Re: ASETNIOP Keyboard

From: Dr. Jai Maharaj (usenet_at_mantra.com)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:56:24 GMT

In article <13fd3446.0408221801.1f05dba1@posting.google.com>,
 skearney7@earthlink.net (Old Physics) posted:

> Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
>
> > In article <13fd3446.0408211640.6d039405@posting.google.com>,
> > skearney7@earthlink.net (Old Physics) posted:
> > > ASETNIOP Keyboard
> > >
> > > Different name, same idea.
> > > By simply transposing dfjkl; with the letters etniop, a keyboard
> > > would be made more than forty percent more efficient, 80% more
> > > efficient for the letters transposed. Less transverse motion and more
> > > common letters on the home row will result in greater speed, comfort
> > > and fewer mistakes.
> > > By keeping the letters under the same fingers you will find that
> > > etnio and p will be easy to learn, e and t are each more common than
> > > dfjkl; combined in normal english text. Dfjkl and ; are harder to get
> > > used to, you will be hitting them in their old locations.
> > >
> > > "Use this test as an exercise, inhibit transverse motion" will
> > > come out
> > > "Usd fhks fdsf as aj dxdrcksd, kjhkbkf frajsvdrsd mlfklj" on the
> > > qwerty keyboard. using text without dfjkl and ; makes it easy to detect
> > > mistakes as they will show up as etnio or p in the practice.
> > > Christopher Latham Showles originally put e and probably t on the
> > > home row under the middle and index fingers of the left hand. This
> > > caused a jamming of the key bars on his mechanical typewriter, making
> > > for a machine unfriendly typist. This led to our modern version,
> > > patented in 1868. Maybe its time to go back to the original design again.
> > >
> > > Stephen Kearney
> >
> > The voice-to-text systems I have been using
> > over the years have become increasingly accurate to,
> > I would say, about 95 percent accuracy. For most
> > informal and casual writing by most people, a keyboard
> > isn't really necessary. Coming next: thought-to-text systems.
> >
> > Jai Maharaj
> > http://www.mantra.com/jai
> > Om Shanti

> Can you give any insight as to how a "TtT" system would work?
> What kind of interface does it use? Even for person to person,
> writing, voice or sign language is universaly necessary for complex
> communication.

Give "any insight" (read "proprietary information") to an anonymous
person and in a public forum? Be content that you learned of an idea
that is apparently new to you!

Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti