Summary: After we heard many negative rumors about the netbook P3 and Z340, we decided to test them ourselves and went to McDonald’s and see for ourselves. After the test, we found out that netbook P3 really work very well than Z340. Netbook P3 already have the web browser in it while Z340 don’t and at most locations such as hotels, fast food restaurants, etc, you have to go to the web browser to sign the agreement of their terms of service to use their wifi service. How can you go to the web browser in your Z340 to sign the agreement while you can do that in your netbook P3? Most of them will say that it will work with the usb wireless card to use but you still have to pay additional monthly fee for the wifi service on it. Not many of us can afford it or are interesting to pay some more money out of our pockets to make it work! After the test, you can see that netbook P3 really work very well compare to the Z340.
Summary: I want to discuss with you about different video phones (vp) that I hear many stories of how my friends talk about good or bad things about video phone products. Keep in your mind, I am in neutral position, I just want to explain you what I think of. The video phones company are Sorenson, CSDVRS (Z340), HOVRS (MVP), Viable (VPAD) and SnapVRS (OJO).
Make the summary short, when you have a problem with one of these video phone product, please call your Customer Care or Tech support to solve the problem, not your friends.
P.S. Share with your friends and remind them to do the right way.
At my work, my mom came to me and wanted to show me something. She said, “Look at the cover of the catalog.” I looked at it and smiled because she loved to collect the snowman things. But she reminded me again and said, “look at it very careful.” I looked at it again and realized that the catalog showed the picture of the snowman signed, ‘I Love you’. The catalog was from the Land’s End. I told my brother, Jason to take pictures of it since he had iphone with him.
Me with the catalog
Close-up catalog
So, I told my mom that I would try to contact one of the representative at the Land’s End store to find out why they chose the snowman signed, ‘I Love you’ on the cover of the catalog. I got email from Mary. Read this.
Dear Dino Lomanto,
I’ve verified with the creative department that the hand signal on the snowman is not intended to represent anything specific. The photograph was done while the glove just happened to take that shape.
Thank you,
Mary Kay McNeill
Lands’ End – Marketing
mary.mcneill@landsend.com
John McCain is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republician candidate in the 2000 and 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. He used to be a chair of the Gallaudet University board of trustees.
In November 2006 McCain stepped down from the board because he disagreed with the decision to end the appointment of incoming Gallaudet President Jane K Fernandes. He was unhappy with Gallaudet protests. He felt that decision to terminate her appointment was unfair and not in the best interests of Gallaudet University.
Jane K Fernandes was an unpopluar provost. They say that she does not appreciate the primacy of American Sign Language at Gallaudet and in deaf culture and that she lacks leadership qualities. One Gallaudet student said that Dr. Fernandes did not say hello when she ran into students on campus.
“I cannot in good conscience continue to serve the board after its decision to terminate her appointment, which I believe was unfair and not in the best interests of the University,” McCain wrote to outgoing President I. King Jordan.
McCain did not give much explainations why he resigned as a chair of the board of trustees. If he did, maybe he would get more votes and supports from the Deaf Americans. Many Deaf Gallaudet students feels that John McCain was not loyal to Gallaudet for some reasons. He rarely attended to the meetings. They feel that McCain did not care about what was going on at Gallaudet when there were some issues. He made a choice by not having the opportunity to hear the issues surrounding the protest.
Did he really care about the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Americans? Many people did not know that John McCain was a strong advocate of telecommunication legislation benefitting Deaf and Hard of Hearing people. He introduced the Telecommunications Accessibility Enhancement Act of 1988 and also he was a chief co-sponsor of the T.V. Decoder Circuitry Act of 1990. The federal law requires most new T.V. sets to have built-in decorder circuitry capable of receiving closed captioned programming. McCain was also a chief co-sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
John McCain failed to capture enough votes to win to be U.S. President. The next U.S. President will be Barack Obama.
Good news is that Obama knows basic American Sign Language.
CORRECTION: John McCain was a Gallaudet University’s board of trustees not as a chair. Brenda Jo Brueggemann was Board Chair. Good news is that Obama knows a couple American Sign Language signs.
Should a Deaf couple with hearing embryos and deaf embryos to choose from be allowed to choose only a deaf one for implantation? Does this qualify as control over one’s body, like abortion, since the woman is choosing the fetus she wants to carry? Or is deafness as disability that we shouldn’t choose for a child to have?
