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  Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-01 12:41 -0400
    Re: Azio Mac keyboard gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-01 14:10 -0700
      Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-02 09:06 -0400
    Re: Azio Mac keyboard "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-01 16:11 -0500
      Re: Azio Mac keyboard Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-01 21:16 +0000
        Re: Azio Mac keyboard "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-01 18:50 -0500
          Re: Azio Mac keyboard nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-01 20:06 -0400
          Re: Azio Mac keyboard gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-01 23:45 -0700
            Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-02 09:19 -0400
              Re: Azio Mac keyboard gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-02 08:20 -0700
              Re: Azio Mac keyboard Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2016-10-03 06:14 +0200
                Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-03 09:04 -0400
            Re: Azio Mac keyboard Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-02 17:46 +0000
              Re: Azio Mac keyboard gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-02 15:23 -0700
                Re: Azio Mac keyboard Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-02 23:10 +0000
      Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-02 09:06 -0400
        Re: Azio Mac keyboard Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-02 18:15 +0000
          Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-02 14:54 -0400
            Re: Azio Mac keyboard Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-02 19:54 +0000
              Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-02 16:28 -0400
                Re: Azio Mac keyboard Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-02 20:40 +0000
                  Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-02 17:39 -0400
                  Re: Azio Mac keyboard gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-02 15:29 -0700
                    Re: Azio Mac keyboard Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-02 23:12 +0000
                Re: Azio Mac keyboard gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-02 15:29 -0700
                  Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-02 21:01 -0400
            Re: Azio Mac keyboard Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2016-10-03 03:47 +0000
              Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-03 09:03 -0400
                Re: Azio Mac keyboard Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2016-10-03 16:23 +0000
                  Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-03 13:54 -0400
                  Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-03 17:33 -0400
                    Re: Azio Mac keyboard Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2016-10-03 22:10 +0000
                      Re: Azio Mac keyboard Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-10-03 16:08 -0700
                      Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-03 19:20 -0400
                    Re: Azio Mac keyboard gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-03 16:17 -0700
                      Re: Azio Mac keyboard Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-10-03 16:30 -0700
                        Re: Azio Mac keyboard gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-03 18:09 -0700
                          Re: Azio Mac keyboard Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-10-03 18:24 -0700
                            Re: Azio Mac keyboard gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-04 07:13 -0700
                            Re: Azio Mac keyboard Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-10-15 13:17 +0200
                          Re: Azio Mac keyboard Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-04 06:27 +0000
                          Re: Azio Mac keyboard Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-10-15 13:13 +0200
                            Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-15 09:52 -0400
                              Re: Azio Mac keyboard gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-15 11:37 -0700
                      Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-03 19:33 -0400
                        Re: Azio Mac keyboard gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-03 18:09 -0700
                      Re: Azio Mac keyboard Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-10-15 13:10 +0200
                Re: Azio Mac keyboard Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-03 16:48 +0000
                  Re: Azio Mac keyboard Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-10-03 10:06 -0700
                    Re: Azio Mac keyboard Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2016-10-03 21:12 +0000
                  Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-03 13:56 -0400
                    Re: Azio Mac keyboard Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-03 22:59 +0000
                      Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-03 19:29 -0400
                        Re: Azio Mac keyboard gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-03 18:11 -0700
                Re: Azio Mac keyboard Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-10-03 15:35 -0700
                  Re: Azio Mac keyboard Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-03 19:22 -0400
    Re: Azio Mac keyboard - ordered Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-10-15 09:54 -0400

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#95232

In message <2016100318092266072-xxx@yyyzzz> 
  gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2016-10-03 23:30:29 +0000, Savageduck said:

>> On 2016-10-03 23:17:59 +0000, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> said:
>> 
>>> On 2016-10-03 21:33:11 +0000, Alan Browne said:
>>> 
>>>> On 2016-10-03 12:23, Patty Winter wrote:
>>>>> The only search results I see for "chicklet" are, as expected, slang
>>>>> terms for young women (variation on "chick").
>>>> 
>>>> Or for https://www.dropbox.com/s/uo5s5gq9a45ldgs/chicletKB.png
>>> 
>>> Interesting: I've never seen anyone display an image file this way.
>> 
>> How do you share images for online display?
>> I use Dropbox and Adobe CC, some use imgur.com and others use other 
>> sharing methods including Flickr, and SmugMug, but DB is one of the 
>> best.

