Re: [Paddlewise] Design Decisions

From: Nick Schade <schade_at_guillemot-kayaks.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 14:44:14 -0400
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
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Glastonbury, CT 06033
(860) 659-8847

Schade_at_guillemot-kayaks.com
http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/

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