Personal computing discussed
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Madman wrote:Voice recognition could work when coupled with touch, but it has reached a plateau http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/0 ... ition.html Not to mention that PCs will go nuts when they'll start to figure out what "make this detail prettier" in autocad or "make it unboke" in word means. Humans are very bad at expressing what they want to do in logical, exact and definitive terms.
cheesyking wrote:how are you going to input stuff that you don't want everyone within earshot knowing?
Madman wrote:Only interface that's likely to surpass keyboard right now, is the neural interface. If it will not fail like the voice recognition technologies.
Voice recognition could work when coupled with touch, but it has reached a plateau http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/0 ... ition.html Not to mention that PCs will go nuts when they'll start to figure out what "make this detail prettier" in autocad or "make it unboke" in word means. Humans are very bad at expressing what they want to do in logical, exact and definitive terms.
And, the problem with technology is humans, they are lazy to talk very clearly, they have accents, different languages, greasy fingertips and fatigue easily when working with vertical keyboards, or if watching down on a horizontal surface all the time.
Madman wrote:News source: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/201 ... er-80-inch
That explains a lot...
Sorry for the folks who do an actual business on Windows machines, like AutoCAD, Photo/Video processing, programming, spreadsheets, word documents and so on.
EsotericLord wrote:Did...I really just read someone equate touch screens with torture.....?
Madman wrote:cheesyking wrote:how are you going to input stuff that you don't want everyone within earshot knowing?
I don't think privacy is an issue in the modern world
Madman wrote:Sorry for the folks who do an actual business on Windows machines, like AutoCAD, Photo/Video processing, programming, spreadsheets, word documents and so on.
streagle27 wrote:It's as if Microsoft and a few others really believe that minimal movements from fingers on a keyboard and mouse are not nearly as efficient as waving hands and arms all over an expansive transparent screen which will be on every desk, cubicle and office.
I doubt anyone will enjoy working out their deltoids in this way. I can only imagine how 'easy' it would be to 'type' all day on such a screen. Secretaries of the world would revolt.
Large vertical touch displays do not lend themselves to long sessions of real work where large amounts of data need to be worked with or entered.
Is moving a mouse or typing on a keyboard really that difficult especially when young children are growing up in an environment where keyboarding and typing skills are not only required, but rather easily acquired?
Or do some really believe that people should be purchasing large vertical touch screens because they'll be standing up doing all their work with their arms extended in what some would call 'stress positions'. Last I read, stress positions were akin to torture and used on terrorists.
If innovators think that users are terrorists, they need to get a different job.
p.s. Tiles, there's another 'innovation'.. Earlier this evening, I uninstalled Windows 8 Consumer preview. I don't usually enjoy 'hacking' an OS just to make it usable again. The use of 'tiles' became a time and desktop-space wasting exercise in futility. Talk about inefficient. I can only imagine how much faster my laptop screen hinges would have worn out and failed, and how much 'gunk' I'd be wiping off my laptop screen had it actually been a touch screen.