Time to kill off Caps Lock? It's a campaign

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Actually, Casio's image reminds me that Microsoft's unilateral decision to reassign the function keys to things that already have keyboard shortcuts is really irritating. Particularly the change of F5 from "Refresh" to "Open File" (CTRL-O), and the change of F12 from "Save As" to "Print" (CTRL-P)

Perhaps Microsoft think that people are incapable of pressing two keys simultaneously (Ctrl-Alt-Del ha ha ha) and this is the reason for the perpetuation of the Caps Lock Key.

I'm typing on a Dell keyboard, and my IBM laptop is open. On neither of them is the Caps Lock key legend written in All Caps. Which is ironic really.
 
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Perhaps Microsoft think that people are incapable of pressing two keys simultaneously (Ctrl-Alt-Del ha ha ha) and this is the reason for the perpetuation of the Caps Lock Key.
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It takes 5 times as long to use these shortcuts, because I have to take off 'F-Lock' a button on the far side of the keyboard, so I can use them. I always have 'F-Lock' on, because I don't want to go to refresh a page and open a file.
 
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Perhaps Microsoft think that people are incapable of pressing two keys simultaneously (Ctrl-Alt-Del ha ha ha) and this is the reason for the perpetuation of the Caps Lock Key.
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Well, sometimes I am. When I'm holding a potato chip in one hand, I have to use Caps Lock so I can type capital letters without getting cheese or salt on my keyboard. :)
 
Totally! The only time anyone ever uses the Caps lock key is to turn off Caps lock after your finger has inadvertently turned Caps lock on. The end.

Although, I don't think they will be releasing keyboards without it in the near future, so don't get your hopes up. Anyone have suggestions (realistic, not an "LOL Key") about what we could replace it with?
 
I never use the caps lock key, apart from in games like Battlefield 2 to get the map up, so maybe it does have some uses.
 
Yes, replace it with the dumbass or noob key. (Which brings up a convienient help menu)
 
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Yes, replace it with the dumbass or noob key. (Which brings up a convienient help menu)
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Very logical.
 
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Awesome! I bet this keyboard doesn't have a CAPS LOCK key because this kind of user types in all caps anyway!

As an ex-Usenet and Neoseeker user, I can see a definite demand for this product.

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Getting rid of the Caps lock key would be extremely stupid and ignorent. I am a drafter, and if you know anything about Drafting, every drawing must be done in ALL CAPS. Removing the key will make my job harder as well as every other drafter in the world.
 
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But then you can use keyboards specially designed for Drafting use. Or they can make it.
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Why the hell would you want to do that when you can just keep the Caps lock key and pay for a standard keyboard? If a company specially designs a product such as a keyboard, the only difference will be a higher price tag.
 
whats the deal with scroll lock? I've never used it and have no idea what it does....
 
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whats the deal with scroll lock? I've never used it and have no idea what it does....
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I use Scroll Lock to change computers on my KVM switch.

How would I live without it?! I'd have to but a whole other monitor, keyboard and mouse!

:bowdown: Scroll Lock :bowdown:
 
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Well, sometimes I am. When I'm holding a potato chip in one hand, I have to use Caps Lock so I can type capital letters without getting cheese or salt on my keyboard. :)
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Press shift five times in quick sucsession to enable StickyKeys, that way you only need to press shift once as opposed to holding it down to capitalise a letter.

My thoughts on the Caps Lock key; useful for debugging, it may not be mymost used key but what would be put in its place?
 
Well after all this I still don't know wtf is a scroll lock but oh well, I'll just avoid it for rest of my life.
 
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