Closed Poll: Do you use the numerical keyboard?
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Do you?
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- I only use touch screens
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KEYBOARD NOT FOUND.....
no seriously, i do use it but very rarely.
It's often enough that i won't buy a desktop keyboard without one but i never look for it on a laptop. if the laptop has one then great, if not then no points lost for that (and probably, unless 11hex"+ screen negative points for having one)
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nLarn, Nethack and similar games kind of require one if you can't wrap your head around the idiotic vi keys.
And it just "feels right" to have one, imo.
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Yes - I'd not buy a laptop without one now, and all stock desktop keyboards seem to come with one.
Except at work, where I don't have that much control but tend to use a desktop keyboard with one anyway.
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Even bought one of these
for those laptops w/out one.
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As a son of an accountant that often uses the term "adding machine", yes.
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I used to then I got a silly laptop without such.
Oddly though I don't miss it nearly as much as I thought - except when I want to play old games that expect such, like Sid Meier's Pirates.
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@aliceif said:
idiotic vi keys.
BURN THE HERETIC!BURN THE HERETIC! VIM 4 EVAH!
GIVE ME VIM OR GIVE ME DEATH!
:-P
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I once saw ordinary calculators on sale labelled as "calculating machines". Guess the term was still too new for some to accept it.
Filed under: Anecdote accepted, Snappy comeback not found
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I use the numeric keypad all the time. My desktop keyboards have them, and I usually buy 17" laptops, so they always have them.
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17" MacBook Pros do not, sadly.
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See what happens when you speak in absolutes? ;)
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@Intercourse said:
See what happens when you speak in absolutes? ;)
Indeed. @blakeyrat could learn from this.
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I think you have overestimated his ability to do what you hu-mans refer to as "learning". He would have to upgrade his entire firmware.
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Nope. I asserted he could. As in, it's theoretically possible. Just like it's theoretically possible for a 386 to run Windows 95, but I could not recommend it, and it should never ever be a thing, but it is theoretically possible.
I suspect if @blakeyrat were ever to learn anything, it would be like the Question and the Answer making sense - and the universe would probably explode.
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17" MacBook Pros do not, sadly.
That's because the 17" MacBook Pro is designed for college-age hipsters to cruise Facebook on their parents' dime while posing as a graphic designer. You don't need a numeric keypad for Facebook.
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That's because the 17" MacBook Pro is designed for college-age hipsters to cruise Facebook on their parents' dime while posing as a graphic designer. You don't need a numeric keypad for Facebook.
I'm not college age, I'm not a hipster, I don't 'cruise Facebook' and I'm not a graphic designer.
So what's my excuse?
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Can your cheap Acer run Xcode?
Can a Mac even run Xcode?
Unless "run" has been redefined to "Crashing every six minutes with a strong possibility of causing a kernel panic on every tenth startup."
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Can a Mac even run Xcode?
<small>Unless "run" has been redefined to "Crashing every six minutes with a strong possibility of causing a kernel panic on every tenth startup."
I have had considerably more success with Xcode than this.
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It's been a couple years since I've touched Xcode. The experience was painful enough that I will never ever own an Apple product for the rest of my life.
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Can a Mac even run Xcode?
As for the numerical keyboards - rarely. I usually don't bother unless I have quite a bunch of numbers to type in.
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Can your cheap Acer run Xcode?
As much as any computer can, most likely. I'm not even 100% sure what Xcode is, but I do know that I have VS 2010, SSMS 2008, and PyCharm open right now on it.
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As much as any computer can, most likely. I'm not even 100% sure what Xcode is, but I do know that I have VS 2010, SSMS 2008, and PyCharm open right now on it.
Xcode is OS X's dev environment for building on OS X and iOS.
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I only know it from Tumblr.
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You do not want to touch that shit with a 10 foot barge pole if you can help it.
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Hence the PyCharm
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Like this guy who bought a brand-new MacBook Air, then went on IndieGoGo begging for money to buy a gaming PC to do Twitch streaming.
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50-foot pole
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Still too close.
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Fund Me And I Will Play Video Games
Now I am tempted to do a Kickstarter with that exact title.
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I won't pay you money but I'll join in.
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@FrostCat said:
BURN THE HERETIC!
BURN THE HERETIC! VIM 4 EVAH!
GIVE ME VIM OR GIVE ME DEATH!
:-P
Unwashed heathen! Emacs is the One True Editor!
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/me unsheathes sword
we have an infidel amongst us!
have at thee!
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Notepad
Fixedsys
that is all
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/me unsheathes sword
we have an infidel amongst us!
have at thee!
I use Notepad++... does that make me an infidel too? Because I'd hate to have to go Connor MacLeod on anyone here.
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hmm... you may live, until i deal with the other infidels at least....
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I've never liked that app
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hmm... you may live, until i deal with the other infidels at least....
So, about 10 minutes then?
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nah. i've had my evening tea, it'll probably take me at least 15 minutes or.... -yawn- ... i might do it in the morning...
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nah. i've had my evening tea, it'll probably take me at least 15 minutes or.... -yawn- ... i might do it in the morning...
It's technically morning here, so if you do it in the morning your time, it won't be morning my time, which means I have a convenient get out clause.
Don't be messing with people who handle time travel, yo. We can paradox yo' ass.
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fine.... I'll use the Low Orbit Particle Cannon....
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fine.... I'll use the Low Orbit Particle Cannon....
<img src="/uploads/default/8294/7b034052ba6eecf0.png" width="690" height="431">
You better be accurate with that. And while the dematerialisation circuit might not be working... the shields ARE.
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i'm pretty sure all i really have to do is hit the right continent. this thing is not subtle. i might not get you with one strike but i will certainly ruin your day!