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Triangular Buttons Make On-Screen Keyboards More Usable
As someone targeted for perpetual failure by the designers of most keyboards, I'm happy to read
The Register's report that "A British inventor has submitted a patent application for a wacky touchscreen keyboard design which, he claims, could spell the end for accidental key presses."
Illt maek wruting furst psost easzier
And you could put little springs under the bumps, so that you could feel them move when you pressed them hard enough!
So now one can patent shapes? I need to get the paperwork rolling on a new idea I have for a tetrahedron mouse!
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
I thought the caps lock key made things easier? http://www.bash.org/?835030
Does having a witty signature really indicate normality?
> As someone who sues it
Why so litigious??
As someone who sues it
How exactly do you sue a keyboard key?
It's like peeing on the fly; having something to aim at makes it easier to aim.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
With all that space between the keys, there's room for even more buttons!
In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they're not.
Don't me an idiot. He clearly meant "suse".
Carol vs. Ghost
... wouldn't diamonds be better?
That is all.
How exactly does one me an idiot?
most of the way over toward E, and the previous two letters were T-H, so I'm going to go ahead and make it an E.
That is the single most aggravating "feature" of the iPhone keyboard. To he'll with that ducking shot.
Quick, you'd better patent that idea so nobody else can use it.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
Excellent. So then, the formula I need will be:
(num_users * keyboard_price) + (num_users * large_reptile_price * crocodiles_per_moat)
?
And proving my point about idiots, I mispelled skeptical in the subject.
-JWR
so can most keyboards, when you use the (not supplied) screwdriver tool. :)
How do you shout without a caps lock key?
Only on Slashdot is it helpful to explain how something works by pointing out it is similar to devices in the Pegasus galaxy.
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
By pushing on the keys very, very hard.
I think you're missing a few factors.
How many users can each crocodile kill or maim?
How many users can attempt to cross each moat at a time?
Can the users access the drawbridge controls? What is the cost of the security on the drawbridge controls?
What is the value, in crocodiles, of a moat-bound kraken?
Have you considered ill-tempered sea bass as an alternative to crocodiles (they are much cheaper than sharks WFLBs)?
In short, I'm not sure you've thought through the moat implementation in depth. My firm, Moats and Goats, LLC, would be happy to offer our moat consulting services for a small fee. If you sign a contract by the 15th of this month, I'll throw in free goat lawn trimming for your castle courtyard (please note that goat disposal is not an issue; the crocs or kraks will need to be fed, after all).
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
I agree with you, and have actually had a problem with voice recognition because of it. When I got my bluetooth earpiece, I tried to use the speech dial. I just couldn't understand me. Every time it got it wrong, I would speak slower and enunciate better. It just wouldn't work. It turns out that I had to slur my speech to get it to understand me.
The Logitech wave keyboard has a little "moat" around Capslock and Numlock keys, making them far less easy to accidentally press.
Plus it kept the Black Knight at bay!
No problemo. I'll just use emacs then.
I just swear at computers until they put me through to an operator.
I find no problem with "Sci-Fi" as shorthand. "SyFy", on the other hand is a horrible marketing conception that looks like a pet name for a venereal disease.
Anyway, I'm not going to bitch when someone calls a desktop tower a "CPU", so Bradbury (or whomever made the statement, as the poster was not sure) can go cry about his little pet-peeve in the corner and let everyone else continue to evolve the language.
Said, "It's just like dice but it's got more sides And it tells me who lives and who dies"
How do you shout without a caps lock key?
Like this.
$ make available
Seriously, I'd like a keyboard that reads my mind
dude, that is so yesterday. I'm using (blowjob) on of those key(nice tits) boards right now. I (69) highly reco(tap that)mmend that you go (damn, lookat that ass) out and get one (hot lesbian action) for yourself. They are (I'd like to bend her over) not that ex(she's gotta be 18)pensive.....
you know, on second thought, not such a good idea.
...and I'll upgrade my car when my Model-T stops running :^)
"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy