I always support the local business especially when dealing with something like flowers. If the local shop costs more, I can just send half a dozen instead of a dozen flowers. This is unlike electronics where you can't take home half an HDTV and are forced to shop at the big box stores.
That subsidized price being determined by a calculation of how low it may be and still return a sufficient lifetime profit given the recurring revenue thereafter; should litigation costs rise, the price at which it is offered will adjust to maintain the same rate of return.
It's bad news for both Amazon and consumers that the device is relatively fragile (I assume he's not lying about the severity of the drop). Either the price stays high because Amazon pays out many replacements, or the price can stay low for those who baby the device, and high for those who drop it.
I've never tried DVORAK but from what I know, QWERTY was specifically designed so mechanical typewriters don't jam due the speed of typing. And if true, this reason alone means DVORAK is faster. Anyone can confirm or debunk this theory I've heard?
QWERTY was designed to prevent jams, but did so by physical separation of the keys, not by slowing the typist. In fact, separating keys increases typing speed by distributing the load over both hands -- try typing "fewer seats are west" to see how annoying placing letters together is.
It's been de-bunked before. The only studies suggesting that DVORAK was faster were done by the people who created the DVORAK layout. Their study was apparently also flawed.
The only people who don't like talking about why better solutions failed in the market place are free market fundamentalists. The source of all this alleged debunking was an article by economists:
