstop thing ate most of my other post. It was long and full of stuff. Huff. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/411800/#p411800 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukog

Re: What do You Guys Want to See in an Independence Training Center

2019-02-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What do You Guys Want to See in an Independence Training Center Why the ins and outs of taxes are not taught in high school (at the latest) is beyond me. Being able to write essays on how a piece of literature has something to do with sex because it has trees in it, and trees are long,

Re: E acute?

2019-02-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: E acute? I think there's an NVDA addon that handles it like the Jaws command, but I forget what it's called.Alternatively, if you have a numpad, and numlock is on so it types numbers, you can enter any ascii or unicode character by holding alt, typing the code with the numpad, then rele

Re: E acute?

2019-02-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: E acute? I think there's an NVDA addon that handles it like the Jaws command, but I forget what it's called.Alternatively, if you have a numpad, and numlock is on so it types numbers, you can enter any ascii or unicode character by holding alt, typing the code with the numpad, then rele

Re: what's something special about region of the country you live in

2019-04-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: what's something special about region of the country you live in @Dark: yeah, those are Fritos, and yeah, Frito Chili Pie is literally them + Chili in something resembling pie form. IMO, it's one of the only ways Fritos are all that good (I mean, they literally taste like dog-feet. As

Re: In Factories Of The Future, The Walls Have Ears

2019-07-05 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: In Factories Of The Future, The Walls Have Ears Dudes, I just ate and do not have room for the popcorn this show will require, or the marshmallows the flames can roast. Can we put this off for, idk, 8 hours?Also a huge, huge amount of stuff that makes blindtech possible is funded by pol

Re: In Factories Of The Future, The Walls Have Ears

2019-07-05 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: In Factories Of The Future, The Walls Have Ears Laptops seem like a poor example, since the components require complex, machine-processed components and materials from all around the world. In theory, an individual could indeed build that for you as a gift, but that would require an adv

Re: In Factories Of The Future, The Walls Have Ears

2019-07-05 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: In Factories Of The Future, The Walls Have Ears The question is, what steps can / should we take now? And the answer seems to be "meh," or "find ways to safely experiment to refine ideas", which is kinda the point of having states and cities etc, but those are kinda all conglomorating i

Re: A program to remove stuff found in all fan fiction.

2019-07-07 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: A program to remove stuff found in all fan fiction. Depends on the format? If it's all included in a consistent way, writing a script for the job should be simple enough.Especially if it's HTML ripped from someplace like ff.net or AO3. In plaintext, we'd need to hope everything is consi

Re: What is wrong with the NFB?

2019-07-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What is wrong with the NFB? "Militant" has been the favorite description for decades. It occurs to me that I don't really know what that means. I'm not sure I've ever heard it applied to anyone else. Maybe I've heard the phrase "militant feminism" at some point, but not often (the more

Re: What is wrong with the NFB?

2019-07-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What is wrong with the NFB? @7: Oh, holycrap yes, the NFB's official position on Google and Apple is blatant "give us money or we'll call you discriminatory" bullcrap. I recall that at the 2016 National Convention, the votes on whether or not to approve the condemnation of Apple were re

Re: What is wrong with the NFB?

2019-07-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What is wrong with the NFB? @95: long = anywhere from collarbone to nose. In public school, I was taught sternum-armpit, and I've heard people claim that naval is better.Re: remaining vision, lots of good points, here. One people have missed is that the training centers are trying to he

Re: What is wrong with the NFB?

2019-07-16 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What is wrong with the NFB? Canes aren't made to last, if they ever were. Luckily, they're actually not stupid expensive the way most blindtech is, although I still get the impression they could be cheaper. (I could make something passable for half the price of the one currently over my

Re: What job could I hope to get with out a degree as a blind person

2019-07-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What job could I hope to get with out a degree as a blind person If you took up carpentry, I might order something.People kept trying to push me into programming / teaching / call center / receptionist type stuff. There was also an announcement job at an airport, which I'm pretty sure i

Re: SpaceX StarHopper Takes First Flight

2019-07-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: SpaceX StarHopper Takes First Flight Without FTL, the best we could do would be a mix of fusion and laser propulsion to make relativistic speeds possible. Realistically, unless FTL turns out to be practical, we probably max out at 0.1c outside of the exceedingly rare-and-expensive, even

Re: Blind Misspelling Issue

2019-07-31 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Blind Misspelling Issue Yeah, thirding Braille. Words I've actually laid hands upon I tend to spell correctly, while words I mostly just hear online tend to get mangled unless I specifically check the spelling.One thing I have been doing lately is just asking Siri how to spell things. O

Re: Domino's Pizza Petitions Supreme Court Over ADA Compliance

2019-08-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Domino's Pizza Petitions Supreme Court Over ADA Compliance But Dominos' has three types of crust? Although, if you're thinking of the Pizza Inn style, they don't have that one.Particularly annoying is that they require updating the app to keep using it, and the updates have, as of late,

Re: I need a very specific set of sounds.

