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From: Rowland McDonnell on 11 Jan 2010 17:33 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > And I meant `able', not `abel'. Pfft. What is it with me and typing > > > that I make mistakes like that? Okay, so I'm not liking this new ZX- > > > Spectrum style keyboard Apple gives new Mac buyers these days, but does > > > a crappy keyboard really make that much difference to reliability? > > > > It's - the small version - my favourite keyboard ever. Going back to a > > full-travel keyboard is like horrible for me now. I was never a > > touch-typist though. > > I've got the full-sized wired version of the Alu keyboard and love it to > bits. Enough so that I'm seriously considering buying one for use at > work on my Windows machine. With my own money. It's the most horrible computer keyboard I've used since I can't remember when. It's just as bad as a Speccy if you ask me - awful. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Howard on 11 Jan 2010 17:57 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > I've got the full-sized wired version of the Alu keyboard and love it to > bits. Enough so that I'm seriously considering buying one for use at > work on my Windows machine. With my own money. The best keyboard EVER produced !! H
From: Jochem Huhmann on 11 Jan 2010 17:57 real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) writes: >> I've got the full-sized wired version of the Alu keyboard and love it to >> bits. Enough so that I'm seriously considering buying one for use at >> work on my Windows machine. With my own money. > > It's the most horrible computer keyboard I've used since I can't > remember when. It's just as bad as a Speccy if you ask me - awful. I'd rank it only a tiny bit below the good old IBM Model M that's rotting away under my desk now. It's one of the best keyboards you can buy now and certainly by far the best among the flat laptop-type keyboards on the market. Rowland, is there *anything* new you like? You're just a grumpy old man living in the past, it seems to me. I've rarely seen anyone beaming so much negative energy into his environment. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Rowland McDonnell on 11 Jan 2010 18:24 Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > I've got the full-sized wired version of the Alu keyboard and love it to > > bits. Enough so that I'm seriously considering buying one for use at > > work on my Windows machine. With my own money. > > The best keyboard EVER produced !! The keyboards I've most liked have all been made by IBM - but that's because I'm a typewriter kind of person, not a ZX-Spectrum kind of person. My favourite Mac keyboard is the transparent surround keyboard design that immediately pre-dated the current disastrous Spectrum-style job. It's not possible for me to type at full speed on the Speccy-style crappy new keyboard, which is why I don't like it; I can do so on all my previous Mac keyboards, from the 512Ke and other 68k jobs through to this Intel iMac. But according to some idiots, the fact that I prefer to use a keyboard that I can type at full speed on rather than one which slows me down and makes my fingers ache, that makes me a Luddite who hates all new things and should be personally abused because of this failing. It seems that because I'm not filled with gushing praise for all the latest technology, and think that in some cases, the older stuff is better for me, that means I'm a soft-headed Luddite who's clearly not got a worthwhile thought in his head and cannot be trusted to judge when the paint's dry, let alone anything more complicated. And all because I don't gush with praise over every new technological sales campaign... I had this problem in the USA - you get viewed as an enemy of the state if you dare to ask critical questions about new technology. Suggest that the lastest and shiniest Yank solution might not always be the best one, and you're risking them calling in a SWAT team.[1] I used to be a paid scribbler, tech press. Rowland. [1] I might be exaggerating things a wee bit here. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Jochem Huhmann on 11 Jan 2010 19:28
real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) writes: >> > It's the most horrible computer keyboard I've used since I can't >> > remember when. It's just as bad as a Speccy if you ask me - awful. >> >> I'd rank it only a tiny bit below the good old IBM Model M that's >> rotting away under my desk now. It's one of the best keyboards you can >> buy now and certainly by far the best among the flat laptop-type >> keyboards on the market. > > Can you explain why you feel the need to sneer at me and insult me > because I prefer a different sort of keyboard to the type you like? There is not the tiniest bit of sneering in my comment about that keyboard. It was just my opinion about that piece of hardware. > Why did you feel this need to launch ignorant personal abuse at me > because I criticised a bit of new machinery that you like? I didn't do that because of your keyboard comment. I just finally noticed that *everything* you write is negative and very wordy at that. I commented on this and that's all. > It's a form of social bullying, and you're engaging in it. Why? Rowland, this was my *first* personal comment on your posting style and I surely didn't mean to bully you. Sorry if you understood it that way. It was just meant as feedback to show you how you appear to me. If I'm wrong -- well, I'm not always right. So you're not grumpy and not negative, you just appear to be. OK, I can live with that. > Look into the mirror, for example, and examine your role in messing up > this newsgroup by making pejorative personal comments about me, based on > insulting misconceptions. Be assured that this is the first and the last time I was making any comments about you. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |