Re: [9fans] scrollbar

[andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>]

> Gesture recognition may be a bad idea; if computers could recognise my
> gestures, any Windows machines I use would be smoking heaps (I got yer
> gesture, right here, Gates.)

the "hitchiker's guide.." should be made an official religion.  after
all it has the answer of the ultimate question.  among its lines we
read (what inspired my original gesture post, s/radios/computer/):

	The machine was rather difficult to operate.  For years radios
	had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning
	dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the
	controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to brush
	the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave
	your hand in the general direction of the components and hope.
	It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant
	that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep
	listening to the same programme.

andrey