View Full Version : Real Chat Room (Mods can you answer???)
Nikkif8
10-06-2006, 08:07 AM
Can we get a REAL chat room?? Is this possible.
bwind22
10-06-2006, 08:11 AM
I'm not a mod, but I can answer....
No.
Why not you ask? Well, it's because that's something we would need Horror to do and well, he's doesn't come around here very often anymore. I think I've seen him once or twice in the 2-3 years I've been here. He does not respond to messages either, so getting anything changed around at all on this forum is probably not in the forecast.
urgeok
10-06-2006, 08:11 AM
... if i had a doller.......
Originally posted by urgeok
... if i had a doller.......
Lose you're spell check today?
bwind22
10-06-2006, 08:20 AM
Originally posted by newb
Lose you're spell check today?
But the 'E' is right next to the 'R'. It's so much easier than reaching all the way over to the 'A'.
The Mothman
10-06-2006, 08:22 AM
Originally posted by newb
Lose you're spell check today? its based off te omcdave thread.
urgeok
10-06-2006, 08:24 AM
Originally posted by newb
Lose you're spell check today?
nah :)
havent you been following the other threads ? :)
Originally posted by The Mothman
its based off te omcdave thread.
Oh....I see. Your excused urge.
Angra
10-06-2006, 08:24 AM
Never mind this post. Nothing to see here. Please scroll down..
Angra
10-06-2006, 08:25 AM
Originally posted by newb
Lose you're spell check today?
Erhem...:rolleyes:
Originally posted by Angra
you're spell check today?
Erhem...:rolleyes:
Maybe that was intentional........maybe.
bwind22
10-06-2006, 08:27 AM
Who the hell designed the keyboard and what logic was there in placing the letters?
Wouldn't it just be more simple if it was in alphabetical order?
Disease
10-06-2006, 08:28 AM
Originally posted by newb
Lose you're spell check today?
Seriously, the one thing I can't stand and makes me want to rip someones head off is? Someone who bitches about spelling, specialy when it reads correctly!
Originally posted by bwind22
Who the hell designed the keyboard and what logic was there in placing the letters?
Wouldn't it just be more simple if it was in alphabetical order?
Good question.
Angra
10-06-2006, 08:29 AM
Originally posted by Disease
Seriously, the one thing I can't stand and makes me want to rip someones head off is? Someone who bitches about spelling, specialy when it reads correctly!
Shut up, bitchy bitch.
Disease
10-06-2006, 08:30 AM
Huha, Death to spellers, oh, fuck spell check, it's all about the thought, I can not stress that enough,
urgeok
10-06-2006, 08:31 AM
Originally posted by Disease
Seriously, the one thing I can't stand and makes me want to rip someones head off is? Someone who bitches about spelling, specialy when it reads correctly!
you'll find that the older folks here still have the standards that were reinforced in us when we went to school.
apparently all they teach kids these days is how to find the on button on their ipods.
Keyboard History
Standard Qwerty Keyboard Origin:
Late 1870's
In 1872, Remington produced the first mechanical typewriter, patented by C. Latham Sholes. Soon typists were going so fast that they were able to jam the keys which flew up to hit the typewriter ribbon. In the late 1870's: the "improved" Qwerty layout was designed to slow down typing, so those pesky keys would not jam anymore. Here is the speed trap we are stuck with today, 130 years later.
Q W E R T Y U I O P
A S D F G H J K L ;
Z X C V B N M , . ?
In the Standard / Qwerty keyboard layout above, the most frequently used letters in English are shown in red: ETASORNI. How many common letters are at convenient inner finger locations on the middle row? None. Where is A? At the awkward left small finger location. Where are rarely used letters J and K? On prime real estate. No wonder it's slow: Alphabet soup.
Disease
10-06-2006, 08:38 AM
I started with an electric typewriter at around 1986 when I was 7, I still use typewriters now and then but mainly my laptop, I have been writeing since a child and never had a second thought abought spelling because generally, i get my thoughts out to fast and by the time they are for viewing they have been corrected>
Roderick Usher
10-06-2006, 08:52 AM
Originally posted by bwind22
Who the hell designed the keyboard and what logic was there in placing the letters?
Wouldn't it just be more simple if it was in alphabetical order?
QWERTY (contemporary keyboard layout) was designed for typwriters to keep commonly paired letters seperated.
Typewriters (for you young 'uns) had metal rods alligned to hit a central spot. The commonly paired keys were seperated in order to prevent keys sticking together during typing.
Nikkif8
10-06-2006, 08:56 AM
I just wanted to thank everyone for highjacking my thread with a major boring topic LOL :D
Vodstok
10-06-2006, 08:57 AM
A typewriter:
think of it as a really boring cumputer lacking anything but a keyboard.
OR, and genius device that connects keyboard to priner, removing the need for a computer and software!
bwind22
10-06-2006, 08:57 AM
Well I guess that makes sense for typewriters but why aren't there 2 different layouts of computer keyboards available? I know I'd prefer alphabetical.
