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Getting Help With Stammering By: James Masterson Stammering (clinically referred to as dysphemia) is a form of speech defect concerned with an involuntary action of repeating or prolonging of syllables or words. For example, when a person pronounces the word “stop” but instead says it like, “sssssstop” or “ssstt-sstt-sttop,” that is stammering.
Naturally, the condition is frustrating for the patient as it not only hampers his/her ability to communicate well, it also opens him/her to perceptions that he or she is slow and... Tags: public speaking, speaking, speaker, speech, stammering
Vista Home Basic on 512MB? Hey, it works! By: toploads Everyone knows Windows Vista is a resource hog. Everyone says it doesn’t even get out of first gear without a gigabyte of RAM, and it takes 2 GB before it stops stuttering and stammering with each mouse click.
Everyone says Vista Home Basic is the black sheep of the family, deserving only of a sideways glance and a dismissive harrumph. That’s what I keep reading on the Internet, so it must be true.
Which is why I had steeled myself for pitiful performance when I yanked all but 512MB out of my test system last week and downgraded to Vista Home Basic. With a 2002–vintage CPU and Microsoft’s minimum recommended RAM, running the most basic of Vista retail editions on a 30GB partition, surely this would be a painful experience.
Or not.
You shouldn’t believe everything you read. I was expecting to need Valium and vodka and an on-call therapist to handle Vista Home Basic on this low-end system. Instead, I found a snappy, responsive OS that did everything I asked of it.
My primary goal was to measure startup times, answering skeptics who thought my test results from a few weeks ago were skewed by the expansive 1.5GB of RAM on this ancient P4 test machine. So I pulled out all but one stick of RAM and prepared for the worst. All you Vista bashers will be disappointed to hear what happened next:
* The system booted two seconds faster than it had with all that extra RAM. On average, Vista’s boot time was less than 30 seconds.
* Menus popped up instantly, with no lag or delay.
* My favorite DVD, Blade Runner, played flawlessly at full resolution, in surround sound. (I had to install a DVD decoder first – Vista Home Basic doesn’t include DVD playback capabilities out of the box.)
* I was able to rip a CD, check my Google Mail account on Mozilla Thunderbird, and play a full-screen slide show, all at the same time, without a single skip or hiccup.
* Even installing Norton Antivirus 2007 couldn’t slow things down. The Norton software added 7 seconds to my startup time, but after it loaded, everything worked exactly as expected.
To be fair, I didn’t do anything I knew would have brought this system to its knees. I didn’t try to rip a DVD, decode the human genome, or run Office 2007. But still… I’d have no qualms about handing this system over to my mom, my brother, or my best friend.
On the Windows Experience Index, this system rates a 2.0, thanks to its sluggish RAM (and even when I put those two extra 512MB sticks of RAM back in, the number doesn’t budge). The CPU on this system earned a 3.8. By contrast, Intel’s bottom-of-the-line 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo T5200, standard on every $599 notebook PC these days, rates a 4.3.
Surprisingly, even the visuals on this system were a treat. With a three-year-old video card, this system was capable of running Vista’s Aero graphics. But because Aero doesn’t run on Home Basic, I was stuck with the Vista Standard display. It lacks the transparent window borders and whizzy live previews on taskbar buttons, but otherwise the look is indistinguishable from a system running Windows Vista Ultimate.
The conventional wisdom says Vista Home Basic is a dog, and that it slows to a crawl with 512MB. Don’t believe everything you read.