I have a question for you. My girlfriends sister brought up an interesting conversation about the deaf persons inner dialogue. As a hearing person, I will never fully be able to understand this, but when you are thinking or day dreaming or just having inner dialogue with yourself, do you “hear” things in your head as you talk to yourself, or do you see pictures or more visual things? For example, do you see words or sentences in your head, instead of auditory? Or is there something else that is going on? I tried to explain to her that you know english, but she wasn’t understanding how you could have a thought without “hearing” it in your head.
Is there any way that I can explain this to her in an appropriate and PC way? I know that I probably have not asked this question appropriately, and it may not make sense, but I thought you would be a good person to ask.
Again, I apologize if I have asked this in any way that is offensive, I am having a hard time wording what it is I am asking. I am not completely aware when it comes to deaf culture.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Sarah, Section 601
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Hi Sarah:
The brain has different ways of learning things if you can’t see…same with if you can’t hear….same if you are dyslexic and your brain flips letters around….you still learn to read. Someone asked a question when we were talking about how children learn to read. Since most hearing children learn to read by using phonics (sounding words out) the class got into a debate about how if you can’t hear….how do you learn to read…that’s when the whole lecture turned to shapes of letters….children can recognize their names before they can read….they don’t “hear” their name when they see it. It is triggered as recognition from seeing it …not hearing it. Its just a different way of learning. Words have sounds to people because they “say” them in their head while reading. But it is a symbolic language we have put sound to…it doesn’t have to have sound to understand. Just like you don’t have to hear to have thoughts in your head. Its kind of an odd question …how do you think without hearing things in your head? It is almost like asking if a blind person can see their dreams….and if they can’t, how can they dream?
Good Luck
Bug
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Hi Eric,
Thank you for such as a quick response. You explained it much better than I did! I dont think she completely understands, but how can she, or I? We are not deaf. However, it was a perfect response to the question, and I thank you for it! It was an odd question, because you are correct, just because you cant hear doesnt mean you cant think. She was not understanding that, and neither was her psychology class, which is where the question was first broughtup. But, I now can explain it to her, and my mother, who also asked the same question, but I was unable to explain it in an effective way!
Yesterday, after school, my boys ran to me and told me that the Mario Kart Wii was released on April 27, 2008. Of course, they heard it through their classmates, friends and neighbors. My boys said they had one so ‘Why didn’t we have one too?’ I told them that I thought that the game was gone when we went to the store. But I took my boys to Wal-mart anyway to check if it was still on the shelf. My boys ran and took the last copy of Mario Kart game with exciting faces.
Mario Kart Wii, is a kart racing video game developed and the second to use Nintendo’s free online service, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Every copy of the game is packaged with the Wii Wheel accessory, which is designed to house the Wii Remote to allow more intuitive and conventional steering. The Mario Kart Wii channel will be added to the Wii Menu, which will allow players to compete in tournaments, check worldwide rankings, download ghost data, and most importantly, see when their friends are playing.
After playing it with my boys for about four hours yesterday, I can say with full certainty that Mario Kart Wii is one of the best games I have played in quite some time.
Today, I take a picture of my boys and their neighbor kids playing it for four hours. Three of their neighbor kids come in about 30 mins ago. I feel like it is Mario Kart Wii party. I have said before, the game is very addicting.
If you own a Wii, pick up a copy of Mario Kart Wii. If you don’t own a Wii, get one and buy this game.
I was reading the real pizza delivery stories at http://tipthepizzaguy.com/stories/ . A pizza deliver wrote a story about his experience with Deaf lady as he was delivering the pizza. The way he wrote as it sounds like he was making fun of the Deaf ladys speech like he wrote ”“Oowa boowaghna offnaf woulda obbbABABABABA OOOH!” Does it offend to you as Deaf person? His topic caught my attention and thought you might be interested in this story. It might sound phony, isn’t it? Read on:
Delivery Story 249
Beep writes:
I delivered pizza to a deaf couple tonight. Not hard-of-hearing. Completely deaf. I laughed at a comedian with cerebral palsy once; I think I atoned for that sin tonight.
When I arrived at the door, she was standing out there waiting for me, waving both hands and barely managing to not fall off the steps of her trailer house. I’ve delivered to deaf people before. I waved a greeting, and handed her the boxed pizza. Big mistake.
