It's been used in spacebars on Cherry Mx Blue keyboards for a while, just not an entire keyboard.
This is a Cherry Mx Blue switch with a stiffer spring, nothing more. Enthusiasts have been making keyboards like this for a while now (which is where Cooler Master got the idea), and it most definitely does not replicate a model M feel or sound.
If you want a Model M, buy a Model M or a Unicomp.
Every engine has a crack tolerance on the turbine fan blades (and they all develop cracks), the tolerances allowed greatly differ between single and twin engine jets. Remember, when you lose your single engine, you don't just lose thrust, you lose all power as well, so while they have a backup, it typically only lasts about 10 minutes. They don't take chances. Because of this, F16's made in the 80's and 90's actually need engines replaced FAR more often than the older twin engine aircraft made in the 60's by a significant amount.
I worked on these aircraft, for every engine I changed on a twin, I did at least 20 on singles, and no, that isn't an exaggeration. Send them to the desert and things only got worse.
Not only are the numbers easy to change, but the parts, particularly Iphones, are worth good money, which is where I suspect most of them end up.
Not only that, but carriers don't work together to limit the transfer of phones. Sprint users often take stolen or bad esn phones over to Cricket anmd get them put right back in service. Recently the government took efforts to get them to finally start working together on this.
Once we get wireless displays in our phones (and cheaper storage, which is coming), that will mark the final straw, everything will be phone based.
Right now we try to bring the data to the phone, instead, reverse it, put everything on the phone and run everything from that. With this method, you always have your data, instead of always retrieving it from elsewhere. As the phone becomes more and more the primary device, this makes more and more sense. If you haven't seen it, take a look at Clambook. Now adapt that same system (wirelessly) to a desktop and tablet. They won't even be a thin client, they will simply be extensions of your phone.
This means less services to pay for since you only need internet on the phone, as well as fewer items to maintain. It ends up far cheaper and more efficient as you don't even need to buy a tower anymore. As it stands, the only thing really holding it back is a UI that works on a desktop, any guess as to where Microsoft and Ubuntu think we are heading?
Desktops will remain, but they will become more of a tool (like they were 30 years ago). Gamers, artists, etc, anything needing more power will stay on the desktop for at least a bit longer. Some things need the extra power, but the average store bought PC that is mostly for browsing the internet will be dead. The same applies to game consoles, they will go back to being just a game system for more hardcore gamer as most will play from their phone connected to whatever peripheral they choose.
Terrible employees, bad policies...
Sure they have some things you might want, but you hate to go in. Both companies completely lost sight of their customers and became more like used car salesmen.
Best Buy doesn't get any of my money if I can help it. It's not just the prices, it's everything about how they operate. Look at Best buys website, looks more like a corporate back end and you NEVER find the lowest priced items like memory in stores. If I have to mail order it anyway, why would I bother with them? And why would I pay $30 for a 6 foot usb cable? Are you nuts? Just because you can take advantage of impulse buying, doesn't mean you can conduct highway robbery and expect no one to catch on.
We have a Microcenter an hour away, but otherwise it's a matter of figuring out what other store might carry what we need for a reasonable rate or we just simply mail order it.
I got rid of my dvd rom years ago, I almost never used it.
Ubuntu and MS both tell you how to install from a thumbstick and MS Office is even sold on them. In a year I would imagine you will be hard pressed to find a system with a rom drive. I do hook up a usb external on occasion to read or write a disk, but that's rare. Netflix, Hulu and alternatives take care of movies, Steam and similar handle games. USB sticks handle the rest.
I don't take dvd's on a plane, it's cumbersome and the drive eats batteries, copy the files to a folder and use VLC if you must.
You have to send them your old one, even today, my laptop is worth 4 times the laptop they want to replace it with. Why on earth would I send it in only to get back a pile a of junk? If they wanted to send me the new laptop, great, I could sell it and fix mine, but there is no way I'm trading in my top of the line Sony for that pile of poo.
