Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Open Source development doesn't necessarily have to equate to non-funded development. I think NVDA gets a lot of unreasonable stick merely for having principles and sticking with GPL-compatible license terms, which just happen to be
Re: Audio Enhancements on OEM computers
This was one of the most annoying things about experimenting with moving back to Windows from OS X for me: the bloody driver interfaces. They're all mega-forcewear, inaccessible monstrosities a lot of the time. Realtek, especially. So you find
Re: What is a TV anyway?
I'd heard about this, but what I really want to know is which TV it was originally. I mean, how did it start life--as a mod of an existing TV, or as an entirely accessible product from the start?And, I hear, it has HDMI. You could buy an Apple TV and hook that up,
Re: dectalk 5.0 speak window
That's easily explained. After 4.3, the ownership changed, if I'm remembering correctly.
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Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
OK, OK. I'm getting the idea. It's the implication that financial standing is relevant that is hurting around here, and the issue is that you simply have different views on how best to deal with it.Well, it simply isn't relevant. If we
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
OK, OK. I'm getting the idea. It's the implication that financial standing is relevant that is hurting around here, and the issue is that you simply have different views on how best to deal with it.Well, it simply isn't relevant. If we
Re: my virtual machines
Virtual machines are simpler than DOSBox? Really? Please explain. As far as I can see VMs are an improvement! Well, as long as you keep the CPU core count to 1, anyway.What about software synth under DOS? Is "Smooth talker" also a Windows-only construction, using
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Forgive my ignorance, but I don't really understand the controversy here. Lots of people have no choice but to seek state aid in getting an expensive piece of assistive tech. Where is the shame in that?
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Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Pro-business, eh? Live by capitalism, die by capitalism. You could always get a Mac; then your boss can be even bigger and even more rapacious than FS will ever be. Though to judge from their podcast, which I stopped listening to an age
Re: Supernova Screen Reader v13.58
All right. Looks like I've beaten the system. Thanks to some help from Dark, a bit of sleuthing, and some inside info from the Dolphin forums, I've figured out that some of the dolphin updates available for Supernova are, in actual fact, simply
Re: Why this profile problem isn't fixed?
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Supernova Screen Reader v13.58
Hi guys, but especially Supernova Screen Reader users,Dolphin just returned my call requesting a version 13 disc for my XP VM, and told me that they didn't want to sell or support the software in any capacity because XP was end-of-life. Even when I explained
Re: Supernova Screen Reader v13.58
Well, I suppose I could do worse than to try calling again on another day, or going through sales, but they do seem to have pretty thoroughly distanced themselves from XP, both online and over the phone. I'll keep looking.
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Re: what is wrong with my google crome browser?
Yes. Worse yet, we frequently change operating systems just to get support for some particular app that the screen reader on that particular OS works best with. This, ironically, is often Windows, land of the mediocre accessibility strategy.
Re: apple device owners this topic is for you.
Oh, damn, I'm sorry to hear about your storage situation. You're right, that sucks donkey balls. From my personal experience of the 128 GB model I can honestly say I'm very happy. If they did ever add an SD slot I'd only be truly happy with it
Re: Alternatives to Adobe's Reader for viewing PDFs
Well to be fair anything made by Adobe could already be described as having viral qualities, regardless of whether or not it's actually malicious. It's certainly responsible for a lot of the dross that gets installed on Windows boxes, and
Re: what is wrong with my google crome browser?
Yeah, I'm on 8.1, so JAWS and IE for me. It sucks to be blind, dammit.
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Re: dectalk 5.0 speak window
Any further information? How is it different?
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Re: apple device owners this topic is for you.
Nah, not really. The battery is very high quality, and external flash is slower than internal. Maybe as a substitute for a cloud file system, but definitely not for operating system use. I'm surprised it isn't on the newly-released iPad Pro,
Re: what is wrong with my google crome browser?
Well, that probably has something to do with the fact that NVDA doesn't support Chrome all that well. You could try using the ChromeVox extension, or another screen reader if you have one.
