I prefer my input devices to be as _______ as possible.
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Missing option (Score:2, Insightful)
There's a missing option here: Reliable.
Multi-functional and customizable are fine and all, but I'd rather take most of the devices I have for granted. I would sacrifice features and pay more just so I don't have to reset/reboot the damn thing. I don't have time for that crap.
The Trouble with Touchscreens (Score:2, Insightful)
Touchscreens could just become the single biggest public safety hazard of the 21st century. The user instructions on all the ones I have read (including popular ones such as the iPad) expressly forbid cleaning them with any sort of liquid other than water.
People have dirty hands. Sometimes very dirty hands. I rather doubt that a little water on a lint-free rag is going to remove the huge smudgy colonies of bacteria and other things that collect on them.
Need multi choice! (Score:3, Insightful)
I like my input devices like I like my women. Cheap, aesthetically pleasing and able to withstand violent impacts.
Re:The Trouble with Touchscreens (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:The Trouble with Touchscreens (Score:2, Insightful)
"Touchscreens could just become the single biggest public safety hazard of the 21st century."
Yeah, I'm still going with the car for that one.
Re:The Trouble with Touchscreens (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm not advocating to turn your place in a landfill, but you shouldn't use disinfectant to much unless you are working with stuff (like poultry) potentially contaminated with dangerous bacteria (salmonella, e-coli etc.).
He wasn't an expert. (Score:4, Insightful)
"Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country?"
when germ theory came about and saw they can kill people. And it's been around as long as germ theory. so,it's not new.
"they swab your arm with ALCOHOL. Wouldn't want some guy to go to hell AND be sick.
it's a good medical practice. It's how it's done.
"Besides, what d'ya think you have an immune system for? It's for killing germs! "
No. It is a response system the fights germ it as already come in contact to. It doesn't do much for the first exposure.
" Nine thousand, thats all, its a minor risk.
classic risk analysis error. It's 9000 in a reasonable control food preparation environment with safety protocols and specific cleaning requirement. Remove all that and that number will skyrocket back to previous rates.
" In my neighborhood no one ever got polio. No one! EVER! You know why? Cause WE SWAM IN RAW SEWAGE! "
wow, clearly he doesn't understand statistics and probability. I could find another community that cleaned everything with no cases of polio. It proves nothing other then randomness clumps. And the idea that swimming in sewage creates an immune response to polio shows a complete misunderstanding of the immune response.
I could go on and on.
Look, he was a funny man, then he got older and turned into a ranting crazy uncle. But he was just a comedian. He wasn't there to present accurate facts, evaluate studies. He was just a guy on a stage. He has no experience of knowledge on the subject matter, and should carry no more with then any lay person.
STOP using comics to prove some point. Very few are factual, and even fewer provide any accurate context. Which is fine, that's not their job. Just like it's not your job to spread their humor as if being on a stage makes then right in any scientific way