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Comment Re:Following Google to Stupidity (Score 5, Insightful) 591

by kbitz on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @12:13PM (#36239948) Attached to: Mozilla Labs: the URL Bar Has To Go

If Mozilla is going to start "following Google" then there's no reason for me to use their browser when I could go straight to the source and use Chrome. I use Firefox because I don't like Chrome. There is no reason to start emulating it.

Comment Re:Spirit Rover: (Score 1) 95

by kbitz on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @11:38AM (#36239482) Attached to: Final Attempts To Contact Mars Spirit Rover Fail

Good night sweet prince?

Submission + - Towel Day is upon us! (towelday.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @10:35AM

An anonymous reader writes: Douglas Adams died about ten years ago and fans have not forgotten about the beloved humorous science fiction author. On Towel Day (May 25th), they carry their best towel and organize events all over the planet.
Examples: a gladiator towel fight (France), concerts (Denmark & Russia), a march against Vogon Violence (Brazil), a talk on science in the Hitchhiker’s Guide (UK), guided tours (Germany & UK), etc. People are gathering in parks and bars, and there’s a lot of drinking, movie viewing, flashmobbing, hitchiking and creative work going on.

A Canadian group recently ran a contest to select an Intergalactic Towel Day Ambassador for Earth. The winner was Ms Deena Roth of Tennessee, USA.

Comment Switching (Score 1) 624

by kbitz on Sunday July 10, 2005 @11:25PM (#13030142) Attached to: Back and Forth Between Qwerty and Dvorak?

I switched to Dvorak over a year ago. It took me a week before I could even attempt to touchtype at all, but my speed picked up rapidly after that. By the first month, my speed was faster than my old QWERTY speed.

I will warn you: learning to be able to switch back and forth required me to re-learn QWERTY. I instantly forgot my QWERTY training. However, I gained the ability to switch by forcing myself to do just that.

I find that if I take a glance at my hands (my physical keyboards are all QWERTY, although they are mapped Dvorak), I can force myself to start typing QWERTY. At that point, I can look back at the screen without reverting to Dvorak.

I don't actually know the Dvorak layout with my eyes or mind. It's more like my hands know it all by themselves. I can't picture the Dvorak layout in my head. I can't really describe the order of the keys. I can't even say what the Dvorak mapping of a QWERTY key is.

Typing became for me like walking. Without actually studying how one's feet move, it's difficult to create a believable animation of a walking human, but walking isn't a problem at all--it's just something we do.

Even though I can switch layouts, I'm still more comfortable in Dvorak. Sometimes I find it easier to take the fifteen seconds required to change the layout than it would be to continue on in QWERTY.

--kbitz

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