The Glade 4.0

Not at all. Its a teeny little portable keyboard. But then, I have big paws and am not a good touch typist.

Plus, the numpad thing.

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Holy shitsnacks!

It's a full size keyboard, it just doesn't have a useless numpad for types like 'Skee and I.

I type IP addresses constantly as a part of my job. Numeric keypads make this task much easier.

Edit: Someone needs to come out with a numeric keypad that is hex (IPv6) friendly :p

At work, a lot.
At home, because the numeric keypad is essential in computer gaming.

(Also, {ALT}-130 on numeric keypad = é. The codes for foreign language characters don't work for the regular number keys. I do find myself typing les mots français on occasion.)

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I have a portable bluetooth for my tablet that looks about the same. Whenever I'm using it for work, I miss the numpad. /shrug

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Holy shitsnacks!

I would totally buy an attachment for this. When we start using IPv6

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Holy shitsnacks!

Here in the future (OS X), all 'skee and I need to do is hold our 'e' key for è é ê ë ē ė or ę

That is more user friendly, but actually takes longer than having the codes memorized. If I have to stop typing to wait for something, I get irritated. (When you type this fast, having character codes memorized is a pretty quick way to do something. That said, it's a holdover from DOS-days, so yeah. The only faster way to have the characters you want is to use a foreign language keyboard layout, which is NOT fun.)

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Well, I could also hit opt-e-e for é. That's still better than moving my right hand, holding alt and hitting a 3-key combo.

That would be better.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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It's a lack of things like that, that make me hate liking Windows 8 so much.

I want my old interface back.


(Not really. I haven't switched to 8 yet.)

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
█ ♣ █

Compose key

I miss this feature so much on my Windows laptop. I can get this functionality by using PuTTY and copy/paste, but it just isn't the same

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

I find the numeric keypad quite useful when typing a LOT of numbers, or using the "calculator" function.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Fun fact: A-F are conveniently all on the left hand's QWERTY positions. I despise serial numbers that exceed 'H' in their alpha characters.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Nice! fairly convenient...

Seems like having a row of A-F down the right side of the existing keypad wouldn't do much harm though :p

Since a numpad is only five keys high, that wouldn't work. Also, you need a seventh key for the colon.

I don't have any problems entering IPv6 addresses, and I am fairly certain I do so more than anyone else here.

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No English (international) keyboard setting?

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

I tend not to bail on celebrities unless they attack or insult me personally. And so far that honor goes directly to David Brin and, to a much lesser extent, Metallica.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

I'm with you on Metallica, but what did David Brin do?

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Back in 1999 he wrote an article about George Lucas having an agenda. Was this agenda "Make long-time fans seriously pissed" or "Ruin Star Wars fans' childhood (childrenhood?)" or "Make more money by not even caring about his franchise anymore"?

No. His agenda was, in Brin's mind, propaganda of Ayn Randian proportions.

I read the article, and saw that his email address was attached. Back then, I was known to email celebrities every so often without ever expecting them to even read/open my mail. Some celebrities were actually quite cool (During the filming of the first X-Men, I corresponded with Sir Ian McKellan).

Well, I fired him off an email stating how wrong he was. I don't remember the whole thing, but it basically had geek movie evidence to the contrary of his theory and it wasn't in an angry uncomposed manner. This was the sort of thing I shot down all the time back on theforce.net forums. And you all know how geeks get when they get in arguments over movies like this. And the really funny thing is, he had invoked Godwin's Law in his own article!

Apparently, he not only read my email but he's not a fan of being proven wrong. So he fired back a very scathing email with some personal insults and attacks. The type of response I usually received on theforce.net forums, in fact.

I was kind of in shock. I wasn't expecting a reply, and I certainly wasn't expecting such an angry, trollish response from the author of The Postman. I wish I still had the email, but my ISP had a blow-up. But the gist was I was an "idiot and a blind, brainwashed follower of Lucas' cult."

I crafted another response, one with an even more respectful tone than the first (seeing as how he actually read and responded to it) but still proving him wrong. He never responded.

I guess it turns out that I was not the only person to email him over that article. And he apparently responded to the first couple dozen emails he received before realizing that it would take him several hundred years to angrily respond to all emails he was getting. This was 1999, the internet was still new to many people (including celebrities). Putting up your personal email wasn't something they thought they shouldn't do. But it was taken off the article within hours.

He wrote a sequel to that article, basically saying how he got emails from idiots like me and how we proved his point or some such bullshit. And then blanketly insulted us all again.

I realized that I now had a personal enemy in a celebrity, and I figured that was something I could put on my "That's kinda cool" life checklist.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Who the hell is David Brin?

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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A science fiction writer, and a pretty good one at that.

Most known as the author of The Postman, which remains an excellent book despite Numbuk's opinion of him.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades