Not Using Computers To Their Fullest Potential
Two hands on the mouse? Typing S, S, H? John can't stand you.
Podcast: Accidental Tech Podcast
Episode: 96: The Windows of Siracusa County
Marco: I thought this was going to be a short show, we’d like barely get to an hour 20, have no idea what to talk about because the news wasn’t that interesting, and I thought we’d be scraping around for desperation topics.
John: I can talk to people all day about how they’re not using computers to their fullest potential. Like, think of this way: when you see somebody else use a computer, do you feel like they could be doing it better or faster?
Casey: Of course!
Marco: Yeah, all the time.
John: I have that feeling so much. I cannot look at other people using computers.
Casey: I cannot imagine what it’s like for you!
Marco: This is the hell of your life.
John: It’s not as bad as having two hands on the mouse, slowly bringing the cursor up to the close box, but that’s what it feels like. And I feel better when I see, you ever see the people who do everything in one window but do everything on keyboard, those touch typist people? At least I feel better about those people because they may not be as efficient as they could be, but it’s clear that they have a system. And so, it’s like just a flurry of commands, and the screen is splitting and flashing and changing from one thing to the other, and they’re probably doing more work than they have to, but things are happening. Versus the person you see using the computer and you make a suggestion, and it’s like, alright so, I gotta go to that server, I guess I get a new window here, and I could type S, S, H…
