It is good to be the Moderator. The spell check here says many words aren't words. Since I have been a horrible speller all my life, I think I got it wrong, go google, and discover I had it right all along.
When Microsoft Word first came out, I wondered if the spell checker was written by non-native English speakers, or coders who couldn't spell. I tried it a couple of times, then stopped using it because it was too stupid, and contained no technical words. Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
I started before there was a Google. I used "Dog Pile." Yes, it was called Dog Pile and was a great search engine accumulator. So you could say I've done my share of digging through crap.
Yeah, laptop keyboards are bad, and ipads, phones: fugedaboutit. I was going to post a link to the touch-typing program I used, but the site has gone down. It was a one-man operation in Britain, last time I re-registered was in 2007. And googling typing, I see a number of results about the diminishing of typing courses, and so on.
Here is the last phone I had with a physical keyboard. Sprint Epic 4G is the Samsung Galaxy S -- with a keyboard | Android Central
Ugh . Here's my current keyboard, A Fujitsu FKB4725: I'd been using the sleek/black one that came with my latest desktop (circa 2011) but had worn out the nubs on the home position keys, so went back to the Fujitsu. Has a nice IBM sound/feel. Had to get a special "active" ps2 to usb adapter.
Me too, back from my lady dentist, "Don't eat any hard candy today." For lunch, I had a bowl of butternut squash soup that took a long time to sup with two shots of tequila to augment the nova-cane. I probably needed a bib that said, "Not a stroke, visited dentist." Bob Wilson
My favorite is the ThinkPad keyboard. The "eraserhead"* is efficient if you can touch type. Mice are inefficient and I find scratch pads painful. *polite term, I don't know what it's officially called, and the other term is funny but offensive Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
I believe a fair amount of emphasis should be devoted to them. Although a separate thread for the topic may be inappropriate.
I'm not sure... I got a lot out of the social side of school - interacting with people who were at the same stage of learning to interact as I was seems to have been helpful. But I think it's different for everyone: it depends on the kid, and the parents, and the available schools. Indeed. On this subject, I think it's interesting that home-schooling is so much more common in the US than it is elsewhere. I'm not sure why this might be: perhaps your lower real-estate prices mean it's more practical for one parent to dedicate themselves to this; perhaps it's down to the quality of schools; perhaps it's that individualistic American thing.... I don't know.
This is a difficult one. I hate badly-written English, so on first glimpse, this is pretty appealing. But then, if you're employing an engineer or an astrophysicist, you want one who is good at engineering or astrophysics. This system might prevent some of the best engineers or astrophysicists (or whatever) from graduating, taking real talent out of the pool. But on the other hand, people do need to be able to express themselves coherently. Hmmmmmm.....
I guess it's socially unacceptable to correct grammar now? Not that I'm a whiz, but to comment on something, you get a firestorm?
I was always happy enough to comment on @mojo's grammar. I think it depends on the situation, and on the way you do it. It also depends on whether you're right: people who try to "correct" split infinitives or who say "you can't end a sentence with a preposition" are people who I'd like to vehemently shout at.
I just put him on my ignore user list since he ignore everything else. There was no dialog. Bob Wilson
