From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 35C3C1EF6B5; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:00:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-qa0-x22b.google.com (mail-qa0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::22b]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E14281EF6AD for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:00:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-qa0-f43.google.com with SMTP id w8so9699489qac.30 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:00:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1i2tYZyGCV3fgaC49sOLukj25DJXLF++4L0zIRmxm7c=; b=cLjZZD/xZN8LSbP25Ne5LUJlzvOgoXGrdXefCikPwwe72umKnWteU4H9jM/GDsITW9 iiBdRkvPMcOUr+BbHt3U3KfOIyfAP8xhFSw8PSNsPNz1ZuMthXQ2HNeKD4eZgHFEnLeM dZXicAsJSUFCvdm8D+VhSmVC7WtBeEES6Qd4DVdqODpSFz9+Y9VjD/wnU13a4wwmJc92 3ZsKCkbGLaKyBGGCN3tWFolMtiKA+MV2hmS4FlorxEu7nW1Z+c5AkoywAOJTRgIO3XCq cna7WGEL2re1Apk0u/9Mfyx3rlYm0WBFQXeMDee0nIN8nhfreYizNAAIz5Ju3a7U/c7e p8sA== X-Received: by 10.140.105.72 with SMTP id b66mr4767980qgf.30.1406649648098; Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc.kyle.tk (kyle.tk. [192.241.168.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id y70sm26547215qgd.3.2014.07.29.09.00.46 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:00:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53D7C52D.4060701@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:00:45 -0400 From: Kyle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: speakup@linux-speakup.org Subject: Re: OT: I lost my dictionary References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:00:52 -0000 LOL you're not the only blind guy in America without a Victor Stream. I also don't have one, and don't even feel the need, nor have the money to purchase something like that . In fact, I don't have a lot of the things that They, you kno, the They with a capital T, think we should have lol. No Victor, none a dem crapple apples, no specialized or temporarily marked up appliances, and certainly none a dat windblows and shark biting a CD crap. Believe it or not, My family has gone almost completely Linux and Linux related. Linux computers, Android phones, Chromebooks and Sansa players running Rockbox, all of which are working nicely. Yeah, it would be nice to get direct NLS downloads and to be able to play them on our Android phones, but They, again that's the They with a capital T, don't think we should have something nice like that, so They aren't developing it for anyone other than those who do what They say and get a crapple apple or a piece of specialized blindy tech. I also thought it would be a good idea to develop a drop-in Rockbox plugin that could be downloaded from the BARD website, so that we could use off-the-shelf Sansa players to play books, but again, They with a capital T don't think we should be using such things I guess. But then again, I've always been one to buck the system, fight the power and use mostly off-the-shelf products wherever possible, and adapt them using free and open source technology if they don't already have it. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"