Hi Shaun,
While I can identify with newer tech being alien, strange to someone
who is use to something else, the fact of the matter is people need to
be flexible. Need to learn to roll with the change, because new tech
is always coming out and it isn't wise to get use to any particular
technology as it can and will change at some point.
I am a man in his mid 30's and I can say much has changed between when
I started school and now. When I was in elementary school the greatest
thing was the Apple II-E. A lot of people who could afford one had
one, and those who didn't could use one at school which I did. Now
days a person's iPhone is light years ahead of anything we had in the
mid 80's, and I foresee a day in the not too distant future where
desktops, laptops, etc will be more or less a thing of the past. Most
people will probably have tablets running iOS, Android, or Windows.
computers as we understand them now will be reserved for businesses
where it would be impractical to type via touchscreen or run a
computer for 8 to 12 hours a day in an office. So it seems to me to be
prudent to begin thinking about that change and preparing for it by
learning those skills now rather than later.
As far as anyone thinking keyboards suck that sounds to me that person
is pretty narrow minded. While touchscreens are nice and handy
different input methods are available precisely because they are
better at different things. Its not a case of either/or but a case of
use the input method that does the best job at the time. Nobody is
going to want to write a 500 page novel on a touchscreen, in fact
would be a bit crazy, but is no problem on a keyboard. Likewise there
is no argument that touchscreens are freer nice because they are like
having a mouse and keyboard in one device, allowing movement around
the screen, and are perfectly suited to browsing information,
selecting a phone number from an addressbook, for pointing to screen
elements and activating them, but are lousy at large amounts of input
such as writing a novel. Only a stupid ignorant sod would say one
input method is better than the other without first considering the
use it is being put to.
Cheers!
On 10/25/14, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree josh, I had to do for a customer a general cleanout of
windows and update and install of some major systems.
I also had to run a couple clearout programs which I did overnight.
I did not like win8, and while I was able with a bit of help get win
8.1 up, I worked through the night to get the system ready for a
morning pickup,, because although I could have kept it for a wek or 2
win 8 really didn't settle with me and I wanted to get it out of the door
asap!
My cousin has had issues with his net and whenever that happens, and
he can not log in he has no system access till he can get the
networking which is why I really don't like the idea of an net
account as my primary login without a fallback.
that and the fact that after all the stories on us cert, about nas
storage hacks, ssl3 hacks and online cloud hacks that I could be
online unnecessarily.
On this 7 box while I am online, I don't need to login to be online,
in fact I can be offline full stop!
if I do get this win8 or 10 or whatever I get next, then when I make
the system go I will make sure that I turn off my router before
installing for the first time.
It seems the easiest way to get round making an ms account.
i also don't like all my info just sitting there for any person to
access and me not being in control.
in 7 at least I can shut everything off delete all ms live files and
say I don't want to be online.
When I do all my payed work and other things, no drop box, no bt
sync, no messenger no mail, nothing, when my nose hits that
grindstone I don't want distractions at all!
And that will include live tiles, its probable that I will end up
with something like classic shell with win7 or xp start menu loaded
and whatever classic adjustments I can get with a local account
though I will be missing out on a lot of store features and metro
apps its not like I hav needed them up to now, and I have used a
desktop for the last 20 years this way though I can see the potentual
for the newer people that start its the same with the iphone, etc, I
have never used a tablet so don't know what I am missing,. and since
I have inherited another phone as long as I can spend the large load
of cash on talks its probably what I will end up doing though I have
used a tablet once and can see why people like it.
Its all what you grow up with and I am sure if i was born now, that
I'd think the keyboard a bunch of crap and that I like touch, however
I was round when it was all keyboards and touch devices are as forign
to me as aliens and I have no need to actually use one right now,
maybe that will change.
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