Probably what happened is that someone read somewhere that QWERTY was designed to minimize jamming of the typewriter, and assumed that the jamming was due to people typing too fast. It then got perpetuated as 'common knowledge.'
Ever type on a Remington or Underwood? I thought not. The usual way they jammed was when adjacent hammers were moving towards the paper in quick succession. As the first hammer hit and bounced, the second struck beside it in the confined alignment V-window close to the platten.
See http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09 /Underwood_255.jpg
This wasn't just common knowledge, it was common (several times a day) experience, particularly for less skilled typists, even with the use of the qwerty layout.
Most of these whippersnappers have never even seen a Hollerith card, let alone understood how utterly dependent the world was on them. Programmers lived in terror of the day the dropped their card deck. "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate" was the eleventh commandment. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_card to get a clue.
It WAS ergonomic principals that drove the layout, just not the way you think. Key positions were carefully chosen to ensure that the fastest possible finger sequences were assigned to letters that rarely followed each other in English. See US Patent 1506426. Later keyboard patents acknowledged this but couldn't disrupt the installed base.
Mr Frazer said Microsoft had shifted its position on file formats.
"Historically within the IT industry, the prevailing trend was for proprietary file formats. We have worked very hard to embrace open standards, specifically in the area of file formats."
Require cell operators to provide anonymous traffic speeds as a condition of licensing. It's a pure software solution. Of course they won't like it (people stuck in traffic reach for what revenue-producing device?) but at least they can claim carbon credits.
But the ability to talk to things so dumb they can't do anything is sort of pointless.
OTOH you might want to listen to them. If your hammer can tell you how to optimize your swing, it's real value added. The problem starts when the construction foreman figures out he can use it to decide if you're the wimp/slacker/whatever to lay off first.
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Of course, I have to add the trivial points that
1. The T-V distinction (tu - vous) is practiced in the Southern US as (you - y'all) whilst it fades away in French-Canadian usage.
2. Parent may be the first person in history to defend the practice of manners in Jersey.
Matthew 5:21: Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment.
Romans 13:9: For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
...why not digital RAM in an implanted device that activates YOU later?
Face it, sooner or later we'll all want to be cyborgs (if not drones.) How else will we keep up with the Joneses?
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Most of these whippersnappers have never even seen a Hollerith card, let alone understood how utterly dependent the world was on them. Programmers lived in terror of the day the dropped their card deck. "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate" was the eleventh commandment. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_card to get a clue.
It WAS ergonomic principals that drove the layout, just not the way you think. Key positions were carefully chosen to ensure that the fastest possible finger sequences were assigned to letters that rarely followed each other in English. See US Patent 1506426. Later keyboard patents acknowledged this but couldn't disrupt the installed base.
See http://www.cedu.niu.edu/blackwell/multimedia/high/ library.html for some fascinating lookback, including
* bonobo trail blazes
* the Edison electric pen
* Baird mechanical television
and my personal favourite
* Rene Dagron, Pigeon Post Microfilm Balloonist
Require cell operators to provide anonymous traffic speeds as a condition of licensing. It's a pure software solution. Of course they won't like it (people stuck in traffic reach for what revenue-producing device?) but at least they can claim carbon credits.
It is. Newton wrote it.
Somebody Mod Parent Up - Insightful Of course, I have to add the trivial points that 1. The T-V distinction (tu - vous) is practiced in the Southern US as (you - y'all) whilst it fades away in French-Canadian usage. 2. Parent may be the first person in history to defend the practice of manners in Jersey.
Apparently not the interstate ;/)
Why run anything as complex as FF to control your firewall? The firewall's browser interface shouldn't need to use anything more than html.
Ok, it won't solve the problem, but you know you want to do it anyway ;/)
"We are Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. Prepare to be approximated."
Exodus 20:13: Thou shalt not kill.
Deuteronomy 5:17: Thou shalt not kill.
Matthew 5:21: Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment.
Romans 13:9: For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
...why not digital RAM in an implanted device that activates YOU later? Face it, sooner or later we'll all want to be cyborgs (if not drones.) How else will we keep up with the Joneses?
... YOU go kaboomba