Apr. 8th, 2006

kajarainbow: (Sarah by Steve Burt)
Looks like I'm not the only deaf person who's migrated to IM in preference over TTY. Just ran across an article discussing this trend. Explanation: TTY really is a very chunky medium.

See, the way it works is you have this machine that you put your telephone receptor on. It takes your typing and turns them into special beepy sounds into the phone, and hopefully at the other end there's a similar machine that makes beepy noises back.

The only indicator about the line's condition and call status is a very ambiguous blinking light. There's a certain pattern for dial tone and for busy signals and whatnot, but I never learned them. So, basically it come down to sitting there wondering if your call's getting through. And you sit there until you either get an intelligible response back or you give up.

If someone picks up the phone you called and is confused about the strange beeping sounds their phone's making, and talks to it, you have no clue other than that your TTY machine tends to turn their voice into gibberish, given that it wasn't the special beeping the machines understands.

It's a good way to confuse people who don't know what TTYs are.

This is why instant messaging is enormously popular with deaf people. Far.... more user-friendly.
kajarainbow: (Yuri from Alien Nine)
"Okay, now that I have more distance between me and this movie, I can take a somewhat more level look at it. My first review I wrote while still in the anguish this movie induced in me. First off: with what this movie strives for, it would've earned either 1 star or 5 stars from me, nothing in between. This isn't a mediocre, average work. It isn't even an average bad work. It has moments of both sheer, stark brillance and awful, chaotic muddliness.

This is the first movie off Netflix that has ever moved me to write a review. It's not very forgettable. And I wasn't exaggerating about the movie hurting me, it actually caused a headache and dizziness in me. The only movie that's ever caused physiological reactions like that in me. And I still have images from it stuck in my head.

The low budget hurts it (the alien scenes're a little more tacky than they could be, especially the ones with the 'train'). The characters're kinda shallow, really (the female love interest, for example, whose only thought seems to be pursuit of the main character's affections). And the excessive scene transitions don't help (though they did stimulate very effectively in me the main character's cultureshock-induced illness).

But rating this solely on the sheer power of its imagery, it would be a 5. The 1 is for execution." - from my second Netflix review of The Man Who Fell to Earth. Yes, it moved me so much I wrote a second review.

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