[geeks] Windows 8.1

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:

> Having tried to use a touchscreen, on a laptop, I found that it just serves
> to do 2 things:
>
> 1) make my arm tired, from stretching and holding my arm out, to reach the
> screen, from a comfortable typing distance
> 2) put lots of fingerprints on the screen, which is one of my pet peeves

Everything old is new again!

     http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html

I have a hard-enough time not backhanding a cow-orker of mine who INSISTS
on touching my screen whenever trying to draw my attention to something,
and I find the fingerprints on the control surface of my mobile phone
distracting-enough.

A touchscreen is a great way to solve the problem of a pointing-device on
a device that's too small to contain one (e.g.: mobile phone), but it
seems pointless on a device you can easily attach a mouse, trackpad, or
spaceball.

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