From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] scrollbar From: andrey mirtchovski In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:59:00 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 167608e0-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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