Well, being the trivia master I am, sometimes the standard keyboard is referred to as the qwerty keyboard. Some people think the Dvorak (named after its inventor, not the layout) is better. If you like the Dvorak keyboard, then you'll probably be speaking Esperanto someday.
Originally posted by stecal Jeez, ever look at the keyboard? What is the first letter in the top left corner?
'A' if you're French ! ! !
"The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous" - Gibbon, quoted by R.P.Feynman
Well, being the trivia master I am, sometimes the standard keyboard is referred to as the qwerty keyboard. Some people think the Dvorak (named after its inventor, not the layout) is better. If you like the Dvorak keyboard, then you'll probably be speaking Esperanto someday.
I too am a master of trivia, and i know that the original tests which "proved" the dvorak keyboard to be superior were carried out by the US Navy in 1944, tests that were carried out by a time-and-motion expert Lieutenant-Commander August Dvorak -- guess what? He owned the patent on the Dvorak keyboard layout.
Tests carried out by the General Services Administration in '56 found qwerty to be superior, which pretty much killed interest in retraining people to dvorak.
There must be something better than QWERTY (or QWERTZ or AZERTY etc) since that layout was invented to SLOW DOWN typists in the early days when the primitive mechanical typewriters could not keep up.
(In case you were wondering - NO, I don't personally remember that period! Come to think of it - more triva - earliest "typewriting" known? - about 1'500 BC!)
"The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous" - Gibbon, quoted by R.P.Feynman
. . . . and the k/b on the English language Linotype type-setting machine was ETAOIN. The dies had to fall into place, so the common letters were placed so that they travalled the shortest distance.
"The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous" - Gibbon, quoted by R.P.Feynman
Originally posted by raghud I guess Nandu gave us very good query
SELECT ename FROM Emp
WHERE upper(substr(ename,2,1)) BETWEEN chr(65) and chr(90)
You don't need to mention a..z in query
Hm, I don't know about you, but I would never want to decypher what that that query is supposed to mean if I would find it in my shared pool. Isn't the following variant much more "human"?
SELECT ename FROM Emp
WHERE upper(substr(ename,2,1)) BETWEEN 'A' and 'Z'
Jurij Modic ASCII a stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
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