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Re: Best Approved Portable Eloquence-NVDA Strategy
Ivona folded, did they? Well, that would certainly explain a lot.But yes indeed, the principle issue with any activation scheme, or indeed any proprietary software, is that once the vendor buggers off into the sunset, there is no hope for
Re: Best Approved Portable Eloquence-NVDA Strategy
Ivona folded, did they? Well, that would certainly explain a lot.But yes indeed, the principle issue with any activation scheme, or indeed any proprietary software, is that once the vendor buggers off into the sunset, there is no hope for
Re: Best Approved Portable Eloquence-NVDA Strategy
Ivona folded, did they? Well, that would certainly explain a lot.But yes indeed, the principle issue with any activation scheme, or indeed any proprietary software, is that once the vendor buggers off into the sunset, there is no hope for
Re: Best Approved Portable Eloquence-NVDA Strategy
Ivona folded, did they? Well, that would certainly explain a lot.But yes indeed, the principle issue with any activation scheme, or indeed any proprietary software, is that once the vendor buggers off into the sunset, there is no hope for
Re: apple tv 4th gen and TVOS9.0
That's about the size of it, yeah.Apple were stupid to approve apps, but now the Apple TV has an App Store. I think there is still hope for us.And if Amazon want to be irrelevant, let them. They now have the choice to be on Apple TV, and if they choose not
Re: Alternatives to Adobe's Reader for viewing PDFs
Well, you can always use xpdf's tools if you just want a text extract. But getting the thing up and running on a Windows box is something of a chore. I'm fairly sure I've seen this packaged up by somebody though, and there have been
Re: Apple music for android: Its here!
Yeah, even as Apple are releasing apps that help you switch from Android to iOS. LOL!
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Re: Apple music for android: Its here!
OMG! Hell is just dropped another degree in temperature. Well, I guess, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em! Anyway, I'm glad it's working for you. I wonder how Apple will compete against Spotify? This should be very, very interesting.
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Re: Apple music for android: Its here!
OMG! Hell has just dropped another degree in temperature. Well, I guess, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em! Anyway, I'm glad it's working for you. I wonder how Apple will compete against Spotify? This should be very, very interesting.
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Re: apple tv 4th gen and TVOS9.0
@GeneWarner: to be fair, everybody's in this game. Amazon, for instance, are now forbidding the sale of Apple TV on its own stores because no Amazon Prime Video. Hence, lock-in, on the store shelf.I'd love an Apple-made TV, although to be honest I wonder if
Re: media player suggestions
Thanks Afrim for the clarification.I am now quite used to iTunes gapless playback, you see, and if my memory of the distant past serves me, MPC would also pause very briefly before moving to the next track. I'd love to learn that this was no longer the case.
Re: Best Approved Portable Eloquence-NVDA Strategy
@Aminiel:Unfortunately, I can only upvote your post one time.I am in total agreement with this. What the hell is wrong with just Open-Sourcing it? Oh, that's right, some idiot customer bought at a very high price and now the rest of us
Re: apple tv 4th gen and TVOS9.0
OK, yeah. I should have been clearer and said that, for me, it's limited to Apple. I don't buy subscriptions. The Beeb, however, offers streamed telly to all UK citizens, and until Apple TV has an app for that (the Beeb has thus far expressed a great deal
Re: Best Approved Portable Eloquence-NVDA Strategy
Sigh. So not legal. I thought as much. Thanks guys. I shall experiment with whatever I find on this sacrificial Windows installation. And since a SAPI Eloquence will be useful to me, that's the one I'll grab by way of, er,
Re: What is a usb route hub 2.0
They used to be cool, when they cared about the IBM ThinkPad brand. But no more. And now they're putting spying bloatware on peoples' computers by default, well, they're out now. Cheap crap.
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Re: Caution: MacUpdate Now Delivering Adware
Yeah, I think the point here is that there really was a world of difference between Softonic or CNet Download dot com and MacUpdate. The reviews on MacUpdate, in particular, were worth their weight in gold--it really was a lovely Mac community.
Re: Best Approved Portable Eloquence-NVDA Strategy
Yeah. Nuance just buys up assets and then either incorporates them into their portfolio or completely abandons them. In the latter case, everybody loses.
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Re: media player suggestions
I'm installing all my Windows software so this is an apropos discussion for me, too. Great discussion.I want to give another +1 to MPC. It really is wonderful--just a thin layer around DirectShow. Be aware though, that you must have codecs installed on your box
Re: Does anyone know how to disable the ribbon in file explorer for window
Yeah, nothing says @I want more control" like hot-patching a Windows DLL. I'm not going to 10, though. Win8.1 may be crap, but 10 is a bridge too far. And 7, where this misfeature is not present, is too old now.
Re: Does anyone know how to disable the ribbon in file explorer for window
Yeah, nothing says "I want more control" like hot-patching a Windows DLL. I'm not going to 10, though. Win8.1 may be crap, but 10 is a bridge too far. And 7, where this misfeature is not present, is too old now.
