starbug1

Wasn't the qwerty keyboard actually designed against speed?

I thought that if you typed too fast on an old-fashioned typewriter' date=' the things that strike the paper would get all jammed up, so they designed it so it would be more difficult to type too quickly.

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think the exact opposite of that. QWERTY was designed to separate letters on a keyboard that often appear next to each other in common words, such as "AND" the a is with the left hand, the n right, and the d left. It's a system of alternation, that mitigated jamming and sped up the "hunt and peck" method.

The Dvorak keyboard looks to be somewhat better. I wonder why it isn't seen more often.

as the original design was modeled for use on a keyboard.

 

last time i looked down' date=' I was still using a keyboard.[/quote']

 

 

typo, I meant "typewriter"

 

There is a better keyboard available... the QWERTY keyboard was original developed for use by "hunt and peck" typist, but is known to promote carpel tunnel and things like that. Try looking into getting a "Dvorak Keyboard"

 

that may be, but I'm talking about a new 'standard' keyboard. I know they have variations. I know that different countries also use the basic qwerty keyboard with some variations. I'm not looking to get a new dvorak keyboard either. I was wondering how crazy is was that we still use the keyboard some guy came up with in the 19th century when it is ridiculously outdated. and we still continue to learn on these keyboards.

 

would changing the keyboard completely offset what we have learned, and if, would this have an impact on the business world what with typists struggling to learn a new system of letter. I often though we have never changed it for exactly these reasons.

 

Actually' date=' QWERTY was designed for speed, to prevent jamming of the keys and to allow each hand to do one key at a time, so that one hand could press a key while the other moved into position.

 

There is also a Dvorak keyboard layout system that is supposedly faster than QWERTY, but it's subjective. __________________[/quote']

 

the qwerty had one primary benefit and it was to prevent jamming. NO ONE USES TYPEWRITERS ANYMORE. speed is another thing, and the alternating hands is one plus that stays. However, I believe a better combination can be invented which improves both speed and equilibrium of both hands than the qwerty system. Anyone agree?

 

The QWERTY system is unlikely to change for a long time, I think.

 

Can you explain why you think why?

At the risk of belaboring a point laid out by others in a less than civil way...

 

Starbug1' date=' understand that the evidence you've linked to amounts to judgements reached by persons of dubious authority. Since you're not an expert, and few if any people who've posted here (including yourself) have a background in basic continuum mechanics, let alone specific background in aerospace engineering, there are few people here (once again, including yourself) in a position to evaluate these claims either way.

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The whole point of my bringing up this was to convey my opinion, and maybe hope to find someone that agreed with me, either from my arguments or from personal knowledge, expertise, and research of their own. And as you see not one person shared my opinion. I'm not an expert, given. However, I do have some position to evaluate the claims I did. Most of which I was just paraphrasing or giving to you how I saw them. In no way was I trying to be the expert, and the evaluation was done by others for the most part.

 

The point I think others are trying to make is that absent that sort of expertise and trust in the authority of the judgements you've posted, there may be reason for you to remain skeptical of these 9/11 conspiracy theories.

 

I remain open to contructive debate. As you said there are no experts here, therefore no claims are truthworthy or available for official evaluation, so this doesn't really work. The authority behind the judgements i made was...there's no authority needed! In conclusion, there is just as much reason for me to be skeptical as the other side is, for the conspiracy theories are not so vague and belittled everywhere as to automatically deem them absent of anything worth mentioning because they lack expertise or authority.

 

Valid data has been produced for both sides of the argument, and the skeptics are not all for the conspiracy theories; they, if I may remind you, exist on both sides. Just because I have no expert voice on the subject, that doesn't mean I should back off and say "you know, after reading what I wrote, there may be reason for me to remain skeptical about this because my evidence is dubious, which is not at all true." Rather, maybe you think I should just back off because who's going to listen to a 17-year old kid anyway?

That was the most logical answer I ever got.

Hire a Lawyer.

Even I had a similar thought...

But the question is more fundamental.

Are not we all carry our private perception of the World... and thus anyone and everyone is the eyes of pscyhiatry is insane' date=' or rather INSANE.

I am angry because it violates basic human rights.[/quote']

 

 

What are basic human rights? Where did this guy live? I think we're going to need more of a story here.

The reasons we have the particular layout we have today are out-dated and irrelevant for today's use on computers, as the original design was modeled for use on a keyboard.

would it be effiecient or beneficial to change the standard QWERTY keyboard layout?

Sure, the CPU is newer and pretty awesome I must admit. I bought a 30G video iPod and it works great. However, the video feature is almost useless, as the battery will virtually drain itself completely using the screen light for 20 min. I've even got a dvd on my ipod, and there's no way to watch it anywhere without it dying on me. I'm a fan of apple products, but the fast battery drain on the ipods is somewhat disappointing. Does anyone else have this problem?

It's not much of a problem because I know the quality is much better than anything else on the market. Those other mp3 players are a piece of plastic. The ipods are relatively light, but the other ones are just ridiculous!

Among other things, warm-blood keeps the body in equilibrium. This keeps bodily functions as well as brain functions in check. Hence, as gcol stated, we can perform in a wider range of temperatures, and this, while not exactly a sign of intelligence, it is a sign of higher evolution, so there is some similarity.

