I have a Tactile Pro 2, and apple extended keyboard II, and a model M. No comparison...
I appreciate what the Matias is, but it's a cheap piece of crap (check out the mold flashing left on the frame for example), and the feet are prone to breaking due to the brittle plastic chosen for the enclosure. Also the Pro 2 I have doesn't "Chord" properly. Frankly, I don't use it much anymore because of the chord issue.
The Apple Extended Keyboard II is also significantly higher quality than the matias.
The model M has a significantly better build quality in every aspect, and the keys feel better. The Matias and the apple use alps keyswitches which are mechanical in nature, but are not buckling spring devices like the IBM and unicomp keyboards.
ahhh chase-shitcan I remember them well during my larval stages in upstate NY (east of Rochester). Wegmans was also a great grocery store in those days. Rather than put the one armed cashier on express, they actually put the best performing cashier there.
ACE: Chrome plated decorative nuts and bolts Lowes: FAIL
The list is long...
I'm no fan of ACE, but the big boxes really are very limited in each department. they look like they have a lot because they have a ton of departments.
The big-box retailers taking over all the specialty shops across the US are actually reducing the diversity of goods available locally (the ACE hardware actually has more depth than Lowes in many areas for example). So aside from the obvious lower prices and "dropped at your door" convenience, there just aren't any local options for lots of us living in generica if "best Buy" doesn't carry your desired trinket.
I was sitting in Chipotle having a giant burrito with my wife and sitting at the bar next to us were two high-school aged skate-rat mopes. One asked the other what six times four are. They took a moment to figure it out. So to answer your question; Yes, yes they are that bad... But they always have been. Some people are well served by school and some are not. You can't teach a pig to sing.
I'd love an easy way. Between Dyndns, my domain name service, and my web hosting service, high speed connection, etc I've already got too many internet related items to keep track of. Rather than buy yet another network service from a third party, I'd love the BBC to actually have a subscription service. For example, the servers know I'm not in the UK, how about an account system (which I pay for) that doesn't check my location if I pay for it?
We grasp it, you see we have a "metric shit-ton" of nukes... No problem at all, we know we got lots, not just a little bit too many, a whole lot too many.
We also have pioneering units of measure:
In rural northern areas: The axe-handle as a unit of measure. "look at the ass on that girl, it's two axe handles wide!"
There's lots of anecdotal evidence but nothing rigid and formal like I think you are implying. Malice is hard to accomplish and keep quiet, because of the numbers of people involved and the fact that it has to be done "right". Stupidity is easy, there's lots of ways to be stupid.
Seriously, there's a ton of little companies that we've never heard of (in general) that are single points of failure for different technology sectors. An example is SE-IR who makes experimental cryogenic Dewars. It's a three man operation and critical to many research and military projects. In high-tech, there's a lot of very narrow sectors where when one company fails, that sector that needs the products are scrambling.
These sort of things go in cycles. This year was insane for the maple tree seeds (whirlybirds), they were everywhere in the midwest and Pa. Much heavier crop than usual. I know, I had to clean my gutters.
So if we had a heavy whirlybird crop, then we could just as easily have a light acorn crop that the squirrels gobbled up. Or it's aliens, one of the two...
I bailed on pith-helmet right after 10.5 due to it always being behind the times. (I even paid for it). I would get a pith-helmet update just in time for a new safari release which would break it.
Yes, there are a TON of tools that are windows only. Linux is great, my home server runs it as does my little CNC milling machine (EMC baby!) But until the other OS's get enough critical mass for the major software packages to be ported I've got to have some windows capability everywhere.
The intel switch with the mac was HUGE for me. I was dancing the day that was announced. I now have a mac that can run ALL software.
The parent is 100% correct, windows is a fact of life for certain tasks. That may change, but I doubt it will change quickly.
ARE there software companies that people actually like?! Google used to be up there, but they keep poking at the "do no evil" mantra. Every other software company I can think of has a core group of users that like the product, but those same folks also seem pretty ambivalent about the company.
It seems that the hardware companies get the love because you can touch the shiny. Examples: Tivo, Apple, Harley Davidson, Crispy Creme...
That's because Raid-5 is not really dingo-proof due to the second failure problem and the appetite of the average dingo being about 1.65 disk drives. Every Australian rural server farmer knows that to be safe you really need to go Raid-6. Either that or provide an AOL disk appetizer in front of the raid array.
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1:26 PM EST:
1. sassy water
2. flat belly diet
3. time warner cable
4. zune frozen
Maybe the sassy water will fix it.
Sheldon
Zune Rapture! Outstanding! One free internet for you.
Sheldon
I have a Tactile Pro 2, and apple extended keyboard II, and a model M. No comparison...
I appreciate what the Matias is, but it's a cheap piece of crap (check out the mold flashing left on the frame for example), and the feet are prone to breaking due to the brittle plastic chosen for the enclosure. Also the Pro 2 I have doesn't "Chord" properly. Frankly, I don't use it much anymore because of the chord issue.
The Apple Extended Keyboard II is also significantly higher quality than the matias.
The model M has a significantly better build quality in every aspect, and the keys feel better. The Matias and the apple use alps keyswitches which are mechanical in nature, but are not buckling spring devices like the IBM and unicomp keyboards.
