[nabs-l] Maths course.

[Sandra Gayer]

Hello everyone,
I know it's a very long time since I started this thread. I just
wanted to say that I began a Hadley Maths course this May and I'm
loving it.

Happy ST Stephen's Day,
Sandra.

On 6/10/15, Rebecca Weber <weberrebecca232 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. You could try a course from the Hadley School For The Blind. I'm not
> sure if they are in other languages. That's great you're looking for a math
> course. Hope that helps. Good luck.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jun 10, 2015, at 2:12 PM, Sandra Gayer via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>> I've never been great at maths. It was taught rather visually when I
>> was at school although there were Braille resources; graph paper, wiki
>> sticks, Cubi-Rhythm etc. Anyway, I've decided to do something about
>> it. Does anyone know where I can access a maths course that's aimed at
>> visually impaired people? Preferably something that doesn't rely on
>> visual cues or imagery. An audio course or electronic course? Baring
>> in mind that I don't live in America.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> very best wishes,
>> Sandra.
>>
>>> On 6/10/15, Littlefield, Tyler via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>>> Hello:
>>> I'll second what david said mostly.
>>> You'll want at least 8 gb, 16 is probably overkill. My tablet has 8
>>> and I do some fairly intensive work.
>>> I3 is pretty cheap but you will not get the same performance. Having
>>> seen the size of some law books, you'll want more processing power to
>>> parse and read them. I recommend the i5. This will also help Jaws and
>>> make everything generally faster.
>>> Also as david said, you will need a 64 bit system. It's generally
>>> quicker and will allow you to address higher than 3.something gb ram
>>> (PAE included).
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>> On 6/10/2015 1:06 PM, David Andrews via nabs-l wrote:
>>>> Without knowing the specs of either, in general, the i5 would be
>>>> better than the I3, newer, faster etc.  However, as important, or
>>>> more important is adequate memory, that is primary problem with
>>>> your 2 gig machine.  I would consider 4 to be the absolute minimum
>>>> with a screen reader, 8 or 16 if you run a lot of tasks, and
>>>> machine is 64 bit.  A 32 bit machine can't address above 4.
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>> At 03:51 AM 6/10/2015, you wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am planning to buy a new laptop and am confused between two
>>>>> machines: Dell Inspiron 3148 and 7348. My confusion stems from
>>>>> the fact that the former runs on an I3 processor, whereas the
>>>>> latter runs on an I5 processor. While I have been able to acquire
>>>>> a fairly detailed understanding of the differences between these
>>>>> two on the basis of some online research, I would be extremely
>>>>> grateful if any of you could speak to the differences between
>>>>> these 2 processors from the standpoint of a JAWS user. More
>>>>> specifically, I am a law student and use my laptop for reading a
>>>>> lot of documents, using MS Office, email, social networking and
>>>>> am acquired to use highly advanced MS Word functions like track
>>>>> changes and footnotes all the time. Further, I have to work with
>>>>> multiple applications like Adobe Reader, MS Word and a web
>>>>> browser simultaneously. I am really frustrated with the
>>>>> performance of the machine that I currently have, as it runs on a
>>>>> Dual Core processor and merely has 2gb RAM. While I am really
>>>>> keen to go for the Inspiron 7348, it is a lot more expensive than
>>>>> the 3148 which is why I am not sure which one I should choose.
>>>>> Any concrete suggestions would be immensely appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best, Rahul
>>>>
>>>>
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