I've used DVORAK for 10 years after 15 years on QWERTY. With all due regard to Reason magazine, my RSI disappeared, my speed improved, and the number of typos I made went down significantly.
Try typing "the cat is on the mat" or any sentence in DVORAK and QWERTY and you'll quickly conclude that the Reason article is thoroughly misguided. Keeping your fingers on home row makes a huge differenec.
As far as switching back and forth, yes it can be done.
The only weird thing is that since I learned DVORAK on a QWERTY keyboard, can't name the keys aloud or point to a given letter if I'm asked, I have to type the appropriate letter first. This is actually a good thing since it means I never look at my keys.
Didn't make it out to Mojave today. I should've and I'm kicking myself for it. My friend Steve and I made it to the last launch, however, and brought our digital cameras (his Canon 10D and my Canon 300D). We didn't have any super-telephoto lenses and the launch was way up there, so there aren't a lot of images of the actual flight. However, there are plenty of launch and landing photos and shots of SpaceShipOne and WhiteKnight at low altitudes.
Besides giving you a better idea of what the flight was like (and seeing how long it would take to kill this account), there should be a geek-appeal in that doing this with digital cameras meant that Steve and I uploaded the images to my powerbook which I had connected to a kyocera 7135 smartphone acting as a wireless modem. The images were up by 1100am.
The images may be used for a book, but the speed of this project was mostly a proof of concept for us, and while we posted it on a design news site (which took forever to do the posting therefore generally made me hate them) but I'm thinking of going up again, but if I did, I'd like to find a real outlet that might host the images and gain us some wider exposure. http://www.simultaneous-environments.net/
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I've used DVORAK for 10 years after 15 years on QWERTY. With all due regard to Reason magazine, my RSI disappeared, my speed improved, and the number of typos I made went down significantly. Try typing "the cat is on the mat" or any sentence in DVORAK and QWERTY and you'll quickly conclude that the Reason article is thoroughly misguided. Keeping your fingers on home row makes a huge differenec. As far as switching back and forth, yes it can be done. The only weird thing is that since I learned DVORAK on a QWERTY keyboard, can't name the keys aloud or point to a given letter if I'm asked, I have to type the appropriate letter first. This is actually a good thing since it means I never look at my keys.
Didn't make it out to Mojave today. I should've and I'm kicking myself for it. My friend Steve and I made it to the last launch, however, and brought our digital cameras (his Canon 10D and my Canon 300D). We didn't have any super-telephoto lenses and the launch was way up there, so there aren't a lot of images of the actual flight. However, there are plenty of launch and landing photos and shots of SpaceShipOne and WhiteKnight at low altitudes. Besides giving you a better idea of what the flight was like (and seeing how long it would take to kill this account), there should be a geek-appeal in that doing this with digital cameras meant that Steve and I uploaded the images to my powerbook which I had connected to a kyocera 7135 smartphone acting as a wireless modem. The images were up by 1100am.
The images may be used for a book, but the speed of this project was mostly a proof of concept for us, and while we posted it on a design news site (which took forever to do the posting therefore generally made me hate them) but I'm thinking of going up again, but if I did, I'd like to find a real outlet that might host the images and gain us some wider exposure.
http://www.simultaneous-environments.net/