On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 22:28 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:55:47PM EST, Cor Gest wrote: > > Some entity, AKA Cthun <cthun_...@qmail.net.au>, > > [..] > > > > And you omitted the #1 most serious objection to Xah's proposal, > > > rantingrick, which is that to implement it would require unrealistic > > > things such as replacing every 101-key keyboard with 10001-key > > > keyboards and training everyone to use them. Xah would have us all > > > replace our workstations with machines that resemble pipe organs, > > > rantingrick, or perhaps the cockpits of the three surviving Space > > > Shuttles. No doubt they'd be enormously expensive, as well as much > > > more difficult to learn to use, rantingrick. > > > At least it should try to mimick a space-cadet keyboard, shouldn't it? > > Implementation details, and not very accurate at that.. the APL keyboard > has not additional keys and yet it has the potential to add up to 100 > additional symbols to the US-ASCII keyboard, half of which are produced > via a single modifier.. same as upper-case letters. So unless more than > 50+20 = 70 symbols are needed the keyboard conversion would cost about.. > what.. $2.00 in stickers and maybe ten minutes to place them. > > Maybe the problem lies elsewhere..? > > cj > $2.00 * thousands of programmers -> thousands of dollars + thousands of lost training time; not to mention code conversion.
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