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War Declared on Caps Lock Key

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the makes-perfect-sense-to-me dept.

pieterh writes "I've launched a campaign to rid the world of the caps lock key. Sure, there are more serious problems to solve but please, think of the children! How am I going to explain to my kids why some of the most valuable keyboard real estate is squatted by a large, useless key that above all you must not press! Our campaign mission is simple: to send a message to the computer industry to force it (by any means necessary) to retire the CAPS key. It's going to be a hard, long, and possibly very embarassing war on uppercase, but some things just need to be done. "

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  1. THINK OF THE DATA ENTRY PEOPLE!!! by Korgan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    WHAT ABOUT THOSE OF US THAT HAVE TO USE CAPSLOCK TO ENTER DATA INTO A BUSINESS SYSTEM? WHERE WILL YOU LEAVE US???????

    Ooops. Sorry, caps. :-P

    Seriously though, I know lots of people who's business requires them to enter data into their company's systems using caps. I don't know about you, but my little pinky would get extremely disfigured having to swap to and hold the shift button all the time. You'd slow typists down immeasurably.

  2. Re:gOOD lUCK by rwven · · Score: 5, Insightful

    LOL, while it is annoying when people type in all caps and things like that, I use the caps lock key for legitimate reasons all the time. I'm in a data-mining job working on a UniData database and all UniQuery must be written in all caps. This would be a supreme pain to do sans a Caps-Lock key. This is just one of MANY things that falls under that umbrella. I also use the caps lock key as my "walk" key while playing CS. :-D

    Frankly...I find the idea of getting rid of the caps lock key...slightly appalling. :)

  3. Re:Helpful image to pass along by sk8dork · · Score: 5, Insightful

    in my job the poeple doing medical billing use software that requires all letter keypresses must be in caps also. perhaps the person starting this crap knows nothing of these worlds and is only concerned about all the all-caps emails and IMs and forum posts he sees.

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  4. Re:Helpful image to pass along by twistedsymphony · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Same here, I work for a very large aerospace manufacturer and all the notes on the engineering documents are required to be in all caps.

    Aparently the "War on Caps Lock" is spearheaded by someones who's entire computer world revolves around chatting with immature pre-teens online.

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