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I just switched to a Dvorak keyboard layout and I was curious as to the number of people that also use it...

Anyone?
 

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I've tried it a couple of times, but since I was trained (in class) on a QWERTY, the DVORAK keyboard had too much learning curve and slowed me down too much. Good luck with it, though.
 

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I'm getting the hang of it faster than I thought I would...chatting on msn is prolly helping a lot...
 

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The only Dvorak I know is the technique of classifying hurricane stregnth based on cloud top appearance, center of circulation, and how cold the cloud tops are.

Dvorak scale goes in inciments of .5 from 1-9.

There I just taught you Meteo 201. You all can thank me with a blowjob.
 

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I've never considered switching away from QWERTY, since that's the only layout I can depend upon to be available elsewhere -- when I'm giving a presentation somewhere on campus, or tutoring in one of the computer labs, I may not have "my" keyboard with me. And the trouble of having to switch back and forth seems like it'd negate any alleged gains.

I say 'alleged', because the body of evidence in favor of Dvorak's faster speeds is quite small, and there's even less evidence that Dvorak provides any advantage in preventing repetitive stress injuries.

That said, if I were ever to lose the use of one hand, I would definitely change layouts then -- the advantages of the one-handed Dvorak layouts for the disabled are fairly well established.
 

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mercurialbliss and senor rubirosa, you both have to go right to the cliche, don't you? What about Dvorak's Humoresque?
 

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By the way, Aloha! Are you a Mac man or a PC man? Just curious, every DVORAK fan I've ever met used a Mac....
 

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senor rubirosa said:
Very beautiful -- and nothing in history more cliched.
And you know that! *slap, slap, slap*
BTW, DC_DEEP, is that pic in your profile you?
Well, yes, on CD "collections" it is... but if you tell someone "Name a piece by Dvorak..." how many say "new world symphony" or "slavonic dances" or "piano quintet", compared with how many will say "humoresque"???

And yes, the pic in my gallery is indeed me, in my USMC dress blues.
 

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DC_DEEP said:
Well, yes, on CD "collections" it is... but if you tell someone "Name a piece by Dvorak..." how many say "new world symphony" or "slavonic dances" or "piano quintet", compared with how many will say "humoresque"???

My opinion, DC? I think more would say "humoresque" than the "piano quintet." But I don't know.

DC_DEEP said:
And yes, the pic my gallery is indeed me, in my USMC dress blues.

Very good pic. Ooh. I say again, ooh.
 

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DC_DEEP said:
Well, yes, on CD "collections" it is... but if you tell someone "Name a piece by Dvorak..." how many say "new world symphony" or "slavonic dances" or "piano quintet", compared with how many will say "humoresque"???

Gotta tell you, I think the most common answer would be "Who?"
 

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DC_DEEP said:
Why, you uncultured MONSTER!!! I'll beat you over the head with a cookie!

Ah, cookies I've heard of. . .

Actually, my area of research for my music degree was Eastern European music of the turn of the century -- Dvorak, Scriabin, Bartok, Kodaly, etc. (My thesis, however, was on Shostakovich's Fifth.) I got a lot of "who?" responses from people back then.
 

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mindseye said:
Ah, cookies I've heard of. . .

Actually, my area of research for my music degree was Eastern European music of the turn of the century -- Dvorak, Scriabin, Bartok, Kodaly, etc. (My thesis, however, was on Shostakovich's Fifth.) I got a lot of "who?" responses from people back then.
Shostakovich is great! I love Kalinikov, too (even though I've seen about 12 different variant spellings of his name.) Armenian Dances (parts I and II, but especially part I) is one of the most moving and exciting pieces I've ever played... I just never did get a lot of Bartok's stuff, though. I know it was folk-based, and a lot of it was pedagogical, but I just never really did get it.