I strongly disagree. I think that multi-touch as implemented in Apple's touchpads is really not useful.
My main reason is that I recently realized that scroll bars are a useless desktop widget. Page up and page down are far more efficient for actually reading documents or coding and you don't have to follow with your eyes as you scroll. if you don't like reading text at the very top or bottom of your screen, then set pg up/dn to move half a page at a time.
Seriously, why do we have the scroll bar? I posit its to make simple things like moving through a web page non-trivial for the CPU. Can anyone give a better answer? (okay, here's one-- very close up image editing)
Regarding 10/GUI's window management, I think they are on the right track with x-y space being too free to enhance productivity, but their horizontal array of windows is still a bit short cited. I think that a proper tiled window manager takes this observation to the next level, by allowing for more flexible layouts (e.g. sometimes you have wide apps that you want stacked vertically), and also by partitioning your apps into discrete desktops instead of just scrolling through all of them.
The giant touch surface seems cool though.
I'm guessing what you actually need to do is reset the connection to your modem or release and renew DHCP, Every router I've used allows you to login to a web based configuration and do these things.
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I strongly disagree. I think that multi-touch as implemented in Apple's touchpads is really not useful. My main reason is that I recently realized that scroll bars are a useless desktop widget. Page up and page down are far more efficient for actually reading documents or coding and you don't have to follow with your eyes as you scroll. if you don't like reading text at the very top or bottom of your screen, then set pg up/dn to move half a page at a time. Seriously, why do we have the scroll bar? I posit its to make simple things like moving through a web page non-trivial for the CPU. Can anyone give a better answer? (okay, here's one-- very close up image editing) Regarding 10/GUI's window management, I think they are on the right track with x-y space being too free to enhance productivity, but their horizontal array of windows is still a bit short cited. I think that a proper tiled window manager takes this observation to the next level, by allowing for more flexible layouts (e.g. sometimes you have wide apps that you want stacked vertically), and also by partitioning your apps into discrete desktops instead of just scrolling through all of them. The giant touch surface seems cool though.
I'm guessing what you actually need to do is reset the connection to your modem or release and renew DHCP, Every router I've used allows you to login to a web based configuration and do these things.