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I've looked at these to replace my 5 year old AMD desktop but the 16gb of ram is a dealbreaker for me. I'd like the option of 32 gb of ram do to running multiple virtual machines, does anyone know of a small form factor desktop th
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Ask him why you don't need a license to use a phone even though title two was used on phone companys? Also the difference is that radio and TV have a limited spectrum which limits the amount of content that can be broadcast. The intern
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If I were single I would be using this. I'm totally blind so Tinder has never been useful to me. I don't know how well it would work but I could see having my friends help me train it by describing pictures to me. I was never a bi
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Does not appear that this can be self hosted. This is a deal breaker for me. I'll continue to use Tiny Tiny RSS even with it's accessibility issues.
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I knew what my parents made as long as I can remember. THey also explained there health care and retirement situation to me at a young age. This helped me realize that since they are teachers and were grandfathered into the systems before b
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I have been almost totally blind all my life. I have some light perception and from talking to people the nearest I can come up with for colors is that black is when it is totally dark, gray is a normal room with lights turned on, and whit
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I think Emacspeak is close to what your talking about. http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/ The reason I don't use it is because I could never get it to work quite right so just continued using Windows. It's a lot ea
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As someone who is totally blind and has over 20 years of experience crossing streets I am interested in what you feel the other realistic options for crossing streets with out listening to sound are? I have excepted the fact that crossing a
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I'd like it if this would force you to pay based on how long something was going to take. I want to install freenas in a virtual machine so I can test the web interface accessibility before spending the money on a server to run it. I&#
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See following stackoverflow question, I'm the highest voted answer but some good info from others as well. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118984/how-can-you-progra... It's a bit out of date because I
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Are ota updates being pushed out slower for Lollipop then Kitcat? I ahve a 2012 Nexus 7 and still have not gotten the 5.0.2 update. I'd install it if I got it but don't want to have to go the factory image rout.
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I would be excited if this would be priced between $500 and $700. It will probably start at $899 though and replace the air.
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Where does Detroit rank on this? Since there is not a text list to go with the images and I'm totally blind I can not tell.
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When my financial situation was not as good I had internet for $50 a month with no cable. I would have gladly paid $20 for ESPN. Now that I have Tivo I would rather pay the $110 a month for all the cable channels instead of $70 with fewer c
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I have started to use Drupal to create a small site for a non-profit. I disabled the site a couple of days after this vulnerability. Is there a way to determine if I have been compromised or since I have put about 30 minutes of work into it
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I'm totally blind so the small screen is not a problem for me. I use a 2013 air with the 1.7 GHZ processor, 8 gigs of ram, and a 256 gig SSD for development when booted into Windows. I find that it works well for most things but I do f
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I can enter a normal pin or password if the device is encrypted since the operating system is completely loaded and along with that Talkback is. It's the boot password I can not enter because not enough of the operating system is loade
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I wonder if full disk encryption by default will render Android unusable to blind people such as my self? When I encrypted my Nexus 7 2012 running 4.4 it turns out that you are prompted to enter your password before the talkback screen read
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I'm 28. My first memories of heavily using the internet were internet explorer 4.0. I'd say that web accessibility has gotten better and I can use most web applications. Some of this is do to the fact that I am a power user and kn
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It was also not explained why this person is going to school. Why are they going to school? I would assume that if they were making the choice to put in the work for school they have not completely given up on a better life in which case I
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As a totally blind user I won't buy this app. There isn't that much printed material I need to deal with now and there are $5 apps that will generally let me get good enough oCR to determine what junk mail I am getting. I would pa
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I'm a blind Windows user because general desktop accesibility in Linux is not great. I've attempted to set up Emacspeak under a Linux VM but installation has always been dificult. Seeing this article though has gotten me to look i
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As a blind programmer I assume IntelliJ is completely inaccessible. I attempted to use Android Studio several months ago and it was completely inaccessible. Eclipse is pretty good though, I think part of this is do to IBM being a big backer
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As a totally blind person who uses Voiceover there are a couple of things. First the Music that plays during the draft is annoying since it makes it harder for me to hear Voiceover. It would be nice if there was an option to turn this off.
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The problem I have with Dropbox along with all the other solutions is that I don't know of any way to do trust no one encryption including file names other then a massave truecrypt volume. If anyone knows a solution for this on either
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I guess it depends on taste. I prefer Tim Horton's coffee to Starbucks if there both black.
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True, I didn't take that into consideration. I used Social Security Disability and Social Security Supplemental income to help pay for College but didn't get any other bennefits since I lived on campus and was on my parents health
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As a blind person I have seen the disability system abused. Using Blindness as an example I can understand someone who has recently gone blind using Disability. It bothers me when I see people like me who were born blind and are capable of
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I know the Kindle Fire has accessibility support and I hear it's actually quite good. I haven't personally used it though since the Kindle app on an iPhone is quite accessible.
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