We already put a bunch of stuff into physical space, crashed probes into comets, and put a bunch of junk on the moon and mars.
It only takes a few microbes to ruin an ecosystem. Nasa has implemented safeguards (after having put some into space), but will those safeguards be taken into account when privateers start heading out?
And what happens once we do colonize Mars or the moon, both of which we could technically do now if we wanted. We could be seen as spreading like a virus at that point, some already see us as such. Take a look at what we have done to this planet so far. You don't think if we had interstellar travel that we wouldn't exploit/trash any planet we came across?
All those movies like Independence Day where they come for our resources, we're it.
Ubisoft has created the perfect DRM system.
Combine horrible DRM with horrible gameplay and no one will pirate it. Of course no one will play it either, but hey, it's the perfect DRM system.
I almost feel as though I should be thanking them for all the time and money they are saving me.
Half of the problem is all of you thinking that all we play is casual games.
I have hundreds and hundreds of hours in Left 4 Dead, Battlefield and Call of Duty lines (plus others) and you would be amazed at how many women are there, you just don't see it because they don't make it known. Making it known creates a lot of issues, not just the smack talk, it often crosses the line into abuse, sexual harassment and stalking. It's a nice day when you can get online during peak hours and just be treated like "one of the guys". Instead we get berated upon entering, followed around and ganged up on.
Once I started gaming openly, I ended up quitting half the games I was playing online and almost completely stopped playing during peak hours.
Don't lay Sony's stupidity on the rest of the industry.
Just because Sony was too stupid/in a rush/incompetent to encrypt everything like they should have, doesn't mean everyone is moving too fast.
It just means whoever decided not to waste time on encryption, should have their head sitting on a stake at Sony Software HQ as a warning to others.
"it’s also the direction in which these used game restrictions should be going."
So how much will you pay for the used game knowing you still have to pay another $15 for the content? Not much.
How about when they decide it isn't enough and want $20?
It effectively destroys the second hand value and they know it.
In the 70's, 80's and early 90's we shifted from raw power and speed to more efficient, but when the power and speed came back it was more efficient, faster and safer.
The Mustang , Camaro and Corvette are perfect examples, they went from a big honking gas guzzlers in the early 70's, to nearly commuter cars in the late 70's and early 80's, to what they are, now. Newer models are so much better in every way. The same is happening with airline industry, and when the industry rebounds it will be far better off.
This could also signal a technological shift. You can only go so fast in the confines of the earth's atmosphere before it becomes inefficient. An ICBM can get to Russia in 45 minutes by running on the edge of space, based on the number of space travel companies starting, they may end up replacing the airline industry for long distance travel. Planes may stick around for shorter distance travel and cheaper commutes, but by the time the industry rebounds it may be very different than it is.
Either your I.T. department starts maintaining your employees own computers, or you lose time and money when the employee can't work. Even if you hold them responsible, you are still losing work time.
This is just a terrible idea.
People do all sorts of things to their own computers that they wouldn't/shouldn't do to a work computer, all of which brings in problems. Combine this with the fact that they now have all of these time wasters on their work computer and you are throwing money out the window.
Sorry, but when the cinematography, 3D, CGI, long takes etc... are the main selling point in a film, I have to wonder about the film.
One long take? Big deal, they do live stage shows daily. CGI is a contest of who has the newest toy or who can spend most money rather than actually making a good film. I can understand using ether because you need to or for cost reasons, but to do it for most other reasons are pointless. They're gimmicks. At some point the hype will no longer work. Look at 3D, directors immediately started applying it to otherwise blah movies in an effort to make them more appealing. 3D or not, if a movie is crap, it's still going to be crap, it's just in 3D.
And for the love of god, please send every one of these hack directors who think cameras should "duck and weave" (and zoom in constantly) back to film school. No ones head moves side to side 3 feet while standing still. Steady cams were invented for a reason.
It obviously has nothing to do with the fact that most connections don't even break 10meg, 802.11B is plenty fast for most peoples broadband connections.
