The new Google Cr-48 notebook doesn't have the standard Caps Lock key you see on other keyboards. Is this the beginning of the end of Caps Lock?
Will anyone miss this key when it's gone? It won't make a bit of difference to me, as Caps Lock is one of three keys on my keyboard that don't work anyway. Link -via Bits and Pieces
Caps Lock had its uses back in the olden days. Some of the earliest computers were business machines, used to input product keys and other strings of letters and numbers that often included all caps. Some of the first programming languages, like FORTRAN and Basic, were composed entirely in caps. (They didn't always require Caps Lock, mind you—a lowercase a would often automatically show up as A.)
By the 21st century, Caps Lock had become an outdated scourge. Modern-day personal computing—surfing the Web, writing school papers, chatting online—doesn't require nearly as much capitalization. As of 2010, the most-common Caps Lock users are enraged Internet commenters and the computer-illiterate elderly.
Will anyone miss this key when it's gone? It won't make a bit of difference to me, as Caps Lock is one of three keys on my keyboard that don't work anyway. Link -via Bits and Pieces
I would have typed that using Caps Lock. ;)
But as long as there is a software function, assignable to another key or keys (eg F1 or alt-F1) for those few, tough - the other ninety percent of us will not miss it.
FUCKING HATE OLD PEOPLE!!1!
I would make Shift+Shift caps lock if absolutely needed. Hard to accidentally set.
The CR-48 "Search" key can be reprogrammed as Caps Lock.
It's only the Google Cr-48 cloud netbook that doesn't have a capslock, except wait, yes it does, it's just shared with another key that can be programed anyway you like.
It's a moot point, since the Cr-48 is deadware for a OS that will NEVER see the light of day in production. No one wants a cloud only netbook. And if they did, they'd want a ANDROID cloud only netbook because then it wouldn't be cloud only.
THIS IS SRS BUSINESS WE'RE YELLING ABOUT HERE
Probably, "THANK GOD, IT COULDN'T COME FAST ENOUGH!"
We joke that she types all-caps so she can hear what she's writing.
Now mostly it's the position, tight up against the shift key... if it were up on the F key row, oh, there are keys I never ever use, like PrtSc.... And I never hit it by accident. Or the equally pointless Windows key. I never hit that one either.
As for those who say they need it, well, fine, okay, but you guys are in the minority.
Its days are numbered, even outside of google's evil empire.
On French keyboards, the line with the numbers actually has letters and symbols like &é"'(-è_çà)=, to get to the numbers you need to shift. When writing a sequence of over 3 numbers on my laptop I ALWAYS Caps Lock.
In Hebrew, in addition to the letters like ??????? we can also add various dots and lines to actually have vowels. Those symbols can be added only once Caps Lock is activated and then pressing shift again and reach for the numbers line: ??????????????