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People keep poking my screen

So glad to see this thread. I have a proximity sensor (my eyes) that goes to DEFCON 3 when someone gets within 1". DEFCON 2 is declared when the distance gets within 0.5".

You don't want to be around for DEFCON 1.... ;)
 
I'm a screen poker :D. the only way it would bother me is if I had a glossy screen and I could see the prints, I would probably seize up. But with my iMac, I can only see the prints when it is off/sleeping. And if it is sleeping, I don't care, because that means that I am doing something else.

I don't understand what the big deal is, I don't have dead pixels or anything. I get the occasional stuck, which I fix or noticeable pixel I fix by wetting my finger and you guessed it, rubbing the pixel :)
 
My worst experience with this:

My sister's friend and her were on the iMac, eating Cheetos. I tried to get them off but my mom told me to leave them alone. Then, with all the cheesy-goodness, my sister's friend's hand goes toward the screen. I went ballistic then and they left for a long time. :D
 
When i was at college some kid stabbed and slashed a G4 imac screen beyond use, he got found out, expelled, kicked out by his parents and now works at mc donalds, i went in there just to laugh :D

Someone poking the screen doesn't seem so bad now does it....
 
Part of me wonders if this is only going to get worse as interfaces like the iPhone become more common. Now there are LCD screens you're SUPPOSED to touch, and in fact it's th only way to interact with them.

Obviously, I know the differences in interface between iPhone and Macbook Pro, but will less savvy users be able to control their touch-reflex?
 
Manic Mouse said:
Because it irritates me no end. Screens are for looking at, there is no reason to ever touch them. You can quite easily point to things without ever making contact with the screen. And then you have the people who not only touch, but forcibly jab screens.

My Macbook now has two dead pixels thanks to a friend who just can't resist jabbing at the screen like a monkey every time she gets on my MacBook.

Will people ever learn?
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I just keep a sharp meat cleaver next to my MBP to lop off the fingers of anyone who attempts to point at (and/or touch) my beautiful glossy display.

Cheers,
 
I "LOL'd" just from the title of this thread!

It's a big pet peeve of mine for sure. If nobody else touched my screens, they'd never be touched by anything but dust and air. But every once in a while, somebody just has to make contact when pointing something out and I cringe and/or express my utter disbelief that this problem is so widespread.

I have a client who uses the business end of a blue ball point pen to point something out on her iBook screen, which is covered in scratches and little blue marks. I'd never let her near my laptops.
 
OMG one time I witnessed a friend PICK UP his laptop by the screen. He literally squeezed the LCD between thumb and forefinger and lifted the laptop from the table to his lap. It took all my restraint to stop myself from reaching across the table and smacking him.
 
yadmonkey said:
I "LOL'd" just from the title of this thread!

It's a big pet peeve of mine for sure. If nobody else touched my screens, they'd never be touched by anything but dust and air. But every once in a while, somebody just has to make contact when pointing something out and I cringe and/or express my utter disbelief that this problem is so widespread.

I have a client who uses the business end of a blue ball point pen to point something out on her iBook screen, which is covered in scratches and little blue marks. I'd never let her near my laptops.
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I just don't get it either. Today as I sat in a meeting the President of our company walked past, saw my mac (there are only a few in the company and all are personal systems), grabbed the top of my MBP display and vigourously rotated the lid back and forth. :eek: I was so shocked I couldn't speak. When I recovered all I could think was I'm glad his thumbs only touched the lid and camera and not my perfect glossy screen. :(

I can only think people are ok with this sort of nonsense because they don't own a Mac or any other expensive gear that they take care of and have no regard for other's property. (though his Mercedes always seems very shiny)

Cheers,

PS: Being away from my desk I was unable to avail myself of the aformentioned cleaver...
 
yah i hate that behavior >_> ..
my dad keep on touching my screen...he says it helps him focus when reading a document O_O
 
makismagoo99 said:
OMG one time I witnessed a friend PICK UP his laptop by the screen. He literally squeezed the LCD between thumb and forefinger and lifted the laptop from the table to his lap. It took all my restraint to stop myself from reaching across the table and smacking him.
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OH MY!!
if someone did that to my new spoiled macbook pro i would cut his neck off and make deep cuts in his ass O_O
 
SonicChronicler said:
Repeated visions of me, teeth clenched, growling "It's not a touch screen!" cured them - they now do the same thing to their friends who try and touch their screens
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Haha. I actually had an experience like that. I'm developing software for a military system (classified, sorry) that uses a touch-screen control interface. The testers have actual touch-screen monitors, they run the software, poke away at the controls, and report bugs. I develop on a standard dual monitor workstation.

Well, one day a tester came up to me with a question about the software behaviour. I called up the system so he could show me. I thought he knew that I didn't have a touch screen unit (they're special monitors that sit low to the table, not like my standard Dell LCD). Apparently I was wrong.

Him: "OK, so when I do this..." *JAB*
Me: "Yikes!!!"
 
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