Re: apple tv 4th gen and TVOS9.0
Well you'll need one of those anyway, since Apple TV is just the box.I'm not buying until BBC iPlayer is out on it. Without that it's just Apple-specific stuff.
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Best Approved Portable Eloquence-NVDA Strategy
Hey guys,In coming back to Windows for a bit I am utterly astonished by the absurdity in the TTS market, and especially that resulting from the private arrangements between SR vendors and TTS companies, and--on the other hand--by SAPI
Re: Install windows xp on a VM without sited assistance, does it possible?
XP is clearly superior if it's possible.
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Re: Install windows xp on a VM without sited assistance, does it possible?
How badly stuck are you for RAM, exactly? Going back to Windows 98 will certainly save you RAM, but it's very drastic.
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Re: OneDrive Users: Changes for the Worse
@gellman: I don't disagree that you should get what you pay for, but I do think greed is playing a big part here. If you signed up for the explicit and sole purpose of consuming space without regard for the bandwidth and storage requirements you
Re: OneDrive Users: Changes for the Worse
@gellman: I don't disagree that you should get what you pay for, but I do think greed is playing a big part here. If you signed up for the explicit and sole purpose of consuming space without regard for the bandwidth and storage requirements you
End of the Thunder Screenreader
In case this has somehow gone unnoticed by the information elves that wander these hallowed halls: End of the Thunder Screenreader.There is lots of interesting technical detail here too. I'm not sure if interception drivers are covered here, but GDI hooking
Caution: MacUpdate Now Delivering Adware
If you were using MacUpdate for trusted Mac downloads, best stop; they're now delivering adware-laden downloads. Details from MalwareBytes.Tragic.
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OneDrive Users: Changes for the Worse
Microsoft is lowering available storage for OneDrive users and increasing prices. Using the time-tested excuse of blaming abusers of "Unlimited" service, they are setting the ceiling for Office 365 subscribers to 1 TB, dropping the photos bonus, and
OneDrive Users: Changes for the Worse
Microsoft is lowering available storage for OneDrive users and increasing prices. Using the time-tested excuse of blaming abusers of "Unlimited" service, they are setting the ceiling for Office 365 subscribers to 1 TB, dropping the photos bonus, and
Re: End of the Thunder Screenreader
Indeed. By the time Thunder really got any notice, it was already too late; NVDA had taken the world by storm. It didn't help that it was closed-source and, before that time, actually a commercial (but very cheap) offering from Sensory.So yes, sad story.
Re: why you should upgrade to a solid state drive
@CAE_Jones: Windows? I thought we were past that now. Oh right, hang on ... FWIW: the current-gen Macs have PCIE storage and if you really aren't satisfied with running at twice the average SSD speeds, even within a sparse VM, then you
Re: JAWS 17 Released
Well, JAWS 16 runs under Windows 10, though not particularly well. Then Window-Eyes and NVDA are also options.
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Re: Quotes and other BB Code things
Exactly, on this forum and with this demographic it really doesn't make much sense.Notice that the preceding sentence makes absolutely no sense whatsoever without any context. Notice also, that because my reply is directly following yours, that I need
Re: why you should upgrade to a solid state drive
Welcome to the club. I think you'll be a long-term member.
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Re: why you should upgrade to a solid state drive
Nah, flash prices really are falling all the time. And for a portable device like a laptop, there is no disputing the reliability improvements. Even my desktop iMac (1 TB SSD, at Apple's outrageous pricing) is enough for my primary storage;
Re: Quotes and other BB Code things
Exactly, on this forum and with this demographic it really doesn't make much sense.Notice that the preceding sentence makes absolutely no sense whatsoever without any context. Notice also, that because my reply is directly following yours, that I need
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
The saga continues.In what has to be the most incredibly insincere and disingenuous blog post imaginable, MS are now telling us, with lots of predictable spin and with no way to send feedback through the blog comments, that Windows 10
Re: Quotes and other BB Code things
I appreciate formal quotation under normal circumstances. But on this board and on most blindness lists, it's usually sufficient to hint at what is being replied to or paraphrase the question before replying to it. I think this is largely because most
Re: Quotes and other BB Code things
@Dark: well, I've been quoting messages I reply to for years, and find that briefly answering to a well-chosen quote is simply more aesthetic and clear than paraphrasing. That's not to say that a conversational style is out of the question, just that in
Re: talking windows pe four 64 bit installation of windows now available.
