On 10/21/07, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nicholas Wheeler wrote: > > You could always get an optimus keyboard. Then you could mess with > > their head big time. > > This is a brilliant idea. Great for learning Dvorak, having a customized > vi/emacs keyboard, etc. If they could integrate it with the desktop so > that the displays on the keycaps changed according to what window had > focus it would be even better. Hopefully the price gets down to a > reasonable level. I have seen this hyped for a long time but still never > actually seen one for sale so I am a little bit afraid that it will just > be vaporware. > > -- > Tracy R Reed
I have been following this thread with some amusement. I am a very bad typist. Slow, lots of errors. I have to look at the keyboard. Before the existence of personal computers I was essentially unable to use a conventional typewriter. My error rate is simply too high. The reason for this is a combination of dyslexia and poor hand-eye coordination. No amount of training will fix these underlying facts. I do _not_ think this has had any real impact on my ability as a developer. It does impact my style of interaction with a computer. I sit very close to the screen so my eyes can be equidistant from the key board and the screen and bounce my eye focus back and forth between the screen and the keyboard. I suspect that a program could be written that would train on my initial input and correct at least 90% of my errors on the fly. This program would be a trainable spell checker of sorts. I wonder if such exists. Certainly there is a pattern in my errors. For instance, I commonly hit two keys at once because of bad aim. My fingers twitch so if I point at say "y" I may get "uy" I have found that watching me type is disturbing to good typists. It is rather like watching a person with severe cerebral palsy walk across a street. It does not bother me much. I have always dealt with the problem. But it bothers the watcher. They often want to fix me. Sigh. They have a hard time understanding that "meatball does not work that way." So it goes, BobLQ -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
