Keyboard question

[Beerball]

Why do I have to hit the "shift" key to use the ??? key???

 

We use ??? much more often than /// don't we???

 

Seem strange to anyone else/// ???

[BillsFan-4-Ever]

shift happens ! :D

if you wrote code you'd be aware that /// is used a lot

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[shrader]

Does anyone actually know what each of the symbols on the number row are without looking? I can get most of them, but if I ever need to use a $ or %, I need to look down to see where they are.

[Chef Jim]

Does anyone actually know what each of the symbols on the number row are without looking? I can get most of them, but if I ever need to use a $ or %, I need to look down to see where they are.

That's why I like a keyboard with a 10 key setup. Those I can get pretty much without looking

[DC Tom]

Why do I have to hit the "shift" key to use the ??? key???

 

We use ??? much more often than /// don't we???

 

Seem strange to anyone else/// ???

 

Because when the QUERTY keyboard was set up, nobody used "?" all that much in typed correspondence.

[BillsFan-4-Ever]

 

Because when the QUERTY keyboard was set up, nobody used "?" all that much in typed correspondence.

what do you expect from me I'm an idiot not a physicist

Edited January 21, 2015 by BillsFan-4-Ever

[Azalin]

 

Because when the QUERTY keyboard was set up, nobody used "?" all that much in typed correspondence.

Was that intentional, or is it just supremely ironic to misspell 'QWERTY'?

[Best Player Available]

Was that intentional, or is it just supremely ironic to misspell 'QWERTY'?

To think Mr. Spelling cop has made a mistake? Now dats somethun.

[DC Tom]

Was that intentional, or is it just supremely ironic to misspell 'QWERTY'?

 

Supremely ironic. I've been playing too much Word Hero lately.

[Beerball]

 

Because when the QUERTY keyboard was set up, nobody used "?" all that much in typed correspondence.

So, they had no questions but lots of ///???

[Gugny]

I'm guessing someone named /dev/null invented the qwerty keyboard.

[Steve O]

The keyboard is designed the way it is to slow typing down, not to speed it up. That is why you have to reach to type the most popular letters, e and i. They also come from different directions. Back in the day, letters were located at the end of an arm that swung up and hit a typewriter ribbon. The location of the letters prevented the keys from jamming. However, the long/awkward symbols one needs to reach for are placed for ease, and more /'s than ?'s were used at the turn of the century, when the keyboard was designed. Much as we would never use a measuring system of inches and feet vs metric centimeters and meters today, if the keyboard were designed based on today's technology, it would be designed differently.

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

Shift key is very meh.

[Jim in Anchorage]

Shift key is very meh.

Pretty proud of your meh thread are ya?

[Beerball]

Shift key is very meh.

Thank you, that's exactly what I'm saying.

[Nanker]

Check out Dvorak: http://www.dvorak-keyboard.com/

 

Same deal with the ? / thingy though.

[/dev/null]

Because then my name would be ?dev?null

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

Pretty proud of your meh thread are ya?

I sure am; had to use it here. If ever there were a needfor meh, it is for the shift key. F5 key, on the other hand...

[boyst]

has to do with going back to the old days of computers.

 

back in the day you couldn't type in a ? to dos and programming script half the times you'd type /.

 

/cd

/ipconfig

/doom2/doom2.exe

c:/

 

....

[Corp000085]

Does anyone actually have experience with a Dvorak keyboard? I'd like to learn. I work as a case manager in school so my keyboard is my job.