Moreover, the Surface Pro 1 and 2 used Wacom EMR styluses --- still regret not getting one, but then Samsung did the Galaxy Book 12 (which was about perfect), so I was _finally_ able to replace my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4110 (the Toshiba Encore 2 Write was a necessary stop-gap).
These days I use a Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 (w/ a spare which I panick bought when I wasn't sure if they would do a Book 4 --- now they're up to a 5), Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, Samsung Galaxy Note 10+, and have a Wacom One on my MacBook (both of which need upgrading....)
I _think_ that they are striving towards the sort of programming/computation environment I've been wanting ever since first reading Hermann Hesse's _The Glass Bead Game_ and encountering the mention of handheld stylus computers in Niven & Pournelle's _The Mote in God's Eye_.
I get a tiny bit of that feel when using pyspread, and a bit more when using OpenSCAD Graph Editor and/or BlockSCAD or NodeBox, and if I could ever find a parametric 3D CAD program which suited me, that would probably be the closest extant application to what I want.
I do not think that any of the programs that I use daily supports radial menus, but the shape of the menus has really no importance, because with the tablet in "Relative" mode and with reasonable values set for the acceleration and sensitivity of the cursor I can reach instantaneously any point on the display, with a very small hand movement, no more than one inch for going from one corner to the diagonally opposite corner of my monitor.
I think that radial menus could have been useful when used with graphic tablets used in their default "Absolute" mode, where the position of the stylus on the tablet corresponds directly to the position of the cursor on the screen, which makes more awkward the cursor movements in locations that are far away from the center of the screen.
No such problems exist when the tablet is in "Relative" mode, when the stylus behaves like a mouse, except that it has neither inertia nor friction and your hand rests in its natural orientation.
Using a graphic tablet in "Absolute" mode is equivalent with using a stylus on a touchscreen, e.g. on a smartphone or tablet, so in those cases using radial menus might also be convenient, unlike in my case, where the shape and position of menus do not matter.
Why is writing inline Assembly considered an advantage of C, a language extension even not part of ISO, and always used to point out issues when other languages make use of it?
Naturally there had to be a balance, until mid-90s what we consider AAA games, were mostly Assembly.
It would be interesting to have further links/resources/research.
Apparently, Japan reigns supreme in the manufacture of mechanical pencil components w/ brands such as Rotring and Skilcraft importing, or contracting to Japanese companies either for manufacture (my Rotring Quattro is labeled as Made in Japan), or parts sourcing (my Skilcraft B3 Aviator multi-pen was noted as including mechanical pencil components imported from Japan).
One of my favourite mechanical pencils is a "357" imported from Japan which uses a Rotring-like gravity mechanism to select a 0.3mm, 0.5mm, or 0.7mm lead.
Wasn't always so --- I can still remember playing w/ a Norma 4-colour mechanical pencil my father had (which sadly wasn't among his effects when he passed --- just ordered a replacement off eBay...) Unfortunately, the page on this at: http://www.roger-russell.com/ is off-line.
The local grocery store chain to me, Giant Foods uses a handwriting oriented sans serif font, Robert Slimbach's Cronos Pro (which was a favourite of mine until that rebranding....)
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