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Date Posted: 09:03:54 09/11/99 Sat
Author: Drake
Subject: I know why QWERTY was designed
In reply to: Mr. Phule 's message, "Eh, I'm just responding to what Marx is saying...." on 23:16:55 09/10/99 Fri

It used to be DAVORAK, but all the secratarys were typing so fricking fast, they would break theire typewriters, so they changed it..


Drake

> And yea, I like to type. I like to lend my
> arguements, and support them with fact and reason.
> I'm not taking this too seriously at all, I'm just
> writing what my opinions are. If you people really
> wanna do things by Marx's plan, be my guest. That
> system will work well enough. Is there a better
> system? Maybe, I don't know. I think the 3-man
> system is better.
>
> I also did enjoy the quote "If it aint broke, don't
> fix it." Tell me, why is that frowned upon? If
> something isn't broken, why in the heck would you try
> to fix it? I mean..you wanna improove on it, sure.
> But make sure it's an actual improovement. My feeling
> is that Marx still thinks I'm trying to undermine his
> authority. That's not the case, I simply have some
> pretty major disagreements with him on how the clan
> should be run.
>
> You made a very good point, Thrax...it's useless to
> attemptt o apply high level politics to a battle.net
> clan. Go with what works. If my plan works, go with
> that, if Marx's plan works, go with that. But I've
> seen the 3-council plan in action, and I've seen it
> work. I never had any doubts about that plan when it
> was in testing, and I knew from the get-go that it was
> a good idea. With this plan of Marx's...I like the
> plan, it's thourough, covers every contincengy, but I
> just don't think many people will want to put up with
> it for a while.
>
> I also think it stresses the webpage bit too much.
> I'm telling ya, regardless of how pretty the webpage
> is, people aren't gonna check the page any more than
> to see if thier latest medal was posted. Doubt me
> if you will, but I gauruntee ya. Maybe if you post
> all the news from war3.com, Diabloii.net, battle.net,
> etc....
>
> Now, if anyone here has what it takes to compile and
> post news from all those sites....I tip my hat to that
> person...that is, assuming that I wear a hat that day,
> which I usually don't do. My point is, aside from
> having news that scrolls off REALLY quickly, the
> amount of time spent updating the news..uh-uh, aint
> gonna be done.
>
> At least, I'm sure as heck not gonna do it. I'd bust
> myself to REC before I agreed to do that job. That
> and the sites might not like having thier stuff taken
> like that. I dunno...again, I just think it's alot
> more work than is really needed.
>
> And actually, this thing took me all of 10 minutes to
> type...I type fast. ;-) Actually, the standard
> QWERTY keyboard was intentionally designed to be
> inefficient. It's a very poor setup for the keys. I
> know why it was designed like that. Does anybosy else
> know?
>
> -Mr. Phule
> "My main hope for myself is to be where I am."

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