Wow. This is exactly the keyboard I've been looking for. 87-key layout, switchable support for the alt/cmd key (for Mac or non-Mac use)... even the backlighting.
I just need to choose between the "Cherry MX Clear" and "Cherry MX Brown" switches. It's not cheap, but it's definitely what I want.
Thanks for pointing it out!
Agreed totally. I could almost have written your post, except for the part about scoring a nice old set of speakers from your friend's parents.
If you're not aware of audiokarma.org , you might find a welcome home on that forum...
Exactly the same deal with me. No way I was going to tie my checking to them to become "verified", etc.
eBay completely lost my business, as a buyer AND seller, when they started making PayPal mandatory. (Or if not mandatory, very difficult to go without PayPal.)
I feel like I'm missing out a bit with the eBay thing. But then, I've probably saved at least a couple grand by not buying anything on eBay in a decade. Probably for the best...
I think the comparison is apt. Take your fancy jaugur and trying running it against a peroid chevy or ford with a good engine, perhaps with a motorhead who knows how to tune it with some work into.
You see fancy get out performed.
Until you encounter the first turn in the road.
(I assume we're talking about E-Types here. Newer Jaguars were pretty lousy until well into the Ford era.)
"Luddites? Sorry, but simply having every piece of new tech only for the sake of it does not make you a nerd."
Smart phones are no longer new tech. They're at least in their second generation now (if you count smart phones such as blackberry and ancient WinCE phones as first gen, and the advent of the iPhone as second gen... debatable if enough has changed since then to say there's a third generation yet), and the baseline expectations for what features a smartphone offers are pretty well set.
There are good reasons not to get a smartphone, but to dismiss them as some kind of new fad is pretty weird.
No way of checking email, web, etc when on the go? I think a great many more nerds will no to that.
The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it's cheaper than institutionalizing all those people.
