On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 09:46 -0800, doug metzler wrote:
> I agree with the display lag problem - it's disconcerting for the display=
 to
> freeze while the USB channel is trying to re-fill the buffer when I chang=
e a
> setting.
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> The USB control panel is an interesting idea but would require that you h=
ave
> a spot for the control panel on your bench.  I like that I bring the scop=
e
> to the circuit and not the other way around.
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> An iPad app with a wireless connection to the device might be interesting=
,
> Imagine if you could use the 2-finger separate (like enlarging pictures/w=
eb
> pages) to change your vertical or horizontal resolution.  If we ever get
> desktop touch screens then that could change everything.

To be frank, a touch screen would probably be WORSE then the mouse.

The whole point is tactile feedback without needing to look. While a
mouse has barely any useful tactic feedback, a touch screen has exactly
zero.

A long long time ago my brother purchased a really nice home theatre
receiver (Sony ES line). It had this amazing universal 2 way remote: it
would actually download the titles of all the CDs in his 200 disc CD
changer so you could choose the title on the remote and play it, and
other things like that.

>From a feature perspective it was incredible, years beyond anything of
it's time.

I used it for a couple days and never picked up that remote again. Why?
It was an LCD touch screen remote. The only buttons on it were volume,
everything else was the GUI on the screen. Change channels on the TV?
Look down at the screen on the remote and press the right button. Fast
forward the VCR? Look down at the remote and press the right button.
Skip a chapter on the DVD? Look down at the remote and press the right
button. It was the most frustrating "entertainment" experience Sony
could have come up with.

It sure looked good, and had a HUGE "wiz bang" factor, but usability?
There was zero there.

It was a classic example of the designers/engineers going for the most
feature rich thing them could come up without, and COMPLETELY ignore
whether it was actually usable. (oh, and the batteries lasted about a
week, not good in a remote).

TTYL

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