[AccessD] Windows 8

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Nov 30 06:32:56 CST 2011


You laugh but this is already happening.  People with disabilities who cannot speak normally can 
train their computers to recognize whatever their "equivalent" sound may be to mean a word or 
phrase.  Thus you could indeed make up your own sound for a curly bracket or open paren or whatever.

Remember the star treck movie where scotty picks up the mouse and tries to speak into it?  Ignoring 
for a moment why he would even have a concept of a microphone that you had to pick up and hold to 
your face to speak into...

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 11/29/2011 11:01 AM, Charlotte Foust wrote:
> "Voice coding" reminds me of the late comedian, Victor Borge, who had a
> phonetic punctuation routine that was hilarious.  I envision a programmer
> spouting odd noises to indicate braces and curly brackets, etc., for C# et
> al!!
>
> Charlotte Foust
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:55 AM, Salakhetdinov Shamil<mcp2004 at mail.ru>wrote:
>
>> Hi John --
>>
>> Yes, "voice coding" would be useful although I can't currently imagine how
>> I will be able to do that effectively :)
>>
>> -- Shamil
>>
>>
>> 29 ноября 2011, 07:43 от jwcolby<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>:
>>> Shamil,
>>>
>>> Actually you touched on the next thing I think which is voice.  My Droid
>> has wonderful voice
>>> recognition, *when* it is context sensitive.  IOW when I am programming
>> I pretty much type 99% the
>>> same stuff - keywords, syntax etc over and over.  Dictating code to my
>> computer is something that is
>>> close I believe and which I will gladly use over typing.
>>>
>>> John W. Colby
>>> Colby Consulting
>>>
>>> Reality is what refuses to go away
>>> when you do not believe in it
>>>
>>> On 11/28/2011 7:25 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote:
>>>> Darryl --
>>>>
>>>> Working with "virtual documents" by hands - two hands - on multi-touch
>> displays is no doubt more ergonomic and intuitive than using mouse...
>>>> The next logical step are "virtual desktops" - horizontally mounted
>> displays, "virtual blackboards" with "virtual keyboards" etc. - that's
>> another technological revolution of the ways of communicating with
>> computers by using a broad range of both hands gestures and voice...
>>>>
>>>> The next should probably be "virtual holographic displays" and 3D
>> communication with them...
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> -- Shamil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 29 ноября 2011, 03:03 от Darryl Collins<
>> darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au>:
>>>>> Yes! That is exactly my point.  The current set up most offices use
>> these days is actually pretty good with ergonomics as well.  I have 2 large
>> monitors that cover a fair bit of surface area, I don't want to be waving
>> my damn hands around like an idiot all day long trying to make things
>> happen.  Touch really only works when the monitor is flatter or heavily
>> angled.  Can't see too many places paying for that - and then you have the
>> issue of light reflection from all the ceiling lights blah blah.  More
>> cost, less productivity - that is a hard sell I reckon.  Besides, I hate
>> finger prints on my screens!! ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Darryl.
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:
>> accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, 29 November 2011 9:41 AM
>>>>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>>>>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Windows 8
>>>>>
>>>>> In reality, how useful is a touch screen when you are working in a
>> business application such as a word processor, spreadsheet or database
>> application and you are sitting at a desk with a keyboard and mouse at your
>> fingertips?
>>>>>
>>>>> Unless MS can continue to sell to that market, they are in for a
>> tough time.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Stuart
>>>>>
>>>>> On 28 Nov 2011 at 17:10, jwcolby wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes but touch isn't available on my current monitors.  And
>>>>>> retrofitting all of my systems is a non-starter.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John W. Colby
>>>>>> Colby Consulting
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reality is what refuses to go away
>>>>>> when you do not believe in it
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/28/2011 11:22 AM, Gustav Brock wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Rocky and John et al
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Given my experience with Windows Phone 7 and the Metro design,
>> Windows 8 on a tablet will be an iPad killer.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Windows 8 and touch screens of any kind is the next step forward.
>>>>>>> Think about it - the same basic GUI behaviour from a phone through
>>>>>>> tablets, game consoles (Xbox), normal monitors to TV monitors, table
>>>>>>> screens, and video boards.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /gustav
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 28-11-2011 16:56>>>
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