My primary way is QWERTY, but a while ago I learned Dvorak just to see what it was like. I can switch back and forth more or less at will, and have about 100 wpm QWERTY, and maybe 30 WPM Dvorak, although I'm sure I could bring that up if I tried.
My advice: Just use both. You'll get the hang of it. Once you learn where the keys are with Dvorak type on everything -- your lap, a desk, in the air. It'll drill it in. I did that so much that for some reason, I am unable to type QWERTY now, except when my fingers are on the keyboard. When I imaginary type on a desk it's Dvorak all the way. Oh well. You can do both.
And they work great for taking notes in college lectures -- particularly math and physics courses that require lots of graphs and things. You can have the freehandedness of a standard binder or notebook, and the benefits of having it stored as text, too.
Also, the "test drive" suggestion is really good -- spending some quality time with a Mac is the best way to fall in love with it. The Apple Stores are a great environment to try the product out, but it pales in comparison to the comfort of your living room.
Hm... that's an interesting idea. Things like beds and stuff you can buy and "pay nothing 'till 2005." If they had a trial period for like a month, and then started charging you if you didn't give it back then they would get a whole slew of new customers. I doubt many people would choose not to keep it.
"As Benjamin Franklin once said, the only way for three people to keep a secret is if two of them are dead. While it's doubtful that Ben was referring to computer security, many PC users have lots of little secrets stored on their hard drives. Things such as credit card numbers, a personal address book, and perhaps a few naughty photos from the New Year's Eve party."
Man, why aren't my New Year's Eve parties like that!
I mean, "OK" "Cancel?" What does that mean? Give the dialog boxes informative *buttons* "Save" and "Don't Save" come to mind. Usually I can accurately discover what the entire dialog box is about just by reading the buttons.
Well... As I type this from my dorm room at MIT i'm gonna have to say that doesn't seem quite accurate. The classes here are *really* hard. I'm not sure how hard it is at other schools, but I imagine it would be at least a little easier.
* My MIT interviewer said that she would talk on the phone with her boyfriend at UC Berkeley, and that after a couple weeks they could no longer talk about the same class, since the MIT one was moving faster. At the send-off party I verified this with him..
* My Dad went to Cal Tech, thought it was too hard, and then transfered to UC San Diego. He said there was a very notiecable difference in difficulty level in his match courses between the two, so there *are* differences in schools.
Oh.. and about Harvard and Stanford... those really are just easy schools once you're in..;)
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I read it.
My primary way is QWERTY, but a while ago I learned Dvorak just to see what it was like. I can switch back and forth more or less at will, and have about 100 wpm QWERTY, and maybe 30 WPM Dvorak, although I'm sure I could bring that up if I tried. My advice: Just use both. You'll get the hang of it. Once you learn where the keys are with Dvorak type on everything -- your lap, a desk, in the air. It'll drill it in. I did that so much that for some reason, I am unable to type QWERTY now, except when my fingers are on the keyboard. When I imaginary type on a desk it's Dvorak all the way. Oh well. You can do both.
Happened to me once, too, as I was crossing the border.
Because the record companies screw them over, and only the ones that manage to sell millions of one CD actually manage to go on.
Oh but they're all too happy to join the record companies... It's not the record companies' faults, it's the bands'.
I have some friends that're hard to get in the same room
Obese..?
Ergo Ipso Facto, it's a satire not a parody and they're in the wrong. Stop watching Matrix 2.
I said there was nothing.
Are you fucking kidding?
And they work great for taking notes in college lectures -- particularly math and physics courses that require lots of graphs and things. You can have the freehandedness of a standard binder or notebook, and the benefits of having it stored as text, too.
Also, the "test drive" suggestion is really good -- spending some quality time with a Mac is the best way to fall in love with it. The Apple Stores are a great environment to try the product out, but it pales in comparison to the comfort of your living room. Hm... that's an interesting idea. Things like beds and stuff you can buy and "pay nothing 'till 2005." If they had a trial period for like a month, and then started charging you if you didn't give it back then they would get a whole slew of new customers. I doubt many people would choose not to keep it.
Internet Explorer's finest hour!
"As Benjamin Franklin once said, the only way for three people to keep a secret is if two of them are dead. While it's doubtful that Ben was referring to computer security, many PC users have lots of little secrets stored on their hard drives. Things such as credit card numbers, a personal address book, and perhaps a few naughty photos from the New Year's Eve party."
Man, why aren't my New Year's Eve parties like that!
I mean, "OK" "Cancel?" What does that mean? Give the dialog boxes informative *buttons* "Save" and "Don't Save" come to mind. Usually I can accurately discover what the entire dialog box is about just by reading the buttons.
Seriously. ;)
And there are probably other reasons, too :D
Well... As I type this from my dorm room at MIT i'm gonna have to say that doesn't seem quite accurate. The classes here are *really* hard. I'm not sure how hard it is at other schools, but I imagine it would be at least a little easier.
;)
* My MIT interviewer said that she would talk on the phone with her boyfriend at UC Berkeley, and that after a couple weeks they could no longer talk about the same class, since the MIT one was moving faster. At the send-off party I verified this with him..
* My Dad went to Cal Tech, thought it was too hard, and then transfered to UC San Diego. He said there was a very notiecable difference in difficulty level in his match courses between the two, so there *are* differences in schools.
Oh.. and about Harvard and Stanford... those really are just easy schools once you're in..