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I'm saying getting specific things highlighted is a pain in the butt because I have clumsy fingers. You have to press and hold a word to highlight the whole word, then drag those dumb blue things to get what you want, and to me they are overly sensitive and a pain in the rear end I didn't realize "having a physical keyboard made certain things easier for me" was such a controversial opinion 
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Kelp Me! posted:
BURN!!!!! Didn't the first iPhone lack copy & paste altogether?
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Nov 6, 2016 01:58
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TotalLossBrain posted:BURN!!!!! Yep. And it lacked being able to develop apps for it as well (let alone installing them)
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Nov 6, 2016 02:00
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Yeah when the first iPhones came out stuff like my two year old Sony Ericsson P1i outperformed it with stuff like led flash, multitasking, gps. That scroll wheel with the back forth toggles I miss. The only issue was that Symbian was horrible and apps for that phone cost $40+. There was an app market of sorts, but very spotty and all over the place. It still sort of worked when I dusted it off in an emergency, just nothing had been updated for it so it was very clunky to use. You could still get your Google account to synch with it with a third party app.
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Nov 6, 2016 02:13
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WebDog posted:Yeah when the first iPhones came out stuff like my two year old Sony Ericsson P1i outperformed it with stuff like led flash, multitasking, gps. That scroll wheel with the back forth toggles I miss. That jog wheel needs to make a comeback. It was perfect.
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Nov 6, 2016 02:28
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Kelp Me! posted:I'm saying getting specific things highlighted is a pain in the butt because I have clumsy fingers. You have to press and hold a word to highlight the whole word, then drag those dumb blue things to get what you want, and to me they are overly sensitive and a pain in the rear end Agreed. I haven't tried it on my Samsung Galaxy phone, but on my tablet I installed "Hacker's Keyboard" which has arrow keys. I miss being able to use Swype to enter text though. Hacker's Keyboard is good if you are using DOSBox, etc. since you can use function keys and other keys that most Android users don't need. Edit: I'm running Windows 3.1 in DOSBox on my Galaxy Tab <something>, it's not that easy to use via touch but without having tried a Microsoft Surface I'm pretty sure mine is better.
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Nov 6, 2016 03:59
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Kelp Me! posted:I'm saying getting specific things highlighted is a pain in the butt because I have clumsy fingers. You have to press and hold a word to highlight the whole word, then drag those dumb blue things to get what you want, and to me they are overly sensitive and a pain in the rear end Okay grandpa.
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Nov 6, 2016 04:08
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Kelp Me! posted:I'm saying getting specific things highlighted is a pain in the butt because I have clumsy fingers. You have to press and hold a word to highlight the whole word, then drag those dumb blue things to get what you want, and to me they are overly sensitive and a pain in the rear end Android has Fleksy which has a sweet text editor if you're a tap typer.
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Nov 6, 2016 04:46
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Kelp Me! posted:I'm saying getting specific things highlighted is a pain in the butt because I have clumsy fingers. You have to press and hold a word to highlight the whole word, then drag those dumb blue things to get what you want, and to me they are overly sensitive and a pain in the rear end Whenever I try to highlight some poo poo on SA for quoting or trimming down a quote, I feel like I'm trying to pick up my keys through a drainpipe. You're not alone.
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Nov 6, 2016 04:52
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davidspackage posted:Whenever I try to highlight some poo poo on SA for quoting or trimming down a quote, I feel like I'm trying to pick up my keys through a drainpipe. You're not alone. Thirded. It's finicky as poo poo. I've given up, just about, try not to quote anything I'll need to trim until I can get to a computer. I have to assume everyone giving him poo poo is just trolling at this point.
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Nov 6, 2016 04:54
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http://www.xda-developers.com/guide-in-depth-look-at-the-best-android-keyboards/ I'd upload a photo but something fucky is happening with my gallery. On Fleksy there's a little text editing extension you can enable that has select all, copy, paste, cut buttons, and a little cursor position bar you can slide around on.
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Nov 6, 2016 05:22
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AlphaKretin posted:Thirded. It's finicky as poo poo. I've given up, just about, try not to quote anything I'll need to trim until I can get to a computer. I have to assume everyone giving him poo poo is just trolling at this point.
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Nov 7, 2016 14:32
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Windows Phone keyboard has a virtual nubbin! (And it's definitely failed tech  )
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Nov 8, 2016 03:58
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Remember projection keyboards!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0qARDGJj1w I seem to recall them getting some news around 2004 but amazingly they seem to still exist as a weird novelty. Has anyone used one?
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Nov 8, 2016 04:24
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WebDog posted:Remember projection keyboards!? No tactile feedback, poor "keypress" detection, and it did really poorly if one of your fingers was obscuring another finger when you were typing. Basically, it something that looked neat but didn't perform for poo poo.
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Nov 8, 2016 04:30
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I bought one from ThinkGeek from before they went to poo poo (yes, that was a real time period). It was poo poo.
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Nov 8, 2016 04:31
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When'd it go to poo poo? I just looked at them the other day, after not checking the site for...years? And so many things on my wishlist are gone. Such is life.
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Nov 8, 2016 04:35
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I got a chance to try a LASER projection keyboard at EPCOT. I can confirm they were poo poo.
