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Keyboards are Good; Mouses are Dumb
An anonymous reader writes "Most emacs/vi users know this, but it seems the more I use the mouse, the less output I am making. The keyboard does seem to make much more of a mind-meld than the imprecise mouse. Paul Tyma hits it on the head."
Let the editor wars begin!
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
...Counterstrike.
I've tried it. Absolutely impossible.
Before you mod me funny, think, perhaps I was insightfully funny?
Hits it on the head..
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..and apparently knocks it out.
air and light and time and space
I'm impressed how those guys can use the keyboard to rotate around and zoom 3D graphics in realtime, and then apply some amazing pixel-sharpening processing algorithm, all by using keyboard commands.
I've often wondered how they could do this so quickly. Especially when they literally have to type everything they want into a text field on the screen. For example, "search for drivers license of all bad guys within last two days".
I mean, it's a search engine - you don't have to type "search" into the text field!!!
when did opinions become news?
Right before the word "editorial" was invented, I believe.
You can't take the sky from me...
I believe Fox News was founded in 1980.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
I vote for vi and fully expect to get troll, flamebait, or redundant on this post :)
And you just confused the smurf out of every Mac zealot going to this story to denounce the heresy of the superiority of the keyboard.
"Screw slashdot." -- Linus Torvalds
I got a computer to let my mouse surf the 'Net. What am I supposed to tell my mouse when he reads this article, you insensitive clod?
:wq
It must be Windows. It needs half a gig of RAM and a hardware-accelerated graphics card just to run Solitaire.
While both have cords, mice lend themselves to seconday use as garottes due to the small size of the mouse, espcially mini USB models for laptops. Keyboards meanwhile have a definite edge as a blunt instrument, able to focus the full power along one edge or to spread the impact across the face of the bottom, or even cause the embedding of key shrapnel.
Other than these thoughts, WTF? is definitely going through my mind as in "WTF is this article for anyhow? Should be kiss Gnome and KDE goodbye and go back to text where we can commune with our keyboards? Should we do everything by mouse in a gui to strike back? Does this article have any point to it?
Now... back to the real uses of keyboards and mice...
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
I do not wish vi to be seen so close to emacs lest someone think they are together. vi wouldn't be caught dead with the likes of emacs... the after prom party doesn't count there had been much drinking
I came to the datacenter drunk with a fake ID, don't you want to be just like me?
Little Bunny Foo Foo
hopping through the forest
scooping up the field mice
and bop 'em on the head.
They're stupid. As a matter of fact, GUIs are stupid too. So are command lines. If you're a REAL geek, you'll do your computer work with a punch card. If it can't be done with that, well, it must not be worth doing.
Tluin natha Linux xxizzuss uriu olt bwael mon'tun.
So rather than being a general case study with broad applicability, Slashdot has just put on its front page an article that says, "I like keyboards!"
Somehow, "News for one particular nerd" just doesn't have the right ring.
Slow news day, here we come.
You know, I think he might be on to something. When I click on the link in the article with my mouse, nothing happens!
I read Usenet for the articles.
Try using photoshop without a mouse. Not a problem, I'll use my tablet. It's easier anyway.
- AMW
...then we'll have something to debate.
Ruger
You are wise and your kung-fu is good.
Thats it pretty much, need to replace the mouse... it sorta sucks. It's nice to aim with in FPS though.
Shadus
Instead of being creative or expanding on anything, you've stranded yourself in the stone age, writing wasted counterintuitive code to draw a smiley face when three or four mouse clicks would accomplish the same thing.
You attain premature ejaculation in the technical sense, expending yourself before attaining anything for your effort.
This garbage is worse than useless, and actually a detriment to productivity. You contribute nothing. You fail. This is why you will die alone and be completely forgotten.
You must be satisfied with losing a lot.
Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. -Anonymous
What's the debate going to be about? :)
Less is more.
Seriously, most corportate logos are probably a script like that.
- Enter Company Name: ______
- Choose Direction of "Swoosh": ______
- Press Enter
Ugh. I HATE swooshes.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
And like I'm interested in the highly educated opinion of someone who tells me "mouses" are bad...
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
THAT IS BECAUSE YOU DON'T SEE AT ALL!!!!