[Info-vax] Where is EISNER:: and who funds it?

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Friday, December 24, 2021 at 12:03:05 AM UTC-5, Steven Schweda wrote:
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> > [...] the reason Americans don't adopt Celsius is the same reason you
> > haven't switched from the QWERTY to the Dvorak keyboard.
> Not really. There's an Engineer Guy movie about the Dvorak keyboard, 
> by the way: 
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> http://www.engineerguy.com/failure/dvorak.htm 

I just read the article. 

"He showed that many of the most frequent letters are clustered at the center of the keyboard and so are confined to a reasonably small visual field."

Yes, a real advantage there, esp. for touch typists! I don't even believe it. Really? These are the most frequently used letters? TYUGHJBNM

QWERTY is terrible. Many words have all or a long sequence of letters entirely on the left hand, like SEARCH and SCRATCH. This is the hand that has to move the wrong way ergonomically. There are many such words and such things cause repetitive strain injuries like tendonitis and carpal tunnel. Supposedly the Dvorak keyboard is much better in that respect. It's much easier on the hands if you get to alternate hands between most letters in actual words.

QWERTY is bad on at least the left hand. Mice, on the right. And bingo! Disabled user.

But the Dvorak keyboard takes months to learn. And it would take months for Americans to get used to Celsius. No one wants to do either. And is Celsius even an SI unit? Kelvin is the base SI unit. 

> Note that SI _did_ take over the world. (Almost completely.)

And America put men on another world, without being a purely SI nation. Hey, there's a good name for a show: SI nation!

Hey. QWERTY ain't an SI thing. So how good could it be?

AEF