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Lenovo Tinkers With Larger Delete and Escape Keys 586

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 28, 2009 @11:12PM from the boffins-are-everywhere dept.

Slatterz writes "After a year's research, Lenovo boffins have decided the time is right to install larger Delete and Escape keys on their updated ThinkPad laptop T400s range. While it is a small change, it is fairly radical to tinker with an area of hardware which has been largely unchanged since the 19th century. What convinced them to make the size-change was doing some tests on users to see which keys they use the most. They found that on average, people used the Escape and Delete keys 700 times per week, yet those were the only non-letter keys that Lenovo hasn't made any bigger." The article says Caps Lock may be next on the agenda; death is too good for Caps Lock.

Comment Re:More to worry about than that (Score 1) 249

by darkzeroman on Saturday May 10, 2008 @01:58AM (#23358748) Attached to: EA Loosens Spore, Mass Effect DRM

But isn't evidence something that is absolutely necessary, especially for this? When you are trying to show increased sales for DRM vs non-DRM? We can talk all day about how things "should" work, or how we "think" it should work, but what good is that if there is no evidence to prove it? I can hardly constitute myself as evidence, but I can say one experience. A few years ago I wished to play a game that had online multiplayer, however, an unique serial key was needed to play online. So I went out and bought the game. There, the sale of the game just increased by one. And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one since there are many people still playing on the servers.

Microsoft Issues Zero-Day Attack Alert For Word 483

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 05, 2006 @10:51PM from the incoming dept.

0xbl00d writes "Eweek.com is reporting a new Microsoft Word zero-day attack underway. Microsoft issued a security advisory to acknowledge the unpatched flaw, which affects Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for Mac. The Microsoft Works 2004, 2005 and 2006 suites are also affected because they include Microsoft Word. Simply opening a word document will launch the exploit. There are no pre-patch workarounds or anti-virus signatures available. Microsoft suggests that users 'not open or save Word files,' even from trusted sources."

Intern? Bloggers Need Not Apply 253

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 25, 2006 @06:33PM from the keep-off-the-blog-sign dept.

westlake writes "Short, funny, and to the point, a good read from the NYT about the realities of blogging in the corporate world." From the article: "Most experienced employees know: Thou Shalt Not Blab About the Company's Internal Business. But the line between what is public and what is private is increasingly fuzzy for young people comfortable with broadcasting nearly every aspect of their lives on the Web, posting pictures of their grandmother at graduation next to one of them eating whipped cream off a woman's belly. For them, shifting from a like-minded audience of peers to an intergenerational, hierarchical workplace can be jarring."

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