Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Kids react to old computers Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 11:51:23 +1000 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <260520140955077061%michelle@michelle.org> <010620141401163819%nospam@nospam.invalid> <020620141129482670%nospam@nospam.invalid> <060620140133496141%nospam@nospam.invalid> <15t5p9ldevpkqpknls0ll050c12fhu1eet@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net qyyk7ZcB4y6sxjYLvuzt+QHfkgxK0rLGx4RTeQKk9aRRl0R4Y= Cancel-Lock: sha1:oTalY8fJkHSeHxiHy6osLiU6OpE= In-Reply-To: <15t5p9ldevpkqpknls0ll050c12fhu1eet@4ax.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.ipad:36507 comp.sys.mac.system:60437 Mxsmanic wrote > nospam wrote >> you might think a text interface is faster, but it isn't. > I know that it's faster. You can put multiple arguments and parameters on > a > single command line, while typing with both hands, and this is at least an > order of magnitude more efficient than clicking on things with a mouse. Depends entirely on what you are doing. When I am making space on the PVR by shifting the unwatched stuff to the drives that I have made space on by editing out the material I have already watched, I normally want to move say 27.7GB of files into the space just freed, and its MUCH quicker to highlight the files to move while watching the total size of the highlighted files and then click on the move button than you can ever do with the text interface. > Similarly, a screenful of text communicates > a lot more than a few pretty icons. Again, it depends on what you are doing. A photo of what you are saying has failed in a particular way is often MUCH better than trying to spell out in words what happened. >> there have been several studies that measured just how >> long various tasks took with a keyboard and a mouse. > Which ones?