> It may well, be, I just didn't know dropbox did that.  I have only ever 
> used tinygrab.com.  It's free, quick and easy, and (at least for me), 
> much faster in display.  Example:

When I take a screenshot it is automatically placed on drop box and the
URL to the screenshot is on my clipboard. So, screenshot, ⌘-V

<https://www.dropbox.com/s/8j8cxmxuffw95ed/Screenshot%202016-10-04%2000.27.21.png?dl=0>

Done.

-- 
It's as original as a photocopy -nospam

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#95617

On 2016-10-04, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2016-10-03 23:30:29 +0000, Savageduck said:
>
>> On 2016-10-03 23:17:59 +0000, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> said:
>> 
>>> On 2016-10-03 21:33:11 +0000, Alan Browne said:
>>> 
>>>> On 2016-10-03 12:23, Patty Winter wrote:
>>>>> The only search results I see for "chicklet" are, as expected, slang
>>>>> terms for young women (variation on "chick").
>>>> 
>>>> Or for https://www.dropbox.com/s/uo5s5gq9a45ldgs/chicletKB.png
>>> 
>>> Interesting: I've never seen anyone display an image file this way.
>> 
>> How do you share images for online display?
>> I use Dropbox and Adobe CC, some use imgur.com and others use other 
>> sharing methods including Flickr, and SmugMug, but DB is one of the 
>> best.
>
> It may well, be, I just didn't know dropbox did that.  I have only ever 
> used tinygrab.com.  It's free, quick and easy, and (at least for me), 
> much faster in display.  Example:
>
> 	http://grab.by/N0C8
>

That immediately beats the crap out of Dropbox by simply displaying
the image without the need for me to enable Javascript or dismiss
an overlay trying to persuade me to sign up.

-- 
My kettle isn't connected to the internet.

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#95622

On 2016-10-15 07:13, Paul Sture wrote:
> On 2016-10-04, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>> On 2016-10-03 23:30:29 +0000, Savageduck said:
>>
>>> On 2016-10-03 23:17:59 +0000, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> said:
>>>
>>>> On 2016-10-03 21:33:11 +0000, Alan Browne said:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2016-10-03 12:23, Patty Winter wrote:
>>>>>> The only search results I see for "chicklet" are, as expected, slang
>>>>>> terms for young women (variation on "chick").
>>>>>
>>>>> Or for https://www.dropbox.com/s/uo5s5gq9a45ldgs/chicletKB.png
>>>>
>>>> Interesting: I've never seen anyone display an image file this way.
>>>
>>> How do you share images for online display?
>>> I use Dropbox and Adobe CC, some use imgur.com and others use other
>>> sharing methods including Flickr, and SmugMug, but DB is one of the
>>> best.
>>
>> It may well, be, I just didn't know dropbox did that.  I have only ever
>> used tinygrab.com.  It's free, quick and easy, and (at least for me),
>> much faster in display.  Example:
>>
>> 	http://grab.by/N0C8
>>
>
> That immediately beats the crap out of Dropbox by simply displaying
> the image without the need for me to enable Javascript or dismiss
> an overlay trying to persuade me to sign up.

It's neat but you're dismissing the value of Dropbox too easily.  I can 
plop a file into dropbox and get the link and e-mail or message it out 
w/o visiting the Dropbox webpage at all.  No need to sign in to Dropbox 
(that's automatic when I boot OS X on the Mac end).

-- 
She hummed to herself because she was an unrivaled botcher of lyrics.
   -Nick (Gone Girl), Gillian Flynn.

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#95631

On 2016-10-15 13:52:56 +0000, Alan Browne said:

> On 2016-10-15 07:13, Paul Sture wrote:
>> On 2016-10-04, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>>> On 2016-10-03 23:30:29 +0000, Savageduck said:
>>> 
>>>> On 2016-10-03 23:17:59 +0000, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> said:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2016-10-03 21:33:11 +0000, Alan Browne said:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 2016-10-03 12:23, Patty Winter wrote:
>>>>>>> The only search results I see for "chicklet" are, as expected, slang
>>>>>>> terms for young women (variation on "chick").
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Or for https://www.dropbox.com/s/uo5s5gq9a45ldgs/chicletKB.png
>>>>> 
>>>>> Interesting: I've never seen anyone display an image file this way.
>>>> 
>>>> How do you share images for online display?
>>>> I use Dropbox and Adobe CC, some use imgur.com and others use other
>>>> sharing methods including Flickr, and SmugMug, but DB is one of the
>>>> best.
>>> 
>>> It may well, be, I just didn't know dropbox did that.  I have only ever
>>> used tinygrab.com.  It's free, quick and easy, and (at least for me),
>>> much faster in display.  Example:
>>> 
>>> 	http://grab.by/N0C8
>>> 
>> 
>> That immediately beats the crap out of Dropbox by simply displaying
>> the image without the need for me to enable Javascript or dismiss
>> an overlay trying to persuade me to sign up.
> 
> It's neat but you're dismissing the value of Dropbox too easily.  I can 
> plop a file into dropbox and get the link and e-mail or message it out 
> w/o visiting the Dropbox webpage at all.  No need to sign in to Dropbox 
> (that's automatic when I boot OS X on the Mac end).

