From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@...>
Date: 2004-12-25T12:49:56+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: vi useability question

Type Attack on the Apple II. That's where I learned to type. Mavis
Beacon is nothing compared to attacking alien letters.

When earth's very existence is at stake, you type fast, let me tell you.

On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 03:41:56 +0900, jmhall@apex.home.net
<jmhall@apex.home.net> wrote:
> Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <vanweerd@gmail.com> 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
> 
>