Posts by Michael Sauerbrey 6 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Nov 2008
... which is not even mentioned here. I have read several hundred sites of different ebooks, in bed, on train and elsewhere, used the DocumentsToGo for IT device inventory, have my favorite movie clips on it etc. etc.
The thing is still not mature, as the Android app compatibility is nothing to boast about, but experiences seem to differ.
And if you *really* wish to stand out of the masses - use one of them Symbian Nokia touchphones with Albite Reader ;-)
My mother-in-law (93) has no parkinsons and even so it is very difficult for her to get iPad-icons to behave. Either she points at the wrong ones and is lost or she doesn't take her fingers away quickly enough so "they all start to wiggle" or something else happens - her nurse has to help her so often the iPad has no appeal. I'm not sure any device without solid knobs is fit for people with parkinsons.
Let him try your smartphone - if he is able to open a website and navigate it you can get him a touch-thingy, otherwise look for something else. With
/pedantry on: It was us Germans with Din A <something> to set these paper sizes, so until some pint-sized smart-ass finds the meter to hard to count (you know, just count to 1/299,792,458 of a second and see how far a light beam goes) A4 is A4 is A4 ... /pedantry off
I like the guiding stick though and I know we could use it sometimes ...
Didn't have to look at wikipedia, but the (East-) Berlin television tower was at 365m when behind the iron bars and grew up to 368m after the wall toppled.
Didn't know Riga can now claim to have the "tallest structure in European Union". But, maybe you find someone who adds the missing 40m ...
all Germans are goosestepping, all Brits make bad Nazi jokes, all Poles nick cars ...
And besides - if you ask the "right" questions you get scientific proof of a xenophobic, anti-islamic, yew-hating nationalist Germany again http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,722868,00.html, just don't look at the same simple-answer, scape-goat pointing trend everywhere the economy goes down ...
as the "secret online search" has just been approved by the german Bundestag. So the police- gumshoes do not need this database, because they can just break your door and install spyware at your home and equipment...
It's probable that the court will put the brake on this "law" too, but it's the next very big drip to wear away constitutional rights.
It's difficult to see a government create an instrument so reminding of Gestapo just to save ... what? the constitution??
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