"the site is a place where many independent journalists and..."
Independent? The site actually has a strongly partisan focus, with narrow ideological strictures. It has nothing to do with political independents. As for the news, it is less "news" than it is just an extension of their ideological editorializing. Opinion sites are good for opinion, not facts.
At least as important as the others is stability. You don't want a site that winks out for a few hours because four guys decided to upload 20 meg.mov files at the same time. You also don't want a fly-by-night dot-bomb that is fast, meets legitimate security requirements, and is free.....but it inexplicably vanishes 13 days after you discover and start using it.
"the corporate media TODAY is corrupt and going out of its way to NOT deliver real news that affects the people in the US in favor of the crap that keeps us citizens oblivious to real goings on"
Your two biggest mistakes:
1)assuming some sort of conspiracy to "keep stuff secret". A conspiracy that exists in imagination only.
2)your overestimating the taste of the public, not not realizing that the big popular media is successful because it DOES deliver the news people want.
"....government....world empire based on economic enslavement...world bank"
I'm wondering why you did not mention the Bildeburgers, Elvis in a flying saucer, and black helicopter.
"Dumb Americans who have no clue as to what is really going on mean...."
Except for you. You know all about those Jews running the banks, all about those UN prison camps being built in Wisconsin, and all about UN plans to confiscate American guns, right? Is that it?
"My actual point remains serious though; the only way to change the ratio qwerty/dvorak in manufactered keyboards by logitech and ms et al is a higher demand"
The less Logitech, the better. They make some of the worst unergonomic mice on the planet. The less the better goes for Microsoft as well, but that is for their software, not their mice.
Not only that, but the article is accompanied by an illustration of a Palm PDA. You can clearly see the entry area for the stylus squiggle entry code...and what is it called? Ah yes, graffiti.
(For those of you with Apple Newtons, it is where you enter your "hanbvvwritten 7ettXrs")
"umm.. sorry, but Corporate news is crap and is corrupt. Blogs are the way out."
Blogs will be corporate, too (unless it is always just one guy). Just about any time you get an organization of more than two or three people, it will incorporate (i.e. become a corporation) somehow.
"The traditional media -- newspapers, TV, radio -- will be the ones to go, if they don't adapt to the new situation. And this should please anyone that considers themselves a liberal person."
What would be most pleasing to a liberal person would be to have only the conservative elements in the traditional media go away.
Thanks for making the exact same post 4 or so others already did. "I stay away from making redundant postings. Not because they are a bad idea. Rather, it is because I only want to be able to have to know one message."
Seriously, the problem is that typing is sort of a reflex operation. You get to know a certain pattern for typing "you" for example. It just seems like it would be problematic having to have to constantly switch back and forth between the different fingering patterns.
"That said, I'd say this particular issue of keyboard layout is an especially obvious case of a ludicrous standard"
Then I think it is time to change the standard, and abandon QWERTY for DVORAK immediately. However, this does not seem likely, and it looks like that even if I learned DVORAK, I'd still be forced to use QWERTY for years to come.
"I do wish that MS would start building the original Natural keyboard again"
Didn't the earlier models have the non-standard backslash key placement, of the "move the backslash to some lost corner of the keyboard" and make the enter-key double height" type? Or am I thinking of some non-Microsoft "natural" keyboards with this glitch?
"Maybe easy for yoy, but I hate the fact that my phone does not match my keypad. I am constantly looking to purchase a phone with a "correct" number pad - so I guess this really is not for me."
It is getting hard to even find a phone with a standard phone pad! Look at the bizarre keyboards on many recent Nokia offerings. I guess "let's place the 7 key next to the 8 key instead of above it" was just to hard for them. I won't even get into the N-Gage.
"Actually the best you can do is go for *both* MS Natural and Dvorak"
Great.... I'd have to be proficient in unnatural Qwerty, unnatural Dvorak, natural Qwerty, and natural Dvorak! The solution to the problem of having to switch between two different layouts is.... make it 4 instead!
I guess my touch typing habits are bad. The times I've had to use "The Natural", I've had to look and hunt for every single key. As for "I got one, and IMHO it's the only good thing Microsoft ever made.", I've found their keyboards and mice to be outstanding overall.
"If you can touch type in dvorak you can just change the keyboard layout in the system settings while you use it. No need to change any hardware."
I run into plenty of computers that I have to use where the configuration options (including keyboard layout) are locked away and I cannot change them. These are the ones I would not be able to Dvorakify (Dvorakize?).
Staying away for now.
