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The Best Keyboards For Every Occasion
ThinSkin writes "ExtremeTech has written an article on the best keyboards in every category, such as gaming keyboards (macro and hybrid), media center keyboards, keyboard gamepads, and so forth. Of course, the big companies like Microsoft and Logitech dominate these lists, while smaller companies like Razer, Ideazon, and others play an important role as well."
The IBM Model M
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
A one-handed chorded keyboard, of course.
Plus, you've got a little bit of Apple magic in your pocket :)
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Awe, and here I thought you were happy to see me
7. Can be used to club burglars into submission.
Sure, the act of bludgeoning another person with a Model M will probably be quieter than actually typing on the damn thing, but such is the price of home security.
Oh, and almost forgot:
8. Reduces instances of cat-on-keyboard syndrome. They'll either weigh too little to depress the keys, or the sound of the spacebar going off like a gunshot will probably traumatize them enough that they won't try it again.
I then take that keyboard, and remap the capslock key to be a second control key. After all, when was the last time you needed to use capslock? Never.
You must lose a lot of your internet debates.
Seven digits makes someone new, junior? :)
Plus, you've got a little bit of Apple magic in your pocket
But that magic saps your vital life essences and transfers them to Steve Jobs. Sure, everything from the Apple II onwards did that in a small way, which is how he powered the Reality Disortion Field, but that power is now the only thing keeping him alive since he should be long dead from cancer. The energy harvested from iPod buyers was enough at first (and indeed, look at the zombified victims wearing the tell-tale white spirit-siphons, or as Apple calls them, "ear buds"), but with every passing day the energy he needs increases, and only young, fresh, frantically texting souls will do. This is why Apple released the iPhone (or as those of us in the know would have it, the "Atman Lamprey"): by creating a device that the user holds to the side of their head, transmission losses in the spirit siphons can be eliminated while increasing the pickup surface area.
Sounds absurd? Well mark my words, in a mere 60 or so years everyone who has bought an iPod or iPhone will either be dead or a shrivelled husk, while Jobs will be alive and well and still running Apple (with a different identity to avoid suspicion, of course). See if I'm wrong!
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Seven digits makes someone new, junior? :)
You tell 'em, old-timer! :)
If I'd known there were going to be _useful_ features to be gained by signing up, I would have signed up earlier. At the time, the 'first poster' jagoffs weren't around yet, and there weren't enough features being offered to make it the effort. Little did I know... *shrug* Oh well.
As I've gotten older, I've learned: if you like something a lot, buy a second one! Some day, they won't make them anymore.
That's why I've got a stack of IBM Model M keyboards around... :)
I wash my model M keyboard twice a year.
... in case you hadn't noticed ... top to bottom. With those two points in mind, my question to you is, why are the keys on numeric keypads and calculators upside-down? :-)
in case you haven't noticed... we should be glad it's just upside down.
Seeing what they did to the letters, we're lucky the numpad isnt:
5 7 0
3 8 1
2 4 9
6
The Kinesis contoured keyboard is what I use, which includes palm rests and vastly different shape which reduces the distance your fingers travel, and takes a lot of strain off your arms ...
As someone who's had RSI for a long time ...
Hate to break it to you, but those are directly related. If you didn't learn to type properly in the days when such things were taught, you wouldn't know that:
1. Your arms are supposed to be relaxed and at your sides.
2. Your wrists should be relaxed, up in the air, and in a fairly horizontal position. The should not be resting on anything.
3. There should be no tension anywhere.
Granted that desktops are too high for natural typing, but seriously, do try to kill the bad habits. Typing requires no less skill, discipline or practice than playing a musical instrument well. Advocating palm rests and ergonomic keyboards is like recommending beanbag chairs for people who have back problems and habitually slouch, or blowjobs for people with overly-stressed lifestyles.
ONLY ONCE A DAY YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
While I'm sure the Model M defeated Communism and will soon cure AIDS and cancer, I'd just like to point out that the pyramids don't actually contain "lots of metal."
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