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Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7

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Roedy Green wrote:
> Silvio wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>> My remark was not entirely disingenuous, by the way. IMHO people use 

Is there even such a thing as partly disingenuous?

>> ambiguous abbreviations in Usenet posts way too often and expect readers 
>> to guess right.

This is a group where people are expected to be able to google intelligently, not just "guess right".  Given the context (typing and keyboards), the expansion of the abbreviation was easy to find.

But I do agree that Roedy should not have assumed we'd all know the abbreviation.  It's good form to define the expansion once prior to use, even if it's relatively common.  The exception is a universal term such as "GIYF".

> I wondered if I would need to expand that acronym, but I thought
> surely everyone knows that, especially since I drop references to it
> periodically.
> 
> Also, if you google "dsk keyboard", you will get 732,000 hits, you
> will get only 425,000 hits. DSK is now better known than Dvorak.
> 
> For people who type for a living, DSK is something to look into.
> 
> for an intro, see http://mindprod.com/ggloss/dsk.html

Something to look into and perhaps to reject if based on purely pragmatic grounds.  No yet proven ergonomic advantage exists for the Dvorak layout.  The fact that more left-hand-only words exist for QWERTY is actually an advantage to QWERTY nowadays, given the standard position of the cursor and numeric keys and the near-universal placement of the mouse to the right of the keyboard.

Arguably superior to both the Dvorak and QWERTY layouts is the Maltron layout.

Anyone already trained in one layout is best advised to stay with the layout that they know.  Only the Maltron, to my knowledge, has been studied for net gain over the loss of effectiveness due to a switch.

If you're interested in ergonomics, it's far better to investigate keyboard shapes rather than layouts.  Scooped shapes such as the Maltron and Kinesis keyboards have proven advantages regardless of layout, and you can generally change to your preferred layout whichever keyboard you favor.

-- 
Lew

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  Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-22 07:34 -0700
  Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-22 10:51 -0700
    Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-08-22 18:18 +0000
    Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-22 11:22 -0700
      Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-22 12:40 -0700
      Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-23 09:04 -0700
        Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-23 09:10 -0700
    Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-23 08:08 -0700
      Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Silvio <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-08-23 17:22 +0200
        Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-23 09:02 -0700
          Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Silvio <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-08-23 22:57 +0200
            Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-23 18:03 -0700
              Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Silvio <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-08-24 09:09 +0200
                Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-25 07:00 -0700
                Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-25 09:56 -0700
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                Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-25 12:55 -0700
                Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Silvio <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-08-27 00:48 +0200
        Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-25 06:54 -0700
  Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-23 09:43 -0700
    Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-02 08:24 -0700
      Re: Locale.getDefault bug in JDK 1.7 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-09-02 11:34 -0400

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