I mean, QWERTY and Dvorak both suffer from a *real* international problem, and that is the lack of enough keys! Many letters require meta instructions to enter.
Tell me about it, Latvian suffers a lot from that. I just took a careful look at the Dvorak layout, here is what can I say for typing in Latvian:
A and S (the two most common letters) are on the pinkies, which isn't that nice. Almost the same as QWERTY.
I don't have an almost unused F on my index finger (one Latvian layout uses F as a meta, the usual is Right Alt), but there is an unused H on the middle finger.
All the vovels are on the left, which makes chording with Right Alt easy. Dvorak wins here.
The Emacs user in me says:
X is in the middle, very unhandy
F(orvard), B(ackvards), N(ext), P(revivous) are even more all-over-the-place than with QWERTY
The Nethack player in me says: As long as I have the NumPad I don't care.:-D
The wanabe coder in me says: The curly braces are even further.
I say: I might give the Dvorak layout a try, but I think that my brain will heat over from the fact that the letters on the keybord don't show what will be on the screen...
IMHO only someone who uses (knows?) only one language would hype for "the perfect layout". I'm NOT learning 4 layouts to type in 4 languages, so I might as well learn QWERTY, because that is what most computers have. I also think that the Maltron layout is better for english than Dvorak.
You realize that anyone with a measuring device that has a larger error margin than the one allowed in the "correct" anwers would acctualy punished for following the stupid directions?
Oh well, it's good to know that the next generation free open source operating system is already being worked on - should keep Linux from getting fat and lazy;). -- ultranova
(*) Not FAT, but you should be able to see that it's sitting down because it's really too stuffed to stand up. Think "bean bag" here. -- linus
It is not just about being able to type in the address, it is also about seeing it
Do you need to see it all the time, I like to go without visual noise.
It is also about viewing the contents of the file selection area change as you navigate and give a list of matched pattern (not a list in a drop down menu).
I'm not sure I get exactly what you expect, but you can select via pattern matching with C-s.
It is one more a Ctrl-X/Alt-X whatever key combination.
There should be an option to show a handy location bar (pattern matching and auto completion, for instance) that can be set in the options, at least in the 'Advanced' section.
What's wrong with having it accessible only trough a keyboard shortcut? Do you type in the location bar with your mouse?
There must be an feature similar to the 'Explore' context menu item in Windows, since, there are a lot of times a hierarchical view where new windows dont pop up for each opened directory be good.
Doesn't the middle mouse button open folders in the same windows? Although I think that a floating directory tree browser might be a ggod add on for spatial nautilus.
The file dialog should have a location bar, again a handy one, not just a dumb text box. Again, since GNOME/GTK folks think people are too stupid and get confused, it could be an option, at least in the advanced section. The current file dialog is click intensive and brings up one more dialog to enter our own path.
Quantum crypto key exchange is invulnerable to a man in the middle attack because in QM making a measurement disturbs the state of the system that is then detectable by the true receiver, it is not due to anything classical.
But there is still the "axe in the middle attack": if you can't listen to them, disturb them.
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- A and S (the two most common letters) are on the pinkies, which isn't that nice. Almost the same as QWERTY.
- I don't have an almost unused F on my index finger (one Latvian layout uses F as a meta, the usual is Right Alt), but there is an unused H on the middle finger.
- All the vovels are on the left, which makes chording with Right Alt easy. Dvorak wins here.
The Emacs user in me says:The Nethack player in me says: As long as I have the NumPad I don't care. :-D
The wanabe coder in me says: The curly braces are even further.
I say: I might give the Dvorak layout a try, but I think that my brain will heat over from the fact that the letters on the keybord don't show what will be on the screen...
IMHO only someone who uses (knows?) only one language would hype for "the perfect layout". I'm NOT learning 4 layouts to type in 4 languages, so I might as well learn QWERTY, because that is what most computers have. I also think that the Maltron layout is better for english than Dvorak.
It also gets rid of personal pages with animated backgrounds, pink foreground and b0rken HTML.
Because it's slavery and sexual discrimination?
Yes, the "free internet accsess" treatment...
...at a distance of 10 m...
They won't. They'll sue everyone who comes with a bill...
And double fee for dreams. Working while sleeping and all that...
Haven't had any problems with my boxed 2500+.
But porn isn't part of Windows. There are of course other obscene things in Windows, like IE.
I'm sorry, but there is nothing to drool about in Windows.
Who cares about Intel? All the cool penguins run AMD.
You realize that anyone with a measuring device that has a larger error margin than the one allowed in the "correct" anwers would acctualy punished for following the stupid directions?
Cheaper. Ebooks that cost as much as dead trees? I see no reason to buy them if they aren't at least half the price.
Yes.
True, the upgrade from my K6-2 500MHz to a "low end" Athlon XP 2500+ did give a nice (~8x) speed boost...
Yeah, can you imagine going trough hordes and hordes of imps with a boomstick in Doom...?
The example IS walid, because in either case the company doesn't sell a copy.
That would explain why most salespeople act either stoned or deaf.