1 Oct
2010
1 Oct
'10
1:32 p.m.
On 1 October 2010 17:47, Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt at freeshell.org> wrote:
All the important ones are :-)
The point is, if a handful (relatively speaking) of programmers want
keyboards, they can have them. Like floppy disks or serial ports, they
may well prove to me minority devices that will disappear from the
mass market completely.
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On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Liam Proven wrote:
What the heck are you talking about? In third world countries maybe? If
you've used a computer in the last 30 years, you know how to type. Most of
the population of G8 countries and the EU has used a computer... They have
them in schools and libraries now, you know :-)
My company makes and sells computers for retirement-age people who
have never used one before. You'd be surprised. The vast majority of
the human race still has no idea how to type and slowly and painfully
taps out stuff slowly with one finger. Two if they are skilled.
I know
many, many people that can type faster than they can talk.
Good for you. That does not mean *most* people can type faster than
they can talk. Most people can't type at all. ?And then
there's programming.
*Shrug* And how many computer users are programmers? Seriously, what
do you reckon? 0.1%? 0.01%? 0.001%? I suspect fewer than that.