THE END OF CAPS LOCK

Jan, Are you in some competition to outpost Larkin with useless drivel? ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Far out.

Sometimes your posts do exhibit value.

Read the article, and then consider the data waveforms which are currently in place on the battlefield theater.

Savings is savings, and faster at-a-glance reading comprehension in the field, under fire, will means lives will potentially be saved. And that potential would surely be realized with the number of times it would bring an earlier solution to a given circumstance.

You must not have read the article.

Asshole.

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Let us say that he was mentioning this tidbit JUST IN CASE you were interested...

Cool.ThatAlsoWorksForMyKeyboardWithTheBrokenSpaceBar.

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Um,... you missed your opportunity to reply with "ASSHOLE". (all upper case). In any event, with all the recent wars in the middle east, the Navy might be better off to approve the use of CamelCase instead. Just a thought...

BFD. The military used to send so much stuff via Teletype©®? that upper case was all that you saw.

On a sunny day (Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:27:11 -0700) it happened Jeff Liebermann wrote in :

Must be a Samsung.. Spacebar only worked if you pressed it in the exact middle on my new laptop. After bending the space bar (Samsung!!!) up at the edges it works OK. LOL.

Real programmers don't use lowercase.

Sadly, I remember machine coding on a Cosmac Elf 1802. Then I noticed women generally wear less in the summer.....

Cheers

Sony. I killed the space bar when I stepped on the keyboard. I'm now on a Dell keyboard. Keyboards are cheap.

There's a metal wire under the space bar, that extends the length of the space bar, and is used to stabilize the space bar. If one of its three points of contact fall out of the corresponding plastic socket, you'll get the symptom that you're experiencing.

The caps lock key is not quite dead yet (STOP) You can still send a telegram in all caps (STOP) etc (STOP) They're not from Western Union now only sends and receives money-grams (STOP) There is always nostalgia (STOP)

Meanwhile, the marine weather reports, via Navtex, Sitor, Wefax, etc, are still arriving in all upper case: I guess the word hasn't reached everyone that lower case is now acceptable.

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A few of the NWS offices are doing a few of their reports in mixed case, as an experiment. One of the notices from the NWS is

. The Kansas City area office (Pleasant Hill, EAX) does its forecast discussions in mixed case:

Matt Roberds

Thanks. I didn't know that was being done. Reading between the lines, it appears that the major justification is to allow directly clicking on URL's, instead of manually converting them to mixed case before clicking.

I note that the comment page at: ends on 04-30-2015, which suggests that we will need endure at least another 2 years of all upper case weather reports. Probably longer as it will take a few additional years to research, politic, write, edit, sanitize, harmonize, publish, distribute, review, and evaluate the full report on the governments amazing discovery of lower case letters and its technical, social, political, economic, ecological, military, legal, legislative, and financial implications.

Of course, there is always the possibility that civilization may end as a result of this change, which seems to have prompted such an extensive 5+ year test: "As part of a risk-reduction effort using a national, non-operational product..." (...) which could easily be extended with further testing: "If this next phase of our risk reduction effort is implemented, partners and users will have the opportunity to further identify and correct any anomalous behavior of their systems and their customer?s systems that may be caused by mixed case and the expanded punctuation/character set in these WFO text products."

Non-Operational? Given the dire consequences of a mixed case meltdown, it is conceivable that this research will continue endlessly or until funding runs out, which ever comes first.

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On a sunny day (Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:01:59 -0700) it happened Jeff Liebermann wrote in :

Yep, although my Logitech MK320 wireless desktop was not. And the lettering comes of.. A and S are completely black now, as is ctrl and shift, I can still type this...

Yes I know, I have taken many keyboards apart over the years for repair and cleaning, the good old IBM had real springs under the keys,,,

These day some plastic blobs.

But not any of that on my Samsung laptop, the space bar is a flexible 4 mm think piece of plastic GLUED with a few irregular drops of some transparent stuff to that plastic blob foil. It seems as the glue dried it pulled the ends of the space bar down, so those were resting on some other area, bending it stretched up the glue.. The thing is transparent has LEDs under it, and lights the keys (photo sensor hole) when dark, or when you block the hole with your finger LOL.... Would still work if you hit the middle, flexible keys...

See the lighted space bar, you can actually look under it and see the glue blobs, and the now raised ends.

At some point I agree with Mr Kim from N Korea, I think Samsung has too much political power to push their stuff, quality is definitely not good, hey but I am used to work with , cars that fall apart, what not, once as a kid drove an old bike half across the country,... plane with engine on fire, hey still around...

Yes, it was more advanced than drums and puffs of smoke.

Equipment probably needs a lot of modifications, business opportunity ;-)

I have contemplated gluing the caps lock fixed many times, it is in a place were it is far too easy to hit it if you actually want to hit TAB.

On a sunny day (Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:11:04 -0700) it happened Jeff Liebermann wrote in :

LOL

I always put "toupper" in all my screen outputs when programming in "C" for DOS back in 1991.

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Found a news article you could understand?