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on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:05AM
from the Knowledge...so-much...so-fast.-It's-glorious! dept.
from the Knowledge...so-much...so-fast.-It's-glorious! dept.
El Reg reports on upcoming keyboard ideas from Toshiba:
Toshiba USA has revealed that it will add a key dedicated to summoning Cortana, Windows 10's digital assistant.
Toshiba's Jeff Barney, the company's veep and GM for all things PC in North America, says the new button will appear on every keyboard the company sells.
PCWorld reports that "the key will sit in the upper left area, near the function keys".
A quick glance at the many keyboards in Vulture Souths eyrie suggests that this means the ESC key is in peril.
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Cortana Threatens to Blow-away your "Esc" Key
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(Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday June 18 2015, @03:30AM
we still have the Coke Bottle key.
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(Score: 2) by vux984 on Thursday June 18 2015, @04:53AM
we still have the Coke Bottle key.
ok, I give up. What is that?
As for the cortana key... vs escape... yuck. I'm trying the win10 tech preview; and although i do like windows 10... its not currently usable; the search built into the start menu can't stop doing web suggestions etc... insane that you can't turn it off. I'm liking it overall... but will not consider upgrading if they don't fix that. The cortana integration... couldn't care less. don't want it on my desktop at all. I'm not sure who really does.
(Score: 3, Funny) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Thursday June 18 2015, @05:22AM
The cortana integration... couldn't care less. don't want it on my desktop at all. I'm not sure who really does.
The people who miss Clippy?
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by RobotMonster on Thursday June 18 2015, @08:08AM
we still have the Coke Bottle key.
ok, I give up. What is that?
That's the button you press to dispense a bottle of cool fresh coke right into your hand. Don't you have one? I thought they came standard.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 18 2015, @12:45PM
Mine only dispenses Nuka Quantum.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Funny) by TK on Friday June 19 2015, @02:57PM
You get coke? All I can get is Tab. Warm Tab at that.
The other day I found the button that opens the cup holder. That was pretty neat. I haven't tried it with a big gulp yet, but I'll let you know how that goes.
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Thursday June 18 2015, @09:28AM
http://knowledgeweighsnothing.com/diy-how-to-make-a-spare-key-from-a-soda-bottle/
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(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday June 18 2015, @09:50AM
I'm not sure who really does.
A constantly listening digital 'assistant'? The NSA, duh. Remember that scene in one of the Batman movies where he used all the cell phones to find someone then had Morgan Freeman shut it down? The NSA would only do the first part of that.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday June 18 2015, @04:57AM
he he... so how long has it been since "esc" would return you to command line. For the last 10 years or so about all it does is "escape" from "full screen".
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by mbo42 on Thursday June 18 2015, @07:35AM
Esc = No, Cancel, Back out. Enter=Yes, OK, proceed
Try thumping it some time, it's handy :-)