<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Jay Lozier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com" target="_blank">jslozier@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 10/15/2012 01:35 PM, Jim Kinney
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<blockquote type="cite">yes. Touchscreens are for "content consumers". Content
producers would go insane if their only input was a touchscreen.<br>
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Imagine the process at the u-checkout line expanded to all of IT.
"Pick problem by color, category or sku"...<br>
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If it's made so idiots can use it, there's no incentive for the
idiots to change. <br>
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Hmm. Maybe a Morse-code key on the cell phones for text input.....<br>
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Which Morse code: American or International?</div></blockquote><div><br>Ha! Here in "bubbaville" it'll have to 10-codes only. so the bubbas only need to learn the digits.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Jay
Lozier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com" target="_blank">jslozier@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div>On 10/15/2012 11:33 AM, Ben Coleman wrote:<br>
> On 10/14/2012 1:15 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:<br>
>> The blogger commented that Win8 interaction is
medical disaster waiting<br>
>> to happen for users of laptops and desktops because
of repetitive motion<br>
>> injuries caused by constantly needing to touch the
screen.<br>
> So, sounds like Win8 represents the return of Gorilla
arm.<br>
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> Ben<br>
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Before seeing a doctor about your shoulder injury. My take is
when<br>
creating content, entering data, writing documents, etc. is
best done<br>
with the traditional keyboard/mouse interface not a
touchscreen. I<br>
believe Xerox PARC carefully studied human/computer
interactions and<br>
concluded that the keyboard/mouse interface used today is the
best<br>
overall in most typing/editing intensive situations. That
research is<br>
from the 70's.<br>
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Touch screens seem to be very good for cellphones, smart
phones, and<br>
tablets which only require very sporadic and limited typing
(or are<br>
intended for such use).<br>
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