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EsotericLord wrote:It's still way too early for mice/keyboards to die, and Metro is really unwieldy to learn on those devices.
I think Windows 8 is going to make a great mobile (tablets, maybe high end laptops with touch screens) OS, but I really can't see myself using it on a desktop.
thegleek wrote:EsotericLord wrote:It's still way too early for mice/keyboards to die, and Metro is really unwieldy to learn on those devices.
I think Windows 8 is going to make a great mobile (tablets, maybe high end laptops with touch screens) OS, but I really can't see myself using it on a desktop.
it's going to be funny to read all these complaints 10 years from now when mouse/keyboard input will be in the dying minority (kinda like how floppy drives phased out). Because sooner or later, mice... and keyboards... Will cease to exist. Not talking the immediate decades, maybe 20-50 years from now... Maybe sooner. But we can't be so dependent on old technologies.
derFunkenstein wrote:I do think gleek's suggestion that keyboard/mouse will be a thing of the past is incredibly shortsighted without suitable replacements with tangible benefits. Typing on a touch screen? Movements with a mouse? Painful. The current paradigm is unsurpassed for accuracy and speed right now.
thegleek wrote:Because sooner or later, mice... and keyboards... Will cease to exist.
thegleek wrote:derFunkenstein wrote:I do think gleek's suggestion that keyboard/mouse will be a thing of the past is incredibly shortsighted without suitable replacements with tangible benefits. Typing on a touch screen? Movements with a mouse? Painful. The current paradigm is unsurpassed for accuracy and speed right now.
Remember this back in 2002? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtt2Xe2y0FI
Yeah, we're not so far off today are we? Imagine what technology can do in another +10 years.
JohnC wrote:thegleek wrote:derFunkenstein wrote:I do think gleek's suggestion that keyboard/mouse will be a thing of the past is incredibly shortsighted without suitable replacements with tangible benefits. Typing on a touch screen? Movements with a mouse? Painful. The current paradigm is unsurpassed for accuracy and speed right now.
Remember this back in 2002? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtt2Xe2y0FI
Yeah, we're not so far off today are we? Imagine what technology can do in another +10 years.
Gesture-based interfaces look "cool" in movies, but try jumping around your monitor and flail your hands at the same time at your home - how many hours you'll be able to physically tolerate it, especially if you're not the type of person who likes to physically excercise or potentially have some kind of physical disability that prevents you from doing that? And how much will all the required hardware cost, compared to a $10 mouse?
thegleek wrote:it's going to be funny to read all these complaints 10 years from now when mouse/keyboard input will be in the dying minority (kinda like how floppy drives phased out). Because sooner or later, mice... and keyboards... Will cease to exist. Not talking the immediate decades, maybe 20-50 years from now... Maybe sooner. But we can't be so dependent on old technologies.
just brew it! wrote:IMO Ubuntu's Unity is a non-optimal desktop environment for similar reasons.
Madman wrote:you cover the screen with hands, and you leave fugly fingerprints all around the screen. You must be super dumb to enjoy that.
But leaving fingerprints on 3D Vision enabled 3x40" panoramic OLED screen, you got to be kidding me.
thegleek wrote:Madman wrote:you cover the screen with hands, and you leave fugly fingerprints all around the screen. You must be super dumb to enjoy that.
But leaving fingerprints on 3D Vision enabled 3x40" panoramic OLED screen, you got to be kidding me.
Sounds like you have an OCD issue or something. Fingerprints are everywhere! Who cares?!
End User wrote:I use Unity (12.04) every day. Unity rocks.
Sargent Duck wrote:As a Microsoft fanboy, I hate to say it because they need this, but Windows 8 will be a flop.
just brew it! wrote:End User wrote:I use Unity (12.04) every day. Unity rocks.
Is the 12.04 version significantly different from the 11.10 version? Because if it isn't, I'm having a pretty hard time getting my brain around the idea that it "rocks".
just brew it! wrote:End User wrote:I use Unity (12.04) every day. Unity rocks.
Is the 12.04 version significantly different from the 11.10 version? Because if it isn't, I'm having a pretty hard time getting my brain around the idea that it "rocks".
End User wrote:just brew it! wrote:End User wrote:I use Unity (12.04) every day. Unity rocks.
Is the 12.04 version significantly different from the 11.10 version? Because if it isn't, I'm having a pretty hard time getting my brain around the idea that it "rocks".
Unity is a love it or hate it UI it seems. It really works for me. 12.04 has been fine tuned and the new HUD just came online:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/unit ... ntu-12-04/
I could never go back to the UI before Unity - it was too damn archaic.