I agree, switching between keyboard layouts is natural when you use different languages. At least I find that much easier than keeping a US layout and using the ASCII codes on the numeric pad for the extended characters.
I work in a multi-lingual environment (english, french, spanish) and I when I ALT-SHIFT to a different layout I make a mental switch, and my typing is not slower.
Now if you went to an Indian college you would have allowed us to compare all 20 options at once on a readable graph without having to kill ourselves checking boxes.
Google vs MSN, GMail vs Hotmail, Firefox vs IE... what is wrong here? Google is not OSS but somehow it has a lot of support from the OSS community.
What would you say if MSN was built-in in Firefox? My best guess is that you would be upset. But MSN and Google are no different, they are open for business.
I guess someday this big Google hype will be in the marketing textbooks.
Oh now I get it ! You first fire the person who did a criminal piratesque typo, for he/she is an heathen, the scum of the planet, the standard idiot, the swine, the nazifeminisitrepubloliberal, the ape....or a person that didn't check what he typed twice.
Would my secretary send a letter with typos to my biggest customer, and would this cause damage to my company, I would not blame the word-processor spell-check or the mailboy...
It is common sense to fire someone who is paid to do a very specific task right and does it wrong, especially when the mistake has such a major impact.
No matter if the actual transaction ends up being a big loss or not, it is a serious dent in the company credibility.
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I work in a multi-lingual environment (english, french, spanish) and I when I ALT-SHIFT to a different layout I make a mental switch, and my typing is not slower.
adversus solem ne loquitor.
Try to write down this 'nil' value in Roman numerals, and maybe then you will see why the concept of 'zero' is a very specific concept.
I agree with endlessoul: the title of this topic is misleading.
Of course, and you would also have ended up designing web pages bloated with menus with more text in menus than in actual content, and with [+] that you can't click on.
Or you might have designed web pages with electric people.
And who knows, after a while you could have ended up a successfull web designer like this guy.
Google vs MSN, GMail vs Hotmail, Firefox vs IE... what is wrong here? Google is not OSS but somehow it has a lot of support from the OSS community.
What would you say if MSN was built-in in Firefox? My best guess is that you would be upset. But MSN and Google are no different, they are open for business.
I guess someday this big Google hype will be in the marketing textbooks.
Would my secretary send a letter with typos to my biggest customer, and would this cause damage to my company, I would not blame the word-processor spell-check or the mailboy...
It is common sense to fire someone who is paid to do a very specific task right and does it wrong, especially when the mistake has such a major impact.
No matter if the actual transaction ends up being a big loss or not, it is a serious dent in the company credibility.