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From: Roedy Green on 30 Apr 2010 13:53 On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:31:57 -0400, Lew <noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >You elided the important part of my comment: that "that smart thing" is to put >the mouse on the left. I personally don't see that as practical, though I could see as excellent for lefties or ambidextrous people. I have enough problem as it is with fine control of the mouse with my right hand. With the left it is hopeless, in particular trying to select several letters out of a word with that fine vertical cursor. I think though I am unusually clumsy. The other problem is some mice are designed to be use only left or only right handed. You might have to get new mouse. My main problem with fine control of mice is getting the coefficient of friction down. Even with frequent cleanings of feed and pad and replacing feet, the mouse motion is never as smooth as I'd like for fine control. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com It�s amazing how much structure natural languages have when you consider who speaks them and how they evolved.
From: Roedy Green on 30 Apr 2010 13:54 On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:01:55 -0700 (PDT), Lew <lew(a)lewscanon.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >Actually, it's a really, really terrible point since the numpad is >very useful. What do you use it for? -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com It�s amazing how much structure natural languages have when you consider who speaks them and how they evolved.
From: Roedy Green on 30 Apr 2010 14:00 On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:49:57 +0100, Tom Anderson <twic(a)urchin.earth.li> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >Maybe a keyboard should just come as a collection of 105 lego bricks with >keys on top, and a baseboard. Some kind of personal-area network could >collect the keypresses. Keys could use the energy of keystrokes to power >themselves. Everyone would be able to adjust their keyboard on a whim, and >everyone would have exactly the layout they wanted. I proposed that idea a couple of decades ago, as vision of the future. However, by now with a throw-away display in every pregnancy test strip, it might be possible to put a display on every key, and have the legends change as you type -- so for example you could flip to accents mode, or Greek or Cyrillic -- letting you type the complete Unicode set with visual feedback, and of course fully customisable layouts. You could also have work in learn-to-type mode where legends were hidden, with occasional peeks. It might come with half a dozen spare keys, so this might be a 20 year high end investment. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com It�s amazing how much structure natural languages have when you consider who speaks them and how they evolved.
From: Roedy Green on 30 Apr 2010 14:15 On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:48:09 +0100, Break Point <break.point.00(a)google.mail.removepreviousdot.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >>> Beautiful dreams of the ridiculously expensive Optimus Maximus. These things have a 48x48 colour display on each key. $2400 US. User programmable. You can even do animations on the keys. Requires two USB ports. No Linux support. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com It�s amazing how much structure natural languages have when you consider who speaks them and how they evolved.
From: Eric Sosman on 30 Apr 2010 14:41
On 4/30/2010 1:42 PM, Roedy Green wrote: > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:48:09 +0100, Break Point > <break.point.00(a)google.mail.removepreviousdot.com> wrote, quoted or > indirectly quoted someone who said : > >> cast into room 101 > > Could you explain that reference? I presume it means > "discarded/destroyed". At a guess, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_101>. GIYF. -- Eric Sosman esosman(a)ieee-dot-org.invalid |