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why is the computer keyboard (typewriter keyboard) laid out in the manner it is.. and has anyone ever suggested an improvement to this century+ old technology?As I understand it, Max said speaking ex catheter, the QWERTY key board was specifically deigned to slow typists down as the early versions would have their keys stuck together by typists going too fast. There are alternatives available now, including the DVORAK layout, and left-handed keyboards ( basically your standard QWERTY, but with the numeric keypad at the left, anyone want to shout me one?) I haven't seen any left-handed DVORAK keyboards available, and they would not make much difference for a 1.25 handed hunt-and-peck artist such as I am. Maybe I need the equivalent of Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand? 
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During WWII the US Navy reconfigured the standard keyboard and had great succes with it... faster and easier to learn. It never caught on.
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Very rich man had everything he wanted in life except for a son. He paid a scientist a huge amount of money to have himself cloned and got the son he wanted.
As the boy grew, however, he developed a habit of excessive scatological swearing which upset the Old Man very much, the more upset he got the worse the boy's potty-mouth got. Fiinally, one day the Old Man had enough and he pushed the boy out the window of his penthouse. The boy died of the fall. The sheriff arrested the Old Man for making an Obscene Clone fall.
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>Obscene Clone fall.< I can understand transposing letters, but did you just transpose threads?  Doesn't this belong with Clone puns and fun?
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Oh nancyk - we've proven that since nobody would ever, ever cross threads intentionally , and nobody believes in moving posts , and nobody will agree (in theory) on a specific definition of YART (amongst others) or when it is appropriate to do so  you're best bet is hoping that we'll understand the version of chaos that we know you are holding out for us on a rainy day. [bathing in tears of hysterics; laughter that is, fool's gold, Chicago tea] 
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why is the computer keyboard (typewriter keyboard) laid out in the manner it is.. and has anyone ever suggested an improvement to this century+ old technology?
I think the current keyboard is a bit like Microsoft, sustained by overwhelming market share and sheer inertia.
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laughter that is, fool's gold, Chicago teaPretty good, Jethro! When did you move from sunny CA?
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...and often transpose the blank between words to before the last letter of the previous word.
Yeah, my keyboards do that, too. Funny thing is that they're not even the same brand.
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but did you just transpose threads? Doesn't this belong with Clone puns and fun?
It's a Hirsute Canine (Shaggy Dog thread) Clone.
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With a knick-knack paddy-whack give your dog a clone...
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