I've used dropbox *very* little, but before I got it others would send 
dropbox docs and I had to figure it out on my end to get it.  Once I 
was using dropbox I had to hand-hold with other newbies, some of which 
were such newbies that anything becomes a cserve project for them.

Now I have my own website/domain and can send them a direct link to 
automatically download a file useing FileChute, which easy for files.  
Similarly with images, but I'm not eager to pass my site's id out to 
one and all; thus tinygrab.com.

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#95177

On 2016-10-03 19:17, gtr wrote:
> On 2016-10-03 21:33:11 +0000, Alan Browne said:
>
>> On 2016-10-03 12:23, Patty Winter wrote:
>>> The only search results I see for "chicklet" are, as expected, slang
>>> terms for young women (variation on "chick").
>>
>> Or for https://www.dropbox.com/s/uo5s5gq9a45ldgs/chicletKB.png
>
> Interesting: I've never seen anyone display an image file this way.

Eh?  Showing a JPG or PNG via Dropbox?  Cripes - damn near the official 
sport around here.

-- 
She hummed to herself because she was an unrivaled botcher of lyrics.
   -Nick (Gone Girl), Gillian Flynn.

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#95198

On 2016-10-03 23:33:02 +0000, Alan Browne said:

> On 2016-10-03 19:17, gtr wrote:
>> On 2016-10-03 21:33:11 +0000, Alan Browne said:
>> 
>>> On 2016-10-03 12:23, Patty Winter wrote:
>>>> The only search results I see for "chicklet" are, as expected, slang
>>>> terms for young women (variation on "chick").
>>> 
>>> Or for https://www.dropbox.com/s/uo5s5gq9a45ldgs/chicletKB.png
>> 
>> Interesting: I've never seen anyone display an image file this way.
> 
> Eh?  Showing a JPG or PNG via Dropbox?  Cripes - damn near the official 
> sport around here.

Never used Dropbox much, but didn't realize this was one of its tricks.

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#95616

On 2016-10-03, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2016-10-03 21:33:11 +0000, Alan Browne said:
>
>> On 2016-10-03 12:23, Patty Winter wrote:
>>> The only search results I see for "chicklet" are, as expected, slang
>>> terms for young women (variation on "chick").
>> 
>> Or for https://www.dropbox.com/s/uo5s5gq9a45ldgs/chicletKB.png
>
> Interesting: I've never seen anyone display an image file this way.
>

I've seen it before and the problem for me as a NoScript user is that it
wants me to 

1. enable Javascript for dropbox.com, dropboxstatic.com and
   google.com, though I can see the image when I ignore google.com
2. dismiss the prompt trying to persuade me to login, creating an
   account if I don't have one.

Too much hassle for a simple image view.

Having my own webspace, I simply load any images I want to share up
there.  I suppose there's a very small chance  that something I loaded
could go viral, and I'd get clobbered with bandwidth quotas, but I
really don't see that happening with the occasional screenshot.


-- 
My kettle isn't connected to the internet.

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#95109

On 2016-10-03, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2016-10-02 23:47, Patty Winter wrote:
>>
>> In article <-cKdncTH1PJpymzKnZ2dnUU7-QednZ2d@giganews.com>,
>> Alan Browne  <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>> On 2016-10-02 14:15, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>> On 2016-10-02, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Can't stand Apple's chicklet keys.
>>>>
>>>> I love 'em. I type faster on Apple keyboards than most others, and with
>>>> less noise and less effort. Win win!  : )
>>>
>>> My error rate on Apple chicklet boards is higher.  Lose.
>>
>> "chicklet"? I guess you young 'uns aren't familiar with the term:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclets
>>
>> For the record, Apple's keys are a lot bigger than the candies.
>
> I'm not the one who came up with the moniker for Apple's keyboards.

You don't seem to mind perpetuating it either.

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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#95112

On 2016-10-03 16:48:42 +0000, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> said:

> On 2016-10-03, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>> On 2016-10-02 23:47, Patty Winter wrote:
>>> 
>>> In article <-cKdncTH1PJpymzKnZ2dnUU7-QednZ2d@giganews.com>,
>>> Alan Browne  <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>> On 2016-10-02 14:15, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>>> On 2016-10-02, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Can't stand Apple's chicklet keys.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I love 'em. I type faster on Apple keyboards than most others, and with
>>>>> less noise and less effort. Win win!  : )
>>>> 
>>>> My error rate on Apple chicklet boards is higher.  Lose.
>>> 
>>> "chicklet"? I guess you young 'uns aren't familiar with the term:
>>> 
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclets
>>> 
>>> For the record, Apple's keys are a lot bigger than the candies.
>> 
>> I'm not the one who came up with the moniker for Apple's keyboards.
> 
> You don't seem to mind perpetuating it either.

Alan isn't the only one.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclet_keyboard>

-- 
Regards,

Savageduck

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#95141

In article <2016100310060699609-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
Savageduck  <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
>
>Alan isn't the only one.
><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclet_keyboard>

Yep, that's the correct spelling, as Alan has already mentioned.


Patty

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#95116

On 2016-10-03 12:48, Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2016-10-03, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>> On 2016-10-02 23:47, Patty Winter wrote:
>>>
>>> In article <-cKdncTH1PJpymzKnZ2dnUU7-QednZ2d@giganews.com>,
>>> Alan Browne  <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>> On 2016-10-02 14:15, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>>> On 2016-10-02, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can't stand Apple's chicklet keys.
>>>>>
>>>>> I love 'em. I type faster on Apple keyboards than most others, and with
>>>>> less noise and less effort. Win win!  : )
>>>>
>>>> My error rate on Apple chicklet boards is higher.  Lose.
>>>
>>> "chicklet"? I guess you young 'uns aren't familiar with the term:
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclets
>>>
>>> For the record, Apple's keys are a lot bigger than the candies.
>>
>> I'm not the one who came up with the moniker for Apple's keyboards.
>
> You don't seem to mind perpetuating it either.

And why not?  That's what they look like.  See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclet_keyboard top right photo.


-- 
She hummed to herself because she was an unrivaled botcher of lyrics.
   -Nick (Gone Girl), Gillian Flynn.

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#95160

In message <V4ydnREbE4kqBm_KnZ2dnUU7-QudnZ2d@giganews.com> 
  Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2016-10-03 12:48, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2016-10-03, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>> On 2016-10-02 23:47, Patty Winter wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In article <-cKdncTH1PJpymzKnZ2dnUU7-QednZ2d@giganews.com>,
>>>> Alan Browne  <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>>> On 2016-10-02 14:15, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>>>> On 2016-10-02, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can't stand Apple's chicklet keys.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I love 'em. I type faster on Apple keyboards than most others, and with
>>>>>> less noise and less effort. Win win!  : )
>>>>>
>>>>> My error rate on Apple chicklet boards is higher.  Lose.
>>>>
>>>> "chicklet"? I guess you young 'uns aren't familiar with the term:
>>>>
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclets
>>>>
>>>> For the record, Apple's keys are a lot bigger than the candies.
>>>
>>> I'm not the one who came up with the moniker for Apple's keyboards.
>>
>> You don't seem to mind perpetuating it either.

> And why not?  That's what they look like. 

The keys looks nothing like chiclets.

See also:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclet_keyboard top right photo.

Wikipedia also says "the term is neutral and refers to low-profile,
low-travel keyboards with simplified, flat bezel-separated keycaps that
other than their appearance function like contemporary computer
keyboards." which is not correct. It is a disparaging term used by people
to describe pretty much any non-mechanical keyboard they don't like.

