After trying lots of keyboards, and thinking the old IBM Model M keyboard (The rarer non-clicking kind, not the typical clicky kind, although the hardcore Model M junkies think the non-clicky version sucks, but I disagree) was the best, I finally came across the KeyTronic Lifetime keyboard.
With non-mechanical switching, and varying key resistance. Most keyboards use a standard 55 grams of force required to register every key, Ergo Technology has 5 different levels of force. From 35 grams to 80 grams, depending on the position of the key (Keys that you'd hit with your pinky only require 35 grams, while keys like Num Lock require a full 80 grams of force to press). No tactile feedback (I hate clicky keyboards.) and no trick buttons except for the Windows button.
I guess I should clarify that I am referring to grandmother's in the United Statess.
Now wasting time for the two minute warning. Which way's up? What color's blue? What if the moon fell down? What if people were little yellow squares and dogs were red circles? What's your mom's name? What's your dad's name? What is you social security number? What color is your cat? What flavor is your dog? What shape is your mailbox? So long and thanks for all the fish...
Rubber is a fourth dimensional word - old ladies think nothing of telling their grandchildren "Don't forget to wear your rubbers" (rain boots) when it rains.
I guess either way, it's probably good advice. But a little shocking coming from Grandma.:)
Even weirder, back in the early 1900's, a man named Harold Warp (Now somewhat famous for starting a huge museum called Pioneer Village in the middle of Nebraska) invented a way of heat bending of plastic glass (Called Flex-O-Glass. The more commonly known 'Plexiglass' is a copy by a later competitor once the patent expired.) that retained its optical properties. This process became known as "Warping". At about the same time, mathmaticians were stumbling across the basics of the time-space continuum, and borrowed the term to refer to bending time/space.
The main street in Minden, Nebraska has now been renamed from "Brown Avenue" to "Harold Warp Memorial Drive" (Which most people refer to now as "Warp Drive"). A friend of mine lives on Warp Drive, which is kinda cool to a geek like me.
So they did the original creator of "Warping" a disservice when they wanted to obtain Plexiglass instead of Flex-O-Glass.
"Stross, 39, a native of Yorkshire who lives in Edinburgh, looks like a cross between a Shaolin monk and a video-store clerk--bearded, head shaved except for a ponytail, and dressed in black, including a T-shirt printed with lines of green Matrix code."
Uh, look at the picture, that's not Matrix code - that's Space Invaders. Author must be too young to identify it.
That would be a weird combo of ideas for a game - have the Matrix code scrolling down the page, and then have the blocky Space Invaders cannon that you have to shoot the codes with. Somebody write it then send me a copy.:)
What the Fuck are they talking about? I understand it's a parody article, but I couldn't make sense of the gibberish in the article. Someone please explain!
It's a reference from Star Trek IV: Save the Whales.
To explain Spock's odd behavior to people from the mid 1980's, Kirk explains that Spock "took a lot of LDS in 60's", meaning LSD, but not getting it quite right.
While handwriting and voicerec technology has greatly improved over the years, it's still lagging when using it for freeform data entry. It works fine for non-freeform type of voicerec (Such as Apple's first level tech support, where a machine has you speak the name of the product you need assistance with.) but I'll take a keyboard over either any day. It's nice for bumbling around with handwriting on my PDA, and I work for a living admining voice recognition systems, but it's still a required skill.
However, whether you need formal touch typing, or just need to spend a lot of time typing on a keyboard however you like, I'm not sure what to say. I've never taken any typing classes, and after playing with computers since age 7, I type around 80-100 WPM with my own weird style I came up with, using only the thumb, index and middle fingers of each hand...
Yes, but like I said, they are good machines. The problem is, the rest of the world (Meaning you don't go into education for a career) is not using Macs, so you have done the students of your schools a diservice and have taught them a system that they will never use in the "real world".
I've been pissed for years about the moronic school IT bureaucrats blowing my tax money on Macs. Even if they get them free, they still have to spend money to admin them. You teach kids all this Mac stuff, then they get in the real world and it's 98% Windows and their Mac skills were a waste of time.
Sure, it'd be great to see the schools devote their old Mac admin money to Linux admin money, which I think will happen soon. But it's good to see the wasteful Mac shit go away. I know I'll piss off the Mac crowd here, Macs ARE good machines, but they are way overpriced and shouldn't be in an educational environment any more than they should teach how to make buggywhips in shop class.