2019-08-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: I need a very specific set of sounds. I seem to remember winding up with one, maybe one of 1soundfx's weekly samples, but it's short and vague. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/452844/#p452844 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

Re: Blind Misspelling Issue

2019-08-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Blind Misspelling Issue Yeah, the contractions-as-explanation-for-misspelling thing always bugged me, because I was not allowed to use contracted words on spelling tests. But the only time I had both spelling tests and an electronic means of doing them was part of fifth grade (there wer

Deleting Youtube videos

2014-10-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Deleting Youtube videos Google wrote:Deleting your own videosHere’s how to delete videos you’ve uploaded.1. Make sure you’re signed in to your account2. Click the down arrow next to upload button at the top of the page, then Video Manager.3. Select the videos you want to delete by clicking

Re: Deleting Youtube videos

2014-10-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Deleting Youtube videos Thanks much! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=193056#p193056 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/li

Re: NVDA saying MP3 on title bar of firefox

2014-10-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: NVDA saying MP3 on title bar of firefox Are you using Web Vism? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=193060#p193060 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucuk

Re: Has anyone used the Handheld Braille Labeler from braillebookstore?

2014-10-31 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Has anyone used the Handheld Braille Labeler from braillebookstore? All things considered, it's kinda interesting that the braille labeler is so compact compared to every other braille-generating device ever, since it has a collection of characters on a wheel, rather than letting one co

Re: instant translate problem

2014-11-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: instant translate problem The interface is completely different, now.You pres nvda+shift+t to activate the translator commands, then press another keystroke to execute one.Try nvda+shift+t, then shift+t. I only ever use shift+t and t, but I forget which is which. URL: http://forum.audi

Re: instant translate problem

2014-11-07 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: instant translate problem Alt tab/ctrl tabWait for focus to changeEnter text fieldclear current contents (don't use ctrl+a if you're playing Bokurano Daibouken; that will skip whatever you're translating!)pasteexit text fieldfind translationalt tab/ctrl tab to return to subjectRepeatOr,

I'm so BORING!

2014-11-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
I'm so BORING! But we already new that. The only difference now is that someone wrote an article about something that looks much more like a survey than a study to sorta-kinda define the most general cases.The top 9 ways boring people bore you. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.ph

Combining soundfonts and such?

2014-11-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Combining soundfonts and such? I mean something like, say, applying instruments from multiple soundfonts, that they might play together.I recall timidity supporting something like this, but I could never get it to work.How is it done? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=1949

Re: budgeting

2014-11-16 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: budgeting I use notepad for everything. Including a file mysteriously titled "budget.txt"Of course, my parents don't understand crap, so I have no idea what money for what things comes out of what account. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm still auto-paying on a student loan that got bough

Re: Persistent PC nonsense

2014-11-16 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Persistent PC nonsense Keeping in mind that you are decidedly better at this than me, so this might be useless advice:I would try and hunt down the source of the EVIL! explorer.exe, et al. If th normal explorer.exe is still running, then there is either another process with the same nam

Re: in search of a new braille display, any advice?

2014-11-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: in search of a new braille display, any advice? I wish DSB would actually get back to me about this so I could have information for you.I tried looking up and comparing all the different option out there a few months back. I can't find my notes at the moment, though. I'll post if they s

Re: in search of a new braille display, any advice?

2014-11-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: in search of a new braille display, any advice? Here it is (prices are in US dollars):http://www.applevis.com/reviews/accesso … le-devicesHere's the quick notes I took on them:Esys (1495 for 12, has internal notetaking abilities. Catches: really small, and made in France.)Focus 14 (1295

Re: Demons

2014-11-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Demons I've come to think of visual impairment as, say, the powerball on the life lottery. If you're the sort who would tend to work hard and win at life, blindness will only make you work--and win--harder. If you're on the other end of the curve, so too can the negative be amplified. T

Re: Demons

2014-11-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Demons I've come to think of visual impairment as, say, the powerball on the life lottery. If you're the sort who would tend to work hard and win at life, blindness will only make you work--and win--harder. If you're on the other end of the curve, so too can the negative be amplified. T

Re: The limitations of audio interfaces

2014-11-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The limitations of audio interfaces TL:DR for anyone who doesn't quite understand the differences: each ear gives us one wave to interpret. Each eye can capture thousands of waves at once. It's deeper than that for both, but you are literally comparing a system that handles two input ch

Re: The limitations of audio interfaces

2014-11-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumOff-topic room : CAE_Jones via Audiogames-reflector
Re: The limitations of audio interfaces Trenton Goldshark wrote:I would like to see more audio games go the HTML 5 root, if we're talking audio.How do you mean? What advantages would HTML5 have?(If you mean the audio system that works on Android, and only on Android, well, Windows/Linux/iOS

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