@JLove: use the last posted links on this thread on any MacBook Pro that supports UEFI booting. That is mandatory as of the MBP 2015, as BIOS CSM mode is no longer supported. You will not be able to use any version
JAWS 17 Released
What's new in JAWS 17.Now all my commercial screen readers are outdated, and it looks for all the world like they'll stay that way unless I move back to Windows as my primary OS, and even then only as a matter of duty rather than requirement.
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Re: Books by Stephen King
I didn't much care for the superficiality of some of his earlier stuff, most likely because the sixties weren't a very deep era and I succeed it by two generations. I like to think that it's horrible only because King saw an opportunity there, if not to scare,
Re: Books by Stephen King
I didn't much care for the superficiality of some of his earlier stuff, most likely because the sixties weren't a very deep era and I succeed it by two generations. But still, I agree completely that he's a horror writer for a reason. Honestly, Lovecraft didn't
Re: Windows 10 with NVDA?
I'm sticking with Win8.1 until the screen reader situation settles down a bit. Sadly it looks like I'll be with JAWS. You can, of course, simply uninstall every TIFKAM app and install Classic Shell to get a very standard experience.
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Re: chrome os
You need a ChromeBook to run ChromeOS but there are virtual machines out there with ChromeOS builds. ChromeBooks are cheap these days; it's honestly not a bad idea to just pick one up and give it a whirl.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=235984#p235984
Re: VMware workstation and VMware player, which one you recommend?
Depends on what you need to do. Player lets you run existing VMs and change a limited number of parameters of the VM; Workstation is the full-fledged VMWare desktop product including all the settings and snapshots
Re: chrome os
ChromeOS has ChromeVox and you don't install a third-party screen reader.Are you talking about using Chrome on some desktop platform? Then the support is ... flaky, at best. It's probably the best on Mac, but the experience is still not up to par with Windows screen readers
Re: how to transfer music between ipod and iphone
MODERATION:Curse you, astroturfers! I shall slay you, one and all, just you see if I don't ...To others, apologies for the hijacking. It shall be rectified.
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Re: New talking WinPE for Windows 8.1 and 10 with NVDA 2015-3 and Eloquen
What's the status of the downloads now, then? Let's get it sorted.@Gellman: first post not updated. Are you still maintaining these?I'm happy to host too. These need a permanent home.
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Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
Yeah, WSUSOffline is a misleading name, but no, it's not a Microsoft product. It can work with Microsoft's WSUS though, which as you say requires a server edition of Windows which in practice means, unlike OS X and Linux, nobody will
Re: New talking WinPE for Windows 8.1 and 10 with NVDA 2015-3 and Eloquen
What's the status of the downloads now, then? Let's get it sorted.@Gellman: first post not updated. Are you still maintaining these?I'm happy to host too. These need a permanent home.Edit: OK, here are the x86, x64
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
Mmm. Well they say they've corrected the issue, but I don't like it. Perhaps people who don't want automatic updates have a point.@Wanderer: WSUS Offline Update is your friend.
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Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
All right. Here we go again.Microsoft apparently pushing the Win10 installation as a pre-selected "Optional" update, they say by mistake.Watch out ...
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Re: ANy accessible alternative for Hamachi?
Answer to your first question: it depends on what client you are using, but if you use the built-in Windows client, you just use the instructions here and select an appropriate server.Answer to second question: no. Once you have your public IP
Re: ANy accessible alternative for Hamachi?
Easiest solution is to sign up for a VPN like say VyprVPN where they assign you publicly routable IPv4 addresses. You could then use that to run your computer out on the open Internet (carefully!).
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Re: ANy accessible alternative for Hamachi?
Oh, sure. Here, have a referral link (free month for both of us past your trial).If PPTP is not blocked, the basic account is all you need. Tell your operating system (Windows?) to connect via PPTP to the VPN server (don't bother with the apps,
Re: ANy accessible alternative for Hamachi?
What do you mean? Your ISP issues you a private IP address to your router, or your computer has a private IP?If the former, damn! Time to break out the VPNs.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=234798#p234798
New Skylake Retina iMacs (21 and 27 -inch)
Full story at Ars here.New keyboard, trackpad and mice, too, with force touch, just like the iPhone, natch.No mention at the keynote, of course. If not for the rumours, a complete and total surprise.Am I envious? Er … maybe, but probably
Re: ANy accessible alternative for Hamachi?
It does indeed; moved. Although, to be fair, Hamachi is typically used by gamers.As to the question: have you considered just eliminating your need for Hamachi? There are several commie solutions, mostly VPNs. They aren't as fire-and-forget as
Re: ANy accessible alternative for Hamachi?
