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From: Your Name on 10 May 2010 00:16 In article <hs7mvo$nl7$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Groleau+nntp(a)FreeShell.org wrote: > On 05-09-2010 17:10, Your Name wrote: > > Even ignoring those problems, a computer's display is near vertical, which > > would be tiresome (at best) for long term touchscreen use. > > Again, I never heard that complaint from my wife nor from any other > cashiers. Having used them myself, I would not expect to mind any use > other than typing text. Cashiers are basically only pushing large onscreen buttons (one chain of local hairdresser uses a touchscreen and they use their finger to write the client's name in a large field of the database) for simple tasks, which as I said is fine for a touchscreen ... but try dragging files around, opening folders / files, etc. that normally do with a mouse and long term it will become tiresome. Using a normal keyboard and mouse your wrist rests on the desk or wrist-rest, but with a vertical touchscreen your arm is always trying to resist gravity.
From: JF Mezei on 10 May 2010 00:26 Your Name wrote: > long term it will become tiresome. Using a normal keyboard and mouse your > wrist rests on the desk or wrist-rest, but with a vertical touchscreen > your arm is always trying to resist gravity. Think of a glass desktop (litterally). Touch screen becomes much more intuitive than some keyboard/mouse. Who said that the display has to be vertical ?
From: Wayne Marsh on 10 May 2010 01:13 In article <4be78b0a$0$14672$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > Think of a glass desktop (litterally). Touch screen becomes much more > intuitive than some keyboard/mouse. Then the eye has to keep refocussing from the near edge of the "desktop" to the far edges. Seems like a prescription for eye fatigue or headache. My vertical screen is all pretty much at the same focal distance from my eyes. Left/right/up/down eye movements aren't so tiring. -- Wayne Marsh Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA waynegmarsh(a)mac.com
From: ZnU on 10 May 2010 01:46 In article <waynegmarsh-C6E99B.00115710052010(a)news.iphouse.com>, Wayne Marsh <waynegmarsh(a)mac.com> wrote: > In article <4be78b0a$0$14672$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, > JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > > > Think of a glass desktop (litterally). Touch screen becomes much more > > intuitive than some keyboard/mouse. > > Then the eye has to keep refocussing from the near edge of the "desktop" > to the far edges. Seems like a prescription for eye fatigue or headache. > My vertical screen is all pretty much at the same focal distance from my > eyes. Left/right/up/down eye movements aren't so tiring. Um... humans haven't been starting at computer screens for 10 hours a day for the last 200,000 years. I'm pretty sure that shifting focal distances regularly is what your eyes are supposed to be doing, and that actually, it's focusing at at fixed (and relatively short) distance that's not especially good for them. -- "The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll." -- John Maynard Keynes
From: Your Name on 10 May 2010 02:23
"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote in message news:4be78b0a$0$14672$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > Your Name wrote: > > > long term it will become tiresome. Using a normal keyboard and mouse your > > wrist rests on the desk or wrist-rest, but with a vertical touchscreen > > your arm is always trying to resist gravity. > > Think of a glass desktop (litterally). Touch screen becomes much more > intuitive than some keyboard/mouse. > > Who said that the display has to be vertical ? Nobody, but that's how computers are currently made. As I said, running a touchscreen OS on a computer would require the re-design of both the OS and the hardware ... which is what they've done to get the iPad. A touchscreen OS on a computer, as we known them, is simply silly. The mouse and keyboard will be around for a long while yet. But even with a horizontal / slightly-angled screen of any large size you're going to have problems trying to work out whether that "touch" was an intended finger or an accidental brush of the arm, meaning you've still got nowhere to actually rest you wrists / arms. Both Microsoft and Apple have shown future dream-ideas which have a touchscreen desktop interface, as well as voice recognition, etc. Microsoft currently even sells a (hideously expensive) table "computer", but it's not really used as a computer, it's just a giant iPad and photo shuffler. |