IT experts at a firm in South Africa said it takes up to six hours to transfer four gigabytes of encrypted data between two of its offices which lie 50 miles apart.

I don't think that is so crazy.

-superboyac (October 14, 2009, 05:29 PM)

I think the point is that sometimes we use the internet when other methods would be faster.

In the above example ...
1 copy the 4GB onto a USB drive = 1 hour (my PC can do that)
2 drive 50 miles at 50mph = 1 hour
3 drive back = 1 hour
total time taken 3 hours ... or 1/2 that of the existing method

I'd want the number block on the left side so the mouse won't be too far away from the center of the keyboard. Better yet, completely do away with the number block like many laptops do

-housetier (November 09, 2009, 03:35 AM)

or something like this (see picture) http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/photos/akb.jpg

[main keyboard] [touch pad]

the touch pad can be programmed ... mouse, number pad, media etc