From: Harri Haataja <realblades@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:59:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTindjpc0iQBQN_6Bh6c5R3MvHrC7eg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08D916BD-933C-453D-A66B-680C1635B3F4@bitblocks.com>
On 17 June 2011 19:54, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> I am all for more intuitive HCI design but frankly, if the small speed
> difference either way in mousing vs typing saves you enough time to make it
> worth retraining your brain and fingers, you are spending way too much time
> in front of the puter and have already shortened your life by more than you
> will save by any optimal use of mousing/keyboarding!
Some of us have to spend our working hours in front of a computer and
once the interface stops sucking your attention and causing pain, you
can concentrate on the data in front of you instead of wasting your
time thinking about the computer or operating system quirks.
--
I appear to be temporarily using gmail's horrible interface. I
apologise for any failure in my part in trying to make it do the right
thing with post formatting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-17 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-15 16:23 David Leimbach
2011-06-15 16:27 ` Jacob Todd
2011-06-15 20:19 ` errno
2011-06-15 20:30 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-06-15 20:54 ` errno
2011-06-16 5:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-06-16 8:54 ` errno
2011-06-15 16:48 ` dexen deVries
2011-06-15 17:10 ` Jack Norton
2011-06-15 17:16 ` John Floren
2011-06-15 18:05 ` Mauricio CA
2011-06-15 18:16 ` Connor Lane Smith
2011-06-15 18:37 ` Harri Haataja
2011-06-15 19:28 ` dexen deVries
2011-06-16 9:30 ` antonio.fin
2011-06-16 11:54 ` Gorka Guardiola
2011-06-17 7:57 ` Guilherme Lino
2011-06-17 8:14 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-06-17 9:16 ` Noah Evans
2011-06-17 14:26 ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
2011-06-17 13:55 ` Iruatã Souza
2011-06-17 15:39 ` Paul Lalonde
2011-06-17 16:09 ` Iruatã Souza
2011-06-17 16:54 ` Bakul Shah
2011-06-17 16:59 ` Harri Haataja [this message]
2011-06-17 17:29 ` andrew zerger
2011-06-17 18:03 ` Bakul Shah
2011-06-21 16:48 ` [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users " William Cowan
2011-06-21 17:20 ` Jack Johnson
2011-06-21 17:42 ` errno
2011-06-21 18:04 ` Jack Johnson
2011-06-21 19:42 ` errno
2011-06-17 18:52 ` [9fans] Mousing is faster than typing but users do " errno
2011-06-17 10:05 ` antonio.fin
2011-06-17 10:44 ` Gorka Guardiola
2011-06-17 10:14 ` Oleg Finkelshteyn
2011-06-17 10:23 ` Rob Pike
2011-06-17 10:33 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la llave
2011-06-17 10:36 ` Rogelio Serrano
2011-06-17 11:19 ` dexen deVries
2011-06-17 12:22 ` hiro
2011-06-17 12:31 ` simon softnet
2011-06-17 19:23 ` Guilherme Lino
2011-06-17 19:34 ` Federico G. Benavento
2011-06-17 20:41 ` dorin bumbu
2011-06-17 20:49 ` Steve Simon
2011-06-17 19:47 ` John Floren
2011-06-17 21:42 ` David Leimbach
2011-06-17 23:03 ` simon softnet
2011-06-18 0:35 ` David Leimbach
2011-06-18 0:44 ` simon softnet
2011-06-18 0:56 ` John Floren
2011-07-04 17:30 ` [9fans] Mousing muscle memory (was: Mousing is faster than typing but users do not believe it) Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-04 20:05 ` hiro
2011-07-04 21:21 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-04 20:44 ` EBo
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