Glad you spoke up for the 4000. It's the only keyboard I've found that doesn't leave my hands and wrists numb or in pain after a few hours of typing. And the feel is excellent- just enough resistance. And I like quiet so clickety clickety clickety would *not* be a plus for me.
I've got it on all three of our computers at home. I've also installed SP1 and IE8b1 on all three with no problems. It ain't perfect but no OS is. In my case, it's just as good as XP if not better. My wife's computer needed a re-installation about a month after I put on Vista the day it as released. Since then, virtually no problems at all. Her reliability score is always above 9. Mine isn't that high but certainly no worse than anything else I've used and I've been using Windows since 3.1. All I can figure is that some people will always complain about anything MS just because...
That's my experience as well. I also have trouble with the mouse and used a trackball for many years before getting a Logitech Revolution which fits my hand perfectly. The combination of that mouse and a MS 4000 keyboard has reduced my hand and arm miseries to almost nothing.
My home page is a weather site that requires registration info. When I typed that in and hit enter, Safari crashed. Twice. When you combined that with no ad-blocking, and the ugly and hard to read interface, it wasn't much of a decision to uninstall after it had been on my system for about an hour. It's still Firefox for me.
It has some lame excuse about protecting your from phishing, but even when you select to allow popups from the site in question, it still blocks input boxes until you change the security level from "medium-high," which is the new "medium" to "medium," which is the new "low."
Like the federal government with terrorists, we're supposed to trust Big Bill to choose what we may or may not do on the internet.
I had a subscription to some computer magazine that went out of business an they transferred the remaining time -- which was like 5 years or something -- to Wired. Then they added about three more years and I don't even know why. Maybe all these free issues that I've gotten is why they're threatening other people for issues they never got.
Wired is a very good magazine. They've come a long way from their flourescent pink print days.
Insight BB in Indiana. I'd give it a solid 9. We have had almost no unscheduled downtimes though a scheduled software upgrade went badly awry and ended up with the system down for nearly 18 hours instead of the expected 1 or 2. Download speeds have gone from 2k to 3k to over 4k with no increase in cost though admittedly it's high to begin with at $49/mo. They have knowledgable 24 hour tech support and when necessary, they can get servicepeople to your house within a few hours of your reporting a problem. In short, they don't act like a monopoly even if they are one. I was the fifth person in town to be connected back in 1998 and am very satisfied with their service.
I didn't expect much from "children's books," but these are very very good. Admittedly the most recent one was a very slow starter (150 pages of nothing more than people talking to each other) but once it got going, it was very good. Hopefully she was listening to the critics on her last effort and trimmed this one down a bit.
But these are trifles -- the books are absolutely worth reading no matter how old you are. There's always a place for fantasy.
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Glad you spoke up for the 4000. It's the only keyboard I've found that doesn't leave my hands and wrists numb or in pain after a few hours of typing. And the feel is excellent- just enough resistance. And I like quiet so clickety clickety clickety would *not* be a plus for me.
I've got it on all three of our computers at home. I've also installed SP1 and IE8b1 on all three with no problems. It ain't perfect but no OS is. In my case, it's just as good as XP if not better. My wife's computer needed a re-installation about a month after I put on Vista the day it as released. Since then, virtually no problems at all. Her reliability score is always above 9. Mine isn't that high but certainly no worse than anything else I've used and I've been using Windows since 3.1. All I can figure is that some people will always complain about anything MS just because...
That's my experience as well. I also have trouble with the mouse and used a trackball for many years before getting a Logitech Revolution which fits my hand perfectly. The combination of that mouse and a MS 4000 keyboard has reduced my hand and arm miseries to almost nothing.
Exactly. I downloaded it, tried it and uninstalled it less than an hour later.
My home page is a weather site that requires registration info. When I typed that in and hit enter, Safari crashed. Twice. When you combined that with no ad-blocking, and the ugly and hard to read interface, it wasn't much of a decision to uninstall after it had been on my system for about an hour. It's still Firefox for me.
It has some lame excuse about protecting your from phishing, but even when you select to allow popups from the site in question, it still blocks input boxes until you change the security level from "medium-high," which is the new "medium" to "medium," which is the new "low." Like the federal government with terrorists, we're supposed to trust Big Bill to choose what we may or may not do on the internet.
It's the Bush Administration's gift to the world -- lower heating bills and summer vacations all year round!
I had a subscription to some computer magazine that went out of business an they transferred the remaining time -- which was like 5 years or something -- to Wired. Then they added about three more years and I don't even know why. Maybe all these free issues that I've gotten is why they're threatening other people for issues they never got. Wired is a very good magazine. They've come a long way from their flourescent pink print days.
Insight BB in Indiana. I'd give it a solid 9. We have had almost no unscheduled downtimes though a scheduled software upgrade went badly awry and ended up with the system down for nearly 18 hours instead of the expected 1 or 2. Download speeds have gone from 2k to 3k to over 4k with no increase in cost though admittedly it's high to begin with at $49/mo. They have knowledgable 24 hour tech support and when necessary, they can get servicepeople to your house within a few hours of your reporting a problem. In short, they don't act like a monopoly even if they are one. I was the fifth person in town to be connected back in 1998 and am very satisfied with their service.
I didn't expect much from "children's books," but these are very very good. Admittedly the most recent one was a very slow starter (150 pages of nothing more than people talking to each other) but once it got going, it was very good. Hopefully she was listening to the critics on her last effort and trimmed this one down a bit. But these are trifles -- the books are absolutely worth reading no matter how old you are. There's always a place for fantasy.
It will be interesting to see if they stay faithful to the original or tame down the plotline to keep it appealing to little kids.
I added Mental Health, Indiana, Motorsports and Formula 1. I got rid of Entertainment.