please forgive me for giving advice.
Thanks Peter... I do know most of these things... over the years I
found that holding devices in a static, cramped position (not to many
options with a mouse) aggravated the problem. With a big trackball I
could actually exercise my hand while working and th
On 13 Jan 2006, at 10:30 PM, sandra ragan wrote:
Personally I prefer a trackball and a pressure sensitive pen...
mice causing aggravating repetitive strain problems.
...
Keyboarding certain types of input is definitely faster than a
mouse, but far more hazardous to the health of human wris
ld) who can consistently lock up my
Mac he's a wiz at AutoCAD on the PC.
Sandra Ragan
www.plumdigital.com
On Jan 13, 2006, at 7:00 AM, Terry McCune wrote:
GUIs are rarely more efficient or faster than a CLI. But man is
mostly a visual critter, so a GUI is an easier tool with which to
At 8:38 AM -0500 01/13/2006, Alan Miller wrote:
Unless of course you have trouble typing or might be dyslexic and
have trouble getting the letters in the correct order, or you live
your live with a spell checker running all the time.
I had a project partner in college for several years, that w
> They're astonished that it works, and they forget about it before I
> leave their office.
>
> I'm slowly larnin' them, though. As they come in with some issue or
>
> It's odd. Only Windows users seem to have this problem. All of my Mac
> users get it right away.
I still have a couple of
On Jan 13, 2006, at 8:02 AM, diane wrote:
I am just saying that in many instances (and a point of sale system
is a great example) they are slower.
actually, POS systems are ideal candidates for a GUI, just not one
that requires a mouse; this is what touch screens are for.
But I sympathiz
At 7:33 AM -0700 1/13/06, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jan 13, 2006, at 6:38 AM, Alan Miller wrote:
Unless of course you have trouble typing or might be dyslexic and
have trouble getting the letters in the correct order, or you live
your live with a spell checker running all the time.
Some of us
GUIs are rarely more efficient or faster than a CLI. But man is
mostly a visual critter, so a GUI is an easier tool with which to
guide those who won't RTFM.
- Dan.
I can second that statement that man is mostly a visual critter. We
tend to forget that the GUI was designed after p
On Jan 13, 2006, at 6:38 AM, Alan Miller wrote:
Unless of course you have trouble typing or might be dyslexic and
have trouble getting the letters in the correct order, or you live
your live with a spell checker running all the time.
Some of us are just that much more visual than others!
On Jan 12, 2006, at 8:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GUIs are rarely more efficient or faster than a CLI. But man is
mostly a visual critter, so a GUI is an easier tool with which to
guide those who won't RTFM.
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On Jan 12, 2006, at 10:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GUIs are rarely more efficient or faster than a CLI. But man is
to GUIs... not because it made money, but because our
brains process massive amounts of information faster visually and
we see patterns in that information easier visually... comes with
being
That's really interesting, as in the "pc" world I find the command
line to much quic
Diane wrote, "I see someone in a store with their GUI cash register typing one
word, reach for the mouse, type, reach, etc, and all I can say is "TAB KEY!"
ROTFL...that's ~exactly~ what I do; or I will mutter, "press the TAB key, press
the TAB key, press the TAB key" under my breath, just loud e
At 5:10 PM -0800 1/12/06, sandra ragan wrote:
Take the near demise of the Desktop metaphor Finder (specifically as
iconic/object representations) in the first round of OSX... I for
one spent 5 years in a firm moving people from command line
interfaces to GUIs... not because it made money, but
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