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Don't keyboards look primitive?
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I have used only my MBP for the last couple of months and then had to use my old PC to get a file off and the keyboard on that seemed pretty ancient, the keys are so tall and clunky! The MBP keys are really smooth and nice, and plus they have a satisfying, slightly muted sound to them which i like, my old keyboard sounded like a branch snapping off a tree every time you hit a key!
No, not really. We are a long ways from speech recognition being cost effective. Plus late night talking to your computer to get a paper done won't go well with most roommates haha, or hell any other guess in the house. 
Besides, when I first got my iMac I thought, "damn this is about the slickest looking keyboard I've ever seen.
Besides, when I first got my iMac I thought, "damn this is about the slickest looking keyboard I've ever seen. 
This line of thought frightens me a little bit, as it essentially challenges our primary relationship with the machine (and essentially changes us, too). Writing is a decidedly different mode of thinking than is speaking -- I would hate the loss of privacy with myself (even as I publish this) that a keyboard provides.
God. Can you imagine our beloved forums in world where no one writes and everyone uses speech recognition? The day that the keyboard loses its majority share is the day I go luddite, I think.
no. i would cry the day they stop putting keyboards in computers, as my handwriting is sorta sloppy, and i prefer to type rather than talk at times. and we'll have accessibly problems for some...keep the keyboard.
Think of how grammar, spelling and punctuation have been in decline over the years. Getting rid of the keyboard and moving to an interface that is either spoken or visual will only serve to hasten the decline of literacy in modern society. I've seen signs of it creeping in for years and I am certain that people of my parents generation see it even more acutely than I do but we may be moving into a post-literate society.
As for what happens to forums when the keyboard stops becoming the primary means of input, I have 2 words. You-Tube. Post a video comment on someone else's video then they can post a comment on yours.
Is this your phrase, or a phrase you've borrowed from somewhere? Would be interested in the source, if so. It sounds hardly plausible yet very well named.
Ugh.
*casts suspicious look at academic painterly types of the early 20th century*
*blows up youtube*
I have seen somewhere that this is actually not true. I can't remember exactly, but I think it said the most common letters are placed away from each other not to slow the typist down, but so that their striking paths would have as little overlap as possible.
So the aim was to enable the typist to type as fast as possible, with several letters in motion at the same time, at different stages in their path, without hitting each other and jamming.
NOTE: this will make absolutely no sense to anyone who has never played with an old school mechanical typewriter, so please don't bother replying with something stupid if you've never had this experience, which probably means most people younger than me (I'm just over 30). God I feel old and cranky now
I honestly don't know. It might be original. I've been using it for years but I may have gotten it someplace. Its a great meme though.
EDIT: Google has references to a philosophy professor called Harrick using the term in '85 not mine
thanks a lot (*sarcasm* since its 5AM now and I need sleep) I just spent an hour on that website. It was really cool and I think that if these people ever get revived they will ask whatever happened to the keyboard ;-)
im doing it, how about u?
I'm intrigued shall we say. Will have to think about it