[gui-talk] magazines on NLS BARD site

[Joel Deutsch]

Okay. I just want to read stuff that's up to date so I know what the 
conversation sounds like, know what I'm saying? Right now I haven't thought 
about this stuff for years, so I'm totally out of it and want to pick up a 
few basic concepts. By the way, I just read part of an article about solid 
state hard drives, and they may be all that and a bag of chips, but they're 
still way expensive. So maybe Steve Wyn has one, but I don't think that's in 
my price range.
expernsive.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] magazines on NLS BARD site


Just copy the Kingsolver folder to your computer and load Smart Computing.
There have been few changes in notebooks over the last few years.  They've
just gotten smaller, lighter, more powerful, and cheaper. I can think of two
rather significant changes.  Some models are using solid state hard drives.
They have no moving parts so are the most durable.  There's also no boot up
time.  Wireless keyboards are becoming more popular too.

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 3:41 PM
To: GUI-Talk
Subject: [gui-talk] magazines on NLS BARD site

Albert,

I took your advice and looked on the BARD site for consumer Reports and
Smart Computing. I'm downloading Smart Computing at this moment (which may
take half a day, as my download speed has already dropped from 40-something
into the 20s, and will probably keep dropping if prior experience is any
guide). Good start, you may say.

But then I'm not a Stream user or whatever. All I've got is the NLS digital
player, and I'm in the middle of listening to a novel (the Barbara
Kingsolver one we were talking about) and of course that's on an otherwise
BARD-free thumb drive plugged into the side of my player.

Now, if I feel like taking a listen to this magazine issue when it's finally

on my hard drive in three hours, I have no option but to somehow move the
novel off my thumb drive and replace it with the magazine, or else the
digital player will get confused. That's a firmware issue they're very vague

about an ETA for resolution.

And no, I don't have yet another available thumnb drive to donate to the
cause. Well, maybe when I finish with the magazine, taking notes if I must
as I go along and there are brand names or models of items I want to
remember, I can just delete or transsfer its files (many of them, with this
BARD thing) and copy the novel's files back onto the thumb drive, then use
the navigation keys to come as close as possible to where I left off
reading.

what a drag.

But does this sound logical? I really want to do a little bit of reading
about current computers from a general rather than blind point of view, and
only then check around to see how Jaws-friendly this or that product might
be. But first I need to understaend what's been happening lately with
notebooks in a more general sense, as I know they've gone through some
changes, mostly for the better, although I'm sure there are negatives to be
aware of.
What fun.


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