I like Gnome Commander in my Mint install, it is I believe, built on MC.
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Preview of MS Office 15
Collapse
This topic is closed.
X
X
-
Pan-Galactic QuordlepleenSo Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Jul 2011
- 9625
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Send PM
I would loathe having to do any real document editing or email creation on a tablet computer without a physical keyboard.
OK, questions for y'all... will the disappearance of keyboards have any effect on the amount of text-based content created for the Internet? Will it affect the balance of power between creators and consumers? What might happen to sites like SlashDot, Reddit, and anything (like blogs) that rely on comments to and feedback about articles posted hither and yon?
- Top
- Bottom
Comment
-
Originally posted by steveriley View PostI would loathe having to do any real document editing or email creation on a tablet computer without a physical keyboard.
OK, questions for y'all... will the disappearance of keyboards have any effect on the amount of text-based content created for the Internet? Will it affect the balance of power between creators and consumers? What might happen to sites like SlashDot, Reddit, and anything (like blogs) that rely on comments to and feedback about articles posted hither and yon?
- Top
- Bottom
Comment
-
Pan-Galactic QuordlepleenSo Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Jul 2011
- 9625
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Send PM
Oh, I don't mean to be implying that I think the desktop is going away.
I was thinking more like this. You're lounging on the sofa with your $DEVICE. You check an email, it has a link to a blog post, which contains a link to a YouTube video. If $DEVICE=laptop, you're probably more likely to comment on the video, comment on the blog post, or reply to the email. If $DEVICE=tablet, whatever interesting thoughts are in your head are less likely to make themselves known to the rest of us.
Desktops/laptops won't disappear completely, but I think the proliferation of keyboardless devices will result in a net overall reduction of Internet serendipity. Or maybe I'm just analyzing this too much!
- Top
- Bottom
Comment
-
Originally posted by steveriley View PostI would loathe having to do any real document editing or email creation on a tablet computer without a physical keyboard.
OK, questions for y'all... will the disappearance of keyboards have any effect on the amount of text-based content created for the Internet? Will it affect the balance of power between creators and consumers? What might happen to sites like SlashDot, Reddit, and anything (like blogs) that rely on comments to and feedback about articles posted hither and yon?"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
- Top
- Bottom
Comment
-
Pan-Galactic QuordlepleenSo Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Jul 2011
- 9625
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Send PM
-
Originally posted by GreyGeek View PostTxt wont disaper but qual wht typ will dgrd to std abbrv n pgon eng.
7x7 w0n7 Ð1$4p3r bµ7 qµ4£ wh7 7¥p w1££ Ð9rÐ 70 $7Ð 4bbrv n p90n 3n9.Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes
- Top
- Bottom
Comment
-
Originally posted by steveriley View PostOh, I don't mean to be implying that I think the desktop is going away.
I was thinking more like this. You're lounging on the sofa with your $DEVICE. You check an email, it has a link to a blog post, which contains a link to a YouTube video. If $DEVICE=laptop, you're probably more likely to comment on the video, comment on the blog post, or reply to the email. If $DEVICE=tablet, whatever interesting thoughts are in your head are less likely to make themselves known to the rest of us.
Desktops/laptops won't disappear completely, but I think the proliferation of keyboardless devices will result in a net overall reduction of Internet serendipity. Or maybe I'm just analyzing this too much!
But seriously, you may have a point. OTOH, my Android has pretty decent voice recognition. Maybe all these keyboard-less devices will spur more work in that area, which would be a good thing.
- Top
- Bottom
Comment
-
Slashdot was mentioned and these days you can often pick out comments made on a (small) touch screen, if only by the lack of capitalisation and missing line breaks.
I hardly ever do any typing on my N900 but that has a lot to do with the combination of my eyesight en the size of the screen, when I do type I often prefer using the on screen keyboard as it doesn't need more than one finger to operate.
- Top
- Bottom
Comment
-
I can say from personal observation that young people are communicating these days with text messages more than they actually speak to each other. The other day, my granddaughter sent me a message on Facebook while she was sitting in the same room with me on another computer.
- Top
- Bottom
Comment
-
Originally posted by dequire View PostOTOH, my Android has pretty decent voice recognition. Maybe all these keyboard-less devices will spur more work in that area, which would be a good thing.
The rest of us will be forced to have headphones/earphones and play music just to drown out the monkey chatter.I'd rather be locked out than locked in.
- Top
- Bottom
Comment
-
Pan-Galactic QuordlepleenSo Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Jul 2011
- 9625
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Send PM
-
Originally posted by SecretCode View Post....
The rest of us will be forced to have headphones/earphones and play music just to drown out the monkey chatter."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
- Top
- Bottom
Comment
Comment