[Nfb-science] Nfb-science Digest, Vol 62, Issue 7

Tue Oct 4 17:59:23 UTC 2011

Hi,

I use JAWS screen reader. I was trying to find a software that would
work well with typing math on the computer. I tried Vertual Pencil. It
was not helpful to me, because I am in calculus. The software is not
designed for calculus  notation from my experience with it. I also
tried Math Type I found it does not work with screen readers. It is a
good software except for that one problem. Do you have any other
suggestions for software that I can write math on the computer?

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>    1. If Google Was A Religion, I'd Join The Church (Fred Wurtzel)
>    2. Re: If Google Was A Religion, I'd Join The Church
>       (Larry D. Keeler)
>    3. Re: If Google Was A Religion, I'd Join The Church (Fred Wurtzel)
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>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:02:27 -0400
> From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at att.net>
> To: "'Mike Ellis'" <emailmee at comcast.net>, <mikeeellis at comcast.net>,
> 	"'George Wurtzel'" <gmwurtzel at gmail.com>, <marywurtzel at att.net>
> Subject: [Nfb-science] If Google Was A Religion, I'd Join The Church
> Message-ID: <023f01cc7f15$02bccc30$08366490$@att.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"
>
> hello,
>
>
>
> I love Google and wish them a happy Birthday.  here's a short history.
>
>
>
> Warm Regardsk,
>
>
>
> Fred
>
>
>
>
>
> Doodle Celebrates Google's 13th Birthday: Here are 13 Milestones
>
> By [42]John P. Mello Jr., [43]PCWorld    Sep 27, 2011 9:53 AM
>
> Google Birthday Doodle Google enters its teens today and celebrates
>
> with a Google Doodle of what else? a birthday cake as it has done in
>
> previous years.
>
> Today's doodle is a little more elaborate than most previous birthday
>
> doodles. The Google logo is there, all right. But you might notice
>
> there's an exclamation point after the logo. That was part of the
>
> original emblem--something it ditched, thankfully, in 1999. The logo is
>
> also obscured behind a birthday cake, presents, party streamers, cone
>
> hats and balloons.
>
> 1998
>
> Although most of the time Google celebrates its birthday today, the
>
> google.com domain was registered on Sept. 15, 1997 and Google the
>
> company wasn't incorporated until Sept. 4, 1998. On at least two
>
> occasions in the past, Google has split the difference in those dates
>
> and [44]celebrated its birthday on September 7.
>
> Google didn't start posting birthday doodles to its main search page
>
> until its fourth year anniversary in 2002.
>
> True to high-tech mythos, Google was started in a garage by two
>
> Stanford students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with $100,000 in seed
>
> money from Andy Bechtolsheim, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
>
> Google Birthday Doodles
>
> 1999
>
> But it didn't stay in that garage for long. Less than a year after
>
> Google incorporated, it had already moved twice when in June 1999, it
>
> announced it had secured $25 million in funding for its operations.
>
> 2000
>
> By 2000, things began percolating for the search company. Its main
>
> rival, Yahoo!, announced it would be using Google's search engine for
>
> its site. Meanwhile, it hit the 100 million search queries a day mark
>
> and launched its AdSense program.
>
> 2001
>
> The next year the company went global, setting up its first
>
> international office in Tokyo. It also added a new chairman of the
>
> board, [45]Eric Schmidt, who soon became CEO of the company, and it
>
> branched out into image searching.
>
> 2002
>
> Google Labs, where the company develops new offerings, as well as
>
> Froogle, its shopping search engine, and Google News were all launched
>
> in 2002.
>
> 2003
>
> The next year Google got into the blogging business with the
>
> acquisition of Pyra Labs, maker of Blogger. It also launched Google
>
> Print, now Google Book Search, which gave searchers the power to ferret
>
> through excerpts from thousands of books in digital form. 2003 was also
>
> the year that lexicographers recognized a new verb in the English
>
> language: to google.
>
> 2004
>
> In 2004, Google's search index reached eight billion items. As it moved
>
> into its new digs, the Googleplex, its garage days were a distant
>
> memory. A most important development during the year was the launch of
>
> its web-based mail service, Gmail.
>
> 2005
>
> Maps became a focus of the company in 2005, along with customizable
>
> home pages (iGoogle), an online news reader (Google Reader) and Google
>
> Analytics, for discovering Web metrics. The company also began taking
>
> baby steps into the wireless realm by introducing mobile versions of
>
> Gmail, Blogger and Search.
>
> 2006
>
> In 2006, Google bought YouTube, and the following year it further
>
> expanded the global reach of Google Maps and the audience for
>
> applications like Google Docs and Gmail. It also added street level
>
> photography to its maps offering, which opened a can of privacy worms
>
> for the company around the world.
