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Advocating Dvorak
zeroweb writes "A group of three faithful Dvorak promoters have launched new website at DvZine.org. The big thing here is a Comic (available in print, pdf and html) describing the history of QWERTY and Dvorak, how and why one should make the switch, and real-life stories of the converted.
If you are thinking about making the switch, this could push you over the edge. My favorite line: "It could be the difference between working in your garden at 70 or wearing wrist braces at 40." As someone who started wearing wrist braces at 23, I couldn't agree more - I read this comic, changed my keyboard layout and have been happier ever since."
I had to wear wrist braces because of my QWERTY keyboard as well. Sincerly, Kevin Mitnick
At first, I thought this was about that horrible Internet Troll who calls himself a journalist.
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I'va nver bnee hpaiper in my lfie! Dovark hsa cahgned my tpyign seped imenmsly!
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I find it easier just to use the on-screen keyboard. No messing up because I can't see the keys. And just look: no ttypos!1
Hey, have you ever tried jumping off a cliff without a parachute? It's really fun! I'll show you, as long as you go first. C'mon, man, you shouldn't be so stubborn about things you haven't tried!
Even more fun. Imagine how silly people will feel when they sit down at your keyboard and try to type something.
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With Qwerty or Dvorak, you have to use the same keys regardless of what the program is you're using them with. The "Q", for example, on a QWERTY keyboard, is always in the top left (on English language layouts. It's "A" that's in the top left for French "AZERTY" keyboards.)
However, with Gentoo, the keys move around. So, for example, in OpenOffice.org, because I have to type "O" a lot, the "O" is right there where the "D" is in a QWERTY keyboard. The "Q", on the other hand, is assigned to F2, because I rarely need it.
Some have criticised the layout, arguing that the 5% efficiency increase is more than offset by the fact that you have to spend a day compi^H^H^H^H^Hlearning the new layout. This may be a problem for some people, but if you do a lot of typing, it's obvious that this is much more efficient. And besides, you can always let it run overnight, with you learning how to type using the new layout when you'd normally be wasting time asleep.
You should try it. I find the best performance is with -funroll-fingers -O102.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Its called "Old Bladder"
Don't feel bad. At least you displayed patience and tenacity by giving it a whole 'few days' worth of effort.
The "cue the foo posts in 3, 2, 1..." posts will commence with no subsequent foo posts in 3, 2, 1...
On a side note, Some of my friends never used a computer before the late 90's never mind actually typing.
I'm impressed that you have friends in their late nineties that can even use a computer.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
If you're typing fsck often enough to worry over speed, you've got bigger problems than your key layout.
Dvorak didn't think of those because he was a classical composer and wasn't into heavy metal. Sheesh, didn't you learn anything in school?
However, with Gentoo, the keys move around. So, for example, in OpenOffice.org, because I have to type "O" a lot, the "O" is right there where the "D" is in a QWERTY keyboard. The "Q", on the other hand, is assigned to F2, because I rarely need it.
It sounds a bit similar to that new Microsoft keyboard, you know the one where it moves the keys round depending on which are most frequently used, and begins to hide those that haven't been used for a while.
Although it's probably a bit too revealing of (personal, as opposed to Unicode) character for some - a colleague's keyboard consists solely of the keys 'O', 'M', 'G', 'W', 'T' and 'F'.
I suppose it could be worse - the manager's keyboard is now a completely blank piece of plastic.
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If you go to the Type Dvorak Now page you can see it's titled "TYPE DVOARK NOW!" I'm a fan of Dvorak, but on an advocacy page for a method of typing which is supposedly faster and more Accurate, having obvious misspellings is funny. Cute 'Zine though. ~elmlish~
He's been dead for years. He's a decomposer now.
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That's the exact same reason I don't want to learn french. You could be talking one day, and then french words come out, and your friends are all like, WTF? French? That's unpatriotic. That's what dvorak is. The terrorists keyboard.
Why would God make people with a blank sense of humor?
But how do you switch on a PalmOS device with a keyboard too small for a hobbit child?
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Wow! I get 34% more excercise than you! Watch those calories melt away, to say nothing of my fingers' 34% better muscle tone! ;)
Why is your backspace key still mapped to control H? Fix that one first.
Here they come.
The Dvorak proofs.
The debunking of the proofs.
The debunking of the debunkings.
The debunking of those who debunked the debunkers.
[Insert Monty Python break here]
The only solution to YADS is tasteless humor.
Oh, wait. Even better: a compromise. All new Amigas will ship with Dvorak keyboards.
There.
Everyone happy and free of debunked debunkers?
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