These keys look like chiclets:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclet_keyboard#/media/File:Clavier_01.jpg>

These are chiclets:

<https://www.dropbox.com/s/imdq8ruckpckv5m/Screenshot%202016-10-03%2016.59.49.png?dl=0>

-- 
"These are my rules, I make 'em up." ~George Carlin

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#95174

On 2016-10-03 18:59, Lewis wrote:
> In message <V4ydnREbE4kqBm_KnZ2dnUU7-QudnZ2d@giganews.com>
>   Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>> On 2016-10-03 12:48, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>> On 2016-10-03, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>> On 2016-10-02 23:47, Patty Winter wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> In article <-cKdncTH1PJpymzKnZ2dnUU7-QednZ2d@giganews.com>,
>>>>> Alan Browne  <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2016-10-02 14:15, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2016-10-02, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Can't stand Apple's chicklet keys.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I love 'em. I type faster on Apple keyboards than most others, and with
>>>>>>> less noise and less effort. Win win!  : )
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My error rate on Apple chicklet boards is higher.  Lose.
>>>>>
>>>>> "chicklet"? I guess you young 'uns aren't familiar with the term:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclets
>>>>>
>>>>> For the record, Apple's keys are a lot bigger than the candies.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not the one who came up with the moniker for Apple's keyboards.
>>>
>>> You don't seem to mind perpetuating it either.
>
>> And why not?  That's what they look like.
>
> The keys looks nothing like chiclets.
>
> See also:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclet_keyboard top right photo.
>
> Wikipedia also says "the term is neutral and refers to low-profile,
> low-travel keyboards with simplified, flat bezel-separated keycaps that
> other than their appearance function like contemporary computer
> keyboards." which is not correct. It is a disparaging term used by people
> to describe pretty much any non-mechanical keyboard they don't like.

Not at all.


>
> These keys look like chiclets:
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclet_keyboard#/media/File:Clavier_01.jpg>

Wow, never opened a box of chiclets with those inside.

>
> These are chiclets:
>
> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/imdq8ruckpckv5m/Screenshot%202016-10-03%2016.59.49.png?dl=0>
>


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#95199

On 2016-10-03 23:29:22 +0000, Alan Browne said:

>> Wikipedia also says "the term is neutral and refers to low-profile,
>> low-travel keyboards with simplified, flat bezel-separated keycaps that
>> other than their appearance function like contemporary computer
>> keyboards." which is not correct. It is a disparaging term used by people
>> to describe pretty much any non-mechanical keyboard they don't like.
> 
> Not at all.

Yeah, I don't get the "disparaging" aspect.  It seems a simple, though 
admittedly flawed discriptor.  Ho hum.

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#95150

In article <iYudnZcXQ5mHym_KnZ2dnUU7-U-dnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
<alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:

> I'm not the one who came up with the moniker for Apple's keyboards.  And 
> yes, I bought those packs of Chiclets as a kid and teenager and recall 
> that each had 15 pieces.  Which irked me because I always chewed two at 
> a time.

A disciplined guy would only have been cheated on the last pack of
Chiclets he ever bought, if he had bought a odd number of packages in
total and wasn't a saver. Or, buying two packages at a time could
alleviate emotional while increasing financial stress.
You didn't say whether you ever gave one away, accepted a free one or
lost one, so I will have to conclude that you didn't. 
I wish we had talked before you bought your first package. I just love
giving worthless yet flawless advice.
I use a Chiclet keyboard. I have a USB Apple extended one in a drawer
that I frankly like to type on better, but the keys are dirty and it
has that nasty old fashioned cable. Yuck!. So... in with the new and I
deal with it.

leo

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#95173

On 2016-10-03 18:35, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> In article <iYudnZcXQ5mHym_KnZ2dnUU7-U-dnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
> <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>
>> I'm not the one who came up with the moniker for Apple's keyboards.  And
>> yes, I bought those packs of Chiclets as a kid and teenager and recall
>> that each had 15 pieces.  Which irked me because I always chewed two at
>> a time.
>
> A disciplined guy would only have been cheated on the last pack of
> Chiclets he ever bought, if he had bought a odd number of packages in
> total and wasn't a saver. Or, buying two packages at a time could
> alleviate emotional while increasing financial stress.
> You didn't say whether you ever gave one away, accepted a free one or
> lost one, so I will have to conclude that you didn't.

Gave away, traded, borrowed ... those were free livin' days...



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#95623 — Re: Azio Mac keyboard - ordered

On 2016-10-01 12:41, Alan Browne wrote:
>
> Anyone tried this?
>
> http://www.aziocorp.com/webe/html/products/index2.aspx?num=130

I ordered the wired one.  Should be here Wed or so.

If I like it at home I'll order the bluetooth version for work.

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