>
> 2008
>
> Google continued to reach beyond its search roots in 2008 when it
>
> launched a mobile phone operating system to compete with Apple's
>
> popular iPhone, and it even waded into the browser wars with its own
>
> offering, Chrome.
>
> 2009
>
> Browsers and mobile operating systems weren't enough for the company,
>
> though, and in 2009, it launched its own lightweight operating system,
>
> Chrome OS, although it wasn't until 2011 that any computers running the
>
> system began shipping in volume.
>
> 2010
>
> By 2010, Google was a full fledged behemoth. As such, news about its
>
> gee-whiz developments began to take a back seat to less flattering
>
> notices. There was a [46]WiFi scandal, where it was discovered the
>
> company was collecting information from open wireless networks. It
>
> joined Verizon in a [47]net neutrality pact that appeared to some to be
>
> jumping in bed with the devil.
>
> 2011
>
> In a move that could transform the company yet again, Google in 2011,
>
> entered into an agreement to acquire the mobile phone maker
>
> [48]Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion. Also in 2011, in one
>
> of the largest settlements ever, Google agreed to [49]pay $500 million
>
> to settle a case involving the importation of illegal prescription
>
> drugs into the United States.
>
> Over the last 13 years, Google has done an enormous amount to make the
>
> lives of many people easier and more productive. It's made a few
>
> missteps along the way, and it will undoubtedly make a few in the
>
> future. By and large, though, it appears to have tried to live up to
>
> its motto, "Don't be evil." That's something most of Google's users
>
> hope the company will continue to do for the next 13 years of its
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:17:51 -0400
> From: "Larry D. Keeler" <lkeeler at comcast.net>
> To: "NFB Science and Engineering Division List"
> 	<nfb-science at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-science] If Google Was A Religion, I'd Join The
> 	Church
> Message-ID: <DFB1CA20E544495A99EBB31B43C715CA at yourec0540d030>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> 	reply-type=original
>
> Would Googles followers be called Googoyles or would it just be the priests
> who would have to hold the keys to the machine!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at att.net>
> To: "'Mike Ellis'" <emailmee at comcast.net>; <mikeeellis at comcast.net>;
> "'George Wurtzel'" <gmwurtzel at gmail.com>; <marywurtzel at att.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:02 PM
> Subject: [Nfb-science] If Google Was A Religion, I'd Join The Church
>
>
>> hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I love Google and wish them a happy Birthday.  here's a short history.
>>
>>
>>
>> Warm Regardsk,
>>
>>
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Doodle Celebrates Google's 13th Birthday: Here are 13 Milestones
>>
>> By [42]John P. Mello Jr., [43]PCWorld    Sep 27, 2011 9:53 AM
>>
>> Google Birthday Doodle Google enters its teens today and celebrates
>>
>> with a Google Doodle of what else? a birthday cake as it has done in
>>
>> previous years.
>>
>> Today's doodle is a little more elaborate than most previous birthday
>>
>> doodles. The Google logo is there, all right. But you might notice
>>
>> there's an exclamation point after the logo. That was part of the
>>
>> original emblem--something it ditched, thankfully, in 1999. The logo is
>>
>> also obscured behind a birthday cake, presents, party streamers, cone
>>
>> hats and balloons.
>>
>> 1998
>>
>> Although most of the time Google celebrates its birthday today, the
>>
>> google.com domain was registered on Sept. 15, 1997 and Google the
>>
>> company wasn't incorporated until Sept. 4, 1998. On at least two
>>
>> occasions in the past, Google has split the difference in those dates
>>
>> and [44]celebrated its birthday on September 7.
>>
>> Google didn't start posting birthday doodles to its main search page
>>
>> until its fourth year anniversary in 2002.
>>
>> True to high-tech mythos, Google was started in a garage by two
>>
>> Stanford students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with $100,000 in seed
>>
>> money from Andy Bechtolsheim, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
>>
>> Google Birthday Doodles
>>
>> 1999
>>
>> But it didn't stay in that garage for long. Less than a year after
>>
>> Google incorporated, it had already moved twice when in June 1999, it
>>
>> announced it had secured $25 million in funding for its operations.
>>
>> 2000
>>
>> By 2000, things began percolating for the search company. Its main
>>
>> rival, Yahoo!, announced it would be using Google's search engine for
>>
>> its site. Meanwhile, it hit the 100 million search queries a day mark
>>
>> and launched its AdSense program.
>>
>> 2001
>>
>> The next year the company went global, setting up its first
>>
>> international office in Tokyo. It also added a new chairman of the
>>
>> board, [45]Eric Schmidt, who soon became CEO of the company, and it
>>
>> branched out into image searching.
>>
>> 2002
>>
>> Google Labs, where the company develops new offerings, as well as
>>
>> Froogle, its shopping search engine, and Google News were all launched
>>
>> in 2002.
