in the era of when typewriters were born, typists soon grew frustrated by their device’s propensity to jam when keys were struck too quickly. The QWERTY layout developed exactly because it was one of the most inefficient designs possible, meant to slow down...

Av button (located just to the right of the viewfinder). Consequently, it is quite simply impossible to adjust aperture and speed at the same time, which causes the operator to lose precious seconds and makes the manual mode inefficient. A pity. ...

For example, you might choose to implement policy that restricts these users from connecting to your internal, remote-access VPN gateway to protect against an inefficient situation where internal users jump on the guest system and connect back into the secure...

USB ports, so if you're not using your computer for anything other than charging a media player, then it might be the most inefficient way of doing things if nothing else. Also, most people buying media players these days are the tech-illiterate who...

to use a standard keyboard and mouse to navigate through the setup. At first glance, using a remote might seem to be an inefficient way to design a complex setup. Once the PC is installed into a home theater environment, however, making adjustments in the setup...

or branded Internet browser on your computer. Why are these people having so much fun? So when I learned that Yahoo was getting into the media center software business, I cringed with thoughts of obtrusive and inefficient software. It turns out, however, that...