... The Model M blocks CAPS+SHIFT+s which is a ***** if like me, you use CAPS as CTRL and have the old CTRL keys mapped to other stuff.
Good thing Emacs doesn't normally use CTRL+shift combinations.
When you have this many fingersShow Image(http://i.imgur.com/WJ4sEdK.jpg)
The 6 key limit came about due to the limitations of low speed USB meaning that an 8 byte report, in a single packet, was the allowance. That means extra logic coded into paltry keyboard controller CPUs.
When you have this many fingersUnfortunately, with that condition there are still only five fingers that move independently.
Plover, bout the only thing I can think of.Yup.
No, don't have the kind of free time to learn steno. I'd like to, and make a cherry steno board with direct wiring (real ones are expensive, even by our standards).Plover, bout the only thing I can think of.Yup.
http://plover.stenoknight.com/2011/02/plover-211-released.html
Do you already used it?
Misleading title, manly people laugh here at a razor gimmick to sell more products (6NKRO). NKRO is very important and useful, 6NKRO is not. :))
I'm a programmer, not a gamer. so maybe I'm missing some context here. But I don't get why the USB HID limit of 6KRO is ever a problem. How, and in what circumstances, does anyone ever simultaneously chord *7 keys*? Have gamers evolved some form of keyboard-fu that brings in noses, toes, and other protruding appendages, or what?
I actually had prolems with limited KRO on a rubberdome in BF3 when flying jets. Combinations like QWA and shift (roll, bank, throttle up and afterburner) were not possible and some keys seemed to get stuck, so I had to release all of them for a second, which was annoying as hell.
It is nothing that occurs daily or is too important but I think why not have full NKRO when it's possible?
If the NKRO doesn't cost anymore than 6KRO than why not get it? It would be the car equivalent of getting a super-charged car for the same price as one without. You don't really need it but you need it.
Uh, because that's not an NKRO issue. That's a poorly designed matrix issue. (I use QW and Shift+W,Q regularly. Or did.) Plus 6KRO covers Shift+QWA with two to spare. Which presumably are occupied on your mouse, thus invalidating the argument for NKRO over 6KRO.This was more an argument against 2KRO, which is imo not enough. I think 6KRO should be enough tough.
Because it does cost more. Programming a controller for NKRO isn't free, nor is making it work with more than a handful of PCs free. As we've found repeatedly around here, half the time it doesn't work with the BIOS because they do it with the cheapest available stupid hack. They present a bunch of USB keyboards instead of one - and pretty much never have the keys you need at boot on the first detected keyboard. (Meaning have fun trying to get into your BIOS, etc.)
Doesn't cost more when you are building your own via teensy
When you have this many fingersUnfortunately, with that condition there are still only five fingers that move independently.
Because it does cost more. Programming a controller for NKRO isn't free, nor is making it work with more than a handful of PCs free. As we've found repeatedly around here, half the time it doesn't work with the BIOS because they do it with the cheapest available stupid hack. They present a bunch of USB keyboards instead of one - and pretty much never have the keys you need at boot on the first detected keyboard. (Meaning have fun trying to get into your BIOS, etc.)
I can only think of FPS games where you have to fire, run and duck at the same time. Otherwise, 6KRO is sufficient.
When you have this many fingersUnfortunately, with that condition there are still only five fingers that move independently.
Er, try again...And 2 of which are mods, not counted toward the 6kro.
Fire = M1, Run = Shift, Forward = W, Duck = Ctrl.
That's only three keys.
Plover, bout the only thing I can think of.Yup.
http://plover.stenoknight.com/2011/02/plover-211-released.html
Do you already used it?