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xoxoxoBruce 11-03-2010 03:39 AM

Chuck the Keyboard
 
Teeny tiny keyboards suck, here's another way.
I think the learning curve would be steep.


monster 11-03-2010 08:35 AM

Very interesting. I like the idea. I disagree about the steep learning curve, too. I think it would be just like becoming familiar with the controls on a new computer game

monster 11-03-2010 08:40 AM

wait ..... when you say steep learning curve, are you using the colloquial understanding i.e. really hard to start off with and then gets exponentially easier?

I really hate that phrase. People seem to use it just to mean hard, so it's true meaning (if indeed it has one seeing as a steep curve would form a cirle pretty soon....)

footfootfoot 11-03-2010 09:18 AM

Very interesting, probably no harder to learn than typing was/is. reminds me of semaphore, morse code, etc. just another code for letters. I'd say more similar to semaphore since it relates to movement of the finger. I know that the movement in semaphore is just in aid of getting to the flag position, but still similar.

Not sure if I am ready to add learning this new language to my "things to do" list, esp. since I don't have a mobile device.

I think voice recognition makes the most sense, but then there are plenty of situations where silence is golden.

footfootfoot 11-03-2010 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 692474)
wait ..... when you say steep learning curve, are you using the colloquial understanding i.e. really hard to start off with and then gets exponentially easier?

I really hate that phrase. People seem to use it just to mean hard, so it's true meaning (if indeed it has one seeing as a steep curve would form a cirle pretty soon....)

Only a circle if you are not continuously moving forward, otherwise it is a perpetual slog...

Clodfobble 11-03-2010 10:03 AM

Hmm. I would use it, I think. But unless you have crazy-dextrous thumbs, it would require two hands (the other one to hold the phone underneath.) Currently I can text with one hand if I have to (while holding a child, for example.)

Cloud 11-03-2010 10:32 AM

I certainly think it's time to come up with SOMETHING better than the standard QWERTY, which is many generations out of date.

Don't know this exact system is gonna make it though

monster 11-03-2010 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 692480)
Only a circle if you are not continuously moving forward, otherwise it is a perpetual slog...

then it's just a line

Flint 11-03-2010 02:30 PM

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xoxoxoBruce 11-03-2010 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster (Post 692513)
then it's just a line

Quarter circle, very steep at the beginning but leveling off at you approach the top.

Flint 11-03-2010 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Flint (Post 692539)
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Let "Chuck" do the typing for you!

What would you like Chuck to type today?

• “Like” a Facebook post by the girl you’re stalking
• Comment on Girls In Yoga Pants: that photo looks ‘shopped
• Comment on Girls In Yoga Pants: you would tap that
• Whip up some phony spreadsheet that your boss isn’t going to read anyway
• Comment on Girls In Yoga Pants: that girl has ass implants
• Email your mother to wish her happy birthday, and for last year too

• Key in the command that opens your speech recognition program

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footfootfoot 11-03-2010 09:36 PM

...Wheels keep turning
Something's burning
Don't like it but I guess I'm learning

Chuck! - watch the keyboard get hurt, keyboard

Cover me, when I sleep
Cover me, when I breathe
You throw your pearls before the swine
Make the keyboard blind
Cover me, darling please
keyboard, keyboard, keyboard
Don't you know you're going to chuck the keyboard

monster 11-03-2010 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 692540)
Quarter circle, very steep at the beginning but leveling off at you approach the top.

ok, I get you and it makes sense, but it isn't what a lot of people mean when they say that. and it's not steep all the way. "Initially steep learning curve"

Pico and ME 11-03-2010 11:08 PM

I hate texting, its arduous. This might make more sense for me.

xoxoxoBruce 11-04-2010 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 692635)
ok, I get you and it makes sense, but it isn't what a lot of people mean when they say that. and it's not steep all the way. "Initially steep learning curve"

What do they mean? I always thought they meant the same thing I did.. oh crap... looking back, if they didn't, awkward.:facepalm:


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