It's interesting that you mention safety. Did you know that SUVs are made with welded frames, which are not safe, and have a very high center of gravity, so they're prone to tipping?
I'm not saying that they went back to WWII, just that they couldn't have showed up at an Earth that had seen centuries of war. Were those Nazi planes in San Francisco? I didn't catch their markings.
It's odd that some people reflexively post anonymously, even when they're being genuinely funny or interesting. It's also odd that I don't have the sense to post AC, even though I'm not at all funny or interesting.
They couldn't have arrived at the tail end of a war that had lasted for hundreds of years. If that much time had passed, especially in a constant state of war, I don't think they would have been attacked by prop planes. And I expect that whatever the planes had been shooting at them with would have done significantly more damage than it did, since it would have a couple centuries of wartime weapons development backing it.
I have one of these. I think it cost me $80 or so for the mouse alone, without keyboard. It has excellent radio range. The regular optical sensor is good, and the gyroscopic sensor is excellent. It's very precise. I find it a little twitchy for air use on the desktop, since I have the sensitivity a little high, but it kills in FPS games (and by "kills", I mean it lets me do so. It does not kill me). It's a very natural control method.
Looking at their products page, I must have the Ultra GT Cordless Optical Mouse. It has excellent battery life. I've never had it die on me, and I'll often use it for many hours at a time. Just placing it in it's cradle after I'm done with it for the day keeps it going fine.
It's much like typing, but without the efficiency. I'd rather use a thumb keyboard. Wait, look at the control key! From the looks of things, it defaults to alt. I imagine some key combos must be rather difficult, since control and alt are on the same key.
How do you use that thing? You can really live with pressing that Fn key whenever you need an F-key, or page up, page down, an arrow key, pause/break, delete, home, end, or Ctrl? And it uses rubber dome keys! Those aren't even comfortable! That keyboard takes everything that's right, and makes it worse!
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Did you scratch off the old labels as well? That's a fun rainy day project.
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Ah, good. I was thinking about finding that out for myself, but you've saved me the trouble.
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Why the hell are we still shipping PCs with 12-year-old PS/2 technology?
Because it's damn hard to get a decent USB keyboard. Most of the keyboards around these days have awful key action. Newer keyboards are the worst. Even the one I'm using now (my other keyboard is much better, and older), which is ten years old, is pretty bad. Mushy. What we all need is less focus on adding new buttons, and more on making the ones we have work right.
Safari is the oddest. Pressing the Help key makes the cursor turn into a question mark. Aside from providing a visual representation of what you're probably thinking ("hmm... what does the Help key do?" to which your computer answers, "?"), it doesn't seem to do anything.
I think you're supposed to click on something.
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It's like putting something heavy on the gas pedal, then turning the car off and on to control speed. I guess that would requre a hack to keep power going to the radio at all times. Wouldn't it?
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Don't you have to deal with stop lights and traffic on the bike?
It's interesting that you mention safety. Did you know that SUVs are made with welded frames, which are not safe, and have a very high center of gravity, so they're prone to tipping?
Well, I wans't sure either.
and using three exclamation points is not grammatically correct.
I'm sensing a no.
I'm not saying that they went back to WWII, just that they couldn't have showed up at an Earth that had seen centuries of war. Were those Nazi planes in San Francisco? I didn't catch their markings.
But it's an exotic shit whole. What's a whole?
It's odd that some people reflexively post anonymously, even when they're being genuinely funny or interesting. It's also odd that I don't have the sense to post AC, even though I'm not at all funny or interesting.
Haha. Ha. That's funny. I like it.
I just tell myself that all the fluff makes it more enjoyable when I find a meaningful comment. Sometimes I have to repeat this a few times.
Yeah, it would have been twice as funny. It's too bad that not being funny twice doesn't make you funny.
They couldn't have arrived at the tail end of a war that had lasted for hundreds of years. If that much time had passed, especially in a constant state of war, I don't think they would have been attacked by prop planes. And I expect that whatever the planes had been shooting at them with would have done significantly more damage than it did, since it would have a couple centuries of wartime weapons development backing it.
P.S. English is not my primary language... I'm doing my best effort ;-),/i>
You're doing better than many people here.
I have one of these. I think it cost me $80 or so for the mouse alone, without keyboard. It has excellent radio range. The regular optical sensor is good, and the gyroscopic sensor is excellent. It's very precise. I find it a little twitchy for air use on the desktop, since I have the sensitivity a little high, but it kills in FPS games (and by "kills", I mean it lets me do so. It does not kill me). It's a very natural control method.
Looking at their products page, I must have the Ultra GT Cordless Optical Mouse.
It has excellent battery life. I've never had it die on me, and I'll often use it for many hours at a time. Just placing it in it's cradle after I'm done with it for the day keeps it going fine.
I can recommend it without reservation.
That's very odd.
You realize that if caps lock is gone, you'll have to hold down shift to write that letter, don't you?
It's much like typing, but without the efficiency. I'd rather use a thumb keyboard. Wait, look at the control key! From the looks of things, it defaults to alt. I imagine some key combos must be rather difficult, since control and alt are on the same key.
How do you use that thing? You can really live with pressing that Fn key whenever you need an F-key, or page up, page down, an arrow key, pause/break, delete, home, end, or Ctrl? And it uses rubber dome keys! Those aren't even comfortable! That keyboard takes everything that's right, and makes it worse!
Did you scratch off the old labels as well? That's a fun rainy day project.
Ah, good. I was thinking about finding that out for myself, but you've saved me the trouble.
Why the hell are we still shipping PCs with 12-year-old PS/2 technology?
Because it's damn hard to get a decent USB keyboard. Most of the keyboards around these days have awful key action. Newer keyboards are the worst. Even the one I'm using now (my other keyboard is much better, and older), which is ten years old, is pretty bad. Mushy. What we all need is less focus on adding new buttons, and more on making the ones we have work right.
You imply that the experienced AOLers have some alternate means to make their messages legible to their brethren.
Do you need special brackets to contain a nanosig? Wait.... How do I know that's not really a megasig, viewed from a grat distance?
Safari is the oddest. Pressing the Help key makes the cursor turn into a question mark. Aside from providing a visual representation of what you're probably thinking ("hmm... what does the Help key do?" to which your computer answers, "?"), it doesn't seem to do anything.
I think you're supposed to click on something.
It's like putting something heavy on the gas pedal, then turning the car off and on to control speed. I guess that would requre a hack to keep power going to the radio at all times. Wouldn't it?