Think "dynamic." If you could have a keyboard adapt to whatever it was you were doing, it would make it a lot easier to learn the keyboard shortcuts. It could have an "Attack" or "Block" button when playing a game, have fewer and larger buttons for applications that don't need to TYPE but just need a few COMMANDS (like touch screens on Point of Sale registers do now), instead of weird labels like F1-F12 or shorcuts such as Ctrl+V, applications could have the keyboard change the label to what they actually DO, e.g. "Help" instead of "F1", "Copy" instead of "C" whenever you are holding Ctrl and text is selected, etc.
One day a fast food restaurant had problems with their network connection. Their debit and CC transactions were down for few hours. Two people in front of me paid cash. When I tried to use a card, they informed me of the network problem and I got my food for free because I didn't have cash on me.
So yes, you can carry cash. But when something happens to the network and you don't have access to your account, you might get free stuff if you don't carry it. But if you don't like getting free stuff, carry cash. Then you'll always pay for everything.
Right, so if someone were to "just hold down shift if you need to type a lot of caps" they would never see this unless they waited 8 seconds after first pressing shift to type the first character (holding it for 8 seconds AFTER the first character actually doesn't activate it). So this would be fine.
THANK YOU (used shift to type that, even without thinking of it... I never use caps lock for typing in all caps)... I was hoping at least one person would mention this. I use AutoHotKey at work and have many of the "useless" keys mapped to some of my scripts. For example, I use the windows key in combination with a letter (e.g. Windows + C opens "C:" in an Explorer window, Windows + Space opens Perforce, Eclipse, and Firefox, all of which I have open while developing at my job). That way, I don't interfere with built in shortcuts (I avoid useful Windows key shortcuts like Windows+R and Windows+E). Also, I have the Caps Lock key overridden to reload my autohotkey script whenever I make little changes to it, so I couldn't use it for caps if I even tried. So yea, I'm all for removing the "All Caps" functionality, but I don't want to lose a useful key on my keyboard (even if I have to manually map what I want it to do).
Yeah, but is it if you hold down shift while typing too, or only if you hold down shift and do nothing for those few seconds... Most people will find the key they want within that amount of time...
Yes, but only a little bit. You need to mention Tesla at least two times if you really want the mod points to flow. This one will get modded up more because I mentioned Tesla twice.
Are you people not getting the point? RTFA... or even RFTS... heck, you could just read the TITLE: "Launched For Technophobes". Having no "features" (no text, no phone book) IS A FEATURE for this target audience and is therefore worth paying more for. Price is not determined by cost of manufacturing. Cost of manufacturing is usually just a lower bound on price. It's "Supply and Demand" not "Supply and How Much Did It Cost To Manufacture?"
how the h*ll do you know that he/she either really likes Porsches or spicy foods? What if "cayenne8" means that they think the Cayenne is the 8th worst car in the world, and really wants to make sure people know their opinion about that? Quit feeding the trolls.
I would argue that COMPUTERS are only for technically minded users and are unsuitable for non-technical users if allowing bloat and such to slow your computer down means it is unsuitable for you. Man, that would make tech support so much easier if everyone had at least some technical background...
I am unable to do an upgrade on my wife's EEE. It says that there are problems and that it's reverting to the "saved state", then cancels the upgrade. I could do a fresh install, but I'm a bit too lazy for that... Is the upgrade really worth it?
That quote has nothing to do with what the GP said... GP basically said, at 15 he thought people were generally stupid, and at 42 he still thinks that. Mark Twain said at 14 he thought his father was ignorant, but when he got older (21) he realized his father really was wise...
...the few people who would figure out who's pet it was, and which of the many pets that person had was, are the people I'd trust with my online info anyway.
Ok, so Joe Schmoe, your worst enemy doesn't know you well enough to know your pet's name, but he's friends with your brother Jim Schmuck, who DOES know. Joe brings up pets in casual conversation with Jim, and... Joe now has access to your bank account.
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You mean gloves?
What if you had TWO screens though, like this? http://www.tuvie.com/canova-dual-touch-screen-laptop-should-be-here-by-2010/
Think "dynamic." If you could have a keyboard adapt to whatever it was you were doing, it would make it a lot easier to learn the keyboard shortcuts. It could have an "Attack" or "Block" button when playing a game, have fewer and larger buttons for applications that don't need to TYPE but just need a few COMMANDS (like touch screens on Point of Sale registers do now), instead of weird labels like F1-F12 or shorcuts such as Ctrl+V, applications could have the keyboard change the label to what they actually DO, e.g. "Help" instead of "F1", "Copy" instead of "C" whenever you are holding Ctrl and text is selected, etc.
What mouse? It's touchscreen...
My situation was a bit different:
I don't.
One day a fast food restaurant had problems with their network connection. Their debit and CC transactions were down for few hours. Two people in front of me paid cash. When I tried to use a card, they informed me of the network problem and I got my food for free because I didn't have cash on me.
So yes, you can carry cash. But when something happens to the network and you don't have access to your account, you might get free stuff if you don't carry it. But if you don't like getting free stuff, carry cash. Then you'll always pay for everything.
That, and burglars aren't "burglars" if it isn't at night. They're just thieves.
It is a mystery, but don't call me Shirley.
Right, so if someone were to "just hold down shift if you need to type a lot of caps" they would never see this unless they waited 8 seconds after first pressing shift to type the first character (holding it for 8 seconds AFTER the first character actually doesn't activate it). So this would be fine.
WHOOSH!
THANK YOU (used shift to type that, even without thinking of it... I never use caps lock for typing in all caps)... I was hoping at least one person would mention this. I use AutoHotKey at work and have many of the "useless" keys mapped to some of my scripts. For example, I use the windows key in combination with a letter (e.g. Windows + C opens "C:" in an Explorer window, Windows + Space opens Perforce, Eclipse, and Firefox, all of which I have open while developing at my job). That way, I don't interfere with built in shortcuts (I avoid useful Windows key shortcuts like Windows+R and Windows+E). Also, I have the Caps Lock key overridden to reload my autohotkey script whenever I make little changes to it, so I couldn't use it for caps if I even tried. So yea, I'm all for removing the "All Caps" functionality, but I don't want to lose a useful key on my keyboard (even if I have to manually map what I want it to do).
Yeah, but is it if you hold down shift while typing too, or only if you hold down shift and do nothing for those few seconds... Most people will find the key they want within that amount of time...
So then you can alternate between the shift key on the left and the shift key on the right every 2 letters. Problem solved!
I think it's very unreasonable for you to put aluminum foil in your underpants, and therefore perfectly reasonable for them to search you.
Yes, but only a little bit. You need to mention Tesla at least two times if you really want the mod points to flow. This one will get modded up more because I mentioned Tesla twice.
Are you people not getting the point? RTFA... or even RFTS... heck, you could just read the TITLE: "Launched For Technophobes". Having no "features" (no text, no phone book) IS A FEATURE for this target audience and is therefore worth paying more for. Price is not determined by cost of manufacturing. Cost of manufacturing is usually just a lower bound on price. It's "Supply and Demand" not "Supply and How Much Did It Cost To Manufacture?"
how the h*ll do you know that he/she either really likes Porsches or spicy foods? What if "cayenne8" means that they think the Cayenne is the 8th worst car in the world, and really wants to make sure people know their opinion about that? Quit feeding the trolls.
I would argue that COMPUTERS are only for technically minded users and are unsuitable for non-technical users if allowing bloat and such to slow your computer down means it is unsuitable for you. Man, that would make tech support so much easier if everyone had at least some technical background...
I am unable to do an upgrade on my wife's EEE. It says that there are problems and that it's reverting to the "saved state", then cancels the upgrade. I could do a fresh install, but I'm a bit too lazy for that... Is the upgrade really worth it?
660mHz = 0.66Hz, 500mHz = 0.5Hz... That must be one SLOW computer. Unless of course you meant MHz...
You lose, by popular vote
Then he shouldn't have said "speed", but "rate of change of speed with respect to time" or "dSpeed/dt". ;-)
I see a problem at step 2. Why in the hell would you insert a USB stick that you FOUND into a PC?
That quote has nothing to do with what the GP said... GP basically said, at 15 he thought people were generally stupid, and at 42 he still thinks that. Mark Twain said at 14 he thought his father was ignorant, but when he got older (21) he realized his father really was wise...
...the few people who would figure out who's pet it was, and which of the many pets that person had was, are the people I'd trust with my online info anyway.
Ok, so Joe Schmoe, your worst enemy doesn't know you well enough to know your pet's name, but he's friends with your brother Jim Schmuck, who DOES know. Joe brings up pets in casual conversation with Jim, and... Joe now has access to your bank account.
60,000,000, because after the first minute, it stops.