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It's A KEYBOARD
Dec. 10th, 2004 02:05 pmIt's just a bloody keyboard.
I ordered a large-type keyboard for my mom last week. It (finally) showed up today. It's a good keyboard, all in all, she sees it great, and it's of the old style large, solid construction, the kind you could possibly use for effective home defense. If I didn't have my Kinesis, it would trigger a pang of keyboard envy.
It doesn't work.
I don't know how you screw up replacing the keys on a keyboard, but somehow, 'The Key Connection' managed to do it. What's even better, is that by replacing the keys with large-print keys, they voided the warranty from the original manufacturer.
What the hell? I mean, it's a keyboard. You plug it in, it works. It isn't rocket science. It's a standard 104-key keyboard, with just the keys replaced. Replacing the keys doesn't involve whipping out ye olde soldering iron. Replacing the keys doesn't involve sending it into a clean room for some guy in a bunnysuit to start doing arcane micro-level rearchitecturing. Replacing the keys doesn't involve, to the best of my knowledge, even a working understanding of electricity. And for some reason it doesn't work. Some sort of electrical connector was somehow jostled loose or something.
It's just a bloody keyboard.
Right now I'm in a severely black mood and I will likely meander off and find some game to blow the crap out of things that richly deserve it. I don't think I've been quite this frustrated or angry in this particular way since I discovered that Internet Explorer for the PC can't handle PNG alpha channels worth jack-shyte. It's just something that by any reasonable expectation in this day and age should just work. Take it out of the box, plug it in, it just works.
It is, after all, just a bloody keyboard.
What gets me is that this isn't even for myself, it's for mom, and a large-print keyboard is pretty much the only thing standing between her and being able to use her computer at this point, which is something she'd really like to do.
Anyway, that's the long and short of it. Now to see what can help me vent some of this frustration. Evil Genius would be good if the game wasn't buggy as heck. Pax.
I ordered a large-type keyboard for my mom last week. It (finally) showed up today. It's a good keyboard, all in all, she sees it great, and it's of the old style large, solid construction, the kind you could possibly use for effective home defense. If I didn't have my Kinesis, it would trigger a pang of keyboard envy.
It doesn't work.
I don't know how you screw up replacing the keys on a keyboard, but somehow, 'The Key Connection' managed to do it. What's even better, is that by replacing the keys with large-print keys, they voided the warranty from the original manufacturer.
What the hell? I mean, it's a keyboard. You plug it in, it works. It isn't rocket science. It's a standard 104-key keyboard, with just the keys replaced. Replacing the keys doesn't involve whipping out ye olde soldering iron. Replacing the keys doesn't involve sending it into a clean room for some guy in a bunnysuit to start doing arcane micro-level rearchitecturing. Replacing the keys doesn't involve, to the best of my knowledge, even a working understanding of electricity. And for some reason it doesn't work. Some sort of electrical connector was somehow jostled loose or something.
It's just a bloody keyboard.
Right now I'm in a severely black mood and I will likely meander off and find some game to blow the crap out of things that richly deserve it. I don't think I've been quite this frustrated or angry in this particular way since I discovered that Internet Explorer for the PC can't handle PNG alpha channels worth jack-shyte. It's just something that by any reasonable expectation in this day and age should just work. Take it out of the box, plug it in, it just works.
It is, after all, just a bloody keyboard.
What gets me is that this isn't even for myself, it's for mom, and a large-print keyboard is pretty much the only thing standing between her and being able to use her computer at this point, which is something she'd really like to do.
Anyway, that's the long and short of it. Now to see what can help me vent some of this frustration. Evil Genius would be good if the game wasn't buggy as heck. Pax.
