QWERTY

[Atomic]

Ok did you guys know that the keyboard layout used to today is actually inefficent.... it was ment for typewriters for a reason. Basicly what happens is the most used letters

   frequently used pairs of letters are seperated to keep the typebar from jamming
somehow this setup carried over to computers

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

[Malson]

Yep. I knew about this a while ago. That's why a lot of people (read: supergeeks) have switched over to Dvorak.

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

[Dalton]

Personally, I believe in the power of Qwerty, cause like... I'm so totally used to it, and losing my 70 wpm to switch to a new style of keyboard would seem like a huge sacrafice to me

[Nightwolf]

YAY! DT IS BACK!
And i think we all use Qwerty...
its not soo bad?

[Arrow]

I agree with DT, I don't type correctly (chicken type I think) and it seems to work out ok.

[Atomic]

I still use it also... but just think in 30 years people are going to be laughing about our primitive keyboards

It just seems that a quick fix for a problem has followed us to where it's not a fix anymore

[SexualBubblegumX]

I used to go to a porn site called qwerty.

[Yossy]

I used to go to a porn site called qwerty.

That's nice, dear.  *pets him on the head*

[SexualBubblegumX]

May I have a cookie too?

[GilgameshRO]

It's taken me this long to master a QWERTY. While Dvorak is appealing, I'm way too lazy to learn a different setup.

[Yossy]

May I have a cookie too?

No.


Anyway, I personally love my Qwerty keyboard.

Wasn't there a character in Perfect Dark named Dr. Dvorak or something?  The mission objectives made you think you were rescuing a scientist guy, but it turned out to be a floating computer...

[SexualBubblegumX]

What about a soda?

[Nightwolf]

You know you're just spamming it up lol.
I've liked mastered my keyboard, i can type eye-closed
(literally)

[Yossy]

I can tupe without lookins at the computer or keyboard.  I;m doinf it rifht noe.

Okay, that didn't work out as well as I wanted it to.  Not too bad, though.

What about a soda?

No.

[Malson]

I'd give you some spam, but it looks like you've had enough for one thread.

[Atomic]

It's taken me this long to master a QWERTY. While Dvorak is appealing, I'm way too lazy to learn a different setup.

Indead I am also too lazy to learn a new setup. I just thought the computing section could use some activity.

[Blizzard]

I have QWERTZ. =P

[Arrow]

That is a fucked up keyboard, yo. What did you do, melt it?

[Blizzard]

Lol, no. German/Croatish keyboards are QWERTZ instead of QWERTY. Actually every language has a slightly different keyboard. Look, what I have here as a normal key: ß (that´s a german letter)

[Tsunokiette]

I would switch, but I learned how to type with this keyboard, and I don't see any major companies switching.

[Malson]

And his apostrophes look like this `

[Dalton]

And his apostrophes look like this `

He does that on purpose to be special, but Blizzard probably has the normal apostraphe key somewhere too.

[Crankeye]

*cough* Ahem.. well to get back on subject, it does seems like a nice layout, but what about a layout for l33t speak. Maybe they should just replace the e key with a 3 etc. etc.

[Arrow]

There's probably an overlay for that...

[Tsunokiette]

That's would be awesome, the |337 |4'/0(_)7