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...positions that slowed down people's typing. In other words, the keyboard is designed to be as inefficient and difficult as possible. By now, of course, Qwerty has outlived its usefulness by at least thirty years. And there in fact exists an alternative to the Qwerty keyboard, called the Dvorak--a keyboard in which letters have been placed to maximize speed and efficiency for those writing in English. Why hasn't it caught...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Join the Circus, Type Dvorak and Go Free | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...dinner instead. But those options require more time, more money, more ingenuity--and the dining hall's shake'n'bake chicken is sitting right there waiting for you. It's as initially inefficient to make your own food as it is to learn to type on Dvorak. As long as you don't care too much about what you eat, the path of least resistance is the obvious choice--even though the food won't be as good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Join the Circus, Type Dvorak and Go Free | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...doing is taking the person out to dinner and buying them drinks. Like the Qwerty keyboard, it does its job, even though the results may be less than they could have been. The simplest, clearest path of least resistance is the obvious choice; lack of mass motivation to learn Dvorak or plan a more interesting celebration takes care of the rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Join the Circus, Type Dvorak and Go Free | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...paper was one of those that had merely met the expectations, and its good grade gave me no delight. Right now I'm thinking about going to see what that Dvorak keyboard is all about--and maybe checking out the circus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Join the Circus, Type Dvorak and Go Free | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...Sousa also infused the classics into every River City he hit in his wide tours with the Marines and later with his own band. Music from Wagner's opera Parsifal was heard in the provinces nine years before it got to New York City's Metropolitan Opera, and Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Grieg marched with the Marines on most of their journeys across dusty prairies and over mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glory Raised High by Horns | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

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