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I stay away from such keyboards as Dvorak and "Natural". Not because they are a bad idea. Rather, it is because I only want to be able to have to know one keyboard. If I learn Dvorak, I'd still have to frequently use QWERTY due to the other keyboards I have to use that are still QWERTY this. Is it easy to be proficient at both and switch back-and-forth at ease, or does the confusion result in rmmre o erf rree rkjdkc yt wpodcxs?
"That hardly qualifies as "enforcing morality" or "running our personal lives"."
What if you decide that you don't want any taken out in withholding, and do whatever you want with your money until April 15, when you make your payment?
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Independent? The site actually has a strongly partisan focus, with narrow ideological strictures. It has nothing to do with political independents. As for the news, it is less "news" than it is just an extension of their ideological editorializing. Opinion sites are good for opinion, not facts.
At least as important as the others is stability. You don't want a site that winks out for a few hours because four guys decided to upload 20 meg .mov files at the same time. You also don't want a fly-by-night dot-bomb that is fast, meets legitimate security requirements, and is free.....but it inexplicably vanishes 13 days after you discover and start using it.
Your two biggest mistakes:
1)assuming some sort of conspiracy to "keep stuff secret". A conspiracy that exists in imagination only.
2)your overestimating the taste of the public, not not realizing that the big popular media is successful because it DOES deliver the news people want.
"....government....world empire based on economic enslavement...world bank"
I'm wondering why you did not mention the Bildeburgers, Elvis in a flying saucer, and black helicopter.
"Dumb Americans who have no clue as to what is really going on mean...."
Except for you. You know all about those Jews running the banks, all about those UN prison camps being built in Wisconsin, and all about UN plans to confiscate American guns, right? Is that it?
The less Logitech, the better. They make some of the worst unergonomic mice on the planet. The less the better goes for Microsoft as well, but that is for their software, not their mice.
The Matrix? No. I'm pretty sure the guy is talking about plastics.
(For those of you with Apple Newtons, it is where you enter your "hanbvvwritten 7ettXrs")
Scott, you are always looking for a way to bring back your famous text adventures. Do continue. I bet Zork was behind that door, right?
"For a Good Time, text 443544"
Blogs will be corporate, too (unless it is always just one guy). Just about any time you get an organization of more than two or three people, it will incorporate (i.e. become a corporation) somehow.
What would be most pleasing to a liberal person would be to have only the conservative elements in the traditional media go away.
Then I think it is time to change the standard, and abandon QWERTY for DVORAK immediately. However, this does not seem likely, and it looks like that even if I learned DVORAK, I'd still be forced to use QWERTY for years to come.
Didn't the earlier models have the non-standard backslash key placement, of the "move the backslash to some lost corner of the keyboard" and make the enter-key double height" type? Or am I thinking of some non-Microsoft "natural" keyboards with this glitch?
It is getting hard to even find a phone with a standard phone pad! Look at the bizarre keyboards on many recent Nokia offerings. I guess "let's place the 7 key next to the 8 key instead of above it" was just to hard for them. I won't even get into the N-Gage.
Sounds like a great way to broadcast these fellows
D0mt blame m3. I"n tgping dvora8 on an Apple Nevwton. I boughtt ix at %rewavbyt Plx4xww.
Great.... I'd have to be proficient in unnatural Qwerty, unnatural Dvorak, natural Qwerty, and natural Dvorak! The solution to the problem of having to switch between two different layouts is.... make it 4 instead!
Actually, the request to censor the last word came from Nintendo's competitors. Sorry about that!
I guess my touch typing habits are bad. The times I've had to use "The Natural", I've had to look and hunt for every single key. As for "I got one, and IMHO it's the only good thing Microsoft ever made.", I've found their keyboards and mice to be outstanding overall.
Yes, but what of fr33d0m, d3m0cracy, and dem0nstrat1on?
A question for gamers: Does Dvorak (or any other sort of alternative keyboard configuration) affect the mapping of game controls to letter keys?
I run into plenty of computers that I have to use where the configuration options (including keyboard layout) are locked away and I cannot change them. These are the ones I would not be able to Dvorakify (Dvorakize?).
I stay away from such keyboards as Dvorak and "Natural". Not because they are a bad idea. Rather, it is because I only want to be able to have to know one keyboard. If I learn Dvorak, I'd still have to frequently use QWERTY due to the other keyboards I have to use that are still QWERTY this. Is it easy to be proficient at both and switch back-and-forth at ease, or does the confusion result in rmmre o erf rree rkjdkc yt wpodcxs?
Isn't that the problem? As long as you pay what is due by April 15...?
What if you decide that you don't want any taken out in withholding, and do whatever you want with your money until April 15, when you make your payment?