Comment Re:Admitted keyboard snob here (Score 1) 519
About half of the force sounds right. It took me a while to get used to after typing on the Model M, but now that I'm used to it I prefer the lighter touch of the Scorpius.
About half of the force sounds right. It took me a while to get used to after typing on the Model M, but now that I'm used to it I prefer the lighter touch of the Scorpius.
Multi-million annual dollar contracts for products and services with both companies.
No- we can't retain staff with the necessary technical skill to deal with problems when something mysteriously doesn't work.
Multi-million annual dollars (times two) cannot retain staff with the necessary technical skill? The mind boggles.
The iOne Scorpius M10 has the \ where you want it. It uses the same mechanical switches as the Das Keyboard III, and is about 1/3 or 1/2 the price. I'm typing on one now.
No built-in USB hub, but I can get a USB hub for far less than the difference in price...
But the fact remains, when the software doesn't work- we can *make* IBM or Microsoft spend thousands of dollars analyzing and FIXING the problem (even if it requires a software patch).
Okay, what's your secret? I've got bugs that I opened with MS against Windows 2000 and Visual Studio 2003 that *still* weren't fixed as of Vista and Visual Studio 2008. So far, the only thing I've been able to *make* MS do is say "Closed (wontfix)".
We can't *make* a group of random people do that.
Maybe not a randomly chosen group of people, but you can certainly make your own employees do that, since the source is available. Or contract it out to RedHat, or whomever you like.
With your bare hands?!?