4 Jun
2013
4 Jun
'13
10:29 a.m.
On 4 June 2013 16:48, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
Sure there is. There's no way in hell I'm
going to reach out to poke at a
display sitting at my desk. This is why Windows 8 is a total catastrophe.
They're forcing tablet behavior in an environment that is decidedly
optimized for exactly NOT that kind of interface.
For a 36" tablet to be practical to use on the desktop, it would have to be
oriented at the same height & angle as a keyboard. However, now that this
fancy display is also where the keyboard was, your CAD input devices are now
three feet apart!
And before you get going on how the screen could be used in place of those
devices, I'm going to stop you right now. If you've not spent a
considerable amount of time doing 3D modeling and CAD, you don't have the
experience to discuss more than speculatively on how it should be done.
[Sigh]
You have no imagination left, old man, none. :?)
Nobody is asking you to, as I keep saying, but you seem to be so
fixated on hating the new and telling me I don't know shit that you're
not actually reading what I'm writing.
I *SAID*, repeatedly, that PCs will continue to support mice and
keyboards and pens and pucks and so on for many years to come.
Hint. I know many professional writers working on iPads these days,
for portability reasons. They don't do it by poking the screen. They
use a keyboard. Shock horror, keyboards still work with iPads and
iPhones and Android and Windows Mobile and Blackberry 10. With *every
touch interface there is*. Most of 'em can support pointing devices,
too, and that support is set to improve, not get worse.
Touch does not mean vertical. Touch does not mean phone. Touch does
not mean tablet. Let go of your obsession, FFS, before you burst a
blood vessel.
Here, look at this. The video is under 2min, you can make it.
http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/benddesk
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