A PET with chicklet keys? You sure about that? I know of other machines (RS CoCo) that had chiclets, but never saw any of the PET line with chicklets. Which model?
What's wrong with wanting to live somewhere that is only people like yourself (white) and not filled with people who like to play in shit (fags)?
Poorly educated? I learned how to code in 1974, at the age of 7, in Fort Wayne.
Boring? Shit, I moved to Nebraska when I was 14. Talk about boring.
Pronounciation? Try the deep south where instead of sounding like you have mush in your mouth, you are just completely unintelligible. (You like to see homos naked? - Joe Dirt)
I have been picky as hell over the years when it comes to terminal emulators. As far as windows-based emulators, PuTTY is by far the best in my my opinion. Supports telnet, SSH, Rlogin and all kinds of other things linux Linux arrow key support.
For when you have to connect to Linux from a Windows box, it's the way to go. (Although the default font [Courier New] option is horrible for a console emulator, I always change it to Terminal.)
Yes, but a budweiser is a TYPE of beer (Apparently referring to a thin, watery, piss-smelling/tasting excuse for a beer), but the Anheiser/Busch company has used it's money to sue other companies making that type of beer from using a name like "Joe's Budweiser".
Such as the only remaining (Polish I think) non-AB beer in the world still calling itself a budweiser at http://www.samson.cz/index.php?pageId=12 (Good pictures too!)
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"if I were a student that was affected by this... I would comply"
What a pathetic clone you are. Go jump off a cliff. (Oh, wait, I didn't mean that - you sound like the type that might just do that.)
People like you make me sick, sold out from day one.
See this for an explanation of what is meant by LDS. :)
After trying lots of keyboards, and thinking the old IBM Model M keyboard (The rarer non-clicking kind, not the typical clicky kind, although the hardcore Model M junkies think the non-clicky version sucks, but I disagree) was the best, I finally came across the KeyTronic Lifetime keyboard.
With non-mechanical switching, and varying key resistance. Most keyboards use a standard 55 grams of force required to register every key, Ergo Technology has 5 different levels of force. From 35 grams to 80 grams, depending on the position of the key (Keys that you'd hit with your pinky only require 35 grams, while keys like Num Lock require a full 80 grams of force to press). No tactile feedback (I hate clicky keyboards.) and no trick buttons except for the Windows button.
No no no, it's supposed to read "we have broken our DICK" :)
Didn't a guy named Otto Titsling invent the bra? Or is that an urban legend?
I guess I should clarify that I am referring to grandmother's in the United Statess.
Now wasting time for the two minute warning.
Which way's up? What color's blue? What if the moon fell down? What if people were little yellow squares and dogs were red circles? What's your mom's name? What's your dad's name? What is you social security number? What color is your cat? What flavor is your dog? What shape is your mailbox? So long and thanks for all the fish...
Rubber is a fourth dimensional word - old ladies think nothing of telling their grandchildren "Don't forget to wear your rubbers" (rain boots) when it rains.
:)
I guess either way, it's probably good advice. But a little shocking coming from Grandma.
Even weirder, back in the early 1900's, a man named Harold Warp (Now somewhat famous for starting a huge museum called Pioneer Village in the middle of Nebraska) invented a way of heat bending of plastic glass (Called Flex-O-Glass. The more commonly known 'Plexiglass' is a copy by a later competitor once the patent expired.) that retained its optical properties. This process became known as "Warping". At about the same time, mathmaticians were stumbling across the basics of the time-space continuum, and borrowed the term to refer to bending time/space.
:) )
The main street in Minden, Nebraska has now been renamed from "Brown Avenue" to "Harold Warp Memorial Drive" (Which most people refer to now as "Warp Drive"). A friend of mine lives on Warp Drive, which is kinda cool to a geek like me.
So they did the original creator of "Warping" a disservice when they wanted to obtain Plexiglass instead of Flex-O-Glass.
(Yah, I went to high school in Minden...
OK, got it. Thanks. :) I really should have been able to figure that out on my own... *Hides in shame*
"Stross, 39, a native of Yorkshire who lives in Edinburgh, looks like a cross between a Shaolin monk and a video-store clerk--bearded, head shaved except for a ponytail, and dressed in black, including a T-shirt printed with lines of green Matrix code."
