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New Standard Keyboard
An anonymous reader writes "There are two keyboard standards today - QWERTY and DVORAK. QWERTY, the one we usually have, was used on the first commercially produced typewriter in 1873. Ironically, QWERTY was actually designed to slow down the typist to prevent jamming the keys, and we've been stuck with that layout since. New Standard Keyboards offers new "alphabetical" keyboard. This keyboard has just 53-keys (instead of 101) and offers user-friendly benefits and quick data entry."
The new keyboard layout was designed such that computer salesmen of poor typing skills could type TUBGIRL with one hand, all along the same row of letters.
Unfortunately this did not stop the keys getting sticky.
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Have you seen this thing? Since when did FisherPrice start making keyboards?
And where's the space bar?!
READY.
PRINT ""+-0
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Heh, I had a problem one day where I had to type in my ATM PIN using an AT-keyboard style number pad that was on a card swiper. I could not for the life of me remember what the PIN was, because the number pad was upside down compared to the one on the ATM. My PIN seemed to be stored in muscle memory rather than brain memory. My friends were disappointed when I came out of the liquor store empty handed. :)
Where's the spacebar? Dude, if I can't hit the spacebar reliably with my FOREHEAD, then I'm not interested!
Of course the product won't fly. /.ers have been complaining about 1 less button on the Apple mouse. Imagine the uproar over 48 less keys on a keyboard.
Maybe I'm typing slower on a QWERTY keyboard, but I still manage to type my /. replies in less than 20 seconds ... and get hit by Malda's spamtrap.
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Wait, this wasn't your favorite keyboard?
Perfect for all those times you want to write "Dont read this plum". Yeah that happens to me all the time.
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
I ldve kearniny ti typo wuth Dvosak!
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Never been known to fail..."
WINDOWS == QWERTY
I leave it to the reader to work out the details of the analogy.
I've seen things that wired this into one single button for restarting a controller. Was a pretty scary thought.
Pressing Cntl alt del is so much easier when its one button.
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70 bucks for a keyboard with half as many keys as usual? It's that like Apple charging twice as much for a mouse with only one button?
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'> It is compatible with all systems running Microsoft Windows 95 and above.
And this is called "Standard Keyboard"?'
'And above'.
So it'll work on Linux or OSX but not DOS, right?
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The other problem with switching over to Dvorak is most common keyboard shortcuts aren't so convenient anymore.
Just use Emacs. Sure some keyboard shortcuts will be harder to reach, but some will be easier to reach. By using every possible key combination for something Emacs ensures that you're no worse off no matter what keyboard layout you choose.
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I only need 28. I use vi.
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Microsoft Keyboard
Table-ized A.I.
is the speak n' spell which was, of course, designed for 5 year olds entering one word every 15 seconds or so. This thing is retarded...
And quadruple-bucky-shift-left-foot-cokebottle is the shortcut that does a cvs download of the Hurd, finishes the unfinished parts, and prepares it for release.
Some friends and I were actually going to make a footboard once, not that long ago, to move all the modifier keys to the floor. We figure that, if a church organist can play scales with her feet, we could speed up our typing significantly by never having to use two finger simultaneously by way of our feet doing that part of the job.
I had a problem one day where I had to type in my ATM PIN using an AT-keyboard style number pad that was on a card swiper. I could not for the life of me remember what the PIN was, because the number pad was upside down..... My friends were disappointed when I came out of the liquor store empty handed.
Just have your buddies hold you upside down. It is a liquor store, so nobody will give such odd behavior a second thought.
Table-ized A.I.
All keyboards can do this. Just pull up the plastic key-caps and then put them back down in any random order. It's lots of fun.
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How much did you have to smoke the night you thought about making that footboard?
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So, believe the suits or believe somebody who actually knows what he's talking about.
You mean the guy trying to sell his keyboard?
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53 keys? Still too many. What you need is the full featured pirate keyboard which has only 6 keys! Bad ass design, if you ask me.
Too big to fail? Does that make me to small to succeed?
"I ldve kearniny ti typo wuth Dvosak!"
What's funny is that's the best his typing's ever been.
Opps...never mind....i guess when one hasn't used one for 20 or so years it's easy to get confused. Either that or the mind just goes ....
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
Finally! A keyboard to match the Look-and-Feel of Windows XP! ;)
No no no. Eliminate the ESC key by depressing a foot pedal to activate insert mode. Extra bonus: eliminate modes as well as the spastic reflex to slap the ESC key every time your mind wanders. Or here's another idea: put a torsion sensor in your seat pan to detect left cheek lilt, right cheek lilt and use that to control insert/command modes in VI. Extra bonus: more opportunities to unleash "silent but deadly".
No, other programs just have different shortcuts then Emacs.
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
You mean the computer where there's ONLY ONE BUTTON???
Thought input might be faster still.
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I'd have to reconfigure all of my first person shooters!
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I had a foot pedal for my computer, once.
But then I called tech support and they told me that it was the mouse.
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
There is a clearn advantage to a Dvorak keyboard. I have one on my box at home. It has a clutch, making it switchable between Qwerty and Dvorak. My wife, an outstanding typist, refuses to even think about using it, thus keeping people away. Advantage: Dvorak