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Many people have wrong habit of typing by seeing at the keyboard instead of the monitor. Well that is up to them to correct it, but most don't.
But the major problem is they will miss any alerts on the screen. Sometimes the speaker tries to alert you. But i disconnect the speaker (even the pc's
internal speaker) at night to avoid disturbance to my room-mates.
Also, for others, there is one more problem opposite to mine - a small beep is not that attention catching.. especially when they hook their thing to a 3000watt speaker system . Or use a powerful Headphone for rock music.
So instead I propose a keyboard and mouse with in built Vibrators like the ones on most Cell Phones.
Simple. Effective if you are typing or drawing. May even increase immersion into addictive point and click games, just like the feedback joystick.
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Or a big hand that reaches out of the computer and slaps you upside the head. "Hey! Segmentation fault again! Pay attention!" |
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To tell you the truth, I never knew that "pipl" could type at all. I thought that was just something that people could do. |
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Might encourage mistakes with laptop users... |
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What college kamathln goes to, I can’t imagine. But if
Bogie had gone there, he’d have said, “here’s seeing at you, kid.” |
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[ldischler] Perhaps kamathln goes to a
college in a foreign country. How's your
Swedish/Polish/Finnish/...? |
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Jeez, I was already cutting him slack by assuming he was a college student. |
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Or her. Tssk tssk for assumptions :-) |
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Wait a second. I'm hearing that irritating tssk tssk again. |
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Many people ask here how it can be practically implemented. Hmm. It seems complicated but is not. Remove the internal speaker and attach very long wires to the ones that originally supplied signal to the speaker. run the wires along the mouse or keyboard wires and cellotape them. I dont think it will take more than 10 minutes for some electronics fellow to disign the cirquit required. |
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