We’re “Namaslay.”
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“We love the smell of incense and pwn in the morning.”
Spiritually inclined. Meditators. PVP bloodthirsty. PVE strategists. Sorcerers of jackassery. Humans trying to be decent people. With good KDs. Triers.[/quote]
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inorite?
I mean, I’ve been using computers long enough to have been playing Moria on Z19 terminals sneaking into a computer center at midnight and I’ve NEVER used a capslock key except for shouting in text.
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Heh nice. I’m assuming buddhism doesn’t cover violence against digital avatars or it does and you just sit around on a server using meditative emotes.
That’s a great idea!
WHY IS THERE A STUPID CAPS LOCK KEY ON THIS DUMB KEYBOARD?
Yes, that does feel better.
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If Caps Lock were reprogrammable, I’d have to rename it BRIAN BLESSED
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CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!!!ONE!!
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I hope this is the direction keyboards will take now, this sounds perfect.
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Nope. Hand movement kills efficiency. There are studies that back this. The best layout is one that puts all functions on a small set of keys so that your hands stay in place.
I strongly doubt this keyboard is mechanical. They make no mention of the switches anywhere, and I have never heard of mechanical switches with such a low travel. I think they’re using “mechanical” in the vernacular sense.
You’ve got it backwards: you should add a numpad if it is required, not remove it if it is unwanted. It is a specialist tool - maybe one in a hundred computer users “needs” one. (I say “needs” because there is virtually no tangible benefit in terms of speed or accuracy - it’s just that people have the muscle memory ingrained already.) Everyone else suffers from the temptation to use the numpad.
Are you suggesting that all standard keyboards should start removing the number pad, and anyone who needs it needs to buy a specialist keyboard or standalone pad? Because that would be an infuriating decision.
Also, it has to be faster and more accurate to use a single hand with the number pad vs both hands (or even slower a single hand) with the numeric row, even if one were to build up the muscle memory to use it in the most efficient way possible.
Yes, I am suggesting exactly that. Whom would it be infuriating to? Again: the masses don’t need it. In fact, this has already more or less happened - many laptops don’t have numpads, and laptops are now the de facto personal computer form factor.
Your assertion that “it has to be faster” is quite simply incorrect. As you implied, the number row benefits from the fact that the user can employ both hands simultaneously. I’ll try to find the study about hand movement in keyboard use.
It would be infuriating to millions of people, including me.
I don’t see why using both hands is going to be faster than using one hand, I’ve never come across anyone who uses the number row quickly either, so I can’t imagine it’s ever been tested properly.
It’s well known. One hand can depress a key while the other is seeking out the next. Layouts like Dvorak try to leverage this by increasing hand alternation.
Except that the reaches required to use the number keys from the home row are awkward. This is compounded when one has to enter longer strings of numbers like credit cards or IDs. The number pad groups numbers and operators in such a way that they are accessible with minimal reaching or movement.
also it probably requires more work from the brain to coordinate the movements of two hands compared to one, whether this is perceptible in the ms range or not I’ve no idea, but I doubt it’s been tested like I said before anyway.
It’s not only the lack of a keypad that bugs me but the cramped cursor keys, the camouflaged Insert/Delete/Home/End/PigUp/PigDown keys, and the general lack of functional spacing and grouping of particular sets of keys that make them easier to find. I hate hunting for shit like Delete and Escape on these compact keyboards.
But that just gave me an idea with regards to this keyboard. Assuming it’s not too difficult to write your own software that can change the appearance of the keys then someone could write an app that responds to voice commands like “WHERE THE FUCK IS DELETE?!?” and then flash it in some easy to spot manner.
No mechanical keys? Lame.
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You need the art lebedev optimus… (and plenty of $$$)
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