"Modern ergonomics is a conspiracy to economically disadvantage the non-average-sized person."
What's really annoying about that, as if the mere fact of it weren't bad enough, is that in the 1980s there were folks doing ergonomics right, and "ergonomic" usually meant "adjustable in all sorts of different directions and dimensions to accomodate the big differences between human bodies". Is there anyone still doing that, or is it all just "we made it a lot better than old-fashioned stuff for the Average Person but making it adjustable to everyone else was too expensive so we'll settle for printing 'Ergonomic' on the box" thing nowadays?
As for touch-typing in the dark, that's when I really miss having the function keys down the left side, where God intended them to be, instead of across the top. It's so much easier to find the right one that way (and when it really mattered a hell of a lot was when I touch-typed WordPerfect, never thinking about which function key meant "underline", just thinking "underline" or "bold" or "indent" or whatever and having my pinkie flick out to the right function key -- can't do that when they're across the top).
Well, at Amex, ergonomic meant whatever the engineers decided was right to reduce our getting sued for repetitve stress injuries. And if the ergonomic solution was not comfortable for someone (for whatever reason), then that person was just SOL.
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What's really annoying about that, as if the mere fact of it weren't bad enough, is that in the 1980s there were folks doing ergonomics right, and "ergonomic" usually meant "adjustable in all sorts of different directions and dimensions to accomodate the big differences between human bodies". Is there anyone still doing that, or is it all just "we made it a lot better than old-fashioned stuff for the Average Person but making it adjustable to everyone else was too expensive so we'll settle for printing 'Ergonomic' on the box" thing nowadays?
As for touch-typing in the dark, that's when I really miss having the function keys down the left side, where God intended them to be, instead of across the top. It's so much easier to find the right one that way (and when it really mattered a hell of a lot was when I touch-typed WordPerfect, never thinking about which function key meant "underline", just thinking "underline" or "bold" or "indent" or whatever and having my pinkie flick out to the right function key -- can't do that when they're across the top).
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