Monday, July 23, 2012

1787 Bust a Cap

Technology takes two steps foreword and one step back. Like the new tablet Apple has in the works. It will be like an iPad but smaller. Really? Isn't there already not enough room to move around an iPad?
You know what I mean. No sooner does someone get an iPad than they get one of those foldover case thingies so it can stand up. Not long after that they get a keyboard attachment. Then maybe even a bluetooth mouse. Pretty soon it's not an iPad anymore at all, it's a not-that-tiny laptop.
So why would you want it even smaller? You're still going to be carrying around a heavy bundle of peripherals.
And you know what? I bet the keyboards on all of them will still be that dumb old qwerty style. Qwerty, the traditional keyboard we all use with the configuration of letters that were once supposedly meant to keep full-swing mechanical typewriter arms from sticking together.
Technology of the late 1800s, haunting us in 2012.
Because today's keyboards are flat, and the damn caplock key is in the wrong place. How many times have you been looking at the text you are typing from and innocently touch-typing away only to look up at the screen and see half a paragraph of all capitals because your little finger accidentally tripped the caplock key when you meant to hit the common letter A?
AAAARGH!
Why? Because of some useless 19th century artifact. Hey technology-inventor dudes, keep your qwerty monstrosity, but at least move the caplock key where it can do no damage.
Put it up with the F-Keys. No one uses the F-Keys except Excel and D&D nerds.
Maybe the new iPad can at least give us a way to disable it.
A cap block key.
America, ya gotta love it.

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