Borrowing a Keyboard

and it sucks ass

really flat, has no natural tilt so i think itll be impossible to play keyboard on lap, and the keys have 0 depth, keeps sliding around all over the place, really light

i can't believe companies who manufacturer motherboards without PS/2 support are actually still in business. sigh.

edit: SCRATCH THAT LOL, CAN'T EVEN STRAFE AND CROUCH HEHUEAHUEHUAEHUAHUAEHUHUH

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wtf bird o.O
Buy a converter
that other bird is like wtf is this shit
yeyeyeye
cool story bro
i would totally have sex with a bird if it did a dance like that for me tbh
TECHNOLOGY EVOLVES, EITHER SLIT YOUR WRISTS OR MOVE ON
Has nothing to do with technology, the newest mobo's still support PS/2. Besides, it's a LANcenter that supports LAN events and they know people bring there own gear. Can't imagine why they didn't think twice about using mobo's without PS/2 support.
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I just went onto overclockers.co.uk of the top performance/gaming motherboards, EVGA, ASUS & Intel do not have PS2 ports on their latest top boards. Only Gigabyte do.
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they aren't top performance/gaming motherboards if they don't have PS/2 ports
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keyboards don't evolve
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pokeboard
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Yes they do, data transfer rates evolve.

I'm sick of your whining, you've gone from someone with a cause to someone with a stupid problem. Your emo cpm starcraft wannabee esreality persona is only 'cute' when it has context, a £2 converter does provide that context.

Move on.
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Comment of the year.
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Get out of his arse, the shit is affecting your vision.
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I don't think you know who that guy is... that or you're delusional.
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I don't care who he is,
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Data transfer rate changes what about keyboard input exactly???

Quoteevolution - development: a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)


Can you explain to me how USB keyboard input is evolved when it is inferior to PS/2?





Might've been able to test a few and purchase a half-decent USB keyboard had the announcement not come three working days before the LAN. Even "decent" converters (eg: more than £2) can induce input lag and create keypress issues and you expect us to pick one at random and hope it works without testing, right.

Fair enough I understand that you didn't know the specifications of the computers until recently, but a little warning that there was a possibility that a widely supported connector would bite the dust would have been welcome.

I don't see the need to take it personally, I'm not blaming you for manufacturing idiocy, warning would've been nice but whatever. I'll get over it. I'll whine about shit keyboards in my journal if I want to. It's a pretty big change.
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Couldn't have put it better myself.
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Yeah because whining about about removing a superior connector in favor of USB is totally wannbeeee XD
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I was referring to your overall attitude and personality on crossfire.
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Suck my ass. I can't even strafe right and crouch right now.
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In what way is PS/2 superior to USB?
Enlighten me please
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n-key rollover, interrupt based/no polling, no potential interference from data transfer on the usb BUS (not so much of a problem on LAN when you only use mouse/keyboard)
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N-key rollover, isn't that keyboard-dependent and not bus-dependent?
Interrupt vs polling, as far as I can tell by googling all USB HID-compilant devices use interrupt transfers (i.e. no bulk or isochronous transfers)
The last thing you answered yourself, and to be honest, I wouldn't hold USB's ability to multiplex against it. If you don't want to do it, put your keyboard/mouse on a seperate bus.

</asshole>
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true n-key rollover is only possible on PS/2, yes it is also hardware dependent, but you are limited on USB

isochronous would be better but afaik no usb keyboards utilize it. PS/2 isn't polled at all, whereas USB is interupt based BUT polled


maybe not SUPERIOR, but USB is not better than PS/2 and is not a reason to phase PS/2 out
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Isochronous for a keyboard, are you crazy? For a mouse, yes maybe, but keyboard?
You know that isochronous makes no guarantee that every piece of data arrives?

@your edit:
Why keep an old standard which can't really do anything and don't add anything to anyones computer experience, when you can phase it out and save space/cost/complexity?


Oh, and I can't see how USB is limited in sending keycode pushed/released for more than one key pressed at any time, that's keyboard-hardware only.
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guaranteed/specific latency the way I understand it?

either way pure interupt > polling

Quotedon't add anything to anyones computer experience,


bullshit, that's what this is all about, many people have nice ps/2 keyboards
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Guaranteed latency by not resending any data that gets lost/corrupted, which makes sense for audio/video (which would lose synchronization if you kept resending stuff that got lost), but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for a keyboard imho.

Agree on that one, pure interrupt > polling, but then again DMA > interrupt (though for large bulks of data).


And many people have nice ISA cards lying around aswell.
Oh, I have some awesome Roman scrolls back home, it's a shame they phased it out
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If there's one thing i love more than your mom, it's brits bitchin' at each others <3
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This statement is very true, but this is a rare case in which Meez is actually right.

PS/2 > USB for keyboards.
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give it to me to use! ill give you my usb switch thinggy...
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lol that bird
Don't understand why you would whine about keyboards being USB instead of PS/2. I mean, USB is soooo much better.

Idiots.
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