@ starbug... it makes perfect sense you integrate the molecules of you food into your metabolism and you cells..

always have to bash down old-wives tales with scientific reasoning. *sigh*

Yeah, but if there are really living creatures in nature that have green blood, could a human-type organism also have green blood?

If this human-type organism has an extra component to its blood, such as an enzyme or a slightly different composition, it's a very real possibilty. If you think about it, the color of human blood (red, purple-blue) is familiar to us, but it could just as well be green or black or yellow, and we think twice...thus proving why the human-type aliens depicted in movies always seem to have green blood.

duly noted bascule, it was on my reading list anyway...

I thank you all for posting, and I'll take this as my first debating lesson...I learned quite a bit.

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."

 

I hate that! I eat plenty of apples' date=' and yet my dad keeps coming home. [/quote']

 

lol...I haven't been to the doctor in years, and I eat an apple almost everyday, if not, then another piece of fruit, so for me, at least, that myth is true.

 

here's another one. "you are what you eat."

not necessarily a believable or logical myth, but I hear it all the time anyway. Anyone know where it comes from?

A ball rolling into a stable minima is clearly not a chaotic system (since pretty much any starting condition will result in the same end position) but a ball rolling off an unstable maximum (in 3d) is a chaotic system since a small perturbation in initial conditions leads to a large change in the final state.

 

It is also clear that almost all very complicated real world situations have some potential to be chaotic to some extent. If some lunatic decides to assasinate George Bush' date=' there may be a profound effect on world politics. A small change (one person's instability) leads to a big change.[/quote']

 

My example was a fictitious real-life example. All systems are not chaotic, and while your "ball rolling into a stable minima" example shows this, you also stated "it is also clear that very complicated real world situations have potential to be chaotic to some extent."

 

While I may not have been exactly clear in my example about this, that is all I was getting across--the potential chaos of complicated, real world situations is present, even if in theory or if only to some extent of likelihood.

 

The example of an assination on the president has very real potential to have very real consequences. The potential, likewise, of small or insignificant events is much less, and for this reason they are always being cancelled out, so the whole "stepping on a butterfly in the prehistoric age will have insurmountable, diastrous affects on today" notion is more or less garbage.

 

I never meant to convey that everything was chaotic by nature.

 

EDIT: sorry for late reply

"Sometimes I find myself chatting with Jehovah's Witnesses for hours when they come to the door. I even look forward to it!"

"Who reads?"

of course... but I hate when people think that eating cholesterol-rich foods is ok, just because the science isn't conclusive about whether or not it causes heart conditions... stuff like like.

I'm assuming they don't know about the "good cholesterol" either, am I right?

On that note...Michael Crichton's novel, The Terminal Man, narrates the life of a man with psychomotor epilepsy. His condition causes him to have uncontrollable violent episodes, and his brain triggers, or misfires, affecting the olfactory senses, generating an awful, fetid smell prior to the epileptic episodes. This is not a smell illusion, though it does show that the brain can produce different scents that can be perceived only by the patient, in this case a violent paranoid with psychomotor epilepsy.

It's an interesting, earlier read by Crichton. However, not as good as his later books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal_Man

get rich quick schemes.

I prefer Abraham Lincoln over President Bush

I prefer thin people to fat people

"Your data suggest a moderate association of European American with Harmless Objects and African American with Weapons compared to African American with Harmless Objects and European American with Weapons." (this in large part thanks to MTV, rap videos, and video games)

I think YT is smarter than he lets on

Stairway to Heaven played backwards hints at direct satanic lyrics...no way.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/stairway.php

Can anyone else say "tampered with?" I happen to like that song.

"my wife," automatically implies dinner. I read it "tonight I'm taking my wife out to dinner." If you had inserted a name, then it gets classic gangster. "tonight, I'm taking henry out." I would have suspected foul play there.

I got my lab back and I mentioned the problems with heart disease, heart attack and stroke, and how blood pressure affects metabolism and everything in between. I was docked for leaving out "stroke volume." One of the main reasons high blood pressure is such a risk because the stroke volume is less than a physically fit person, therefore, reducing the amound of oxygen in every pump of blood. Therefore, furthermore, muscles, tissues, et cet, do not receive enough nutrients to keep a body healthy. so, minus one. Overall, at least, I knew what I was talking about.

Thanks for any input

I read from a user named "hw help" that inspired me to do some research myself on how to induce hallucination. I came across with this.

 

Kneel down and take 5 deep breaths' date=' or 30, or 100. Stand up then hold your arms to your chest (kind of like what a mummy does) and press on it lightly.

 

This is suppose to induce a short high, and mild hallucinations.

 

I do not know if this method is effective or not, and i do not take credit for this. It was written by someone on totse.com

 

Can anyone provide a scientific explanation on how this works?[/quote']

 

In any case, this probably works for a very few people managing to do it correctly.

There is speculation that L. Ron Hubbard's son was murdered by Scientologists because he was homosexual and trying to abandon the church.

The bacteria on your teeth combine with sugar to form lactic acid. this causes the pH in your mouth to rise, causing the local loss of calcium in your teeth, then leaving your tooth enamel exposed and suseptible for tooth decay. Brushing with fluoride helps to keep a protective sheath over your teeth preventing this from happening. This is why your supposed to brush 'after meals.' This doesn't speed up the wearing away of enamel, it doesn't wear it out at all.

...Wikipedia probably does a better job than me

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth

scroll till you get to "Tooth Decay."