>>
>> 2003
>>
>> The next year Google got into the blogging business with the
>>
>> acquisition of Pyra Labs, maker of Blogger. It also launched Google
>>
>> Print, now Google Book Search, which gave searchers the power to ferret
>>
>> through excerpts from thousands of books in digital form. 2003 was also
>>
>> the year that lexicographers recognized a new verb in the English
>>
>> language: to google.
>>
>> 2004
>>
>> In 2004, Google's search index reached eight billion items. As it moved
>>
>> into its new digs, the Googleplex, its garage days were a distant
>>
>> memory. A most important development during the year was the launch of
>>
>> its web-based mail service, Gmail.
>>
>> 2005
>>
>> Maps became a focus of the company in 2005, along with customizable
>>
>> home pages (iGoogle), an online news reader (Google Reader) and Google
>>
>> Analytics, for discovering Web metrics. The company also began taking
>>
>> baby steps into the wireless realm by introducing mobile versions of
>>
>> Gmail, Blogger and Search.
>>
>> 2006
>>
>> In 2006, Google bought YouTube, and the following year it further
>>
>> expanded the global reach of Google Maps and the audience for
>>
>> applications like Google Docs and Gmail. It also added street level
>>
>> photography to its maps offering, which opened a can of privacy worms
>>
>> for the company around the world.
>>
>> 2008
>>
>> Google continued to reach beyond its search roots in 2008 when it
>>
>> launched a mobile phone operating system to compete with Apple's
>>
>> popular iPhone, and it even waded into the browser wars with its own
>>
>> offering, Chrome.
>>
>> 2009
>>
>> Browsers and mobile operating systems weren't enough for the company,
>>
>> though, and in 2009, it launched its own lightweight operating system,
>>
>> Chrome OS, although it wasn't until 2011 that any computers running the
>>
>> system began shipping in volume.
>>
>> 2010
>>
>> By 2010, Google was a full fledged behemoth. As such, news about its
>>
>> gee-whiz developments began to take a back seat to less flattering
>>
>> notices. There was a [46]WiFi scandal, where it was discovered the
>>
>> company was collecting information from open wireless networks. It
>>
>> joined Verizon in a [47]net neutrality pact that appeared to some to be
>>
>> jumping in bed with the devil.
>>
>> 2011
>>
>> In a move that could transform the company yet again, Google in 2011,
>>
>> entered into an agreement to acquire the mobile phone maker
>>
>> [48]Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion. Also in 2011, in one
>>
>> of the largest settlements ever, Google agreed to [49]pay $500 million
>>
>> to settle a case involving the importation of illegal prescription
>>
>> drugs into the United States.
>>
>> Over the last 13 years, Google has done an enormous amount to make the
>>
>> lives of many people easier and more productive. It's made a few
>>
>> missteps along the way, and it will undoubtedly make a few in the
>>
>> future. By and large, though, it appears to have tried to live up to
>>
>> its motto, "Don't be evil." That's something most of Google's users
>>
>> hope the company will continue to do for the next 13 years of its
>>
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:45:07 -0400
> From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at att.net>
> To: "'NFB Science and Engineering Division List'"
> 	<nfb-science at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-science] If Google Was A Religion, I'd Join The
> 	Church
> Message-ID: <028201cc7f2b$bade8bd0$309ba370$@att.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure, but the choir would sing in algorythm.
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Fred
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Larry D. Keeler
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:18 PM
> To: NFB Science and Engineering Division List
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-science] If Google Was A Religion, I'd Join The Church
>
> Would Googles followers be called Googoyles or would it just be the priests
> who would have to hold the keys to the machine!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at att.net>
> To: "'Mike Ellis'" <emailmee at comcast.net>; <mikeeellis at comcast.net>;
> "'George Wurtzel'" <gmwurtzel at gmail.com>; <marywurtzel at att.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:02 PM
> Subject: [Nfb-science] If Google Was A Religion, I'd Join The Church
>
>
>> hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I love Google and wish them a happy Birthday.  here's a short history.
>>
>>
>>
>> Warm Regardsk,
>>
>>
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Doodle Celebrates Google's 13th Birthday: Here are 13 Milestones
>>
>> By [42]John P. Mello Jr., [43]PCWorld    Sep 27, 2011 9:53 AM
>>
>> Google Birthday Doodle Google enters its teens today and celebrates
>>
>> with a Google Doodle of what else? a birthday cake as it has done in
>>
>> previous years.
>>
>> Today's doodle is a little more elaborate than most previous birthday
>>
>> doodles. The Google logo is there, all right. But you might notice
>>
>> there's an exclamation point after the logo. That was part of the
>>
>> original emblem--something it ditched, thankfully, in 1999. The logo
>> is
>>
>> also obscured behind a birthday cake, presents, party streamers, cone
>>
>> hats and balloons.
