Funny, I always thought personal computing not being about strict protocol but more like freestyle guitar playing where individual styles are not as important as the results of the techniques.
actually, while the idiom seems initially appealing that feestyle guitar would more closely resemble using the (superficially analogue) mouse than using a (clearly digital) keyboard, actually the opposite is true. That is because the mouse is limited to a small selection of prescribed onscreen choices, whereas the keyboard, while still being a digital medium (unlike the freestyle guitar - on that I agree), has a much, much wider palette of expressiveness thanks to the inevitably orders-of-magnitude greater combination of command combinations of which it is capable.
Aye, but using a well-designed program allows you to use both the keyboard and mouse simultaneously. Especially something like visual studio, you can create keybindings for damn near everything, set up macros, etc, plus still use the mouse for quick and dirty stuff. So a visual interface may be more like a two-necked guitar, where some think it's a gimmick, and there's admittedly a bit of lost flexibility from both sides, but you gain more overall.
Or go cyborg like me! I have a 12 button Razer mouse on the right, and a Razer Nostromo (formerly Belkin) on the left with plenty of macros, and analog in the mix customized for each program.
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"You are clearly too mouse-bound."
Funny, I always thought personal computing not being about strict protocol but more like freestyle guitar playing where individual styles are not as important as the results of the techniques.
actually, while the idiom seems initially appealing that feestyle guitar would more closely resemble using the (superficially analogue) mouse than using a (clearly digital) keyboard, actually the opposite is true. That is because the mouse is limited to a small selection of prescribed onscreen choices, whereas the keyboard, while still being a digital medium (unlike the freestyle guitar - on that I agree), has a much, much wider palette of expressiveness thanks to the inevitably orders-of-magnitude greater combination of command combinations of which it is capable.
Aye, but using a well-designed program allows you to use both the keyboard and mouse simultaneously. Especially something like visual studio, you can create keybindings for damn near everything, set up macros, etc, plus still use the mouse for quick and dirty stuff. So a visual interface may be more like a two-necked guitar, where some think it's a gimmick, and there's admittedly a bit of lost flexibility from both sides, but you gain more overall.
Or go cyborg like me! I have a 12 button Razer mouse on the right, and a Razer Nostromo (formerly Belkin) on the left with plenty of macros, and analog in the mix customized for each program.