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I see the numbers, but they don't say much to me. For example, I don't see why finger strength is important at all, my pinky can press a button just as well as any other finger. I could press the buttons with a sledgehammer for more force too but that doesn't make it better (or a good idea). I could see if it was an attempt at endurance per finger, but I've never thought "my pinkies are tired from all this typing, but my other fingers are just fine".
However, I will note I don't type in a conventional manner either, my "home keys" are Shift, A, W, D for my left hand (much more natural spacing than a straight row, why does every layout pretend our fingers are all the same length?), and my right hand moves depending on what I'm doing (a result of learning to type from chatting in online games instead of a more formal setting). My hands also move a lot more in general, because I hit the middle section of the keyboard with either hand. Maybe if I practiced conventional typing it would all make more sense, but as it stands I just don't see how it would be of any real benefit to anyone who doesn't spend a significant amount of time typing.
Now if I could improve the efficiency of my thinking I'd be eliminating the real bottle-neck...
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I couldn't imagine learning to type on the stenographer's keyboard...especially if you consider what it would take to add all the symbols commonly used in programming languages (of course, it's not made for that).Clifford Nelson wrote: The issue about the location of the keys is part of my grip about so called ergonomic keyboards. Here is one interesting keyboard for you: http://www.designboom.com/readers/goran-bobinac-ergonomic-modular-computer-keyboard/[^], or there is http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/[^]
Those are the kind I mean when I say ergonomic keyboards are awkward. But that probably partly derives from my non-standard typing habits. (Or, even worse is this one[^])
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Have to admit that I do not like the look of that keyboard. Amoung other things, no where to rest your wrists. I have been tempted by the FrogPad (www.FrogPad.com), which would require relearning, but that one has the advantage of single handed use, so could keep one hand on the mouse and one on the keyboard.
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That looks interesting, and keeping a hand free would be nice. Problem is just getting the ambition to learn it, I imagine there's a steep learning curve moving from 2 characters per key to 4 plus an additional function. Bookmarked for later 
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This is what the FrogPad site says: Learning to type on a FrogPad™ is very easy, and with our tutorial software you will become a frog master in less than 10 hours. Even after a couple of hours, you should be typing at around 20 words per minute. You will notice that typing on the FrogPad™ is more intuitive than a standard QWERTY keyboard. You do not need a formal semester long typing course to train you with these learning tools available.
If this is true I do not know. If I can get one cheap, might try. Still not willing to put much money into something I an not sure of. We are not much different.
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This is quite the interesting article.
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You mean it's not because my kid spilled orange juice on it the other day?
"Use the right tool for the right job." -- Scotty, et al
A keyboard will always be the right tool for a great many jobs. I just wouldn't want to edit a picture with one.
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We have ended up with a horrible arrangement of keys that are still offset like they had to be for the earliest keyboards. Almost all the keyboards sold as ergonomic are not. They still have the key above and below a key offset, and the right and left sides are offset the same way. There are only a handful of truely ergonomic keyboards, and it seems that people just do not understand that something is not necessarily well designed because somebody has attached the word ergonomic to the name.
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I took a class in Usablily. My instructor had switched all the secretaries to Dvorak, and told them they could switch back once they matched thier typing speed on the Qwerty. The first secretary had matched her speed in a week, and the last within 2 weeks. They all went back to Qwerty. Would have been nice if Qwerty had been abandoned 60 years ago when electric typewriters took over. There was no longer any reason at that time to stick with an antiquated standard. Today we tend to use several different keyboards, so it will be much harder to get people to switch. One of the many cases where people (and companies) are so stupid.
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Opening regedit in Windows8 using only a keyboard:
0) Toggle your to Metro desktop (Windows key)
1) Type the word "regedit"
2) Press enter
Try doing that faster using gestures, mouse, or whatever. It's impossible; I don't believe you can actually get into regedit this way anyway.
For the expert user, keyboards will still be around for at least a decade.
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Many of the digital magazines on the market today – you can find them anywhere among Next Issue’s stable of subscriptions – are glorified PDFs that lean heavily on the design concerns of print magazines, with a few interactive elements tacked on in an effort to take advantage of the new medium. Basic rule: If the magazine app requires an instruction guide for how it should be used, it’s probably failing. Think of these insta-mags as the reawakening of the old-timer zine, without the photocopying...
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One of the driving forces in modern science is the idea that the Universe “computes” the future, taking some initial state as an input and generating future states as an output. This is a powerful approach that has produced much insight. Some scientists go as far as to say that the Universe is a giant computer. Is this a reasonable assumption? Today, Ken Wharton at San Jose State University in California, makes an important argument that it is not. Ctrl+Alt+Devolution.
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Ken Wharton at San Jose State University in California, makes an important argument that it is not.
and that is???
if everything in the universe is defined by the laws of physics and mathematics, it's not that far fetched that it could be working as a giant computer
Hmm i wonder why its doing that......ARGHS NO STOP, ROLLBACK ROLLBACK...F*** That's how i learned to "Always Backup"!!
Dogs are man's best Friend,
Cats are man's adorable little serial killer
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With more spare area, write amplification is lower. The controller has more room and thus flexibility with running its defragmentation and garbage collection algorithms. The dreaded read-modify-write scenario is triggered less frequently as there's less space pressure thanks to additional spare area. If you're testing in a full-drive scenario, there's simply less data to keep track of when you've got more NAND set aside as spare area. This keeps internal data structure footprints smaller by default, which also improves performance. Does the theory stand up? Let the testing begin...
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Some of the best and most interesting topics we cover here at Lifehacker are our how-to guides: Those posts that take you through a project step by step and leave you at the end having completed something you've always wanted to do. Here's a look back at our most popular how-to features of 2012. 30 nerdy tips and tricks.
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Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Their Own Films, Facebook and Wikipedia
Based on an update to the article, it seems some unknown third party requested the films be taken down. Example take down notices:
- Cabin in the Woods was asked to be taken down from Blockbuster, iTunes, Amazon, and others.
- How I Met Your Mother was asked to be taken down from CBS.
- Take down notices were also issued for film reviews and Wikipedia articles.
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Quote: Still waiting for an ad-free Code Project
Somebody has to pay the bills. I'd suffer the advertising clutter, rather than paying for CP membership, (or membership for any other social network, in that matter)
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I'd happily pay to avoid ads. Though, I'm probably in the extreme minority.
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Did they try it in a vacuum? Did they have a really good source of Brownian Motion?
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Every new version of JavaScript adds some extra goodies that make programming easier. EcmaScript 5 added some much needed methods to the Array data type, and, while you can find resources which teach you how to use these methods, they typically omit a discussion on using them with anything other than a boring, custom function. The new array methods added in ES5 are usually referred to as Array Extras. They ease the process of working with arrays by providing methods to perform common operations. Tips, tricks and the unknown second argument.
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