On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:16:17 +0100, choro <> wrote:
>On 10/06/2011 16:33, Allen wrote:
>> On 6/9/2011 7:33 PM, choro wrote:
>>> On 09/06/2011 15:33, Allen wrote:
>>>> On 6/8/2011 5:39 PM, choro wrote:
>>>>> On 08/06/2011 20:19, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/08/2011, choro posted:
>>>>>>> I am a touch typist and used to write news stories at 80 wpm all day
>>>>>>> long; so you can rest assured that I know what I am talking about.
>>>>>>> And
>>>>>>> that was on old mechanical typewriters which had keyboards sloping
>>>>>>> upwards away from the typist. That design was for a reason!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, to allow the actuation levers on the several rows of keys to
>>>>>> coexist.
>>>>>
>>>>> You are a real stumbling block, aren't you?!
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you ever studied the movement of the fingers as you type? When
>>>>> extended to a higher row the finger would have to more a longer
>>>>> distance
>>>>> to hit the key. Making each row higher helps cancel this effect.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a truth in what you say but there is a truth in what I say,
>>>>> too.
>>>>> --
>>>>> choro
>>>>> *****
>>>> The goal of the designers of the first typewriter and the first Linotype
>>>> was to make the devices WORK--not to make them comfortable for the
>>>> operators. Perhaps it's time for you to listen to Gene and others,
>>>> rather than to set yourself up as some sort of guru of gurus because you
>>>> can TYPE just as millions and millions of others could over the years.
>>>> To even think that the KB was originally slanted for operator comfort
>>>> (at a time when the goal was just to make it work) is the height of
>>>> arrogance.
>>>> Allen
>>>
>>> Yes, I know QWERTY keyboard and all that! But do you think that that was
>>> the only problem they addressed? That ergonomics didn't come in? You
>>> must be joking. Ergonomics might be a new word as far as popularity goes
>>> but before the word was popularized, we had chairs and armchairs that
>>> were a damned sight more comfortable than today's MFI monstrosities you
>>> sit in and can't get up!
>>>
>>> It is those at the height of arrogance who accuse others or arrogance.
>>>
>>> --choro
>> Goodbye.
>
>Adios, Farewell! Good riddance!
>-- choro --
What did you expect from a pack of down_unders!
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