Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:17:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: FreeBSD keyboard Message-ID: <199607151117.NAA04587@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199607141608.QAA17220@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> from "Sean Kelly" at Jul 14, 96 10:08:41 am
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Sean Kelly writes: > >>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> writes: > > Greg> Why did they change the keyboard layout to put the F keys up > Greg> the top again? Some marketeer decided it would sell better > Greg> that way. You can bet he can't type. > > He might've been able to type anyway. Assertion: newer is better. :-) If he'd been able to type, he could easily have found something newer which wasn't objectively worse. > What was Nuprin's marketing scheme for their analgesic tablets that > Terry Lambert cleverly quoted at one time: little, yellow, different. ... and they make you sick? I can even see the marketeer's point of view in wanting to bring out something new and different. But even marketeers appreciate that that's not enough: it has to be at least as good as it was before. Greg
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