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I will never comment on a "stupid ducking politician", or
tell
somebody to go duck themselves, but my autocorrect is
evil
and I hate it.
It's been suggested that the querty keyboard be updated
to
better work with the new autocorrect feature that we all
use.
I say let's start with
this one change we all sorely need. If
it
works we can discuss other modifications, though this is
probably the onely one necessary for now.
Or we can just eliminate "ducking" from the English
language. We can crouch, dodge, elude, dip just fine
without this cancerous word creeping into every other
sentence we write.
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The guy who invented autocorrect was a complete punt. |
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I've been to Cambridge in the summer. The letter change
does nothing to the meaning. |
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oh and [+] if the key is enlarged at the expense of the caps
lock key. |
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Done and done. Most horrific key on the keyboard. |
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Ah, but what happens when you want help everyone by
telling them to duck? - as in "quick, there's a hydrogen
bomb about to explode.... everybody duck" Ha. |
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"Fancy heading to the pub for a quick game of darts?" |
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You need to duck, you’re outta luck. |
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I’m fine with abandoning the safety benefits of that word.
Besides, when has that warning ever resulted in anything
other than: “Huh?” BAM!!! |
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I think you missed my little joke about ducking before
being incinerated. |
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There's a wonderful line in the Hitchiker's Guide
where the Earth is about to end and the poor
Earthling behind the bar says "Well, shouldn't we get
under a table and put a bag over our head or
something?" and the other guy says "If you'd like." |
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Using a dynamically-configured touchscreen keyboard, and a sufficiently efficient and agressive predictive text algorithm, it should be possible to configure a system whereby the only letter displayed, filling almost the entire contact area, is in fact the single letter that the user wants to press next. |
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// at no time have I ever wanted to type "ducking". // |
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You might after I post one of the ideas on my list. It's called
"ducker"… and it ducks you. |
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We've lived without a ducker for this long, we'll just
have to do without. |
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Come on [8th], you ought to have that one down pat. |
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Curse this predictve text ... |
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When you say "800%" bigger, do you mean with doubled
dimensions? Or is it eight times bigger in all directions?
Because that would be 256 times bigger, wouldn't it? |
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We can start with surrounding the F key with other F keys. If
that doesn't work we can have a keyboard with a 4 foot wide
F key surrounded by the other keys about an tenth of an
inch wide, in a recessed hole that require a stylus to
activate. |
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The D key would require a needle. |
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You know, a lot of time could be saved by just having a
word processing program that inserts the magic word
everyplace that it's possible to have it. You could of course
hit the back key if you wanted to skip the insertion at that
particular point but I'd never use it. |
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So the above sentence would read: "You know, a lot of
fucking time could be saved by just having a fucking
word processing program..." |
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"Besides, when has that warning ever resulted in anything
other than: “Huh?” BAM!!!" |
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The proposal to deliver the warning via the written word
ought to solve that problem neatly. : ) |
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If woulf ff possiflf fo ffplaff ff kfys afounf F wifh somf kinf of
finfinf, woulfn'f if? |
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