Some routers do support UPnP IGD or NAT-PMP though and there are accessible ways of using that, i.e. Windows Control Panel. You could try looking for your router in there to see if it's been discovered.
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Re: bone conducting headphones on kickstarter and indiegogo
I too have Aftershokz, and concur with Dark. I use them while out and listening to audiobooks. They allow you to listen, almost matter-of-factly, to your book while hearing things around you, but they obviously can't help with any
Re: El Capitan
Yeah, and also the name of a formation in Yosemite national park, apparently. Hence the choice of name; it's inside.
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Re: El Capitan
It's not nearly as bad as that. In fact the upgrade to Yosemite was worse. Still, it's not perfect, and many originally Yosemite bugs are still there.
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Re: El Capitan
Yep. Reclaiming a lot of lost ground there. There was a time when it competed well with JAWS for overall responsiveness, but now it's super zippy. I'm super pleased about that.
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El Capitan
OS X El Capitan is out. Get it from the Mac App Store, as usual.AppleVis have done a nice write-up of the accessibility-related changes. Some of those changes will be pretty exciting to many of us: from the ability to change the VO key to the caps lock, to the ability to remove
Re: comparing chromevox with other screen readers like NVDA
Agree with those saying that the ChromeVox keyboard structure works. I use VoiceOver so a very natural fit.To answer the question of why some people prefer and others not, I think it's just a matter of preference, mostly. Both
Re: comparing chromevox with other screen readers like NVDA
Agree with those saying that the ChromeVox keyboard structure works. I use VoiceOver so a very natural fit.To answer the question of why some people prefer and others not, I think it's just a matter of preference, mostly. Both
Re: comparing chromevox with other screen readers like NVDA
Agree with those saying that the ChromeVox keyboard structure works. I use VoiceOver so a very natural fit.To answer the question of why some people prefer and others not, I think it's just a matter of preference, mostly. Both
Re: WebAIM Screen Reader Survey #6 Results and Opinions
Yes indeed, read the fine manual. @Brad: it's a full-function screen reader with a very hands-on approach. It's the truck to the car that is JAWS. Unlike NVDA it actually does work with most Windows apps--that's no disrespect to NVDA
Re: Install windows xp on a VM without sited assistance, does it possible?
OK, cool.My XP VM has all the cores of my CPU (4.0 GHz) plus 2 GB RAM. In practice more is better, but XP can only use about 3 GB for process memory.
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Re: Install windows xp on a VM without sited assistance, does it possible?
OK, cool.My XP VM has all the cores of my CPU (4.0 GHz) plus 2 GB RAM. In practice more is better, but XP can only use about 3 GB for process memory.One trick to increase it is to use a RAM disk in XP, and put the
Re: WebAIM Screen Reader Survey #6 Results and Opinions
Yeah Brad, I know it's cliche, but honestly it's true: RTFM. Seriously, it's good documentation, and it would have answered all your questions. Not saying you weren't brave to give it a go or accusing you of laziness or anything like
Re: iOs 9
Well the MP3 playback support is a component of iOS, so it's just a matter of getting apps using it.I just recently learned that iOS 9 also has the means to open media from network shares advertised by OS X Server, even further changing the game.
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Re: Install windows xp on a VM without sited assistance, does it possible?
I am back home. What a difference 80/20 bandwidth makes to the everyday task! But I'm still very proud of myself for being so bandwidth-constrained when I needed to most.Now, do you still need help? Or have you
Re: WebAIM Screen Reader Survey #6 Results and Opinions
Aminiel wrote:Sebby wrote:The Play Room has a very specific demographic of advanced computer users, and Window-Eyes is for totally blind users.Window eye is for totally blind users, and tehre are almost exclusively blind people on the
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
Yeah, sadly have to agree that in Wanderer's shoes Windows is probably the best solution going forward for across-the-board, if mediocre, accessibility to everything that you really need. Once you're done with college, you can
Re: Windows 7 and 8 Now Getting The Spyware Treatment
Yeah, sadly have to agree that in Wanderer's shoes Windows is probably the best solution going forward for across-the-board, if mediocre, accessibility to everything that you really need. Once you're done with college, you can
Re: I am the proud owner of a macbook Pro!
Why stop at Apple? Pretty much every supplier uses parts manufactured in less-than-fair working conditions. Apple's large margins or its tendency to squeeze suppliers hard to build products efficiently doesn't change that.Can you name a brand, and
Re: I am the proud owner of a macbook Pro!
Great. More proof in the pudding.
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