"The reason for telling the truth is: not because lying is wrong; when you lie all the time, you'll be unable to know when someone is telling the truth."
And the Imperial system is in base2, a natural way for people (especially in a non technological societies -- where it was initially developed) to get some pretty decent results in creating theoretically accurate measurements. Too bad it was never made completely consistent at an earlier time before it was mistakenly thought it would be cool to have it match the number of digits on our hands.
Is this idea better than a design -- and -- new and useful (for regular keyboards)? Keep the raised squares and the angled edge on all four sides without printing the characters on the top of the key. Then, using an application to reprogram the position of the characters into any sequence the typist desires, the mechanical redesign would have the characters appear in a electronic display on the bottom angled edge (or the pad or lower half, etc., and viewable by the typist), perhaps being on a small screen (lcd or something better?) and capable of being "lit up".
So, for example, you may want to reposition the alphabet (based on your language) to be left-to-right or right-to-left and top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top; or the vowels in one location and the consonants in another; or, perhaps they could be positioned by letter usage, say from highest to lowest (in English, it's probably e,t,a,i,o,n,); or a trained traditionalist would leave it alone, since viewing the keyboard is unnecessary. And so on. And of course, those who prefer to hunt-and-peck could either have a field-day or leave it as-is.
After all, the days of using the qwerty format to slow down the typist due to mechanical limitations existing in the original type-writer are over. It remains mostly because of tradition and the hassle of making the change to a better or faster format now allowed by electronic keyboards. This might be a solution that would make it easier to make the change.
So what is missing here possibly making me be: clueless? Has it already been tried and found impractical; or is it on the market at a prohibitive price? However, if not and there is general agreement this does have potential, I realize putting it in the public domain by posting it here on Slashdot has nullfied any chance of making an original claim.
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DuhHhh! *exagerated eye rolling, etc.*
And the Imperial system is in base2, a natural way for people (especially in a non technological societies -- where it was initially developed) to get some pretty decent results in creating theoretically accurate measurements. Too bad it was never made completely consistent at an earlier time before it was mistakenly thought it would be cool to have it match the number of digits on our hands.
It's so obvious. If this existed, road construction technology would be a non-issue.
Is this idea better than a design -- and -- new and useful (for regular keyboards)? Keep the raised squares and the angled edge on all four sides without printing the characters on the top of the key. Then, using an application to reprogram the position of the characters into any sequence the typist desires, the mechanical redesign would have the characters appear in a electronic display on the bottom angled edge (or the pad or lower half, etc., and viewable by the typist), perhaps being on a small screen (lcd or something better?) and capable of being "lit up". So, for example, you may want to reposition the alphabet (based on your language) to be left-to-right or right-to-left and top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top; or the vowels in one location and the consonants in another; or, perhaps they could be positioned by letter usage, say from highest to lowest (in English, it's probably e,t,a,i,o,n,); or a trained traditionalist would leave it alone, since viewing the keyboard is unnecessary. And so on. And of course, those who prefer to hunt-and-peck could either have a field-day or leave it as-is. After all, the days of using the qwerty format to slow down the typist due to mechanical limitations existing in the original type-writer are over. It remains mostly because of tradition and the hassle of making the change to a better or faster format now allowed by electronic keyboards. This might be a solution that would make it easier to make the change. So what is missing here possibly making me be: clueless? Has it already been tried and found impractical; or is it on the market at a prohibitive price? However, if not and there is general agreement this does have potential, I realize putting it in the public domain by posting it here on Slashdot has nullfied any chance of making an original claim.