Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:37:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@yahoo.com> To: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggestion for /usr/src/UPDATING Message-ID: <20040831213725.23604.qmail@web50604.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040831211834.GA16465@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
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--- Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: > On Aug 31, "Matthew D. Fuller" wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:31:31PM -0700 I heard the voice of > > Brooks Davis, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > > > I agree the current default is confusing and counterintuitive, at > > > least at first. > > > > I don't! > > > > It's been a whole lotta years since I ever put any conscious thought > > into which hand I'm using to type a letter. I just decide to type > > that letter. 'l' for the left side, and 'r' for the right side make > > perfect sense; it would never even occur to me to think about which > > hand is being used. > > I also think it's very important to consider neurology here. Quoting a > medical text: > > * Nerves from the brain cross over at neck-level to the opposite side of the > * body, and nerves from the other side of the brain reciprocate. The end > * result is that the opposite sides of the body are supplied by the opposite > * sides of the brain. > > So it's deceptive to think that using the left hand would correspond to > the *idea* of something on the left. You see linux people making these > kind of arguments all the time, and I'd really hate to see FreeBSD run > with this idea just to "keep up with the Torvaldses." > > Mike I'm starting to feel sorry I said anything. I'm also starting to like Gentoo just a tiny bit more.
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