Fr Jun 03 2011 16:48:13 EDT von skpacman @ UncensoredWill there be a way to completely disable this new UI so people-like-me can work in a familiar environment instead of something terribly confusing?
install linux/kde ;-P
Seriously, take a look at this video: http://youtu.be/p92QfWOw88I
After laughing at the fact that Microsoft has to use a Google video service to demonstrate Vista 8 --
Can you imagine having to slog through a user interface optimized for a touchscreen, when you're actually on a mouse-driven desktop -- all day, every day?
I hope they don't expect that the next generation of upright monitors are all going to have touchscreens. That would be an ergonomic nightmare.
After laughing at the fact that Microsoft has to use a Google video service to demonstrate Vista 8 --
Can you imagine having to slog through a user interface optimized for a touchscreen, when you're actually on a mouse-driven desktop -- all day, every day?
I hope they don't expect that the next generation of upright monitors are all going to have touchscreens. That would be an ergonomic nightmare.
hm, i'm using a tiling WM, and i'd say they at least are using parts of that...
but yes, its more looking like the x-box or some phone than a workstation OS.
so the name Wintendo gets a whole new meaning ;-)
I'm all for changing UI's to match the current trends, which is nice
and good, but why completely change absolutely every single way you
interact with your computer?
Because you can't repackage the same shit without changing it, call it something else and get people to pay money for it.
You've got to change something, and the UI is the most obvious thing to change.
Will there be a way to completely disable this new UI so
people-like-me can work in a familiar environment instead of
something terribly confusing?
That's a great question for google in regards to chrome.
Can't wait to see how fucked up and non-historical-standard chromeos is.
I hope they don't expect that the next generation of upright monitors
are all going to have touchscreens. That would be an ergonomic
That's the first thing I thought of... windows 8 now requires a touch screen monitor. Which means a) start looking around at what touch screen companies MS has bought into lately (keep an eye out for the MS table thing they did a while ago) or b) all of your computing needs of the future will be perfectly viable on a tablet or a phone and nobody will need a desktop computer anymore.
That video shows quite the fucked up scene that you now have to type on the screen in front of you. holding your arms in the air? That's insane.
Look for a bunch of joke products out that are armholders that sit where your keyboard used to be. Sorta like the onion joke about the mac with an ipod wheel instead of a keyboard.
That video shows quite the fucked up scene that you now have to type
on the screen in front of you. holding your arms in the air? That's
insane.
We had a discussion about this around the lunch table today.
Conclusion: the movie "Minority Report" has severely harmed the computer industry by giving people a really bad idea of what future UI design should look like.
Perhaps they don't expect you to touch your screen. Perhaps they expect you to buy a Kinect(tm) for every desktop computer, and you'll have to wave your hands at it to move things around. Laptop manufacturers would be forced to license the technology for every unit sold, thereby creating a NEW Microsoft Tax to replace or supplement the existing one for Windows.
Or perhaps they expect future desktop and laptop computers to resemble a larger version of the Nintendo DS: an upright display in front of you, and a touch-sensitive display where the keyboard used to be -- no more full-motion keys.
Any of these things seem like an ergonomic nightmare.
And this is what happens when Microsoft tries to build something on its own without stealing ideas from someone who's already done it correctly.
Mo Jun 06 2011 23:19:17 EDT von IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored
Or perhaps they expect future desktop and laptop computers to resemble a larger version of the Nintendo DS: an upright display in front of you, and a touch-sensitive display where the keyboard used to be -- no more full-motion keys.
I realy liked my fingerworks keyboard. (may it rest in piece) and I still hope apple is going to release a grown up version of it again any time soon; you can already buy a gesture pad again, and the 'magic mouse' which I use with my netbook, great stuff.
while it didn't have discrete keys, it had marks where to put the fingers at (which is exactly what i'm missing at the magicmouse)
being able to mouse / move text cursor by whiping over it with two keys was a real joy!
That video shows quite the fucked up scene that you now have to type
on the screen in front of you. holding your arms in the air? That's
insane.
http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary-new-laptop-with-no,14299/
Yeah, I get that shit ALL the time at work. Drives me batty and you
can't turn it off.
Um, you CAN turn it off -- your sysadmin must just have it set up so you can't make the prefs change.
This just amuses me to no end, whatsoever. XD
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/profile/ignatius%20t%20foobar/
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/profile/ignatius%20t%20foobar/
Hmm. I don't even remember why I created that login.
So how's everyone doing in the effort to migrate away from Skype?
Nearly everyone I video with has moved to Google Talk at this point. And it looks like there's plenty of new code being released that will allow lots of new clients to support Jingle, either through Google or through other servers.
Could end up being a good thing.
Nearly everyone I video with has moved to Google Talk at this point. And it looks like there's plenty of new code being released that will allow lots of new clients to support Jingle, either through Google or through other servers.
Could end up being a good thing.