Logitech K750 (solar) is the best in my opinion. I WISH IT WAS NOT SOLAR THOUGH AND HAD A REAL WIRE INSTEAD.

Long story why. I used original IBM clickly keyboards (still have 2) also used cheap plastic clones of these and wore out keys on 2 such keyboards because they are from regular plastic material. Also tried Microsoft "Natural" - there's really nothing natural - they all suck and slow.

In the end, I came across that keyboard on display at FRY's and it felt amazing. Bought 4 since then. They are unfortunately, not the most reliable. I already had one die just after 3 years. IBM are still rock solid after > 30 years. However, I notice a drastic performance boost with these keyboards. It seems I can type more code in less time, and I don't mind paying for more of these.

Unfortunately previous model without the solar batteries even though looks similar, does not actually feel the same. It feels "slow" as normal keyboards. Yet the K750 feels like the code just appears itself. When I go to work somewhere, I take one with me as well.

When prices for 3D printing fall, they'd have the system ready. The problem as noted, there is prior art.

In my specific case, I found that payload of 600 bytes works the best. So if latency is important (i.e. I am typing a lot over RDP) I just run "ping www.google.com -t -l 600"

You may be able to check if your latency varies due to mobile protocol switches to lower power due to less activity.

As a first test, try:

ping www.google -t -l 1000
vs
ping www.google -t

If the 1000 byte ping has more consistent times than the standard pings - that's the issue and you may be able to find a minimum payload size which makes the connection more consistent without switching.

I was in a similar situation multiple times too. You come to a hotel, connect to internet and it's really bad to a point of impossible to use and stay connected to a remote host.

If he found that stopping torrents fixes the issue, and it's not users simply streaming too many videos, then technically, he is offering a good solution since it makes the internet better for everyone using it at an expense of very few who hog thousands of connections without even realizing it.

I actually agree. EVerything in Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / XP was done with effective and efficient use in mind.

Then it slowly started getting bloated with Vista and Win7 but it could still be turned in "XP" style (i.e. 95 style) and used very effectively.

Now with Windows 8 & 2012 everything takes more time to use even though computers are faster. And it's not that the product is bad. Product is awesome, Microsoft has great developers. Windows 2012 automatically installs on servers, doesn't ask for drivers, ... Development side is perfect. It's just that the DESIGN sucks, UI sucks, their stupid decision of always forcing aliased fonts sucks. For instance I can't look at antialised fonts for more than 2 hours. I get a headache. Yet I can look at normal fonts for 16 hours without any problems. They purposely chose to ignore that with WPF & IE years ago.

From what I see (and I worked at MS before), they should fire tons of PMs to make their development more efficient and focus on efficiency as opposed to some marketing BS that noone really cares about when it comes to Windows.

I wish they added a viable option to disable ClearType and Font Smoothing properly.

Totally agree. 16:10 or 4:3 as well as NORMAL keyboards with Ins/Del/ Home/End PgUp/PgDn block.

I agree with hermitdev. I refused 5 full-time offers at $150/hr myself last year. Four were in a financial industry where I felt that I would have less freedom to work on my own projects, which I can with the current contracts. One was surprisingly in software company. They needed to fix some C++ stuff. Their first complaint was why I was asking double than their senior engineers make. I simply answered with a question "can they fix your C++ code". Companies are often willing to pay when they have millions of dollars of revenues depending on such work.

There is such a thing as "A player", "B player" "C player" and so on. Some people are simply much more productive at the same tasks and coincidentally have other extracurricular tasks which are a superset of "lower level" players. As the parent noted an A player is easily worth 3-4 B or C players. And he has the same productivity difference as well.

This is an amazing link.

Is there any way to 1) revert back to iOS6 after the update or 2) stop all these animations? Android has an option to stop all animations. I saw Apple has an option to disable some. Is there a tool/hack to disable all?

I am more worried about no new laptops with the standard 8-row keyboard which has Ins/Del/Home/End/PgUp/PgDn block.

All manufacturers that had those for business use - i.e. Dell, HP, Lenovo switched to the new consumer type layouts which are much slower for development work.

When this keyboard layout is ressurected, I am buying a new laptop. Until then, I stick to the fastest possible laptop with such keyboard. Which, at present is Dell E6410/E6510.

As far as UEFI and TPM - all of these can be disabled.

Agree! I have 4 of these monitors too! Best ones I ever used.