:)
Uh, look at the picture, that's not Matrix code - that's Space Invaders. Author must be too young to identify it.
That would be a weird combo of ideas for a game - have the Matrix code scrolling down the page, and then have the blocky Space Invaders cannon that you have to shoot the codes with. Somebody write it then send me a copy.
The worst threat to the oil companies is a new source of near-free power. Kinda predictable that the oil president is in power when this is cancelled.
They must have been getting close to success with the project, big oil had no choice but to kill it.
What the Fuck are they talking about? I understand it's a parody article, but I couldn't make sense of the gibberish in the article. Someone please explain!
It's a reference from Star Trek IV: Save the Whales.
To explain Spock's odd behavior to people from the mid 1980's, Kirk explains that Spock "took a lot of LDS in 60's", meaning LSD, but not getting it quite right.
While handwriting and voicerec technology has greatly improved over the years, it's still lagging when using it for freeform data entry. It works fine for non-freeform type of voicerec (Such as Apple's first level tech support, where a machine has you speak the name of the product you need assistance with.) but I'll take a keyboard over either any day. It's nice for bumbling around with handwriting on my PDA, and I work for a living admining voice recognition systems, but it's still a required skill.
However, whether you need formal touch typing, or just need to spend a lot of time typing on a keyboard however you like, I'm not sure what to say. I've never taken any typing classes, and after playing with computers since age 7, I type around 80-100 WPM with my own weird style I came up with, using only the thumb, index and middle fingers of each hand...
ZZZ, as in Zuperior Zonetic Zurianomatichrome? As in Secret Power ZZZ?
(Extra points if you can figure out the reference - Interesting, even Google returns nothing relevant for "zurianomatichrome" or "secret power zzz")
Yes, but like I said, they are good machines. The problem is, the rest of the world (Meaning you don't go into education for a career) is not using Macs, so you have done the students of your schools a diservice and have taught them a system that they will never use in the "real world".
What kind of wasteful education is that?
I've been pissed for years about the moronic school IT bureaucrats blowing my tax money on Macs. Even if they get them free, they still have to spend money to admin them. You teach kids all this Mac stuff, then they get in the real world and it's 98% Windows and their Mac skills were a waste of time.
Sure, it'd be great to see the schools devote their old Mac admin money to Linux admin money, which I think will happen soon. But it's good to see the wasteful Mac shit go away. I know I'll piss off the Mac crowd here, Macs ARE good machines, but they are way overpriced and shouldn't be in an educational environment any more than they should teach how to make buggywhips in shop class.
A PET with chicklet keys? You sure about that? I know of other machines (RS CoCo) that had chiclets, but never saw any of the PET line with chicklets. Which model?
What's wrong with wanting to live somewhere that is only people like yourself (white) and not filled with people who like to play in shit (fags)?
Poorly educated? I learned how to code in 1974, at the age of 7, in Fort Wayne.
Boring? Shit, I moved to Nebraska when I was 14. Talk about boring.
Pronounciation? Try the deep south where instead of sounding like you have mush in your mouth, you are just completely unintelligible. (You like to see homos naked? - Joe Dirt)
Really? You can buy up to H-class engines at the Hobby Town here in Omaha. Severely expensive, but you can get them.
Whoa, aren't you THE Trinity who hacked the MATRIX dbase?
:)
Isn't that ironic?
I have been picky as hell over the years when it comes to terminal emulators. As far as windows-based emulators, PuTTY is by far the best in my my opinion. Supports telnet, SSH, Rlogin and all kinds of other things linux Linux arrow key support.
For when you have to connect to Linux from a Windows box, it's the way to go. (Although the default font [Courier New] option is horrible for a console emulator, I always change it to Terminal.)
Yes, but a budweiser is a TYPE of beer (Apparently referring to a thin, watery, piss-smelling/tasting excuse for a beer), but the Anheiser/Busch company has used it's money to sue other companies making that type of beer from using a name like "Joe's Budweiser".
Such as the only remaining (Polish I think) non-AB beer in the world still calling itself a budweiser at http://www.samson.cz/index.php?pageId=12 (Good pictures too!)
To the Walton's of Walmart fame? If so, maybe that explains why they're so into the RFID thing?
Dog-faced mama IN the banana patch!
or
Cat-butt daddy in the apricot tree...