I work for a major grocery store chain that is unionized in the Northeastern US. I started there at minimum wage (5.15 at the time), but there was a detailed plan as to my financial advancement. Seven years later, I now make basically triple that, and also maintain benefits for myself and my family.
My college buddy has worked at Wal-Mart for the same time that I have worked for the grocery store, and he is making a dollar more an hour then he did when he started, and with minimal benefits. While he started out making over 2 dollars more an hour than I did, he now makes much less than I do, and with much worse benefits.
I recently graduated from college, and I am vested in my job at the grocery store. It isn't much, but an extra couple hundred dollars a month will be an added bonus for a job I maintained while going to school full time. He is looking forward to no long term gain from his 3/4ths of a decade working for a company.
I guess I find it difficult to defend Wal-Mart when I walked in to an E-O-E retail business, interviewed for 5 minutes, and was working the next day, with better benefits, guaranteed rights, and much better long term pay.
Would it really be difficult to come up with a High-Def Package, with stickers to signify which formats are available?
For example, a new movie comes to the store, and you have one box with some BR cards (imagine a bookmark) and some HD-DVD cards in a pouch in the front. You grab said card, take to counter, and they hand you the movie.
Sound like hard work? Might take some adjustment, but the customers that you avoid alienating will be more than happy, and keeping the consumer happy should be worth a little bit of effort.
Why not just take the keys off and wash them separately? You could have them dried with a blow dryer in 15 minutes. Do we really care about the parts we never touch?
I pop off all the keys and give them a nice alcohol wash about once a year just to keep it looking clean. Takes about an hour. Compressed Air underneath when they're all off, and its about as good as new as you'll ever get. And this keyboard is 9 years old.
On the contrary, I believe there are many reasons to have the alphanumeric keys with displays.
Imagine if you're using Maya, 3d Studio, autoCAD, etc... and whenever that application is in the foreground all the function keys that are mapped to the alphanumeric keys are displayed. I don't know if the keyboard allows that kind of customization, but it would be especially productive if they changed their images when secondary keys (control, shift, etc..) were pressed as well.
All it would take is one person to set up the template and release it, and voila! you have a readily available, interesting, and functional keyboard for some non-textual applications.
I know there are times in those programs you would like to use standard alphanumeric input, but I'm sure its easier to remember the characters normally represented by each key than the hundreds of shortcuts built into these programs.
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Hey, just as long as the chinese don't screw up the commerce between our countries, they can hack us all day.
I mean, seriously. Where else would i go for cheap WoW gold?
Move along. Come on, even Hollywood studios can put out more flops than this.
You're missing the point.
I work for a major grocery store chain that is unionized in the Northeastern US. I started there at minimum wage (5.15 at the time), but there was a detailed plan as to my financial advancement. Seven years later, I now make basically triple that, and also maintain benefits for myself and my family.
My college buddy has worked at Wal-Mart for the same time that I have worked for the grocery store, and he is making a dollar more an hour then he did when he started, and with minimal benefits. While he started out making over 2 dollars more an hour than I did, he now makes much less than I do, and with much worse benefits.
I recently graduated from college, and I am vested in my job at the grocery store. It isn't much, but an extra couple hundred dollars a month will be an added bonus for a job I maintained while going to school full time. He is looking forward to no long term gain from his 3/4ths of a decade working for a company.
I guess I find it difficult to defend Wal-Mart when I walked in to an E-O-E retail business, interviewed for 5 minutes, and was working the next day, with better benefits, guaranteed rights, and much better long term pay.
Would it really be difficult to come up with a High-Def Package, with stickers to signify which formats are available?
For example, a new movie comes to the store, and you have one box with some BR cards (imagine a bookmark) and some HD-DVD cards in a pouch in the front. You grab said card, take to counter, and they hand you the movie.
Sound like hard work? Might take some adjustment, but the customers that you avoid alienating will be more than happy, and keeping the consumer happy should be worth a little bit of effort.
Why not just take the keys off and wash them separately? You could have them dried with a blow dryer in 15 minutes. Do we really care about the parts we never touch? I pop off all the keys and give them a nice alcohol wash about once a year just to keep it looking clean. Takes about an hour. Compressed Air underneath when they're all off, and its about as good as new as you'll ever get. And this keyboard is 9 years old.
On the contrary, I believe there are many reasons to have the alphanumeric keys with displays.
Imagine if you're using Maya, 3d Studio, autoCAD, etc... and whenever that application is in the foreground all the function keys that are mapped to the alphanumeric keys are displayed. I don't know if the keyboard allows that kind of customization, but it would be especially productive if they changed their images when secondary keys (control, shift, etc..) were pressed as well.
All it would take is one person to set up the template and release it, and voila! you have a readily available, interesting, and functional keyboard for some non-textual applications.
I know there are times in those programs you would like to use standard alphanumeric input, but I'm sure its easier to remember the characters normally represented by each key than the hundreds of shortcuts built into these programs.