And urge, it's not that they don't teach spelling, grammar & math in school any more (I only graduated 8 years ago) , it's that they teach those things but they don't really care if anyone actually learns it or not. The public schools are so overcrowded that teachers willingly pass students who have no business being passed simply to usher the problem on to someone else. And the teaching of calculators in place of paper math is why it can take 5 minutes to get your change at the grocery store or fast food place. For example, I went through the Burger King drive-thru the other day and my total was 6.21 . I gave the stupid kid working a $10, a $1 and .21 cents change. He looked at me like I was crazy and then said "No, it's only 6.21, the ten is enough." No shit Sherlock, but I want a $5 back was the gist of my reply, to which he put on the MOST perplexed face I've seen in years and then said "Well I already put $10 in here (computer/cash register) and it won't let me change it." WHAT?!?!? Essentially he could not figure on his own that the 3.79 change it was telling him to give me back, plus the 1.21 I was trying to hand him equaled $5. I tried to explain this to him for at least a full minute and finally got frustrated to the point that I just said 'Screw it, give me my change & my food."
Angra
10-06-2006, 08:58 AM
Originally posted by Nikkif8
I just wanted to thank everyone for highjacking my thread with a major boring topic LOL :D
Yeah, against all odds they´ve managed to make it even more boring.:rolleyes:
urgeok
10-06-2006, 09:00 AM
Originally posted by Vodstok
A typewriter:
think of it as a really boring cumputer lacking anything but a keyboard.
OR, and genius device that connects keyboard to priner, removing the need for a computer and software!
kids ... this guy right here is proof positive that you need to LAY OFF THE DRUGS AND STAY IN SCHOOL !!
hahahahahahah
cumputer !!
i guess thats a computer owned by a porn addict ? :)
bwind22
10-06-2006, 09:01 AM
Yeah right! Spelling discussion, keyboard origin, calculator math vs. paper math.... This is an extremely stimulating conversation!
urgeok
10-06-2006, 09:02 AM
Originally posted by bwind22
it's not that they don't teach spelling, grammar & math in school any more (I only graduated 8 years ago) , it's that they teach those things but they don't really care if anyone actually learns it or not. The public schools are so overcrowded that teachers willingly pass students who have no business being passed simply to usher the problem on to someone else. And the teaching of calculators in place of paper math is why it can take 5 minutes to get your change at the grocery store or fast food place. For example, I went through the Burger King drive-thru the other day and my total was 6.21 . I gave the stupid kid working a $10, a $1 and .21 cents change. He looked at me like I was crazy and then said "No, it's only 6.21, the ten is enough." No shit Sherlock, but I want a $5 back was the gist of my reply, to which he put on the MOST perplexed face I've seen in years and then said "Well I already put $10 in here (computer/cash register) and it won't let me change it." WHAT?!?!? Essentially he could not figure on his own that the 3.79 change it was telling him to give me back, plus the 1.21 I was trying to hand him equaled $5. I tried to explain this to him for at least a full minute and finally got frustrated to the point that I just said 'Screw it, give me my change & my food."
what boggles my mind is that these same illiterate kids are getting on computers ... an opportunity to become literate and yet its so prevalent that all it does is reinforce illiteract by allowing for this rediculous txtspeak - or people getting pissed off when you try to help them out.
Vodstok
10-06-2006, 09:03 AM
it all ties together, though....
Back in the day, chatrooms consisted of people using typewriters or "pen and paper" for the truly archaic. They would use these instruments to put words onpaper, then seal it in an envelope and people called "mail men" would then deliver the "letter" into a vast service that would distribute said letters to the destination specified on the envelope.
it took a long time, and the "mail men" were prone to acts of violence, so they invented computers to make chatrooms quicker and easier.
urgeok
10-06-2006, 09:10 AM
Originally posted by Vodstok
it all ties together, though....
Back in the day, chatrooms consisted of people using typewriters or "pen and paper" for the truly archaic. They would use these instruments to put words onpaper, then seal it in an envelope and people called "mail men" would then deliver the "letter" into a vast service that would distribute said letters to the destination specified on the envelope.
it took a long time, and the "mail men" were prone to acts of violence, so they invented computers to make chatrooms quicker and easier.
Angra
10-06-2006, 09:11 AM
Originally posted by Vodstok
it all ties together, though....
Back in the day, chatrooms consisted of people using typewriters or "pen and paper" for the truly archaic. They would use these instruments to put words onpaper, then seal it in an envelope and people called "mail men" would then deliver the "letter" into a vast service that would distribute said letters to the destination specified on the envelope.
it took a long time, and the "mail men" were prone to acts of violence, so they invented computers to make chatrooms quicker and easier.
Is that what you teach your kid at home, Vod?
Poor guy. I can see his future already.