In a number of your famed (notorious?) Author's Notes you discussed the intricacies of trying to get the dvorak keyboard layout (and other alternate layouts) to work so you could take advantage of their increased efficiency. How easy was the customization using Linux and StarOffice? Have you found other keyboard layouts that have worked better for you, such as the genetic algorithm discussed here a few days ago?
If/when this idea pans out and a working prototype is produced, all the companies that profit from the "noisy, dirty, inefficient contraption" that the internal combustion engine is will buy up all the rights to it and shelve the idea for all eternity. It seems utterly absurd that no truly novel engine advancements have reached us in the recent past. Many of them certainly are impractical. But with all the people doing research all over the world, some must have come up with something. And then enter in the companies who make the poor grad student inventor rich as long as (s)he keeps it quiet. Voila! No innovation.
Consider EBCDIC. Wasn't that the standard text format on IBM machines back in the day? Is it in use on any modern system? [I'm asking -- not rhetorical...]
EBCDIC is still in use on VM/ESA for the S/390. Although VM has been around for a long while, it's still continuing on in development and has new releases periodically. So, IMHO, it seems to fit the criteria for a "modern system." Ironically, VM is one of the systems that Linux is being ported to, causing a sort of revitalization of VM, continuing its modern-ness.
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In a number of your famed (notorious?) Author's Notes you discussed the intricacies of trying to get the dvorak keyboard layout (and other alternate layouts) to work so you could take advantage of their increased efficiency. How easy was the customization using Linux and StarOffice? Have you found other keyboard layouts that have worked better for you, such as the genetic algorithm discussed here a few days ago?
That would be just wonderful, especially when you consider that pornography sites constitute a great percentage of the domains out there.
Poll taxes, reading tests, and age limits?
If/when this idea pans out and a working prototype is produced, all the companies that profit from the "noisy, dirty, inefficient contraption" that the internal combustion engine is will buy up all the rights to it and shelve the idea for all eternity. It seems utterly absurd that no truly novel engine advancements have reached us in the recent past. Many of them certainly are impractical. But with all the people doing research all over the world, some must have come up with something. And then enter in the companies who make the poor grad student inventor rich as long as (s)he keeps it quiet. Voila! No innovation.
EBCDIC is still in use on VM/ESA for the S/390. Although VM has been around for a long while, it's still continuing on in development and has new releases periodically. So, IMHO, it seems to fit the criteria for a "modern system."
Ironically, VM is one of the systems that Linux is being ported to, causing a sort of revitalization of VM, continuing its modern-ness.