I turned to walk away, and the lady let out a shrill whoop that scared the crap out of me. She was looking at the pizza and she wasn’t happy about what she saw. “Oowa boowaghna offnaf woulda obbbABABABABA OOOH!” she explained. She pointed at the pizza. “Oofnaf WHY oofnaf boooom!”
It didn’t make any more sense to me than it probably made to you just now, so I tried to ask her to slow down and work with me a little, in gestures, complimented with clear lip-speak. She was not to be consoled.
She made a gesture with an open palm, facing me. “WHYYYYF.” Five. “Oooobbaba.”
Then she snatched a five dollar bill out of my hand and pushed me backward off her porch steps.
What the heck? I wasn’t about to go after the crazy deaf woman and get my money back, so I went back to my car and resigned myself to explaining an unauthorized five dollar discount and dirt all over my butt. I drove off through the woods.
Now, when I’m delivering pizza, I tend to zone out and go into a half-tranced state when I’m driving, especially when I’m going a long way on dark roads through the woods. It’s a very relaxing job, really.
Something in my backseat went berserk.
My car has no inside lights of any kind, so while I was finding a place to pull over, I was forming awful images in my mind of what kind of woodland wildlife must have crawled into my car to be raising so much hell. Smashing around against the seats and the sides of the car, howling and making all sorts of awful noises. I was hoping for only a coon, but bracing myself for a bobcat.
I finally came to a stop, jumped out of my car, and shone a flashlight into my seat. All the noise stopped.
A sheepish-looking half-chihuahua mutt was sitting on my back seat looking at me like, “So, shall we continue?” Well gee, I thought, the loopy freak has a loopy freak dog that wants to go home with me. Forget that.
I got back into my car and turned around, back toward the deaf woman’s house. The dog went really nuts. By the time I pulled into her driveway, I was steering with one hand and holding the yapping rat in my other, football style.
Tagdeaf.com “TD” is one of many social networking sites such as AllDeaf, MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, etc. Tagdeaf was developed by Alex Chu, the founder of the Deaf forum at www.AllDeaf.com.
Presently, TD has about 9636 members. About 15 percent of them use it all the time or every other day or so. In a population this large there has to be those who don’t play well with others, some even downright nasty. This site itself mostly in comments to a member’s post, sometime those who don’t respect the rules, will write anything bad about another member or anyone such as non-members, website owners, co-workers, classmates, etc . This is not merely expressing a different opinion, something that should be encouraged but expressing that opinion in a malicious manner. Many people love disagreeing with their virtual friends without any logic, yet the same people do not know how to deal with anyone disagreeing with them in the offline world.
While social networking sites can increase a person’s circle of friends, they can also increase exposure to people with less than friendly intentions. TD is either a good site or not, it is everyone’s personal choice to join as a member or not. More and more people are interacting online for many different reasons. For examples: they do not have time to hang out, or they do not know how to interact with people in the offline world, or they want to improve their writing skills, or they want to make new friends, or they ask for some personal advices relating to the computers issues, traveling, friends, etc. That is both good and bad. We wonder if the online socializing networking sites are helping people destroy their own offline socializing skill, by over-simplifying the concept of communicating with others. Do online social networking sites both help and damage communication skills ?
However, many tagdeaf members leave tagdeaf for some personal reasons. Many people felt so betrayed and belitted because they thought they were friends. Many people said that website owner Alex is unprofessional. Some said that he has no monitors to watch over his website. Others said it’s unethical when he shared the information about his members with others. He banned some people for no reasons.
Fookem was a member of TD for 4 months. He was banned in September 2006 after he asked other TD members in the Tagdeaf chatroom, “What if Alex hosts the Deaf Camp, will you go or not?”. A few hours later Fookem was not be able to access his account on this TD site. Also, Bug was a member at TagDeaf.com for a good 7 months. The fun was beginning until it got worst because of scammers, backstabbers, hateful gossipers, aggressive behaviors, etc. Bug requested the owner to cancel his account in November 2006. After he left, many people thought that Bug got banned but not.
