Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key

heptapod writes "Slashdot reported earlier about Google's Chrome notebook and keen-eyed readers would have noticed the lack of a caps lock key. 'According to Google, this will improve the quality of the comments, because people will not be able to write all in capital letters. I'm not a fan of the caps lock key myself. I never use it, so it can go to hell, for all I'm concerned. But taking away choice from people is not good, especially when this is not going to improve the quality of comments.'"

OMG!?

[digitaldc]

OMG WTF GGL?

It's a start but

[NiteShaed]

"According to Google, this will improve the quality of the comments"

They should probably take away all the other keys too.......

I love the caps lock key

[david.given]

...I couldn't use Emacs or shell editing without it. Beats me why it's labelled 'caps lock', though --- the other control keys on the keyboard are all labelled 'Ctrl'.

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[dintech]

I have a colleague who uses her mouse upside down. Meaning invert x, invert y, clicking with her thumb, cable facing downwards. She says that's just how she started using it and it never occured to her to use it the other way. She's no less accurate than I am with a mouse either.

I've heard stories of one individual completely stumped when he ran out of desk space but couldn't move the mouse cursor any more to the right than the middle of the screen. Clearly he didn't realise that you pick the mouse up...

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[Doug Neal]

And stupid people will find a way to be annoying no matter what you do.

Like just holding down the shift key?

Yes. [googleusercontent.com]

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[Anonymous Coward]

I'd like to know what else she does backwards...

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[L4t3r4lu5]

Mate of mine is a lefty, but used his mouse in a right hand configuration. He just positioned the mouse in his hand so his left index finger was over the left mouse button, and moved it between the two buttons as needed.

Six months ago I switched it for him. His immediate reaction was "Oh wow that's much better!"

He wants a technical job in IT.