From: jmhall@... Date: 2004-12-25T03:41:56+09:00 Subject: Re: OT: vi useability question Nicholas Van Weerdenburg writes: > I care! It's a lot of effort to relearn a keyboard. But, if there is a I'm often to glib or terse I guess. As I see things now you can pick any keyboard layout you want--including making one up yourself so the lock in so some industry standard might no be such a big deal any longer. If there are idiosyncratic benefits for different people to keyboard layout the claims of one or the other, QWERTY or Dvorak--or even some third or fourth options--would seem more a marketing issue now that a pure technical superiority claim. In order to make a good decision studies and other information is always a great assistance--as you rightly point out. I suspect you might still need to do the fine tuning and preformance testing to establish which is the better option for you. But then I'm a terrible typer--and totally amazed at the rates people mentioned!--so that might be coloring my views; I've just given up any hope of typing fast ;-) > significant advantage, it would be worth it. Yet, without some good > studies to encourage it, I don't think I'll try. > > But at least I've been introduced to path-dependence economic theory. > It's a cool concept. I think the inital introdution in economics was actualy in, I'm guessing at the journal name but think I'm close, was The Bell Journal of Economics back in early to mid-70s. The subject was telephone networks (surprise surprise :) I read soemthing that also applied the choas theroy version of path dependancy to cosmology and was making the case that most of the "universal constastants", like c or G (if that's the gravitational constanst), were actually variabls that then got set during the earlier fomrative period of the universe, producing the path we've experienced. John