There is a growing trend where people act in different manners that some people find themselves consider to be smart, and they assume that such online actions, related to socializing, make them smart in the offline world. Lot of them doesn’t realize that they have been fallen into the traps where others would attack and hurt. Many people love disagreeing with their virtual friends without any logic, yet the same people do not know how to deal with anyone disagreeing with them in the offline world.
When it got out of control. Many members posted and left their angry comments until the tagdeaf owner Alex stepped in and wrote on his website (TagDeaf) on December 30, 2007:
Ok, I’m sure I’m not the only one here that’s getting really tired of the negative posts that’s taken place in forums, blogs, bulletins and profiles lately. These negative posts are mostly about one’s personal beef with another member. This has to stop RIGHT NOW.
If you have a problem with another member, take it outside of TagDeaf.com, please. That includes messaging the other member you have a problem with.
If you don’t like TagDeaf for whatever reason, don’t whine about it here, instead don’t bother visiting the site at all and move on.
If you want to quit TagDeaf, don’t post about it anywhere on the site, instead message me privately and ask for your account to be removed and I’ll gladly do so.
Rumors, backstabbing, lying, all that BS has got to stop, seriously. TagDeaf isn’t the place for all that nonsense. There’s already enough of that drama in the real world, no need to bring it here.
Anyone that refuses to cooperate will get a warning following a permanent ban. I hate to do this but I have to do what I have to do.
If you have any questions related to the topic, post in here.
Thanks.
Alex
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The different issues have not been solved. Until last week many members start to speak out against the owner. One of this message was written by TD Member MtDewTaz8 on April 11, 2008, which it was interesting. It was posted before Alex removed it. Read on:
Hi, Alex. I have also emailed you this with same contents. I am pasting this statement from the Terms of Conditions found at the bottom of TD website with my highlights in RED:
6. Your Conduct . You agree that all information or data of any kind, whether text, software, code, music or sound, photographs or graphics, video or other materials (“Content”), publicly or privately provided, shall be the sole responsibility of the person providing the Content or the person whose user account is used. You agree that our web site may expose you to Content that may be objectionable or offensive. We shall not be responsible to you in any way for the Content that appears on this web site nor for any error or omission.
You explicitly agree, in using this web site, or any service provided, that you shall not:
(a) provide any Content or perform any conduct that may be unlawful, illegal, threatening, harmful, abusive, harassing, stalking, tortious, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, obscene, offensive, objectionable, pornographic, designed to or does interfere or interrupt this web site or any service provided, infected with a virus or other destructive or deleterious programming routine, give rise to civil or criminal liability, or which may violate an applicable local, national or international law;
(b) impersonate or misrepresent your association with any person or entity, or forge or otherwise seek to conceal or misrepresent the origin of any Content provided by you;
(c) collect or harvest any data about other users;
(d) provide or use this web site and any Content or service in any commercial manner or in any manner that would involve junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of unauthorized advertising without our prior written consent;
(e) provide any Content that may give rise to our civil or criminal liability or which may constitute or be considered a violation of any local, national or international law, including but not limited to laws relating to copyright, trademark, patent, or trade secrets.
So, Alex, what I am inquiring about the recent incident where someone posted an inflammatory nude pictures of a current TD member in an innocent friend of the person’s forum. That’s an apparent violation of Terms & Conditions of a membership here on TagDeaf and some people MAY have reported this to you. Yet, I do not understand……you have not banned this particular person who have made the disgusting posting which I am pretty sure you are familiar with.
This is a severe violation, Alex, because it is harmful, offensive, pornographic nature of a TD member. I know you do not get along with this TD member but it is imperative for you to take action in accordance with terms & conditions you set forth for your website operations. I thought that the TD member who made the slanderous posting would get the hook if you have more professional wisdom to ban this person and block her IP address permanently even though she is among your friends’ circles and be sure that this TD member would not be able to once access TD again under different name whether using same or different IP address.
Alex, I believe that if you do not follow up with this and enforce the terms & conditions then others will see that and take advantage to harm other members and placing more burden on your shoulders which you do not needly deserve. It may “weaken” your control over your website operations as they know they can get away with it thanks to their casual friendship relationship with you.
Please do comment, thanks! Other people who read this are welcome to make comments as well. Have a good day!
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Why did Alex remove MtDewTaz8’s? Were the issues solved? Also, there are other members of AllDeaf or TagDeaf sharing their public experience and opinion about the TagDeaf.com. Read on:
