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But most laptops have a trackpad, surely?
If you drag the trackpad with two fingers
instead of one, it acts like a scroll wheel,
and if you tap it it acts like the mouse
button. I think the newer machines have a
variety of other "trackpad gestures" for
functions like rotate, zoom etc. |
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Just go to System Preferences > Keyboard
and Mouse > Trackpad, and check the box
that says "Ignore trackpad when mouse is
present" |
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Prior to the track pad many laptops did have them. |
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//System Preferences? Not in Control
Panel// |
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Hold on - are you using a computer or a
Windows PC? |
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I'm not a mac person but still I don't think that trackpads are same with a mouse's scroll wheel. It may enable you to control the scrollbar and scroll the window vertically but I'm talking about a different thing, experience design: scrolling the wheel with your index or middle finger and be able to click with the other. |
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//scrolling the wheel with your index or
middle finger and be able to click with the
other.// Yes, but you can do that with a
trackpad. Even some windows machines
seem to have this capability by now. |
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But you don't roll a wheel, right? |
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No, but the finger movement is the same. |
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[boys] you can also zoom within most
applications with option and a two-finger
scroll. Moreover, you can zoom the screen
itself (regardless of application) with ctrl
plus two-finger scroll (depends on how
you've set your preferences). |
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//Does your toybook offer that option?// |
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UBiwan, let me just check...multiple
screens - check. High speeds - check.
Dual processors - check.
Large graphics file manipulation - check. |
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Still, I expect all those cables and stuff
make yours look very impressive. |
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Oh, only a few then? That's nice. |
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Anyway, I've learned something useful
here again - I didn't realize PCs could do
graphics these days. It's amazing all the
extras you can bolt on to those little holes
in the back, isn't it? |
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Why would you want fire? Surely all those
valves generate enough heat to keep
anyone warm? |
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Cooking?! Well done! Much tastier that
way, isn't it? |
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No worries mate. It's vertebrate-specific. |
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Oh my god, I just wittnessed a "my laptop/Pc is better than yours" pissing contest. |
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And between two people that I had previously harboured not a small ammount of respect for, no less. |
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How very ninja-like, [Bubba]. |
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Engage the enemy, trigger a rapid-fire exchange of blows and feints, then dissapear, deleting all traces of your presence. |
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To an outside observer it looks as if the victim has been fighting with himself. |
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He doesn't look like he's bleeding much, however. |
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//between two people that I had
previously harboured not a small ammount
of respect for// [custard], old buddy, I
can't speak for UBiwan, but I advise most
strongly against having any respect for
[MaxwellBuchanan]. He is scurrilous and
dastardly. He is also prepared to have a
pissing contest with UB over anything.
(But, for the record, his laptop is way
better than UBiwan's PC). |
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That must be a piss de resistance if ever
there was one. |
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I do all my design work using Photoshop/Illustrator running under Linux on a cryogenically overclocked ZX Spectrum. I find I can concentrate better due to the amazingly quiet rubber keys. |
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I guess UBiwan does the same - hence the
need for the ice. |
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[wagster] ZX Spectrum! - pah! - I (and my my BBC Micro model 'B') laugh at your ZX Spectrum. |
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Three cheers for the BBC Micro Model B -
the fastest-booting computer known to
mankind. ClickbeepOK. |
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...and surely the most expandable machine
in the world, with built-in
analogue-digital converters so you could
plug in real analogue joysticks (for playing
"Elite"). |
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Oh my god - Elite!!!!! Elite!!!!!
Captain...Jameson, was it, by default? And
the evil Thargoids (??), and trading in
narcotics, and the perpetual lack of Alien
Goods at any spaceport anywhere....ah,
happy days. |
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...and everything rendered real-time in fantastic 3-D wireframe in about 32K of RAM (16K of which was taken up by the OS) on a 2MHz 6502 processor... |
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Just imagine if software had improved as
much as hardware over the last 20 years.
We'd all have 3D VR AI RPGs running on a
pocket calculator, instead of a talking
paperclip that requires a gig of processing. |
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