I wish I'd run across this comment metamoderating, because that moderation is wrong. By no definition of the word is that comment a troll, it's a polite, reasoned opinion.

QWERTYdid not prevent jamming by making people type slower.

I never said it did. QWERTY wasn't designed with speed in mind, it was designed, as you said, to minimize jamming. Dvorak was designed for speed.

I just learned something, thank you!

I've been writing books on this notebook for years. Damned near impossible to touch type on it, I wind up hitting the wrong keys.

I don't use it, but a lot of people do. The windows key works in KDE the same way it does in Windows (or did before 8).

A full suite of programming languages? Kids today are spoiled, what's wrong with assembly? I mean, besides the fact that 8086 assembly is a pain in the ass compared to a Z-80 or 6802?

I like my ten year old Logitech cordless. The key layout is standard but there are extra buttons for media player controls, a scroll wheel, home, back, email keys, etc. It actually was innovative.

When it was new the extra buttons only worked with Windows but apparently someone has made it work in KDE because they've worked on my Linux box for a few years now.

Very few IT departments will let users install anything on "their" computers, which makes sense because otherwise you're going to have security problems.

It isn't my computer at work, it's my employer's. He pays me to use it.

That's something I've wondered about for a long time. Why doesn't alt+n type a chr 164 in a word processor, and shift+alt+n make a chr 165? Straightforward logic, yet the logic is ignored.

I just grinned at the juxtaposition of your comment and sig. Rather than "Scientists point out problems, engineers fix them" shouldn't it be "Scientists point out problems, engineers implement them"?

That said, I more than agree with what you said. It seems they no longer test anything for real-world use. In today's world, the old design axioms "KISS" and "form follows function" seem to have gone straight into the dumpster.

So then why didn't the Dvorak keyboard take hold? QWERTY was designed to keep keys on mechanical typewriters from jamming, Dvorak should be much faster.

What the corporate (and yes, some open source) dumbasses don't understand is that if you change my interface there's going to be a learning curve. For someone who has touch-typed for years, it would take years to get up to speed with Dvorak; TFA was right on the money IMO.

Unity, Windows 8, Lenovo and other keyboards... just stop already! Jesus, if they were designing cars you'd have a joystick instead of a wheel and the brake and gas pedals would be reversed (and have a hand-operated clutch).

I only want new if old is broken or new is demonstrably superior. Change for the sake of change is stupid and counterproductive.

So you are saying that, somehow, the FDA would force Google to keep selling the product?

Of course not. Whoever owns CrystaLens now (Bausch&Lomb sold them, I don't remember to whom) could discontinue sales today and nobody could have one implanted until the patent runs out in nine years and anyone can manufacture them. The same goes for Google contacts.

Hmmm...blood sugar a little low? Suddenly all your adwords beside your google searches are for candy bars.

Illegal.

And, as I mentioned in my first post, if it turns out not to be as profitable as Google desires, away it will go.

This isn't a web service like gMail, it's a physical device. They can no more take it away than Amazon can take your hardcover copy of 1984.

A co-op has the same advantages as city-owned; you're both customer and shareholder.

And you wonder why your karma's in the toilet. The hypocritical irony... you gaily stalk j_r's journal to call him a gay troll stalker.

Dude, if you'd learn to troll PROPERLY...