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BTW: WHO WANTS MY BIG SPLIT M$ KEYBOARD ?
I'm giving it away, any takers ? (you pay shipping )
;)
I keep thinking: "...this big hulk of plastic.....must be an alternate use
for it".
best idea to date: Snow shoe.
yep, it has a nice contoured keyboard surface that would fit perfectly into
a high arched foot....
and provide excellent support......
and the bottom is flat, so that it would smash the loose granular perfectly.
There you go, another M$ "innovation".
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ztrader [mailto:ztrader@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 11:37 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re[2]: Cost of in-house trading software development
>
>
> On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, 9:34:48 AM, Calandra Sikes wrote:
>
> CS> Toolbars, accelerator keys, context sensitive menus, Help buttons
> CS> on the dialogs, scroll wheels, and I think even 2 button mouses
> CS> (Apples was 1 button) those are all MSFT innovations that probably
> CS> came out of usability studies.
>
> Ummm... you might want to check back in some early CS and AI research
> labs - you'd be surprised by what you'd find there. For example, I was
> using a 3-button mouse before M$ had Windows, and they activated early
> versions of the above, and more. M$ wanted a dumbed-down version, thus
> 2 buttons.
>
> CS> Microsoft does innvoate but you have to be willing and able to see
> CS> it.
>
> I keep trying to find it, but it always seems they copied it instead.
> Their PR division does the innovating. :-) And many clueless people
> swallow it - hook, line, and sinker.
>
> CS> The split keyboards are also an idea MSFT popularized
>
> True
>
> CS> not invented.
>
> Also true. :-)
>
> CS> I could go on and on.
>
> Likewise.
>
> CS> That’s the way it is with MSFT haters. They nit pick the products
> CS> to death -- the 10% that has flaws
>
> CS> MSFT does not write mediocre software. On the
> CS> contrary, they set the industry standard. I know
> CS> because I’ve been using MSFT software since 1985 when
> CS> my Dad brought home Excel and Word.
>
> I've been following it since Gates had his first version of Basic
> distributed on paper tape. Everything they released was soooooo bad I
> developed a rule to not buy anything from M$ until version 3.3. So did
> many others. M$ finally caught on to this and quit using the version
> numbering. :-)
>
> CS> And as for your hatered of MSFT because because “Gates wants to
> CS> control (and presumably charge me for) every packet of data that
> CS> comes into”
>
> He's a lot more greedy than that. :-))
>
> ztrader
>
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