Eagletec KG-011's are around or under $40 USD on Amazon even without any holiday deals. They're mechanical keyboards that strongly borrow from the design of Corsair's $200-$230 keyboards, with some caveats. They use better controllers that won't just go out on you after a warranty period ends, and they use Outemu brand switches, which are knockoffs of Cherry brand switches that are -in every way superior- to Cherry brand switches.
After having so many expensive mechanical keyboards fail on me, I bought these, and I'll never go back. Outemu switches feel superior and don't seem to suffer from the same fail-rate as the more expensive Cherry MX switches that all the high-dollar keyboards tend to use (except Razer, whom I believe may use something else? I haven't kept up with them in a while.)
I am a major keyboard snob. If you can name a keyboard switch or a particular design, I've probably tried it, or probably own it. In this day and age though, I can not -fathom- buying a keyboard for $200+ when I know how low-quality the components are going to be, or how poor the firmware in their microcontrollers is, or how terrible and pointless their "driver" software might be.
No matter what, I'd never, ever buy Razer. Their design principles involve everything requiring some proprietary Windows software which tends to store settings on the cloud - including for setting the DPI of their freaking mice.
They can't make it good, though. The only thing that'd make the beta website become a reasonable experience for the "audience" would be to hold a ritualistic sacrifice of a thumb drive containing the sole copy of all its Javascript bloat and ugly style sheets and then post a video of the activity perfectly syncronized to the chocobo song from Final Fantasy IX!
Posted by SGT CAPSLOCK on Friday February 07, 2014 @03:59PM from the straight-to-release dept.
Dice Holdings makes beta websites and awkward poll questions. SGT CAPSLOCK talked with them at slashdot.org and made this video of how their thought process works. Alternate video link @ void.org.
(Company) resurrects (popular product) with the newer, nicer (more expensive, less functional product)!
Someone writes:
"A year after (random event), (Company) today brought back the design of what it called 'the best-selling product of all time' but now with (common feature). We are talking about the classic (popular product). After caving in to community demands, (Company) has decided to release (more expensive, less functional product) at the inflated price of (too much). A spokesman for can be quoted as having said, 'give me your money!'."
"A year after , today brought back the design of what it called 'the best-selling product of all time' but with . We are talking about the classic . After caving in to community demands, has decided to release at the inflated price of . A spokesman for can be quoted as having said, 'give me your money!'."
This article is just trash. I mean, the whole thing! It's just buzzword-laden bullshit that can't even be parsed into coherent thoughts. There is very little meat in this supposed roundup of interface wins & losses, and to top it off, it doesn't even mention the horrendously well-accepted "interface failures" which have been primary topics of discussion in the wide open world of UX this year.
My take: anything involving the word "UX" this year has most assuredly been a GRAND success at the unstated mission of screwing people (the ones forced to use the interfaces) over, whether it be by way of simplifying (read: removing) functionality, tightening (read: hiding) features, or even just by repurposing (read: obfuscating) old "paradigms".
Well, at least -I- think my summary is better than their article!
This guy's got it right! I don't want to navigate a bunch of bullshit personalization settings in order to be able to get to meat of a web site. Aside from that, excess javascript is the very reason that I use noscript in the first place.
Aside from the thick fucking white borders, the ugly "this domain has been parked, here's some ads (articles, really - look more closely)" interface, and the tremendous abuse of javascript, there's also the matter of usability. Let's say that I whitelist this site with noscript. Well, now I get LOOK-THE-FUCK-AT-ME giant tooltips explaining that it's alright to click on things at the top of the page every single time I visit it because I have my browser set up to delete all cookies/history/etc upon closing a tab.
In such a case, I also have to navigate those bullshit personalization settings I mentioned in order to disable the gigantic/distracting images, leaving only the article summaries which are in fact tinier than the images themselves. Now it looks like I'm on some beta version of a Wordpress blog that a kid just set up.
Well, I guess I'm not really fighting against this. If this is the direction that Slashdot thinks that it should go, then by all means, do it. If it happens though, don't expect to retain your usual base of contributors.
Dunno why that's modded funny. It was my first thought as well.
The problem is probably when governments start trying to enforce it for all communications, but that's such an unrealistic logistics nightmare that it simply isn't a plausible concern.
My personal opinion is that tftp can be both right and wrong, and it deserves some discussion.
He's right in the fact that: "U.S. officials have learned that have commited cyber" is becoming downright annoying to read, especially without any credible evidence ever pointing to the former culprit truly being the one to commit the latter [horrible] cyber-deed.
The other part - well, that's already been claimed by other threads. It's the oft-discussed "is there even enough credibility in this government to warrant giving their finger-pointing even a single thought?"
Do your cables use oxygen-free copper, though? I'm sick of oxygen messing my pixels up!
Also, can I give you more money for some gold-colored connectors??? I don't mind throwing all of my money at you and your cables if you add useful features like these.
One of my friends has a wife who decided it'd be cute to post pictures of me on her Facebook account despite my telling her plainly that I didn't want that to happen. I got the pleasure of sitting and watching her do it, and giggle about it throughout my protests.
