The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Hey Alpine: yeah, I read the lyrics slowly and remember the music.
The google glasses at the theater are also called captioning glasses. They show the captioning on the lens so you can adjust them and put the words anywhere you want on the screen. So now I know what everybody is saying!! !! ! They will even tell you sound effects like: howling, music, continued music, clatter, mechanical sounds, whirring etc. After a couple hours of wearing the heavy things, my nose bridge really hurts, but I consider that a small price to pay to be able to go to theater showings again and see films on a big screen. Not all theaters have the glasses, but Regal does. I went from understanding three words per movie to understanding all of them. What a difference that makes! The plots may be stupid, but at least now I know there are plots, and I can laugh at what everyone else is laughing at. Of course, if a noise or an intonation is silly, I'm still not going to pick up on that. I wonder if I will catch it when the implant is activated.
For people who read quickly, this is a godsend. For people who read slowly, it might be more of an irritation. And it doesn't help those of us with prosopagnosia. We're still going to wonder who did what. And I still think Bard looked exactly like Legalos, only with dark hair instead of blond.
Oh, and the captioning usually won't tell you WHO said what. So there is that occasional bit of confusion.

That's good the music is inside your memory banks.

Thanks for the explanation. Sounds like you had a nice time there. I didn't know captioning glasses were available but it makes sense. Too bad they're so heavy. Even my lightweight regular old glasses are too heavy for me to wear for more than a few minutes, so I can imagine how irritating having a heavy pair must be. Haven't seen the movie - yet - as I generally avoid going to the theater due to crowds, the very loud speakers are too much for me, and the cost. But I will definitely see it later when it's out on dvd's &/or streaming from somewhere or other.

Lelia -
Hope you are doing better and it all works out.

Looking for a computer geek (suspect this is the right place to find one). The Kid got herself a new Dell laptop. Only option for her was Windows 8. She hates it, wants to downgrade to Windows 7, but can't seem to find a way to do it. Says she thinks she'll have to have her whole computer wiped to be able to do it. Anyone know if that's true?

Thanks.

It should be possible to simply install Win 7 as the OS; that will require purchasing a copy, however, so it might be easier to learn the vagaries of Win 8 instead. (Hillary got a new laptop for Christmas, and has had to learn to deal with Win 8. Occasionally, this has meant that I have to deal with Win 8 on her behalf. )

Various ideas for making Win8 less pointless:

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-st ... ows-8.html

or just stop funding Microsoft and use a operating system that works.

Stick W8 in as a VirtualBox machine, if you really need to use anything that insists on Microsoft's quirky stuff.

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Oh... and "Hi all!"

Alittle late to the party...

First, get Classic Shell, gives you a start button to what you want it to be. It's free, easy, stood the test of time. You can also boot striaght to real desktop and not that app crap.

I have been saying, elsewheres, don't update to 8.1, not so sure now with the latest leak in Exploror 10 and I can't update to 11, unless I go with 8.1. Makes no damn sense, but the way it is, for now. Sooo, I may update to 8.1, depends if they patch the leak in March. (they had a patch today, but said nothing about explorer and I didn't read thier BS. may be fixed. The people in the know were wondering if they would do an "unschedualed" I would have expected it to say somethng about Explorer and it did not).

I like 8, much better than 7.

PS I should have hit Lau's link before I started my blurb, so, what Lau pointed to. (hiyas Lau ) I haven't looked on Classic site in a while to see if it works with 8.1, if it does, I'll probably go 8.1. But 8 without a startbutton is bull s**t and I would be crawling backwards to 7 without it.

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some thoughts/queries-

if the makers of soundforge, pristine sounds2005, wavelab, Rmix, IzotopeRx, Dcart and the like were to make Linux versions, would they always be bulletproof in a way that their Windows versions are anything but? how easy is it to make a Linux machine crash?

I am not a lInux person at all. I like it, love the concept, but the updates always seemed like stepping through fire for me, so I leave your questions for better people then I and Lau, is most certianly one that might know.

Lau prides himself on how few times he has had to reboot his machine, if that is any clue.

I haven't had to reboot my machine more than about once per week, as windows 7 compartmentalizes programs that crash, seldom resulting in a whole system lock-up. but none of my software apps I described above will run more than a few hours without crashing.

I don't know for sure. But I recall that when Syntrillium Cool Edit was being migrated from Windows to MacOS (a Unix based operating system) they had a devil of a time and it took them like forever. And when it was finally release as Adobe Audition I considered it so lamed that I never really used it. So I can't speak to how reliable it was, but I do recall that Cool Edit on Windows was pretty darn solid; I don't recall ever having troubles with it.

I have AA3 on my puter and it crashes about as often as the rest. even soundforge which was as solid as they come [for windows] on my W98 and XP machines, crashes about once per day on my W7 machine. that is with a 2.3GHZ multicore Pentium and 6GB of RAM and a solid state drive. anyways, I find that AA does have some useful features such as the adaptive NR and the spectral retouching paintbrush.

As always, make sure your drivers, updates, etc are current.

I, favor Avast for a bunch of reasons. It's getting a little more complex then before, but still not real hard. Now, what does an anti virus program have to with updates? They keep track of some of your programs for you now and let you know when they have updates.

Do not relay on Windows, they do a poor enough job keeping themselevs updated.

Know what you put on your machine, if it's there and you didn't do it, get rid of it. (take that with a grain of salt, you ever try and clean a new computer? it can get scary...like, do I really need this and other bloat ware)

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Yep, I liked the NR once I learned how tune it in effectively. And I once also tried the spectral paintbrush and thought it cool; I felt like I was cheating because it made certain things sooo easy.

other programs that do something similar, are pristine sounds 2005, and in a different way, IzotopeRx.

I have kept my main production machine on XP for that reason. But sadly its architecture is now so outdated that it would not make sense to put more money into it. This may be when I finally abandon Windows once and for all. I started with MS-DOS, then Windows 3.0, and followed it in a corporate environment up through XP. Now.... I give up.

Nice to meet you Marky9. Don't give up, but you have to ask yourself, like anyone should, a basic question, what do I use a computer for?

Very impressed with Linux, the damn thing will even run off a cd, without it being on your harddrive. If it fits your bill go for it, I still game a bit so need my DirectX and like I said, the updates seemed to be harder then they could be. But nothing I couldn't learn if I had to. I just don't like change and then they gave me Win8....grrrr

Not sure but... it maybe that what you have now, for a machine, might get it's thunder back using Linux.

Not only are some Linux users very proud of not having rebooted in months and months, they take huge pride in running Windows under the ground on machines that should have been in the recycle bin 5 years ago. But you probably already knew that.

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