Photo: The keyboard membrane. I've left one of the keys on the membrane to give you an idea of the scale. There's one rubber button directly beneath each key. Read more in our article about computer keyboards. The rubber button pushes down making an electrical contact between two layers ...
Preprocessing involves going through the text and cleaning it up so the computer makes fewer mistakes when it actually reads the words aloud. Things like numbers, dates, times, abbreviations, acronyms, and special characters (currency symbols and so on) need to be turned into words—and that's...
Cueball is filking upon this theme, but in his case he has somehow set up his computer so that, upon pressing a certain combination of multiple keys on his keyboard, the system will automatically type out the word "hallelujah" (xkcd's all-caps lettering makes it unclear how the word is...
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typingis a computer game first released in 1987, with the goal of teaching touch-typing and improving typing speed on a computer keyboard. Unlike many video games,Mavis Beaconcontains no combat and therefore does not feature any "end boss" (a very powerful enemy encountered...
Two years ago, working with pictures and symbols on a computer keyboard, she started typing and spelling out words. The computer became her voice. "All of a sudden these words started to pour out of her, and it was an exciting moment because we didn't realize she had all these words,...
New Set As Keyboard and Jump To Keyboard Commands are now available and are integrated into the new Computer Control for Switches grid set. These commands are integrated into the latest version of Super Core, allowing users to select their default keyboard without having to go into edit mode. ...
fowler.quote = “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. ” + “Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”; poe.quote = “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, ” + “fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream...
Two years ago, working with pictures and symbols on a computer keyboard, she started typing and spelling out words. The computer became her voice. "All of a sudden these words started to pour out of her, and it was an exciting moment because we didn't realize she had all these words,...
Inside a computer, a single letter "A" is stored as eight binary numbers: 01000001. In fact, all the basic characters on your keyboard (the letters A–Z in upper and lower case, the numbers 0–9, and the symbols) can be represented with different combinations of just eight binary ...
Sounds impossible, doesn't it, but it's exactly what a laser printer does when it makes a permanent copy of data (information) from your computer on a piece of paper. Thanks to sci-fi and spy movies, we tend to think of lasers as incredibly powerful light beams that can slice through...