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Comment Re:Dvorak is better, but how much better? (Score 1) 663

by fuzz6y on Monday January 19, 2009 @01:16AM (#26512963) Attached to: Dvorak Layout Claimed Not Superior To QWERTY

I always read about how our QWERTY typewriters were designed to deliberately 'slow' you down. I even taught this to my classes of elementary and middle school students.

Do elementary teachers have a quota of old wives tales and myths to impart to their students? QWERTY typewriters were designed to avoid mechanical jams resulting from commonly used keys being too close together.

I pulled out my Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing manual (in the days when they came with paper manuals) to compare the results of these 5th graders with the Dvorak keyboard. I was stunned, as they matched almost perfectly.

You were stunned to learn that a layout based on statistical frequencies of English letters closely matched a statistical sampling of English letters?

If young children without a bias come up with the same result, there is a rightness and a logic to it.

Ha!

Cartoon Network CEO Resigns Over Aqua Teen Scare 710

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 09, 2007 @09:35PM from the i-doubt-he's-laughing dept.

DesertBlade writes "Jim Samples, CEO of Cartoon Network, has resigned over the bomb scare prompted by the Aqua Teen marketing campaign. Turner (CN's parent company) ended up paying over 2 million in restitution to the city of Boston, and a man with a thirteen year record at the company has lost his job. Though many people have been citing this as 'the ultimate successful advertising campaign', there have obviously been real consequences from the incident." By virtue of the consequences of the campaign, was this now officially a bad idea? Or is your opinion that this is all far too much knee-jerking? Have your say in the comments.

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