Sheldon
ahhh chase-shitcan I remember them well during my larval stages in upstate NY (east of Rochester). Wegmans was also a great grocery store in those days. Rather than put the one armed cashier on express, they actually put the best performing cashier there.
Sheldon
ACE: 4-40 nuts and bolts
Lowes: FAIL
ACE: Individual metric taps
Lowes: FAIL
ACE: Chrome plated decorative nuts and bolts
Lowes: FAIL
The list is long...
I'm no fan of ACE, but the big boxes really are very limited in each department. they look like they have a lot because they have a ton of departments.
Sheldon
The big-box retailers taking over all the specialty shops across the US are actually reducing the diversity of goods available locally (the ACE hardware actually has more depth than Lowes in many areas for example). So aside from the obvious lower prices and "dropped at your door" convenience, there just aren't any local options for lots of us living in generica if "best Buy" doesn't carry your desired trinket.
Sheldon
Are schools really that bad now days?
Yes....
I was sitting in Chipotle having a giant burrito with my wife and sitting at the bar next to us were two high-school aged skate-rat mopes. One asked the other what six times four are. They took a moment to figure it out. So to answer your question; Yes, yes they are that bad... But they always have been. Some people are well served by school and some are not. You can't teach a pig to sing.
Sheldon
I'd love an easy way. Between Dyndns, my domain name service, and my web hosting service, high speed connection, etc I've already got too many internet related items to keep track of. Rather than buy yet another network service from a third party, I'd love the BBC to actually have a subscription service. For example, the servers know I'm not in the UK, how about an account system (which I pay for) that doesn't check my location if I pay for it?
Sheldon
Isn't that one of the syrup flavors at IHOP?
Sheldon
We grasp it, you see we have a "metric shit-ton" of nukes... No problem at all, we know we got lots, not just a little bit too many, a whole lot too many.
We also have pioneering units of measure:
In rural northern areas: The axe-handle as a unit of measure. "look at the ass on that girl, it's two axe handles wide!"
Sheldon
There's lots of anecdotal evidence but nothing rigid and formal like I think you are implying. Malice is hard to accomplish and keep quiet, because of the numbers of people involved and the fact that it has to be done "right". Stupidity is easy, there's lots of ways to be stupid.
BTW, it's Occam's Razor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
Sheldon
Occam's razor, not Heinlein's razor. about 600 years earlier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
You sci-fi loving kids need to get out more.
Sheldon
Is there any other company with it's perception of viability so closely linked to a single living individual?
Yeah, SDS Labs is totally screwed if I die...
Seriously, there's a ton of little companies that we've never heard of (in general) that are single points of failure for different technology sectors. An example is SE-IR who makes experimental cryogenic Dewars. It's a three man operation and critical to many research and military projects. In high-tech, there's a lot of very narrow sectors where when one company fails, that sector that needs the products are scrambling.
Sheldon
The first capacitive touch screen that doesn't use a little plastic stick. Touch screen that works well...etc
I say this having owned a slew of palm and handspring products.
Sheldon
He's still releasing albums?! I thought by now he'd be reduced to playing at the local Waffle House for the free coffee refills.
Sheldon
These sort of things go in cycles. This year was insane for the maple tree seeds (whirlybirds), they were everywhere in the midwest and Pa. Much heavier crop than usual. I know, I had to clean my gutters.
So if we had a heavy whirlybird crop, then we could just as easily have a light acorn crop that the squirrels gobbled up. Or it's aliens, one of the two...
Sheldon
It doesn't have 5 blades either...friggin lightweight...
I bailed on pith-helmet right after 10.5 due to it always being behind the times. (I even paid for it). I would get a pith-helmet update just in time for a new safari release which would break it.
SafariBlock is the way to go IMHO.
Sheldon
I would think a Linux version would be unlikely due to the trident component.
Sheldon
As a creative person, my incentive model is: "To attract the hotties"
Yes, there are a TON of tools that are windows only. Linux is great, my home server runs it as does my little CNC milling machine (EMC baby!) But until the other OS's get enough critical mass for the major software packages to be ported I've got to have some windows capability everywhere.
The intel switch with the mac was HUGE for me. I was dancing the day that was announced. I now have a mac that can run ALL software.
The parent is 100% correct, windows is a fact of life for certain tasks. That may change, but I doubt it will change quickly.
Sheldon
ARE there software companies that people actually like?! Google used to be up there, but they keep poking at the "do no evil" mantra. Every other software company I can think of has a core group of users that like the product, but those same folks also seem pretty ambivalent about the company.
It seems that the hardware companies get the love because you can touch the shiny. Examples: Tivo, Apple, Harley Davidson, Crispy Creme...
Sheldon
People will find out about my Eddie Izzard fetish..."The death star must have had a cantina..."
Sheldon
That's because Raid-5 is not really dingo-proof due to the second failure problem and the appetite of the average dingo being about 1.65 disk drives. Every Australian rural server farmer knows that to be safe you really need to go Raid-6. Either that or provide an AOL disk appetizer in front of the raid array.
Sheldon
I miss the old country sometimes even if we are often portrayed as a nation of lovable middle-class eccentrics.
Yet another reason the wife and I would love to move there... It's hard being a middle-class eccentric in a walmart culture.
Sheldon