Put the fear of God into them, and you will have no more child-sized prints on your Air.
I can't bequeath something I was not given myself.
Fear of Dad works. It may not be as daunting as a make-believe invisible super-hero who lives in the sky and can read their minds, but visibility and immediacy of consequences more than make up for that.
Put the fear of God into them, and you will have no more child-sized prints on your Air.
I can't bequeath something I was not given myself.
Fear of Dad works. It may not be as daunting as a make-believe invisible super-hero who lives in the sky and can read their minds, but visibility and immediacy of consequences more than make up for that.
Fear of atheists would probably be even more effective.
Let alone the fingerprints on the screen that look horrible. I am constantly scuffling with my children to prevent them pressing their dirty fingers daubed with jam or chocolate or butter on the screen of my MacBook Air
Think about that for a minute. The kids' fingers naturally gravitate to the screen. The *intuitive* way of interacting with an image is to TOUCH it.
If people are pointing at things, why not give them the ability to manipulate what they're pointing at as long as their hands are already there anyway?
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Originally Posted by EauVive
I don't want to figure out the disaster it would be if they had to.
No one is saying "HAVE to." Adding a touchscreen doesn't mean you can't use your mouse and touchpad and fader controller and jog/shuttle wheel and Leap and 3DConnexion. The touchscreen would just be ANOTHER input method that you can use when you feel like and not when you don't.
People add all kinds of input devices that are not necessarily ideal for every single task you'd ever want to perform on a computer, the most obvious one in my world being audio controllers with knobs and faders. The fact that such a device is not a replacement for a mouse is irrelevant. It provides ANOTHER way of interacting with the device, one that is sometimes more natural and intuitive than performing the same operation with a mouse would be. The same would be true of a touchscreen.
Fear of atheists would probably be even more effective.
Uh. I am more in line with Bertrand Russell's style. Nobody's afraid of me, especially not my children.
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Originally Posted by Lorin Schultz
Think about that for a minute. The kids' fingers naturally gravitate to the screen. The *intuitive* way of interacting with an image is to TOUCH it.
If people are pointing at things, why not give them the ability to manipulate what they're pointing at as long as their hands are already there anyway?
Because using a pointer while looking at the screen is way more challenging for the brain and therefore develops neural abilities further…
obvious one in my world being audio controllers with knobs and faders. The fact that such a device is not a replacement for a mouse is irrelevant. It provides ANOTHER way of interacting with the device, one that is sometimes more natural and intuitive than performing the same operation with a mouse would be. The same would be true of a touchscreen.
Or my graphic tablet. By the way, sometimes I wish I could draw directly on the screen. I seem to be a clumsy oaf with the tablet stylus, whereas I am pretty good with standard pens and paper…
Or my graphic tablet. By the way, sometimes I wish I could draw directly on the screen. I seem to be a clumsy oaf with the tablet stylus, whereas I am pretty good with standard pens and paper…
There are a few reasons for that. The angle is typically unnatural compared to what you would use for pencil and paper. Tablet is either off to one side or you have to navigate around a keyboard. Computer desks weren't really designed for that kind of precision work. A second issue is mapping. Your hand and the cursor are not locked to a 1:1 path. This can be partly overcome by limiting the size of your screen and using the largest possible tablet. If it's still an issue, map it to a subsection of the screen, chopping off the right and bottom portions from the mapping. Even then it's inferior to a cintiq, but it may be a significant improvement.
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Sure but I found better results in recreating a scene from an Eli Roth film to get my point across.
Put the fear of God into them, and you will have no more child-sized prints on your Air.
I can't bequeath something I was not given myself. I used to play dice with God when I was a child. I never won. Darn.
So I unearthed my old MacBook Unibody 1st generation and offered it to the progeny as a sacrificial present.
It worked…
Put the fear of God into them, and you will have no more child-sized prints on your Air.
I can't bequeath something I was not given myself.
Fear of Dad works. It may not be as daunting as a make-believe invisible super-hero who lives in the sky and can read their minds, but visibility and immediacy of consequences more than make up for that.
Put the fear of God into them, and you will have no more child-sized prints on your Air.
I can't bequeath something I was not given myself.
Fear of Dad works. It may not be as daunting as a make-believe invisible super-hero who lives in the sky and can read their minds, but visibility and immediacy of consequences more than make up for that.
Fear of atheists would probably be even more effective.
Let alone the fingerprints on the screen that look horrible. I am constantly scuffling with my children to prevent them pressing their dirty fingers daubed with jam or chocolate or butter on the screen of my MacBook Air
Think about that for a minute. The kids' fingers naturally gravitate to the screen. The *intuitive* way of interacting with an image is to TOUCH it.
If people are pointing at things, why not give them the ability to manipulate what they're pointing at as long as their hands are already there anyway?
I don't want to figure out the disaster it would be if they had to.
No one is saying "HAVE to." Adding a touchscreen doesn't mean you can't use your mouse and touchpad and fader controller and jog/shuttle wheel and Leap and 3DConnexion. The touchscreen would just be ANOTHER input method that you can use when you feel like and not when you don't.
People add all kinds of input devices that are not necessarily ideal for every single task you'd ever want to perform on a computer, the most obvious one in my world being audio controllers with knobs and faders. The fact that such a device is not a replacement for a mouse is irrelevant. It provides ANOTHER way of interacting with the device, one that is sometimes more natural and intuitive than performing the same operation with a mouse would be. The same would be true of a touchscreen.
Fear of atheists would probably be even more effective.
Uh. I am more in line with Bertrand Russell's style. Nobody's afraid of me, especially not my children.
Think about that for a minute. The kids' fingers naturally gravitate to the screen. The *intuitive* way of interacting with an image is to TOUCH it.
If people are pointing at things, why not give them the ability to manipulate what they're pointing at as long as their hands are already there anyway?
Because using a pointer while looking at the screen is way more challenging for the brain and therefore develops neural abilities further…
obvious one in my world being audio controllers with knobs and faders. The fact that such a device is not a replacement for a mouse is irrelevant. It provides ANOTHER way of interacting with the device, one that is sometimes more natural and intuitive than performing the same operation with a mouse would be. The same would be true of a touchscreen.
Or my graphic tablet. By the way, sometimes I wish I could draw directly on the screen. I seem to be a clumsy oaf with the tablet stylus, whereas I am pretty good with standard pens and paper…
sometimes I wish I could draw directly on the screen
I know, I want a Cintiq too.
Or my graphic tablet. By the way, sometimes I wish I could draw directly on the screen. I seem to be a clumsy oaf with the tablet stylus, whereas I am pretty good with standard pens and paper…
There are a few reasons for that. The angle is typically unnatural compared to what you would use for pencil and paper. Tablet is either off to one side or you have to navigate around a keyboard. Computer desks weren't really designed for that kind of precision work. A second issue is mapping. Your hand and the cursor are not locked to a 1:1 path. This can be partly overcome by limiting the size of your screen and using the largest possible tablet. If it's still an issue, map it to a subsection of the screen, chopping off the right and bottom portions from the mapping. Even then it's inferior to a cintiq, but it may be a significant improvement.