Re: [Lynx-dev] problems using google

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Thorsten Glaser wrote in <address@hidden>:
 |Steffen Nurpmeso dixit:
 |>Just a few weeks ago i have read a story that the American Navy
 |>will change the user interface of many (at least newer) warships
 |>back from touchscreens to normal buttons, after some accidents
 |
 |Our tram drivers also prefer the normal physical button layout,
 |especially as you can haptically select the correct ones when
 |they have different forms, not just layout, easily.
 |
 |The company indeed refurbished some of the old trams instead of
 |ordering new ones, and AFAICS they kept the mechanical control
 |panels. So this must have been a good argument.

That is cool!  I would love to see more old trams, really.  In
Berlin there are some from hundred years ago, etc.  Granted, they
do not massage nor climate your back when you sit, but they drive
through the city.  We have one from the 50s, the "Datterich-
Express", and i wish more trams would be like that.  (One would
need to look at the Faltblatt_zum_DatterichExpress.pdf for an
impression, sigh.)  All that modern faceless grey concrete jungle
mess is a boring pity.

By the way, you say "our tram drivers"?  When i was young and at
the Gymnasium, we had one tram driver, Herr Fuchs, who was always
the driver when school was out, and all young girls wanted to buy
their tickets from him, it always took a long time.  Today the
drivers are isolated in plexiglas boxes.  (Last time i looked.)

--steffen
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