Post #114,725
8/21/03 11:14:00 AM
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Welp... that does it for me...
I hereby Officially declare my HOUSE 100% MicroShizzle-FREE. I still support it... and so on for OTHER people... but use it? Nope.
Just got rid of the only reason to keep a Win98 Partition... Pagemaker v5.
Scribus, Kile and Lyx.
No more.
Now, MicroShizzle Hardware... different Story. I believe they should just Stick to Hardware. It's the one thing they seem to be doing well.
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Post #114,726
8/21/03 11:15:57 AM
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Agreed
Now, MicroShizzle Hardware... different Story. M$ keyboards are the shit. Mice are nice as well, but I can see why/how others might like other mice better. But the only keyboards I'll buy are M$ ones. I prefer their M$ Natural (split) keyboards. -YendorMike
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Post #114,813
8/21/03 4:34:34 PM
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Ick
Let your hands hang at your sides. Now, without actually driving them - leaving them relaxed, raise them up to chest height.
You'll notice that your palms are facing each other with your thumbs up. To work a keyboard, you need to rotate them both 90 degrees palms down.
A really NATURAL keyboard would be designed something like a saxophone.
Smalltalk is dangerous. It is a drug. My advice to you would be don't try it; it could ruin your life. Once you take the time to learn it (to REALLY learn it) you will see that there is nothing out there (yet) to touch it. Of course, like all drugs, how dangerous it is depends on your character. It may be that once you've got to this stage you'll find it difficult (if not impossible) to "go back" to other languages and, if you are forced to, you might become an embittered character constantly muttering ascerbic comments under your breath. Who knows, you may even have to quit the software industry altogether because nothing else lives up to your new expectations.
--AndyBower
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Post #114,822
8/21/03 5:03:55 PM
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like this?
[link|http://www.safetype.com/|http://www.safetype.com/]
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Post #114,827
8/21/03 5:51:20 PM
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yikes!
no way can I justify [link|http://www.ergocanada.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?product=Keyboard_Split&cart_id=#safetype|$450] for a keyboard. For that price it better type for me.
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #114,828
8/21/03 5:52:52 PM
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For that price
you can get Voice dictation software to turn your talking into words.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #114,830
8/21/03 6:05:53 PM
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Even more natural than that:
[link|http://www.thecraftstudio.com/bcboy/keyboard.html|http://www.thecrafts...boy/keyboard.html]
Hang your arms by your side.
That page links to an already [link|http://www.ergostar.com/split2.shtml|split keyboard] that could probably be hung at the sides of a chair as well.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #114,920
8/22/03 12:03:41 PM
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I actually think it should be wrapped around a tube
maybe about 4-6" in diameter
Smalltalk is dangerous. It is a drug. My advice to you would be don't try it; it could ruin your life. Once you take the time to learn it (to REALLY learn it) you will see that there is nothing out there (yet) to touch it. Of course, like all drugs, how dangerous it is depends on your character. It may be that once you've got to this stage you'll find it difficult (if not impossible) to "go back" to other languages and, if you are forced to, you might become an embittered character constantly muttering ascerbic comments under your breath. Who knows, you may even have to quit the software industry altogether because nothing else lives up to your new expectations.
--AndyBower
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Post #114,742
8/21/03 12:12:51 PM
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That's because they don't make the hardware themselves.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #114,744
8/21/03 12:14:23 PM
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Again...
That is exactly why I said... they should continue to "make" err... rebrand Hardware.
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Post #114,747
8/21/03 12:21:36 PM
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The way it works (for the most part)...
...is that they design the hardware themselves (I've seen the mockup labs) then outsource the actual production.
In that final hour, when each breath is a struggle to take, and you are looking back over your life's accomplishments, which memories would you treasure? The empires you built, or the joy you spread to others?
Therin lies the true measure of a man.
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Post #114,752
8/21/03 12:28:24 PM
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Re: The way it works (for the most part)...
IMO the soap-bar is still the most felicitous mouse yet made - I didn't really like the perky-boob upgrade.
-drl
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Post #114,754
8/21/03 12:30:45 PM
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Well, I like perky boobs. :-P
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Steve
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Post #114,756
8/21/03 12:34:31 PM
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I like happy go lucky comical idiots myself ;-)
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #114,774
8/21/03 1:26:40 PM
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Yabut...
Does your mouse fit in a champagne glass?
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #114,779
8/21/03 1:44:36 PM
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How about a Bordeaux glass?
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Post #114,781
8/21/03 1:52:39 PM
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I knew a girl like that once....
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #114,785
8/21/03 2:09:35 PM
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ouch....
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Steve
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Post #114,800
8/21/03 3:03:42 PM
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During your mountain climbing days?
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Post #114,802
8/21/03 3:11:42 PM
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OT- links
{sheesh}
If I looked at all those links - I might miss the next election cancellation or the er cannon-ization of Our Pope.
This democracy stuff is just So Much Trouble
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Post #114,808
8/21/03 3:52:26 PM
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Chuckle
This'll all probably go away once Fox drops the case against Franken.
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