The Robber Who Had A Stuttering Problem By: Blueboy In this article I am going to write about an amazing incident which occured during one of the speech courses which I run in Birmingham. My name is Steve Hill and I have been running five-day courses to help people to overcome a stutter for the last ten years. A few years ago a client attended the course who was to lets say shock me in a big way, I have now knicknamed him, the stuttering thief. Tags: stammer, stutter, speech impediment, speech problem, stuttering, stammering, stammering to
Information About Stuttering And Stammering By: Blueboy Stuttering is a form of speech impediment that is known to affect approximately one percent of the adult population in the UK. Also referred to as stammering, this condition is more common in men for reasons that are not fully understood. Treatments for stuttering have improved over the last few years and no longer just rely on the tradtional forms of speech therapy. Tags: stutter, stuttering, stammer, stammering, fluency, speech impediment, stuttering cure, spe
Studder, Stutter, Stammer And Clutter By: Blueboy Do you have a studder, stutter, clutter or stammer? People who are able to speak fluently do not realise just how lucky they are. Being unable to say certain sounds or words can have a hugely negative affect on a person's confidence and can affect their whole life. Some people have even gone as far as committing suicide because they could not bare to live another day with their speech impediment. Tags: studder, stammer, clutter, stutter, stuttering, stammering, speech therapist, school, conf
The Fear Of Stammering By: Blueboy My name is Steve, from the UK. I developed, for reasons to which I am still not entirely sure, a stammer when I was just four years of age. Boy did I hate this stammer, it seemed to take a hold of my life, it stopped me moving forward in a positive manner and it put a huge dent in my overall confidence levels. People fear many different things in life; I had a fear of stammering. Tags: stammering, stammer, speech impediment, friends, attitude, coward, bar, speech, speaking,
Stammering And Stuttering Cure By: Blueboy I am Stephen Hill, aged thirty-three from the UK. I was one of the unfortunate few who went through childhood having to cope with a stammering/stuttering problem. The stutter badly affected my overall confidence and self-esteem levels and made me in to some what of a shy and reclusive person. Tags: stammering, stuttering, stuttering cure, stammering cue, stammer, stutter, speech impedime
Information About Stuttering By: Bradley In this article I will be writing about the speech impediment commonly known as stuttering or stammering. I am a person who has personal experience of this condition and am happy to report that I have now managed to overcome my own stutter and am very much enjoying life as a fluent person. Tags: stutter, stuttering, stammer, stammering, fluency, speech impediment,
The Secrets Of How To Cure Stammering By: Bradley I am sure there are many people who are having to endure life with a speech impediment. My name is Steve Hill and I had a problem with my own speech which started when I was just four years of age. The problem that I had is known as stammering or stuttering and caused me many frustrations, it even made me consider, for a short period of time, Tags: stuttering, stutter, stammer, stammering, cure for stuttering, stuttering treatment, steve
The Frustration Of Having A Stutter By: Bradley Are you one of the many people who suffer with the speech impediment known as stuttering or stammering? Does your stutter/stammer cause you to become very frustrated at times? Have you attended speech therapy in the past in the hope that it would help improve your speech? I am a person who has overcome a stutter and I now help other people to achieve fluency. In this article, I write about the frustrations and emotions that people who stutter have to deal with. Tags: stutter, stuttering, stammer, stammering, speech impediment, speech therapy, frustration,
Therapy For Stammering By: Blueboy Do you have a stammer? Are you looking for a stammering cure? Have you had enough of living life with a stammer? Do you yearn for a stammer free life? I would imagine that most people who have a stammer would like to one day find a solution to this most frustrating form of speech impediment. Tags: stutter, stuttering, stammer, stammering, fluency, speech impediment,
The Handicap Of Stammering By: Blueboy Having a stammer can have a hugely negative affect on one's life. Stammering, which is also known as stuttering, affects around one percent of the population in the UK, with seven out of ten people who stammer being male. Tags: stutter, stuttering, stammer, stammering, fluency, speech impediment,
Alternative Therapy For A Stutter By: Blueboy Are you someone who struggles to speak fluently at times? Are you looking for alternative ways of treatment for stuttering rather than the traditional speech therapy? Is your stutter having a damaging affect on your life and overall confidence? A few years ago I would have answered yes to all of these questions but after a lot of hard work and a determination to succeed I managed to overcome my own stutter. Tags: stammer, stutter, speech impediment, speech problem, stuttering, stammering, stammering to
Stammering In Children By: Blueboy Children can develop a stammer at an early age and for the parents it can be a very worrying time. It is difficult to know what to do. Parents wonder if it is just an age thing or just a phase. They think about whether to take their child to some form of speech therapy, however worry that that might be an over-reaction. Tags: stammer, stutter, speech impediment, speech problem, stuttering, stammering, stammering to
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