At 7:44 AM -0400 10/15/98, John Winters wrote: >Fortunately keeping a good idea down is difficult. Unfortunately putting a bad idea down can be even more difficult. Shift your eyes down to your hands. Notice the word QWERTYUIOP. The standard keyboard layout is an example of how a bad idea caught on and now can't be killed. This keyboard design was intended to be difficult to use back when you had to worry about letters getting tangled on a typewriter. The tangling problem was fixed in other ways within a few years, but the layout persists. There is a much better layout that almost no one uses (including myself). Shows how people are willing to use once they are used to it. Nick Nick Schade Guillemot Kayaks 10 Ash Swamp Rd Glastonbury, CT 06033 (860) 659-8847 Schade_at_guillemot-kayaks.com http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/ >>>>"It's not just Art, It's a Craft!"<<<< *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Oct 15 1998 - 12:17:30 PDT
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