Re: Stop the bling, fergawdssake!

On 11/15/11 6:03 AM, Greywolf wrote:

> The same principle holds for components of a system: Optimising one
> comes at the expense of seriously suboptimising one or more others. That
> would make the system as whole suboptimal. Better to have all elements
> slightly (=acceptably) sub-optimal. This is of course a non-intuitive,
> paradoxical insight, hence the unwillingness of  component optimisers to
> compromise. It explains why you can't design a perfect UI by improving
> its components one at a time; you are likely to make it worse rather
> than better.

And it all boils down to the fact there is no utopia anywhere for 
anything that will please everybody .   LOL

> (2) The reference to key-jamming as the motivation for the QWERTY layout
> is correct. Even so, it's possible to jam a QWERTY keyboard when the
> typewriter becomes clogged with dirt, oxidised grease, etc. I know that
> from experience. ;-)

I was *so* good at jamming those keys in high school!  :: grin ::



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Ken

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