You missed the arguments about vi and the majority of all other keyboards.
I didn't reply to the arguments about vi because what piqued my interest was the dominant hand issue. And vi is irrelevant to me as BBEdit Lite on Mac OS X is sufficient for my text editing needs.
You'll do your children a disservice by "raising" them on Dvorak. Every public terminal will be QWERTY, plain and simple.
I have suffered a serious hand meltdown one time before, so I am convinced of the benefits of intelligent thought about ergonmics being put into in human interfaces. Most of my computing happens on my own machines, therefore I use the superior layout most of the time. If I am forced to use a public computer, then I will hunt and peck qwerty, if it is not possible to switch.
And last time I checked, no child taught QWERTY was in any way inferior or held back. And I've never seen a report of someone succeeding in life because they knew Dvorak and their peers did not. Reality is this: Keyboard layouts are the least of our problems.
Who said anything about qwerty children being inferior? It's like teaching kids to use standard English grammar from the beginning. Correct grammar is better in the long run than incorrect grammar. Just because it's not a big deal in the big picture of the universe doesn't mean that here isn't room for improvement; that it's impossible to improve; that it's expensive (in time, effort, or money) to improve.
My guess would be that the unlearned human brain of a baby doesn't have a biological preference for a particular spoken language. Likewise, a kid who doesn't know how to touch-type will not have a genetically encoded preference for a particular layout. Since a kid learning to type for the first time would have no cost of switching layouts that an adult would have, clearly Dvorak is the best choice. The long term benefits of Dvorak far outweigh any short term inconveniences of non-private qwerty-only computers.
I bet you're a Libertarian, too.
If that is apparent from what I have written, then I am guilty as charged, but I haven't identified myself as such. Anyway, I don't see how government or politics fits into this discussion.
one of the supposed benefits of Dvorak is that it puts the most frequently used letters on the right, under the "dominant" hand. But that ain't my dominant hand:-)
So if the Dvorak proponents are correct, the layout would actually be an impediment to me....
These statements are incorrect. Two of the significant benefits of Dvorak are:
The most frequently used letters are on home row for both hands.
Characters alternate about 50% left hand and 50% right hand on average.
Thus there is no disadvantage for either right-handed or left-handed typists. It doesn't matter that all of the vowels are on the left hand and most of the consonants are on the right. Most of the time when typing in English, letters of words alternate between the five vowels and all of the other letters. The layout could be mirrored horizontally without favoring either dominant hand.
Qwerty is garbage, plain and simple. I don't have kids yet, but if I do, they will learn to type efficiently from the beginning using Dvorak. That's one way to implant the superior standard more firmly.
Some years ago when I was in high school, I suffered a complete meltdown with my wrists. Since then, I have learned about the Dvorak layout and the Kinesis Contoured keyboard. Both have made a tremendous difference for me.
Quite simply, flat keyboards and the qwerty layout suck. Posture is not going to make much difference when the hands are doing so much extra work on keyboards which are not designed for the human hand and with an inefficient key layout.
The Kinesis Contoured keyboard is designed for the proportions of human fingers, and also takes advantage of the thumbs.
Naturally, if someone is in serious pain from typing, then he should stop everything immediately. After recovery is the time to think about switching to a better keyboard and better layout.
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Agreed, NwM was the remake of The Prisoner.
Unbeknownst to me until I saw this /. story and researched: NwM is going to be released officially on DVD at the end of the year. Although this would be my 2nd NwM DVD set. ;-)
You missed the arguments about vi and the majority of all other keyboards.
I didn't reply to the arguments about vi because what piqued my interest was the dominant hand issue. And vi is irrelevant to me as BBEdit Lite on Mac OS X is sufficient for my text editing needs.
You'll do your children a disservice by "raising" them on Dvorak. Every public terminal will be QWERTY, plain and simple.
I have suffered a serious hand meltdown one time before, so I am convinced of the benefits of intelligent thought about ergonmics being put into in human interfaces. Most of my computing happens on my own machines, therefore I use the superior layout most of the time. If I am forced to use a public computer, then I will hunt and peck qwerty, if it is not possible to switch.
And last time I checked, no child taught QWERTY was in any way inferior or held back. And I've never seen a report of someone succeeding in life because they knew Dvorak and their peers did not. Reality is this: Keyboard layouts are the least of our problems.
Who said anything about qwerty children being inferior? It's like teaching kids to use standard English grammar from the beginning. Correct grammar is better in the long run than incorrect grammar. Just because it's not a big deal in the big picture of the universe doesn't mean that here isn't room for improvement; that it's impossible to improve; that it's expensive (in time, effort, or money) to improve.
My guess would be that the unlearned human brain of a baby doesn't have a biological preference for a particular spoken language. Likewise, a kid who doesn't know how to touch-type will not have a genetically encoded preference for a particular layout. Since a kid learning to type for the first time would have no cost of switching layouts that an adult would have, clearly Dvorak is the best choice. The long term benefits of Dvorak far outweigh any short term inconveniences of non-private qwerty-only computers.
I bet you're a Libertarian, too.
If that is apparent from what I have written, then I am guilty as charged, but I haven't identified myself as such. Anyway, I don't see how government or politics fits into this discussion.
These statements are incorrect. Two of the significant benefits of Dvorak are:
Thus there is no disadvantage for either right-handed or left-handed typists. It doesn't matter that all of the vowels are on the left hand and most of the consonants are on the right. Most of the time when typing in English, letters of words alternate between the five vowels and all of the other letters. The layout could be mirrored horizontally without favoring either dominant hand.
Qwerty is garbage, plain and simple. I don't have kids yet, but if I do, they will learn to type efficiently from the beginning using Dvorak. That's one way to implant the superior standard more firmly.
Here is my ergonomic typing page, on which I chronicle my experiences with Dvorak and the Kinesis contoured keyboard.
...but WTOP is not the one doing the reporting. It's a writer associated with the Associated Press.
Zenith is an 80 year old American company in which a majority stake was purchased by Korean LG Electronics in 1995.
This is completely wrong. Overscan is a function of a display, not any signal source.
Some years ago when I was in high school, I suffered a complete meltdown with my wrists. Since then, I have learned about the Dvorak layout and the Kinesis Contoured keyboard. Both have made a tremendous difference for me.
Quite simply, flat keyboards and the qwerty layout suck. Posture is not going to make much difference when the hands are doing so much extra work on keyboards which are not designed for the human hand and with an inefficient key layout.
The Kinesis Contoured keyboard is designed for the proportions of human fingers, and also takes advantage of the thumbs.
Naturally, if someone is in serious pain from typing, then he should stop everything immediately. After recovery is the time to think about switching to a better keyboard and better layout.
My ergonomic typing story is detailed on my Explorations in Ergonomic Typing page.