Re: [tlug] Quoting...yet again

[Michal Hajek <hajek1@example.com>]

* Stephen J. Turnbull (stephen@example.com) [081223 07:22]:
> Where are the "Mouse Power" users to point out best practices?

I am not myself, but this topic accidentaly caught my interest recently
in connection with plan9 [2], where one is supposed to use mouse _a_lot_. 

In short, there is this qoute, which seems to be clasic example [1]: 
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We've done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We
discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:

  * Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than
    mousing.  
  * The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than
    keyboarding. 

This contradiction between user-experience and reality apparently forms
the basis for many user/developers' belief that the keyboard is faster. 
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I personaly did not run any measurements, but I kind of agree that using
both devices is best.

And of course, there is absolutely nothing which would change my mind
about touchtyping. In simple english - go and learn touchtype as fast as
possible - RIGHT NOW!


[1] http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html
[2] http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Mouse_vs._keyboard/index.html

Michal