Nothing can be done to stop it. It's not like I'm going to steal her camera and delete her pictures. So, I'm in their system, despite being really well known as the paranoid "they're out to get me" guy to pretty much everyone who knows me.
No matter how careful we are individually, the ignorance of others certainly can affect us strongly these days...
Sounds like a job for... Well, any of the millions and trillions of safer, free, open source software utilities which can do the exact same thing without exposing your keys to some third party.
I wouldn't trust anyone but myself with my private keys, and I certainly wouldn't trust anyone else to generate private keys for me.
For that matter, I don't trust my data to be safe in anyone else's computer, but I guess that's OT.
'dd' is a useful command which can be used to concetenate files, back up disks, and even copy data? The possibilities are limitless!
You can use SATA disks with SAS backplanes and HBAs, but you may not plug SAS disks into SATA equipment.
In Skyrim, it's possible to earn high-end daedric armor quite early in the game by grinding your conjuration skill and doing a mage guild quest to power up the atronach forge below the Winterhold's college.
And perhaps most important of all, you need to know that kcachegrind can be used to help you easily parse the output of valgrind's cachegrind tool when searching for bottlenecks in your code.
Security is a trade-off. It's always going to take more work to set up and maintain security for yourself than it would to, say, remain traceable and insecure.
If you're lazy, then you're certainly the best kind of target.
When you do malicious things to Sky's customers, wouldn't it make you just as or perhaps even more oppressive than the people already controlling their content?
This is to be expected of what I've come to call the "Corporate Internet".
Governments and corporations have inherited our tubes, and I think that by now they're pretty confident that it's going to be acceptable for them to control and limit the content that ordinary people have access to.
It's been like this for a while now; once you learn the ropes and (more importantly) learn to obey all the rules, you'll fit right in!
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If n-key rollover is important to you, do not buy a Unicomp. They don't support that. I learned the hard way.
Eagletec KG-011's are around or under $40 USD on Amazon even without any holiday deals. They're mechanical keyboards that strongly borrow from the design of Corsair's $200-$230 keyboards, with some caveats. They use better controllers that won't just go out on you after a warranty period ends, and they use Outemu brand switches, which are knockoffs of Cherry brand switches that are -in every way superior- to Cherry brand switches.
After having so many expensive mechanical keyboards fail on me, I bought these, and I'll never go back. Outemu switches feel superior and don't seem to suffer from the same fail-rate as the more expensive Cherry MX switches that all the high-dollar keyboards tend to use (except Razer, whom I believe may use something else? I haven't kept up with them in a while.)
I am a major keyboard snob. If you can name a keyboard switch or a particular design, I've probably tried it, or probably own it. In this day and age though, I can not -fathom- buying a keyboard for $200+ when I know how low-quality the components are going to be, or how poor the firmware in their microcontrollers is, or how terrible and pointless their "driver" software might be.
No matter what, I'd never, ever buy Razer. Their design principles involve everything requiring some proprietary Windows software which tends to store settings on the cloud - including for setting the DPI of their freaking mice.
Another good thing about the beta website: it can also be worn... as a hat.
They can't make it good, though. The only thing that'd make the beta website become a reasonable experience for the "audience" would be to hold a ritualistic sacrifice of a thumb drive containing the sole copy of all its Javascript bloat and ugly style sheets and then post a video of the activity perfectly syncronized to the chocobo song from Final Fantasy IX!
Posted by SGT CAPSLOCK on Friday February 07, 2014 @03:59PM
from the straight-to-release dept.
Dice Holdings makes beta websites and awkward poll questions. SGT CAPSLOCK talked with them at slashdot.org and made this video of how their thought process works. Alternate video link @ void.org.
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srsly the beta sux
^ This comment looks ugly when viewed from the beta.
I assure you that it's BEAUTIFUL when viewed from the classic version though!
Ahem. Pretend that read:
(Company) resurrects (popular product) with the newer, nicer (more expensive, less functional product)!
Someone writes:
"A year after (random event), (Company) today brought back the design of what it called 'the best-selling product of all time' but now with (common feature). We are talking about the classic (popular product). After caving in to community demands, (Company) has decided to release (more expensive, less functional product) at the inflated price of (too much). A spokesman for can be quoted as having said, 'give me your money!'."
resurrects with the newer, nicer !
Someone writes:
"A year after , today brought back the design of what it called 'the best-selling product of all time' but with . We are talking about the classic . After caving in to community demands, has decided to release at the inflated price of . A spokesman for can be quoted as having said, 'give me your money!'."
This article is just trash. I mean, the whole thing! It's just buzzword-laden bullshit that can't even be parsed into coherent thoughts. There is very little meat in this supposed roundup of interface wins & losses, and to top it off, it doesn't even mention the horrendously well-accepted "interface failures" which have been primary topics of discussion in the wide open world of UX this year.
My take: anything involving the word "UX" this year has most assuredly been a GRAND success at the unstated mission of screwing people (the ones forced to use the interfaces) over, whether it be by way of simplifying (read: removing) functionality, tightening (read: hiding) features, or even just by repurposing (read: obfuscating) old "paradigms".
Well, at least -I- think my summary is better than their article!
This guy's got it right! I don't want to navigate a bunch of bullshit personalization settings in order to be able to get to meat of a web site. Aside from that, excess javascript is the very reason that I use noscript in the first place.
Aside from the thick fucking white borders, the ugly "this domain has been parked, here's some ads (articles, really - look more closely)" interface, and the tremendous abuse of javascript, there's also the matter of usability. Let's say that I whitelist this site with noscript. Well, now I get LOOK-THE-FUCK-AT-ME giant tooltips explaining that it's alright to click on things at the top of the page every single time I visit it because I have my browser set up to delete all cookies/history/etc upon closing a tab.
In such a case, I also have to navigate those bullshit personalization settings I mentioned in order to disable the gigantic/distracting images, leaving only the article summaries which are in fact tinier than the images themselves. Now it looks like I'm on some beta version of a Wordpress blog that a kid just set up.
Well, I guess I'm not really fighting against this. If this is the direction that Slashdot thinks that it should go, then by all means, do it. If it happens though, don't expect to retain your usual base of contributors.
Dunno why that's modded funny. It was my first thought as well.
The problem is probably when governments start trying to enforce it for all communications, but that's such an unrealistic logistics nightmare that it simply isn't a plausible concern.
My first thought was scameras / licence plate cameras at intersections, etc. I hope it's not something malicious like that!
Ew. The comment box ate my clever mark-up!
My comment should've read something like:
"U.S. officials have learned that (China|Russia|Syria|Al Qaeda|etc) have commited cyber(terrorism|war|crime|etc)".
With brackets. :
Mod this guy up!
My personal opinion is that tftp can be both right and wrong, and it deserves some discussion.
He's right in the fact that: "U.S. officials have learned that have commited cyber" is becoming downright annoying to read, especially without any credible evidence ever pointing to the former culprit truly being the one to commit the latter [horrible] cyber-deed.
The other part - well, that's already been claimed by other threads. It's the oft-discussed "is there even enough credibility in this government to warrant giving their finger-pointing even a single thought?"
Ahhh. My signature should be "cyber-lol"!
> The U.S. has intercepted
Sounds right so far.
> an order from Iran to militants in Iraq to attack the U.S. Embassy
Mm hmm...
> ...U.S. officials also fear...
They're more scared of us than we are of them! Right? Maybe that's spiders.
> the U.S. has moved military resources in the region for a possible strike
I can't go on. I'm really feeling terrified now, so... Ahh. I think I'll go watch some F** N**** to learn more about this.
Do your cables use oxygen-free copper, though? I'm sick of oxygen messing my pixels up!
Also, can I give you more money for some gold-colored connectors??? I don't mind throwing all of my money at you and your cables if you add useful features like these.
It's sadly the case...
One of my friends has a wife who decided it'd be cute to post pictures of me on her Facebook account despite my telling her plainly that I didn't want that to happen. I got the pleasure of sitting and watching her do it, and giggle about it throughout my protests.
Nothing can be done to stop it. It's not like I'm going to steal her camera and delete her pictures. So, I'm in their system, despite being really well known as the paranoid "they're out to get me" guy to pretty much everyone who knows me.
No matter how careful we are individually, the ignorance of others certainly can affect us strongly these days...
Vigintillions, my friend.
Honestly, I didn't mean for that number to be taken literally. This is Slashdot! How could it be taken as truth without a reference?!
Whether it be Microsoft Security Essentials, Norton, or any other antivirus software, it won't help.
Didn't you read the article? Those kinds of things are only useful against mere computer viruses. These are more sophisticated.
These are "implants"!
Sounds like a job for... Well, any of the millions and trillions of safer, free, open source software utilities which can do the exact same thing without exposing your keys to some third party.
I wouldn't trust anyone but myself with my private keys, and I certainly wouldn't trust anyone else to generate private keys for me.
For that matter, I don't trust my data to be safe in anyone else's computer, but I guess that's OT.
'dd' is a useful command which can be used to concetenate files, back up disks, and even copy data? The possibilities are limitless!
You can use SATA disks with SAS backplanes and HBAs, but you may not plug SAS disks into SATA equipment.
In Skyrim, it's possible to earn high-end daedric armor quite early in the game by grinding your conjuration skill and doing a mage guild quest to power up the atronach forge below the Winterhold's college.
And perhaps most important of all, you need to know that kcachegrind can be used to help you easily parse the output of valgrind's cachegrind tool when searching for bottlenecks in your code.
Security is a trade-off. It's always going to take more work to set up and maintain security for yourself than it would to, say, remain traceable and insecure.
If you're lazy, then you're certainly the best kind of target.
I don't think it matters so much what attire The Resistance wears; it just matters that it will exist.
When you do malicious things to Sky's customers, wouldn't it make you just as or perhaps even more oppressive than the people already controlling their content?
This is to be expected of what I've come to call the "Corporate Internet".
Governments and corporations have inherited our tubes, and I think that by now they're pretty confident that it's going to be acceptable for them to control and limit the content that ordinary people have access to.
It's been like this for a while now; once you learn the ropes and (more importantly) learn to obey all the rules, you'll fit right in!