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The caps lock key just has to be the most useless waste of space on a standard qwerty keyboard. I don't think I have ever used it unless you count the times when you accidentally PRESS IT. Woops.
You can easily remap it to another modifier key on OSX in the system preferences. Other OSes/Windowing systems typically require a modified keyboard layout, but you might be able to find software to do it easily.
Fun Facts about the original Cube: * A single cable connects the Cube to its monitor (with speakers and microphone). A single cable connects the monitor to the keyboard. And a single cable connects the keyboard to the mouse. * Neither the Cube nor its monitor have any buttons, switches, or controls. The only way to turn the machine on is by pressing the Power key on the keyboard (which is connected to the monitor). I…
The caps lock key just has to be the most useless waste of space on a standard qwerty keyboard. I don't think I have ever used it unless you count the times when you accidentally PRESS IT. Woops.
Funny that most of you are holding that code in your hand...
Fun Facts about the original Cube: * A single cable connects the Cube to its monitor (with speakers and microphone). A single cable connects the monitor to the keyboard. And a single cable connects the keyboard to the mouse. * Neither the Cube nor its monitor have any buttons, switches, or controls. The only way to turn the machine on is by pressing the Power key on the keyboard (which is connected to the monitor). I…
Consider the innovations at that time (c 1988/89) "It sports the first commercially available erasable optical drive and advanced VLSI (very-large-scale integration) technology, and it comes with a built-in digital signal processor. On the software side, the Unix-based cube features an object-oriented version of C as its standard programming environment. It uses Display PostScript to present a graphical user interfac…
And couple it with fat/universal binaries, and you've really got something special. As someone who just installed their first instance of Windows x64, the difference between that world of having both "Internet Explorer" and "Internet Explorer (64-bit)" icons and a world where a complete system image from a 32-bit PowerPC can be booted seamlessly (with all apps still working) on a 64-bit Intel processor is stark indeed.
If this stuff is of interest to you, here's Steve giving a half-hour demonstration of NeXTSTEP 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02b8Fuz73A
damn... you beat me to it. That video never gets old. Steve actually explaining some technical details and not just being cool.
Did anyone else first read "8 Gigabytes of RAM" before doing a double take? Moore's law is a powerful force indeed
It's these machines which indirectly enable so much as well. People like to talk about the cloud a lot, but video that gets uploaded to YouTube has to be edited somewhere. Now while it's true that YouTube has a flash based editor now, they didn't before they got big. And there is all the other video, HD quality, out there that needs to be edited on beefy machines: 3D modelling, games, music et cetera.
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damn... you beat me to it. That video never gets old. Steve actually explaining some technical details and not just being cool.
It also shows he obviously had somewhat of an unhealthy obsession with the "Stencil" typeface :)
Fun Facts about the original Cube: * A single cable connects the Cube to its monitor (with speakers and microphone). A single cable connects the monitor to the keyboard. And a single cable connects the keyboard to the mouse. * Neither the Cube nor its monitor have any buttons, switches, or controls. The only way to turn the machine on is by pressing the Power key on the keyboard (which is connected to the monitor). I…
The Cube also burns pretty well, once you get it going. http://simson.net/hacks/cubefire.html
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The caps lock key just has to be the most useless waste of space on a standard qwerty keyboard. I don't think I have ever used it unless you count the times when you accidentally PRESS IT. Woops.
You can easily remap it to another modifier key on OSX in the system preferences. Other OSes/Windowing systems typically require a modified keyboard layout, but you might be able to find software to do it easily.