Has everyone noticed that all the letters of the word "database" are
typed with the left hand? Now the layout of the QWERTYUIOP typewriter
keyboard was designed, among other things, to facilitate the even use
of both hands. It follows, therefore, that writing about databases is
not only unnatural, but a lot harder than it appears.
typed with the left hand? Now the layout of the QWERTYUIOP typewriter
keyboard was designed, among other things, to facilitate the even use
of both hands. It follows, therefore, that writing about databases is
not only unnatural, but a lot harder than it appears.
Related:
- Has everyone noticed that all the letters of the word "database" are typed
with the left hand?
Now the layout of the QWERTYUIOP typewriter keyboard... - QWERTY /kwer'tee/ adj.
[from the keycaps at the upper
left] Pertaining to a standard English-language typewriter keyboard
(sometimes called the Sholes keyboard after its inventor),
as opposed to Dvorak or non-US-ASCII layouts or... - QWERTY: /kwer'tee/ [from the keycaps at the upper left] adj.
Pertaining to a standard English-language typewriter... - bit-paired keyboard n.,obs.
(alt. `bit-shift
keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have
originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several
years on early computer equipment.
The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so... - Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with
only the left hand... - space-cadet keyboard n.
A now-legendary device used on MIT
LISP machines,
which inspired several still-current jargon terms ... - Everthing is farther away than it used to be. It is even twice as
far to the corner and they have added a hill.
I have given up running for the bus; it leaves earlier...
From the same category:
- Blow it out
your ear... - Every burned book enlightens the world.
--
Ralph Waldo Emerson,... - Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being
governed by those who are dumber.
Plato (428-348? B.C... - People who dream impossible dreams and strive to achieve them raise
man's stature a fraction of an inch in the process,
whether they win or lose... - Death is an acquired
trait...
