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webwit wrote:Only one billion?

Likely a lot more, but I want to be cautious.

How many PC users in percentage are proper touch typist, according to your guess ?

I must work on my trolling skills!

Don't be too humble !!!

webwit wrote: I'm glad I invested in it after doing it wrong for such a long time.

If you remember well I'm not criticizing your habits, your skill or your history.

It's webwit that is criticizing mine (an the ones of, likely, one billion of people).

To continue to be pedantic, I wrote " proper " touch typing for a reason. Seem pretty obvious that after 30 years (almost 40 considering the typewriters) i don't type with two finger @0.5 cps And btw where I wrote that I'm a coder ? The last proper program i wrote was was a driver to use an Okimate ...

OK, keep carrying on staring at your driving wheel, while accusing people who look at the road to be lowly truck drivers, while you know they are not. :mrgreen: Driving wheel is the most obvious system to drive a car, you don't have to learn it, the instructions are already written in your "firmwar...

But assuming the precision error could be minimised, the method still falls short on accuracy Ok let assume to use a linear switch where a better precision can be reached, who force you to use 5g coins? I never did it. I tested some keys, upon ripster request, with a combination of big coins to rea...

Fair point. Being pedantic, it is neither accurate or precise If there's a place where being pedantic is a mandatory requirement is in the measurement world. What we want is accuracy, and it's a given that we require precision for that, so I defend my using that term :-) Whats the point to have, sa...

Of course if you don't use your keyboard professionally, carry on. IT is my life since 1982, and is my main job since the end of 90's. And flexibility is my main pro, you can find my works in almost every sector, from the linux kernel to palmos, from windows to os2, from windows mobile to android. ...

What webwit is saying is that the accuracy of the method is measured in terms of numbers of coins (the accuracy of each coin's weight is insignificant by comparison). Ignoring any other factors, the best it could ever manage is to say the force is between N-1 and N coins. So if a switch triggers wi...

I touch type and prefer backlight for finding the more obscure keys Indeed the world is not black or white, there are an infinite numbers of shades between the two extremes. Speaking of, this keyboard would be better if the ninja-style legends on the media/Fn layer were lit as well. Could be also b...

So unless you can convince me otherwise I have to accept the offensively-named Rip-O-Meter can measure mass and weight with sufficient accuracy in this application. On linear keys surely. On tactile ones NO, because there are too many factors that affect the the point when the snap action take place.

If you have to look at your input device you're doing it wrong. Opinions. I can reply that If you employed your time to learn how type blindly, a lot of other people were more concerned about what type. Who is more wrong who spend a life to build an high end HIFI, and knows very little about music,...

You know, you needed to answer questions like, to give a very basic example: if you have a thermometer of +- 3% accuracy and you measure the temperature of two liquids, first 100 Celcius, the other 98, can you conclude the second is less hot than the first? Or do you only know they're both pretty h...

These keyboards are fugly as hell I can't disagree more, is just a shame that after 30 years of PCs backlight is not a default feature, like happen even on a 9 € chellphone, in the car's instrumentation, in the car stereos and so on. But finally something is changed, and be sure that in less than t...

Just curious, but what tolerances are permitted in the switch specifications themselves? Cherry is pretty vague about anything on their switches, no word about the plastic used, no word about the durability testing methods, no word about the switch tolerances. I suppose calculating an average from ...

CeeSA wrote:what kinds of keycaps?

They look like the Xarmor, Qpad, Mionix, ones...

Fantastic

Konrad wrote:Or wear headphones.

You should patent that great idea...

ripster wrote: Fuck the Italians!

Feel free to ignore the advertising part.

I would hope so. Something's got to make it "Industrial" besides the color. Even the color is not so industrial. Likely the most used color on the industry is that stupid shade of green, only recently replaced by more modern colors, but still widely used. http://www.meccanicamugello.it/images/foto/...

Or just don't buy a filco and get a not resonating board.

ripster wrote:Are your posts getting longer or is it my imagination?

It's the pleasure to type on a Qpad or Xarmor boards, close to a dismantled Filco, i presume

Meh, the only good rubber dome I know of is the Topre, because it is fundamentally different due to its capacitive nature. The problem with all other rubber domes is that they are both used for tactile feeling, and to make contact. Which can be considered an advantage or a disadvantage, depending o...

I had an Olivetti with that kind of keycaps, but I had to destroy it because it sucked so badly. It was yet another ordinary, sucky rubber dome. I'm sure you haven't touched one, then... :lol: The "clomp" emitted by those marvels is just an erothical experience. Are you sure you aren't attaching ma...

IBM wins again! Sooner or later you should try this http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?21293-Surprised-by-rubberdome Is it 100% rubberdome? because I thought it was like some sort of custom switch designed by olivetti. Never opened one, never seen a broken one. The only images seen of the keyboard ...

webwit wrote:IBM wins again!

Sooner or later you should try this

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?2129 ... rubberdome

Konrad wrote: And one less Windows logo in your face can only lead to good things.

Nowadays you should be worried whenever you see the apple logo...

I did a camouflage work on a keyboard some time ago, I wasn't able to find the keyboard anymore.

Being the odd chap I am, I always used the volume knob on my speakers... Not all the speaker came with an volume knob, I had a couple of sony mini bass reflex boxes that had just the on/of button, the multimedia monitors have also some incredibly unhandy controls. The Fn key placement is a bit sill...

LEDs themselves are often very durable. I think that it is more likey that something is wrong with its electrical circuit.

A dead LED over 100+ is pretty normal for consumer electronics grade electronics, especially in the early life of the board.

Is almost surely the LED.

I agree, the volume knobs as found on some cheap keyboards work best. It's all I need really, volume up, down and mute (just turn the knob all the way). I'd like a little wheel hidden on the side of the Filco, so it's functionally present but not a visual eye soar. Agreed completely. For now I use ...