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If I was targeting pads then I might. ....but I am not, and don't plan to, so I won't!
Happy Thanksgiving! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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My laptop came with a touch screen but I use external monitors.
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I use my laptop as a 3rd screen so had to vote yes. The more relevant question of if I normally test touch interaction on my laptop or a tablet is generally no.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A company I worked for in the 1980s had some HP machines with touch screens. Everyone working there refused to use the "touch" screen. Now touch screens have improved out of all recognition, they are for tablets and mobile phones and other devices where the keyboard is impractical (which these days is no where). If you really think touch screens are great, get rid of your keyboard and check again in a fortnight.
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John Pearce wrote: If you really think touch screens are great, get rid of your keyboard and check again in a fortnight.
If I have to press a button to change the keyboard so it can show symbols, and then press another button to bring the regular keyboard back...you've managed to piss me off twice already.
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Developers - unless you draw your code (italics brush?) - (or see below)
A real poking your screen is no match for a real keyboard.
And a fat finger instead of a mouse cursor for selecting files (especially with that control key allowing you to pick'n'choose.
Bare in mind, if you must, that I programmed for POS/Touch Screen in the past. At some point you (or someone) needs to test opus minor - so someone needs to use it on a touch screen - but that's not a development box. No is still a fine answer.
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and again, no.
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I am not at all impressed with touch screen, specially for dev environment. But, I am thinking(or dreaming of) some sort of voice recognition technology in my dev environment. lol.
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With the stream of curses exiting my mouth while working, I'd be forced to keep it disabled. Although it would be interesting to see how a computer would cope with the obvious anatomical deficits to perform the acts I usually suggest it to do.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Me too! I tend to swear like how's your father when I'm coding and it wouldn't take long for the screen to fill up with sack-able material.
I can just picture the average voice generated SQL query
SELECT current_locat Oh! What's with the @@&£$%!?@" underscores you ^%£%"&£!"£ donkey and why can't you name things with some kind of consistency you &£((&£^"& useless piece of *(&"£("@"(£> £&£! Pig-brained donkey (£&("*! FROM tb_meaningless Really? Really? You call that a £%^&""£@ table name???? Think we already knew it was a &£(("&£*"( table you dumb £&£&("!)! Am I )%$"^&&££ psychic now???? You ^&&**(("£&£* &()$&&£(£())" son of a &£££! (&£ me! JOIN No I said "LEFT JOIN" you stupid (£&"^£"£("&£ computer! It does make a ()&£^£&£(" difference and you ought to £())"(£))" know that - you're a (£(&"()££(" computer!
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I used to workn there as well. Why do you guys stay? Life is too short for something like that.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Good question!
Just found a doozie in a very old (3rd party) database - a column that points at either one table or another.
On discovering this my voice generated code looked something like the following ...
RDBMS 1-01 &£%^£$%£^£^*"&"^&*^&!!! The R stands [for] £^$<*(W& relational, you @£$%$%£$£ muppets! I've met hamsters who can understand [this] @£$%! No, scratch that! I've met dead hamsters who can understand [this] @£$%! It's NOT &£*£*£*"!! rocket science! You wouldn't have [this] @&^$%$^ problem IF you'd just spent five @~%£$£$£% minutes finding out what a ^&£*£%^£&& FOREIGN KEY is FOR you inept %&££%£%!
... and had to be rewritten with a keyboard.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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You should ask "what's wrong with my query?" in QA and post that.
See what responses you get! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Had to laugh, one of my pet hates is underscores (the other is all caps) and I have overall design rights on a new development to be done by a bunch of Java developers. First draft of the database structure was all caps and underscores, right out of the 1980s.
The developer is an ex SAP guy. It took 3 tries before he got the idea that I was not going to allow that sort of crap in the database.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I had that 20 years ago and it even worked fairly well. Still, I felt a little silly reciting source code loudly. Can you think what this would be like in an open office space?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Like this:
Go to line 258, third word. Change 'camelCase' to 'pineNuts'. Do it everywhere in this procedure but not everywhere on this page . . .
and other capitalization/symbol names/etc. fun!
At least you can have a fine discussion with your monitor whilst it snickers back and keeps trying to explain that voice recognition hardly works for a telephone or word prostitution.
And, of course, coordinating that foot-pedal, like a dictation clerk, so that the damn thing doesn't type every word elephanting word I say
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For gaming, I use a program called Voice Attack. It has a pretty good scripting capability, so you can combine multiple key presses into one voice command. It can press any key, as well as mouse buttons and joystick controls.
I've thought about voicing some of the common things I use, but haven't taken the time.
Currently reading: "The Prince", by Nicolo Machiavelli
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Woah I didn't know that! So I could FUS-RO-DAH things?
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Yep. That's one of the games I use it for. 
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My screen is big and far out of range for anyone to touch it...
I use keyboard for the 90% of my input and mouse only for 10% - and old habit me think, so there is no much room for touch, not to mention the huge effort need to raise my hand to do things I can without...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You are too efficient. You need to be less so because it makes the rest of us look bad. Think of how much more I could code if I could remember all the keyboard commands, but I keep forgetting, or never knew in the first place. Maybe we should take away your keyboard and you will have to use the onscreen keyboard. That should slow you down a lot.
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on the test machine I do - our software has touchscreens as the only interface since 1996.
I hate fingerprints on screen and I'm not very precise with both touch and mouse, keyboard is my main navigation system.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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If you've watched crime shows, you'd have known by now that the trick is to wear gloves. 
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... I have ever had was trying to teach a child some coding and pointing out features on the screen and the finger gets too close and activates the touch feature.
When it is a 3d hologram and I can reach in and grab an object then I'll consider touch! I like minority report.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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