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_Maxxx_ wrote: about 20 years out of date
I didn't know I was even that progressive.
No buttons? No buttons? Touchpad? That's not even a mouse. 
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_Maxxx_ wrote: the next mouse
One of the seashells is the mouse.
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On the Apple external mouse you can click on the right part of the button and it behaves like a "right click". On the mousepad you can just click anywhere with two fingers.
Seems to work fine for me - I use PC's and Macs and find Macs are (after years of complaining about them) faster and easier to use for most things
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: faster and easier to use for most things
Oh, yeah. Then why hasn't microsoft stolen those ideas if they're so good? Yep, I got you on that one and I believe I've proven those are not good ideas, because if they were MS would've bought them out by now.  (sarcasm icon) 
EDIT: I'm expecting a plethora of upvotes on this one, people (and developers) so get your clicky fingers going on whatever type of mouse-all device you got over there. Now! 
modified 16-Mar-15 8:35am.
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I gave you an upvote for the sarcasm - it's monday after all
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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You obviously need alcohol, of one type[^] or another[^].
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't know how many times I've cursed this laptop because the touchpad is "windows-8 friendly" (swiping in from all directions does the same as swiping in on the monitor), so the touchpad scroll areas that I've become so used to don't exist.
I decided to see if I could regedit the pad to do things the old proper way, so I opened the Synaptics Control Panel applet to pick out some strings to search the registry for. That's standard ops for looking where they don't want you to look. No problem.
Looking for strings that might be almost unique, I tapped the "Multi-Finger" tab (for the first time ever).
Option 2 for "Two Fingers" is "Enable vertical scrolling".
As in "Hey, Stoopid! If ya wanna scroll, use two fingers!"
Head, keyboard. Keyboard, head. I'll fetch some tea and biscuits.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'd be tempted to give it just one finger!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Mark_Wallace wrote: As in "Hey, Stoopid! If ya wanna scroll, use two fingers!"
For god's sake never use a Mac, this'd be at the lower end of the trigger scale.
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"Don't hold it that way".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It kind of works okay for me on a Mac - the gestures seem logical and work consistently.
I've got a couple of PC laptops (1 x Dell and 1 x HP) - their gesture support seems flaky and I often get unexpected/unwanted behaviour so I ended up switching them back to bog-standard mode.
I think a little more attention to detail from the manufacturers would sort things out, but Windows software always seems to stop at the 85% complete mark ("that's good enough, ship it" mentality).
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I'm not bothered about gestures so much (too bothersome to remember, when you move from machine to machine); I just want to scroll without having to move my hand to either a key or a real mouse.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That is a problem on PC's with every manufacturer (and even model) having a different way to do things 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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"Learn to use your fingers!" she said. 
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
// No comment
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And that's when the fight started?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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To start a fight involves that there should be at least an instant in which there are no fights. So no, that wasn't when the fight started
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
// No comment
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Well, don't get too used to it... given the fact you've got windows 8 probably you'll update to windows 10 soon... and who knows how will it work there...
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Joan Murt wrote: given the fact you've got windows 8 probably you'll update to windows 10
Probably?
Probably?
Probably?
Look:
- There's understatement.
- Then there's massive understatement.
- Then there's Jeeze! Wow! How unbelievably massive is that? understatement.
- And then there's "given the fact you've got windows 8 probably you'll update to windows 10"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OK, I've just worked with 8.1 for a long time now and I'm not completely unhappy with it... it works... but anyway, now that it seems that tomorrow I'll get a brand new Lenovo t450s to work with, I'll change to windows 10 as soon as it gets out, as far as I've seen it works well and looks promising... 
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Well...it's better than 5.0 / 5.0.2
But it's not perfect.
The new graphics do slug the device a bit - it's not all the time, but some operations do seem less snappy.
Battery use is still higher: a couple of hours less use per day for me, with nothing too intensive over the weekend.
It crashed Saturday, and again on Sunday.
It freezes from time to time, seems to be related to a lack of WiFi signal. It you move out of range of valid WiFi if can lock the device for a couple of minutes (and may make it crash as a result).
It really doesn't like AdBlock Plus...
Will I keep it? Or downgrade back to 4.4? Dunno yet - but I suspect that 4.4 is on the cards. It was smoother all the time, didn't crash, didn't lock. Not as pretty, doesn't have the "two finger drag down" of 5.x - but it's alarm clock support was easier to use, and the email client was better.
I'll give it a few more days before I decide - I'd like to get "the latest" if only to get rid of the permanent "update waiting" notice that 4.4 had in the top right!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'd like to get "the latest" if only to get rid of the permanent "update waiting" notice that 4.4 had in the top right!
Hah! I know what you mean. I've been sitting on that for a month or so now.
Marc
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And every time I get out of bed early and try to hit "Dismiss alarm now" I run the risk of hitting "Install" instead ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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An easy one for Monday:
Chopping portage in full swing for a popular TV programme (3,4)
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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And topical too!
TOP GEAR (anag "PORTAGE")
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