h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Bach, Bach, Bach, Back, yes I can even type it too.

But as for chi~sko~ski - I'm bu**ered!

Probably because, like me, you're better at typing than spelling.

Well in your post (40) I noticed a double keystroke in "keyboaard", but keyboard rebounce can happen to anybody.

Yet in (41) I managed to go from Bach to Back at the end. More used to typing back, than back, maybe, just don't know why it happened.

There are issues with the edit box I use, like the cursor hides itself, and part of text vanishes, until a page down, then play hunt the last point I was atin the text. These things are real problems of not using a PC. It's not all down to the hardware though, the meatware is failing too.

Let me check post 40. Yeap, you're right. But now the question is: Is this a mispell or is it a malfunctioning of a more or less disorganized brain? Has my brain complete power over my twitchty system and does it send the appropriate messages along the billlions of neurons and bypasses to my ten fingers? Are there ten of them? Yes. So that last part on the meatware should be fine then.
I do not agree with a keyboard malfunctioning.

Apropos, there is something you said about your post nr 41 that I didn't get.

If I were to take more time in checkgin what I wrote then I'd eliminate mos tof the typo's, but my speling werly letz me done and I do often wich I cold spel properly Of course I can just as easily make myself spell words that I can spell properly incorrectly. Its the 'more common' words I struggle with, give me a few dinucleotides, some adenosine triphosphate and we'l soon have some deoxiribonuucleaic acid wizzing about but I still can't spell receive.

Would acahol help?

Ah yeah, post 41. I'm using a STB (Set Top Box) not a PC at the moment. It uses Liberate, and it's not the most responsive, reliable of devices. The keyboard, infa-red (IrDa), a half travel unit akin to a laptop, also not the best device in the world.

To blame the hardware, the resonse of the STB to signal from the keyboard is a problem at the best of times.

Did you see "atin" in my above post, an artifact of attempt to delete and the STB throwing a wobbly.

The meatware failure, probably down to indecisiveness of how to word the sentence.

"I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."

Wow, infarred keyboard, sounds fun. What do you do? Do you hover with your fingertips slghtly above it?
STB to signal from keyboard?
Indeciseveness of how to word a sentnce, is perfectly understood.

Oh yes, I see. Sorry. A set top box?

Nothing so fantastic. There a buttons to push (akin to a laptop) in QWERTY layout...

Instead of the signal going to a wire, it's 'beamed' to a sensor on the front on the STB...

Just like a 'big remote' if you will.


Though remote controls tend to use a the 'RC5' or 'RC6' system more often than not.

You may have seen wirless keyboard's for PC, they use radio waves, this used light.

A company called BTC do make IrDa keyboard's for PC, but I would say try before you buy to anybody that would want such a device.

Rght, bck on thread.

Yeah, though I think undertanding hardware can be some cause of problems is fair.

Not sure ever anybody saying it being lazy about typos is fair. People are making an effort to type, it just comes out wrong, for some more than others.

A want to make a quick reply, is not lazy is it? More the opposit than being some kind of sloth?

I will thread carefully if I ever may deside to buy mself an IrDa keyboard, but there is no need yet. Tough its good to know it extis.
I've got a macinthosh classic, 1985, on wich I write and it is pure hell. I type faster than the keyboard kan cope with.
So I pause, sip my black coffee, wich is black due to lazyness and not adulteration and yes is a fault in caracter called sloth, and patiently watch the screen for the scentences to appear. These scentences are full of errors. The keyboard has no spring in it, so indeed, evvveeery woorrd coooooomse outt liiiiikkee thiiisse, and i do have to hover my fingertips above the keyboard.
Few years ago I bought a new computer all by myself no help needed, not a mac wich i regret dearlly.
The machine never fails to performs very well, no hardware problems to mention (accept the a-drive refuses to recognise the bloppy but with some ingenuuiity on my part, yes ti might take hours), but the screen is unstady. Macs do not have this problem. So if i go with the cursur downwards to eth page Im looking for, it starts to shift. Very annoying.
So I do my writing on the Mac out of sheer sentimentality. And I'm sad to say, alhocol doesn't help.

2legs post (45) hit on something...

Falter on everyday "more common" words.

You may have a fault, something can be faulty, have faulted from, to but the 'u' goes on holiday in falter. Faultier: Faulty floors?

Do we become complacent in our own abilty, more than lazy?

On first impression, a primaeval flaw in prgrmmng in which I do not take pride.

Hello Klaas Vaak,

Sorry to change the subject, but I'd like to know why you weren't there at 4.00 a.m. when I couldn't get to sleep.

You ARE the Dutch Mr Sandman, aren't you?

Catharina XX

For me, the speling of techinical words in biology stuf fI worked hard at, for my A levels, then degree then MSc etc., I guess I just never workd as hard on more mundaine words when I was younger (I always had a very poor speling doobry when at school, yet a very high reading age...)

Thank you, I prefer mine black and strong; like my women.
*or black and sweet, blonde and strong, weak and tasteless i'm not too picky about the coffee but i'm allergic to milk (not really I just don't drink it {you mean to tell me this stuff came from a cow's teet, ew})*

Boehoehoe, yes I'm afraid it's true. Why? I never been able to find answer to question why.
As I understd a fair amount of communication is done with the body. Isnt the percentage for body language in ordinary communication somthing like 99,999 percent? It wld account some of the 'lexia. Pokerr-face, snub. Did you notice my boots? Chin-chin.
Yes I rembr wll, running wild in kindergarten, playing in the sandpit and throwing wobblies from random access memory at the sandwitch.

I see your *brain wired backwards* and double it..
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New *dunno's it don't say* can help! Not that the maker can be bothered to state what bar code ref: 7638900202892 are _anywhere_ on the outside of the retail pack. Total reliance on people *knowin* from object; size, shape, colour, jargon, codes and possible previous use. Still I have untill 2001 to identify these curious small sticks.
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"Mignon Stil" - is that English I ponder? Ooh 'ang on, _after_ you open the pack, in about 2pt tiny, print there is a warning "do not mix with other battery type." - Who are *they* caling a battery eh? I'll mix with whoever I want anyway.
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Maybe language is indeed about multiple clue, less about accurate desription??? The marvellous objects are new batteries to power my irDa keyboard BTW.