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Nov 8, 2016 04:38
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Manuel Calavera posted:When'd it go to poo poo? I just looked at them the other day, after not checking the site for...years? And so many things on my wishlist are gone. Such is life. About...2011. Whatever christmas it was they decided to make the tan-tan (taun-taun?) sleeping bag. They went from a "quirky, highbrow hot-topic/geeky desk toy" dealer to a "geeky hot topic/geeky hot topic" dealer.
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Nov 8, 2016 04:43
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SLOSifl posted:The 3D Touch keyboard navigation on iOS is genius. Goddamnit, I had no idea about this.
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Nov 8, 2016 04:45
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All of this comparison of virtual and portable keyboard technology is moot when the IBM Model M exists. Perhaps the reason cyberpunk featured people carrying around anachronistic-seeming bulky decks is because those console cowboys knew the importance of an ergonomic and tactile sense of throw and feedback. Instead of the novelty rotary-style iPhone headsets we can just have buckling spring boards strapped to us for text editing on the go.
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Nov 8, 2016 04:50
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What are you waiting for? The iPad (and preusmably iPhone) works with a Lighting to USB converter connected to a USB to PS2 converter connected to an IBM Model M.
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Nov 8, 2016 05:44
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Elliotw2 posted:What are you waiting for? The iPad (and preusmably iPhone) works with a Lighting to USB converter connected to a USB to PS2 converter connected to an IBM Model M. I have to try this! I have a Model M, while my dad has an iPad and my mom has an iPhone.
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Nov 8, 2016 05:46
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I can confirm that connecting a keyboard with a pointing device (e.g. a lenovo keyboard with a trackpoint) to an android phone gives you a working keyboard and a little mouse pointer. Android with a mouse is kind of weird - it's clearly not built for it but it mostly works.
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Nov 8, 2016 10:39
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Computer viking posted:I can confirm that connecting a keyboard with a pointing device (e.g. a lenovo keyboard with a trackpoint) to an android phone gives you a working keyboard and a little mouse pointer. Android with a mouse is kind of weird - it's clearly not built for it but it mostly works. I use Android mousing all the time; it's actually pretty nice once you get used to the idiosyncrasies. If your mouse has more than three buttons, it also forces your virtual keyboard off, so you have to re-enable that the first time you connect to your Android device.
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Nov 8, 2016 13:13
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Manuel Calavera posted:When'd it go to poo poo? I just looked at them the other day, after not checking the site for...years? And so many things on my wishlist are gone. Such is life. When they got bought out by GameStop.
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Nov 12, 2016 16:34
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Nah. Gamestop has only owned them for around a year and a half. They started going to poo poo way before that.
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Nov 12, 2016 23:42
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Many years ago I had one of those things you could spin to make writing in the air. Its interface was three identical buttons in a vertical row and I learned how to compose complex sentences with it.
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Nov 13, 2016 15:42
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Please excuse the cellphone picture, but I was just now given the wonderfully obsolete Panasonic F15 CCD video camera with 10-150mm TV zoom. Behold, the champion of public access television.  All in working order, I'll probably just use it as a prop unless anyone on here has any tips for making it usable.
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Nov 16, 2016 15:27
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Lizard Combatant posted:Please excuse the cellphone picture, but I was just now given the wonderfully obsolete Panasonic F15 CCD video camera with 10-150mm TV zoom. Behold, the champion of public access television. Wait for the red light to come on and then start loving like crazy.
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Nov 16, 2016 19:52
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Jerry Cotton posted:Wait for the red light to come on and then start loving like crazy. Now that you mention it, there is a tape still in the deck from the previous owner. I should watch that first to see how it's done.
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Nov 16, 2016 19:55
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Lizard Combatant posted:Now that you mention it, there is a tape still in the deck from the previous owner. I should watch that first to see how it's done. Old school camera AND possible free homegrown porn? CHA-CHING Or it could be some creepy serial killer's tape, roll the dice and play that fucker
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Nov 16, 2016 20:01
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I need to find S video cables first.
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Nov 16, 2016 20:02
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Lizard Combatant posted:I need to find S video cables first. Nobody has ever said this.
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 I recently acquired a Canon 8‐T sexagesimal calculator. It can do operations on mixed units of time directly. What’s 44 hours 7 min divided into ninths? Why, it’s 4 h 54 m 6.7 s. It’s much more convenient than converting everything to seconds, doing the operation, then dividing back into minutes and hours, which I know I’ve done on occasion in the past. I assume spreadsheets are what killed sexagesimal calculators. The Smithsonian Institution apparently thinks it’s pretty cool, too. They have one in their collection. My question is: who was this machine marketed to? What professions do or did calculations like this frequently? One field that comes to mind is time motion studies, but they attacked the problem from the opposite direction, using decimal stopwatches (marked in hundredths of a minute) to ease computation.
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Nov 22, 2016 11:38
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Platystemon posted:My question is: who was this machine marketed to? What professions do or did calculations like this frequently? Prostitutes.
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Nov 22, 2016 12:00
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Platystemon posted:
I know one use, payroll and timekeeping. At my first job way back the payroll manager had one, not that exact one, but something very similar. She used to read the manual timecards add up the time worked and then punch that into the computer and have it print the checks.
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Nov 22, 2016 12:01
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Yeah something like that would be a payroll clerk's dream before the invention of spreadsheets.
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spog posted:Prostitutes. Also consultants and lawyers. So, yes, prostitutes.
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Platystemon posted:
I love the design of this thing, and I'd also love one for work since I deal in time code a lot - but really just because it's so Weyland Yutani looking.
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