So why are you expecting the ISP to foot the bill for your fancy $200 802.11N router, when even a 5 year old 802.11B router will more than suffice. Especially when you consider that an N router would eat up nearly 1/3rd of their income. Great business plan! At any rate, it's D-Link, what do you expect, you may as well be buying Belkin.
Oh, and for those discussing DD-WRT and combined devices...
Read up on DD-WRT, it SLOWS newer routers and why anyone wants an ADSL modem with built in wireless is a fool if you have a home network with sharing enabled. Providers have a tough enough time building a good router (and ADSL modems)it seems, now you want it all built in? I have yet to see an all-in-one that worked well or wasn't 2 years behind current technology. Give me a $20 modem and modern wireless router (with all of the bells and whistles). Then I can upgrade my home network (which upgrades more often than the ADSL connection) whenever something new comes out by replacing a relatively cheap router as compared to an all-in-one that would cost twice as much, and again, be two years behind. Besides, I have seen more than a few modems die prematurely. Sounds great letting a $20 part ruin a $300 modem/router. Modems are subject to power surges from phone lines as well as power lines. Keep it cheap.
I use a $5 Speedstream modem I got used from Ebay (the provided Westell was garbage) and a Linksys wrt610n, making for a rock solid setup.
Had it been someone other than a person working there all of you would be up in arms over the privacy implication.
Seems to me the paper was in the wrong here and should be facing a lawsuit over privacy. This isn't simply publishing someone's name. Has everyone just totally missed this? Employees may not be partaking in the program, they are employees, and employees don't stay employees forever and are normally mindless drones. She didn't ask for her information to be published and she is not a public spokesperson.
The police failed, as did the publisher, one of them should have caught this.
Dvorak has been known to say things just for the publicity, so take him with a grain of salt. If I remember correctly he has even admitted to this.
How much publicity is he getting by going against popular opinion this time?
Much of that article is him complaining he was left out of the loop. Awwwwwww, I feel so bad for him, someone needs a hug.
Agreed, it is a hassle, I also hate how they moved it.
Why split up the buttons? Microsoft did this on I.E. and I can't stand it, you always keep the buttons together. You control things with one hand, splitting the buttons means moving that hand around a lot more. Leave them grouped!
Netscape/Mozilla made a name for itself by making a simple browser that people could use. They shouldn't go making major U.I. changes just because some new company decided to challenge it. the basic U.I. works perfectly as it is.
I would highly suggest doing some testing with Windows and raid before you even bother using it for speed (Hint: it does almost nothing in a desktop or workstation).
All it does is create more complexity in the system and chance for failure. Windows has never been known for taking advantage of raid for speed unless it is for database use.
How is mirroring going to improve speed anyway? Even if you use a mixed raid system, any gains from striping will be lost from mirroring unless you have enough disks and a nice card. Do some investigating you will see.
There are a few reasons why I say this creates more chance of failure, beyond the obvious more parts. If one drive fails, yes you can just replace it, drives are pretty stable these days, but what if they are both from the same batch, odds are they will die within a very short time span of each other. Better datacenters will vouch for this. Then there is the quality of the raid itself, if it is a built in setup you may want to experiment with recovery BEFORE you have a failure, I have seen more than one refuse to recover. What if the raid system itself fails? Again this makes recovery even more difficult.
One bone of contention I have here as well is not only the threat of badware out there, but where I live, lightning is a consideration. I don't care how good your raid is, a voltage spike or bad power supply and your raid becomes a big lump of melted metal. Yes there are backups claiming lightening protection. I have one, even the manufacturers will admit there is no guarantee, which is why they come with insurance in case of failure.
Windows software raid makes some of these problems easier to deal with. The problem is, none of us want to really recommend that method.
My advice, unless this is for a server, forget the raid entirely and create a good backup system that lets you recover everything fast.
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It's been used in spacebars on Cherry Mx Blue keyboards for a while, just not an entire keyboard.
This is a Cherry Mx Blue switch with a stiffer spring, nothing more. Enthusiasts have been making keyboards like this for a while now (which is where Cooler Master got the idea), and it most definitely does not replicate a model M feel or sound.
If you want a Model M, buy a Model M or a Unicomp.
This is true, on paper.
Every engine has a crack tolerance on the turbine fan blades (and they all develop cracks), the tolerances allowed greatly differ between single and twin engine jets. Remember, when you lose your single engine, you don't just lose thrust, you lose all power as well, so while they have a backup, it typically only lasts about 10 minutes. They don't take chances. Because of this, F16's made in the 80's and 90's actually need engines replaced FAR more often than the older twin engine aircraft made in the 60's by a significant amount.
I worked on these aircraft, for every engine I changed on a twin, I did at least 20 on singles, and no, that isn't an exaggeration. Send them to the desert and things only got worse.
Not only are the numbers easy to change, but the parts, particularly Iphones, are worth good money, which is where I suspect most of them end up.
Not only that, but carriers don't work together to limit the transfer of phones. Sprint users often take stolen or bad esn phones over to Cricket anmd get them put right back in service. Recently the government took efforts to get them to finally start working together on this.
Once we get wireless displays in our phones (and cheaper storage, which is coming), that will mark the final straw, everything will be phone based.
Right now we try to bring the data to the phone, instead, reverse it, put everything on the phone and run everything from that. With this method, you always have your data, instead of always retrieving it from elsewhere. As the phone becomes more and more the primary device, this makes more and more sense. If you haven't seen it, take a look at Clambook. Now adapt that same system (wirelessly) to a desktop and tablet. They won't even be a thin client, they will simply be extensions of your phone.
This means less services to pay for since you only need internet on the phone, as well as fewer items to maintain. It ends up far cheaper and more efficient as you don't even need to buy a tower anymore. As it stands, the only thing really holding it back is a UI that works on a desktop, any guess as to where Microsoft and Ubuntu think we are heading?
Desktops will remain, but they will become more of a tool (like they were 30 years ago). Gamers, artists, etc, anything needing more power will stay on the desktop for at least a bit longer. Some things need the extra power, but the average store bought PC that is mostly for browsing the internet will be dead. The same applies to game consoles, they will go back to being just a game system for more hardcore gamer as most will play from their phone connected to whatever peripheral they choose.
Terrible employees, bad policies... Sure they have some things you might want, but you hate to go in. Both companies completely lost sight of their customers and became more like used car salesmen.
Best Buy doesn't get any of my money if I can help it. It's not just the prices, it's everything about how they operate. Look at Best buys website, looks more like a corporate back end and you NEVER find the lowest priced items like memory in stores. If I have to mail order it anyway, why would I bother with them? And why would I pay $30 for a 6 foot usb cable? Are you nuts? Just because you can take advantage of impulse buying, doesn't mean you can conduct highway robbery and expect no one to catch on.
We have a Microcenter an hour away, but otherwise it's a matter of figuring out what other store might carry what we need for a reasonable rate or we just simply mail order it.
I got rid of my dvd rom years ago, I almost never used it.
Ubuntu and MS both tell you how to install from a thumbstick and MS Office is even sold on them. In a year I would imagine you will be hard pressed to find a system with a rom drive. I do hook up a usb external on occasion to read or write a disk, but that's rare. Netflix, Hulu and alternatives take care of movies, Steam and similar handle games. USB sticks handle the rest.
I don't take dvd's on a plane, it's cumbersome and the drive eats batteries, copy the files to a folder and use VLC if you must.
You're kidding right?
It is NOT a free laptop
You have to send them your old one, even today, my laptop is worth 4 times the laptop they want to replace it with. Why on earth would I send it in only to get back a pile a of junk? If they wanted to send me the new laptop, great, I could sell it and fix mine, but there is no way I'm trading in my top of the line Sony for that pile of poo.
As always the real winners are the lawyers.
We already put a bunch of stuff into physical space, crashed probes into comets, and put a bunch of junk on the moon and mars. It only takes a few microbes to ruin an ecosystem. Nasa has implemented safeguards (after having put some into space), but will those safeguards be taken into account when privateers start heading out?
And what happens once we do colonize Mars or the moon, both of which we could technically do now if we wanted. We could be seen as spreading like a virus at that point, some already see us as such. Take a look at what we have done to this planet so far. You don't think if we had interstellar travel that we wouldn't exploit/trash any planet we came across?
All those movies like Independence Day where they come for our resources, we're it.
Ubisoft has created the perfect DRM system.
Combine horrible DRM with horrible gameplay and no one will pirate it. Of course no one will play it either, but hey, it's the perfect DRM system.
I almost feel as though I should be thanking them for all the time and money they are saving me.
Half of the problem is all of you thinking that all we play is casual games.
I have hundreds and hundreds of hours in Left 4 Dead, Battlefield and Call of Duty lines (plus others) and you would be amazed at how many women are there, you just don't see it because they don't make it known. Making it known creates a lot of issues, not just the smack talk, it often crosses the line into abuse, sexual harassment and stalking. It's a nice day when you can get online during peak hours and just be treated like "one of the guys". Instead we get berated upon entering, followed around and ganged up on.
Once I started gaming openly, I ended up quitting half the games I was playing online and almost completely stopped playing during peak hours.
According to my keyboard, 9.
You haven't seen Virgin Mobiles cell plans then.
$25 per month, 300 minutes with unlimited data. They do throttle you at 5gigs though, oh darn.
Don't lay Sony's stupidity on the rest of the industry.
Just because Sony was too stupid/in a rush/incompetent to encrypt everything like they should have, doesn't mean everyone is moving too fast.
It just means whoever decided not to waste time on encryption, should have their head sitting on a stake at Sony Software HQ as a warning to others.
"it’s also the direction in which these used game restrictions should be going."
So how much will you pay for the used game knowing you still have to pay another $15 for the content? Not much.
How about when they decide it isn't enough and want $20?
It effectively destroys the second hand value and they know it.
In the 70's, 80's and early 90's we shifted from raw power and speed to more efficient, but when the power and speed came back it was more efficient, faster and safer.
The Mustang , Camaro and Corvette are perfect examples, they went from a big honking gas guzzlers in the early 70's, to nearly commuter cars in the late 70's and early 80's, to what they are, now. Newer models are so much better in every way. The same is happening with airline industry, and when the industry rebounds it will be far better off.
This could also signal a technological shift. You can only go so fast in the confines of the earth's atmosphere before it becomes inefficient. An ICBM can get to Russia in 45 minutes by running on the edge of space, based on the number of space travel companies starting, they may end up replacing the airline industry for long distance travel. Planes may stick around for shorter distance travel and cheaper commutes, but by the time the industry rebounds it may be very different than it is.
Either your I.T. department starts maintaining your employees own computers, or you lose time and money when the employee can't work. Even if you hold them responsible, you are still losing work time.
This is just a terrible idea.
People do all sorts of things to their own computers that they wouldn't/shouldn't do to a work computer, all of which brings in problems. Combine this with the fact that they now have all of these time wasters on their work computer and you are throwing money out the window.
Is to fire the OP and get someone who knows what they are doing before they waste money on whatever the OP decides to do.
Sorry, but when the cinematography, 3D, CGI, long takes etc... are the main selling point in a film, I have to wonder about the film.
One long take? Big deal, they do live stage shows daily. CGI is a contest of who has the newest toy or who can spend most money rather than actually making a good film. I can understand using ether because you need to or for cost reasons, but to do it for most other reasons are pointless. They're gimmicks. At some point the hype will no longer work. Look at 3D, directors immediately started applying it to otherwise blah movies in an effort to make them more appealing. 3D or not, if a movie is crap, it's still going to be crap, it's just in 3D.
And for the love of god, please send every one of these hack directors who think cameras should "duck and weave" (and zoom in constantly) back to film school. No ones head moves side to side 3 feet while standing still. Steady cams were invented for a reason.
It obviously has nothing to do with the fact that most connections don't even break 10meg, 802.11B is plenty fast for most peoples broadband connections.
So why are you expecting the ISP to foot the bill for your fancy $200 802.11N router, when even a 5 year old 802.11B router will more than suffice. Especially when you consider that an N router would eat up nearly 1/3rd of their income. Great business plan! At any rate, it's D-Link, what do you expect, you may as well be buying Belkin.
Oh, and for those discussing DD-WRT and combined devices...
Read up on DD-WRT, it SLOWS newer routers and why anyone wants an ADSL modem with built in wireless is a fool if you have a home network with sharing enabled. Providers have a tough enough time building a good router (and ADSL modems)it seems, now you want it all built in? I have yet to see an all-in-one that worked well or wasn't 2 years behind current technology. Give me a $20 modem and modern wireless router (with all of the bells and whistles). Then I can upgrade my home network (which upgrades more often than the ADSL connection) whenever something new comes out by replacing a relatively cheap router as compared to an all-in-one that would cost twice as much, and again, be two years behind. Besides, I have seen more than a few modems die prematurely. Sounds great letting a $20 part ruin a $300 modem/router. Modems are subject to power surges from phone lines as well as power lines. Keep it cheap. I use a $5 Speedstream modem I got used from Ebay (the provided Westell was garbage) and a Linksys wrt610n, making for a rock solid setup.
Had it been someone other than a person working there all of you would be up in arms over the privacy implication.
Seems to me the paper was in the wrong here and should be facing a lawsuit over privacy. This isn't simply publishing someone's name. Has everyone just totally missed this? Employees may not be partaking in the program, they are employees, and employees don't stay employees forever and are normally mindless drones. She didn't ask for her information to be published and she is not a public spokesperson.
The police failed, as did the publisher, one of them should have caught this.
Dvorak has been known to say things just for the publicity, so take him with a grain of salt. If I remember correctly he has even admitted to this. How much publicity is he getting by going against popular opinion this time? Much of that article is him complaining he was left out of the loop. Awwwwwww, I feel so bad for him, someone needs a hug.
Agreed, it is a hassle, I also hate how they moved it.
Why split up the buttons? Microsoft did this on I.E. and I can't stand it, you always keep the buttons together. You control things with one hand, splitting the buttons means moving that hand around a lot more. Leave them grouped!
Netscape/Mozilla made a name for itself by making a simple browser that people could use. They shouldn't go making major U.I. changes just because some new company decided to challenge it. the basic U.I. works perfectly as it is.
I would highly suggest doing some testing with Windows and raid before you even bother using it for speed (Hint: it does almost nothing in a desktop or workstation). All it does is create more complexity in the system and chance for failure. Windows has never been known for taking advantage of raid for speed unless it is for database use. How is mirroring going to improve speed anyway? Even if you use a mixed raid system, any gains from striping will be lost from mirroring unless you have enough disks and a nice card. Do some investigating you will see. There are a few reasons why I say this creates more chance of failure, beyond the obvious more parts. If one drive fails, yes you can just replace it, drives are pretty stable these days, but what if they are both from the same batch, odds are they will die within a very short time span of each other. Better datacenters will vouch for this. Then there is the quality of the raid itself, if it is a built in setup you may want to experiment with recovery BEFORE you have a failure, I have seen more than one refuse to recover. What if the raid system itself fails? Again this makes recovery even more difficult. One bone of contention I have here as well is not only the threat of badware out there, but where I live, lightning is a consideration. I don't care how good your raid is, a voltage spike or bad power supply and your raid becomes a big lump of melted metal. Yes there are backups claiming lightening protection. I have one, even the manufacturers will admit there is no guarantee, which is why they come with insurance in case of failure. Windows software raid makes some of these problems easier to deal with. The problem is, none of us want to really recommend that method. My advice, unless this is for a server, forget the raid entirely and create a good backup system that lets you recover everything fast.