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Too lazy to even use mouse or touch screen. I clicked on the answer while watching the movie using by BrainWaves!!!! 
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Imagine if we could just visualise something and the computer would code it for us... including the GUI design. No need to tap keys for a living.
I will start studying to become a copyright lawyer.
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I watched Tom Cruise's Minority report, especially the part where his retina gets scanned in a mall. I imagine it to be something similar.
Imagine walking in front of a PC, what ever you think gets reflected on a web page.That would be fun. 
And no one can ever remove a bug from any persons brain. Especially developers, they have a buggy brain. Thats why they fix bugs. 
Thanks a ton,
Rahul
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Rahul VB wrote: what ever you think gets reflected on a web page
Then there won't be any need for developers. Every company will hire one GENIUS like you and everything is done. 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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What if i think some thing really nasty??
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If it is game: PlayStation
If it is Website: Touch/Mouse
If it is MS Office: KeyBoard/Mouse
If it is Programming: KeyBoard
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If Skype: Speech (with voice feedback)
If mobile App: Thumbs
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It will be a long list.
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My brain often wonders off on its own, I hate to think what a computer would do on those (frequent) occasions I tell it to go f*** itself or similar, and I randomly wave my hands around in exasperation at times.
Input needs to be definite and deliberate and difficult to do.
I think I've just come up with a theory, I'll call it The Three Dees Of Data Input.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Keyboard / Mouse (and related) and Touch screen for sports people the other are for lazy people who don't try to move a muscle.
modified 23-Apr-14 3:06am.
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Look at Intellisense and autocompletion. It's great, and frankly, it's archaic that we're still typing full words when, for example, without the vowels (the Jews were onto something there!) you can still convey the word -- why can't the computer figure it out and fill in "the blanks"? Why are we constantly hitting the spacebar? We are inputting at least 50%, if not around 80% more information than we need to for the computer to figure out the full word, sentence, paragraph, etc.
Which will eventually bring a new revolution in language -- instead of typing in a high bandwidth form and then having the computer convert that into low-bandwidth text, we'll all learn to read that condensed form of text as well, just as anyone reading a Jewish newspaper can read the paper without the vowels. (And no, I'm not picking on Jewish people, I always thought that that was really quite amazing, but it makes sense). Now if I could just remember what those pesky vowels were so that I could speak the name of God....
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: why can't the computer figure it out and fill in "the blanks"
I should link to some of the text message auto complete fail sites just to piss you off. The state of the art is not up to interpreting input accurately enough to rely on.
I want Peter F Hamilton's interface node wired directly into the brain, machine telepathy!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Bcswldntbbltrdt.
(Because you wouldn't be able to read it)
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I use Swiftkey on my mobile, it's awesome, although not perfect.
It has a good suggestion engine even with 3 dictionaries at the same time (English, Portuguese and French).
Still it's always necessary to let the user enter whatever he wrote.
Before that, on my old Nokias, I used T9 predictive text.
Was pretty awesome at the time. As a teenager I managed to write much faster and really accurate.
Just like Swiftkey it learned from the user so new words would be automatically added.
The one I really don't like is the Swipe technique.
Rubbing my finger on the screen feels lame to me.
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I mostly use a phone or tablet when not in the office now, and they both have some measure of autocomplete.
I find that I do not type apostrophes when on a keyboard anymore as I subconsciously expect the computer to add them in for me like the mobile applications do.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I do agree for most part on your post, except for the part where computers are expected to interpret (almost ahead of time) what we as users want to write. Most of us, if not all on this site, already know that computers only execute what they are given to execute via human instructions.
Therefore, the evolution should not happen on the hardware, necessarily, but rather improvements should be made on the human evolution path. To complicate things even more is the abundance of languages with different constructs and grammar. To complicate things a little more you have different dialects.
Adding to the existing confusion, consider the written language used on SMS and other short message services. How would any piece of software make the correct choice where the character "4" is used - should it be interpreted as a numeric or a shorthand for "for" or could it be for the word "four". I much prefer the pseudo code to shorthand and will prevail with tapping the spacebar as many times that is needed to produce readable pseudo code.
Introducing shorthand into a development environment will probably force developers of compilers to redesign the syntax of their compiler. Compounded syntaxes can sometimes be challenging to read, especially if you are reading someone elses code. I can only imagine that reading compounded shorthand will further add to the frustration of reading code, considering that I have, at best of times, difficulty in reading SMS shorthand.
I much prefer the way it is now.
Plan your work, Work your plan
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Currently, "computer" may refer one of several very different devices. Since the device I refer to when I hear (or read) "computer" is a desktop PC, I prefer the mouse/keyboard interface.
However, I happily use the touch interface on the panel of my printer.
Perhaps you should have included an "appropriate to device" entry in your survey.
Joan F Silverston
jsilverston@cox.net
nhswinc.com
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Last week my friend bought a smart phone, it has good touchy interface but it display icon in small size, really it was too hard to touch a specific item, he needs to try for at least twice to get the item. Even he can not write an text message easily as there was a lot of misspelled due to small letters
So believe me Keyboard/Mouse are very handy than anything else
Rating always..... WELCOME
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
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koolprasad2003 wrote: So believe me Keyboard/Mouse are very handy than anything else
Depends on the user; I've seen some that type faster with their tumbs on a virtual keyboard than a real one.
Now, a mouse is something that only slows one down - only usefull when some idiot ignored the tab-stop, or when you need to fill in a "form" on the internet (try tabbing there, ha!)
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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... is a wimp (not WIMP[^] - no pun intended). Keyboard only. And with railgun aim nonetheless.
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Ì couldn't dream of coding with anything but a keyboard and mouse, for interacting with my television then Kinnect is the way to go, and for in-car or home automation functions it has to be voice.
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Although it's pretty ancient as a device in a computer time scale, the keyboard is still the most reliable choice.
Mastering it and all the application's shortcuts is much faster than touchscreen or any other option that I know and actually works.
Avoiding taking the hands out of the keyboard (specially towards a mouse) should be a best practice to improve productivity.
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AlexCode wrote: Mastering it
As with most things; if you want the most out of your tool..
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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True if the option really lets you go far.
Some options, even when you master them, won't let you go too far.
At the end it all sums up to what you need. There's no one size fits all.
Too advanced has always been counterproductive to the ones that require less.
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I just had to put it in there, sorry.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >>
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Even my new posh work ultrabook gets a mouse attached to it despite its fancy touchscreen(touch it and I'll break your fingers), touch-pad and keyboard nipple!
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