>>
>> 1998
>>
>> Although most of the time Google celebrates its birthday today, the
>>
>> google.com domain was registered on Sept. 15, 1997 and Google the
>>
>> company wasn't incorporated until Sept. 4, 1998. On at least two
>>
>> occasions in the past, Google has split the difference in those dates
>>
>> and [44]celebrated its birthday on September 7.
>>
>> Google didn't start posting birthday doodles to its main search page
>>
>> until its fourth year anniversary in 2002.
>>
>> True to high-tech mythos, Google was started in a garage by two
>>
>> Stanford students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with $100,000 in seed
>>
>> money from Andy Bechtolsheim, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
>>
>> Google Birthday Doodles
>>
>> 1999
>>
>> But it didn't stay in that garage for long. Less than a year after
>>
>> Google incorporated, it had already moved twice when in June 1999, it
>>
>> announced it had secured $25 million in funding for its operations.
>>
>> 2000
>>
>> By 2000, things began percolating for the search company. Its main
>>
>> rival, Yahoo!, announced it would be using Google's search engine for
>>
>> its site. Meanwhile, it hit the 100 million search queries a day mark
>>
>> and launched its AdSense program.
>>
>> 2001
>>
>> The next year the company went global, setting up its first
>>
>> international office in Tokyo. It also added a new chairman of the
>>
>> board, [45]Eric Schmidt, who soon became CEO of the company, and it
>>
>> branched out into image searching.
>>
>> 2002
>>
>> Google Labs, where the company develops new offerings, as well as
>>
>> Froogle, its shopping search engine, and Google News were all launched
>>
>> in 2002.
>>
>> 2003
>>
>> The next year Google got into the blogging business with the
>>
>> acquisition of Pyra Labs, maker of Blogger. It also launched Google
>>
>> Print, now Google Book Search, which gave searchers the power to
>> ferret
>>
>> through excerpts from thousands of books in digital form. 2003 was
>> also
>>
>> the year that lexicographers recognized a new verb in the English
>>
>> language: to google.
>>
>> 2004
>>
>> In 2004, Google's search index reached eight billion items. As it
>> moved
>>
>> into its new digs, the Googleplex, its garage days were a distant
>>
>> memory. A most important development during the year was the launch of
>>
>> its web-based mail service, Gmail.
>>
>> 2005
>>
>> Maps became a focus of the company in 2005, along with customizable
>>
>> home pages (iGoogle), an online news reader (Google Reader) and Google
>>
>> Analytics, for discovering Web metrics. The company also began taking
>>
>> baby steps into the wireless realm by introducing mobile versions of
>>
>> Gmail, Blogger and Search.
>>
>> 2006
>>
>> In 2006, Google bought YouTube, and the following year it further
>>
>> expanded the global reach of Google Maps and the audience for
>>
>> applications like Google Docs and Gmail. It also added street level
>>
>> photography to its maps offering, which opened a can of privacy worms
>>
>> for the company around the world.
>>
>> 2008
>>
>> Google continued to reach beyond its search roots in 2008 when it
>>
>> launched a mobile phone operating system to compete with Apple's
>>
>> popular iPhone, and it even waded into the browser wars with its own
>>
>> offering, Chrome.
>>
>> 2009
>>
>> Browsers and mobile operating systems weren't enough for the company,
>>
>> though, and in 2009, it launched its own lightweight operating system,
>>
>> Chrome OS, although it wasn't until 2011 that any computers running
>> the
>>
>> system began shipping in volume.
>>
>> 2010
>>
>> By 2010, Google was a full fledged behemoth. As such, news about its
>>
>> gee-whiz developments began to take a back seat to less flattering
>>
>> notices. There was a [46]WiFi scandal, where it was discovered the
>>
>> company was collecting information from open wireless networks. It
>>
>> joined Verizon in a [47]net neutrality pact that appeared to some to
>> be
>>
>> jumping in bed with the devil.
>>
>> 2011
>>
>> In a move that could transform the company yet again, Google in 2011,
>>
>> entered into an agreement to acquire the mobile phone maker
>>
>> [48]Motorola Mobility for about US$12.5 billion. Also in 2011, in one
>>
>> of the largest settlements ever, Google agreed to [49]pay $500 million
>>
>> to settle a case involving the importation of illegal prescription
>>
>> drugs into the United States.
>>
>> Over the last 13 years, Google has done an enormous amount to make the
>>
>> lives of many people easier and more productive. It's made a few
>>
>> missteps along the way, and it will undoubtedly make a few in the
>>
>> future. By and large, though, it appears to have tried to live up to
>>
>> its motto, "Don't be evil." That's something most of Google's users
>>
>> hope the company will continue to do for the next 13 years of its
>>
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