Microsoft hardware, wasOT - Is this computer for real? (CORRECTION)

Wed Aug 24 21:09:32 UTC 2005

Mouse - Logitech
Keyboard - Microsoft standard (with internet buttons)

> --- Gary Layng <glayng-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > And here I thought I was the only one with a
> > Microsoft keyboard and mouse 
> > attached to his Linux box.  ^_^
> 
> Your not the only one, I have a Microsoft Natural
> Multimedia keyboard and a Microsoft wireless mouse
> (either one of which can be had for under $10 if you
> wait for the right sale to come up at the right
> surplus shop).
> 
> So question is, how many other local Linux users are
> running with a Linux box with a Microsoft keyboard
> and/or mouse?
> 
> Back when questions were being raised about how to
> punish Microsoft for taking illegal actions as a
> monoloply(*) I was of the view that Microsoft should
> have been forced to become a pure hardware company.
> Regretably, one of the (many) mistakes made by the
> current Bush administration was to hand Microsoft a
> punishment so light that it doesn't even count as a
> slap on the wrist.
> 
> Colin McGregor
> 
> (*) Keep in mind that it isn't illegal to have a
> (near) monopoly, as for example Heinz has some 90% of
> the ketchup market. What is illegal is how you obtain
> that monopoly, and how you use that monopoly position.
> For example, a supermarket does not have to sell Heinz
> marinade sauce in order to be able to sell Heinz
> ketchup. Likewise Heinz does not use their ketchup
> profits to sell their baby food below cost (with a
> view to getting a monopoly in that area too). 
> 
> 
> > On August 24, 2005 07:09, Colin McGregor wrote:
> > > --- Jamon Camisso <jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org>
> > wrote:
> > > > Colin McGregor wrote:
> > > > > I was trying to locate stills from the short
> > lived
> > > > > (so-so) TV show "Century City", as the
> > computer
> > > >
> > > > shown
> > > >
> > > > > on the web site below look similar to (the
> > same
> > > > > as?!?!) to the computers on "Century City". I
> > was
> > > >
> > > > not
> > > >
> > > > > able to turn up any pictures of the computers
> > in
> > > > > "Century City", so I am not sure if that is
> > where
> > > >
> > > > the
> > > >
> > > > > images below came from. Anyway "Century City"
> > was
> > > >
> > > > set
> > > >
> > > > > in the year 2030, and the computers were NOT
> > real
> > > > > (very plausable that we would have computers
> > > >
> > > > looking
> > > >
> > > > > like before the year 2030, but not today).
> > > > >
> > > > > Colin McGregor
> > > >
> > > > Part of me hopes that a transparent LCD screen
> > won't
> > > > ever have the
> > > > vibrance and saturation of colours that is the
> > norm
> > > > on mid range and up
> > > > CRTs. The age old function vs. form dilemma I
> > > > suppose.
> > >
> > > I have a 21" CRT monitor on my desk, and yes I
> > love
> > > the size, sharpness, etc. of the screen. On the
> > other
> > > hand I would also be VERY happy to have a LOT less
> > of
> > > my desktop chewed up with that hulking monster.
> > So,
> > > give me a cheap large transparent LCD screen that
> > > matches the vibrance and saturation of a CRT and
> > I'll
> > > be very interested.
> > >
> > > As for the keyboard in the picture, it is a flat
> > slab,
> > > and yes there are flat slab keyboards sort of like
> > > that today, in industrial settings (where they
> > have to
> > > worry about chemicals being spilled on the
> > keyboard,
> > > and want something that can be just wiped clean).
> > But
> > > normally people WANT the touch of a keyboard that
> > > moves when they hit a key, and unless there is
> > some
> > > pressing reason to do otherwise (i.e. some
> > industrial
> > > settings) that is the way people go. In my case I
> > hate
> > > the look, but love the feel of the "natural"
> > keyboards
> > > and would want a comfortable keyboard in the
> > future.
> > > Pleasantly ironic, the keyboard and mouse on my
> > main
> > > home Linux box were built by Microsoft, a company
> > that
> > > does @#$% software, but comfortable (and ugly)
> > > keyboards/mice.
> > >
> > > Colin McGregor
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