On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 15:25 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn > <alan...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > The touch scrren allows manipulate the abacus activity like an real > > abacus... > > As Yoshiki points out, without multitouch, you cannot use it in the > same what as a real abacus. Even with multitouch, you are missing much > of the tactile feedback you have with the physical object. So it is > doubtful that the Abacus activity could ever be manipulated at the > same speed as the real thing. But again, this is not really the point.
Doesn't anybody see the irony of a computer emulating an abacus, but not as efficiently as its 4000 years old counterpart? :-) -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep