Is it the omni you have there?
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From: "Grant Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "BrailleNote mailing list" <[email protected]
Date sent: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:34:57 -0700
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Comments ((slightly) harsh)
Hello,
Though I don't normally reply to these types of threads, I have
this to say.
I have a PAC Mate right now. A PAC Mate BX400. And I'm trying
my hardest
to get a BrailleNote mPower instead.
Why? Because perhaps the BrailleNote has some bugs that need
ironing out,
but the PAC Mate is just pure marketing. It is sluggish.
There's no proper
way to read in Braille; there are no thumb keys, only "advance
buttons",
which are rather like cursor router buttons - can you imagine
panning like
that? Skype is too sluggish to even try - if you don't believe
me, I'll be
glad to call you on it to prove a point. Word files don't open
at all in
Freedom Scientific's editor, and in Pocket Word (now Office
Mobile), the
support is quite laughable (i.e. numbering doesn't show up at
all). To take
a Rich Text file and save it in their standard braille document,
you must
save to two different file formats. You cannot open or save
files under
more than one level of subdirectory without using a file manager
and
manually copying them there. There are problems with web page
encodings in
Pocket Internet Explorer, that pose reading problems to JAWS.
When pasting
information from web pages or text documents into braille files,
they are
not automatically translated. You need a third-party program to
play MP3
streams, and you can't control the volume separately from that of
the
speech. If, while saving a document, the drive you are saving to
is
inaccessible, you will lose your work. You'll pay money for
DAISY readers
and database managers. No interactive fiction client is
accessible.
Multilanguage support is dreadful.
Is that enough of a rant? I personally look forward to getting
rid of this
thing in favour of a BrailleNote. Since I took advantage of FS's
trade-in
program, my school work has suffered enormously. So, while I
remember that
some of the BrailleNote's quirks were challenging, they are
nothing compared
to the PAC Mate's horrible flaws.
Grant
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:57 PM, James Scholes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
I completely agree with your comments, and am glad to say that
as soon as
my
education is finished, I will be getting rid of the bn for good
thank god!
On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:15 PM, you wrote:
You said Humanware doesn't have a presence on the list and
doesn't care. I agree with you. I have only twice seen the
list
manager send an email in the past three months. And I don't
remember it being anything important. It was never even "We'll
look into this." They just ignored all the things we asked for.
They say they might put MSN on Version 8. You know what they'll
say? "Oh, we couldn't do it ..." and not give a good explanation
of why. Plus, HumanWare products are priced ridiculously high.
Is it true that PacMates without the Braille display are
something like 1500 dollars, but BrailleNotes, not including the
display, seem to be around 3000 dollars, and the Braille
displays
are ridiculously expensive. You can get wireless cards for 300
dollars??? Ridiculous! Ethernet cards for 200 dollars???
Ridiculous! If I were to go buy an ethernet or wireless card
normally, they might be less expensive. It seems like
BrailleNotes have been completely forgotten, except to get more
money. And this thing about the older Braille displays not
being
serviced? I have an older display, and to replace it would be
over 3000 dollars, right? This is simply ridiculous!!
(No offense meant to anyone)
Iyana
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