1. The reason pinch-to-zoom works is because the other finger is defining range by human intuition. The scroll wheel does not provide even similar intuitive feedback, not to mention the ergonomics of trying to hold a button down and zoom.
2. Most scroll wheels provide clicks, not a smooth roll. (Think: the difference between integers and floats.)
Now I don't know for sure, but I'd also be willing to bet that that when an app does a pinch-to-zoom, they're not doing anything special to identify it as such. The software wouldn't know the difference bewteen "zooming' and "interpreting a gesture based on two inputs". If I'm right, then there's no way to auto-detect being able to swap the zoom gesture with a mouse + scroll wheel input. That would mean the scroll wheel would provide bizarre results for just about any Android app running on the PC.
The scroll wheel is not an alternative to multi-touch-input.
Was it expensive to maintain this functionality? It seems like the.doc format shouldn't be changing much these days, making it fairly cheap to keep around.
Funny, this is the second time this week I've heard this question about Google. The answer is: Every time somebody makes a change to Docs, they have to test this format. Expensive? Who knows, but it is a cost.
The real question is: Why is Google running around doing all this cost cutting?
I don't even know what regedit looks like in Windows 7. Even back in the Windows 2000 days where I did frequently mess with it, I wasn't using it for configuration, I was usually nuking stuff I didn't want anymore. I cannot think of a time where I used it for configuration purposes.
However, you do have a point. I did have a habit of doing a fresh reinstall every 6 months due to the registry. That habit died with Windows 7, but I have endured two major hard-drive failures due to not trusting my machine. (I only mean that as a silver lining, not as a 'feature'.)
How is a wax figure, soon to be pawed over and posed with by thousands of tourists, some of whom will no doubt sneak the "I'm giving this wax figure a blowjob" pose for their iphone-wielding friend, any better than that? Why isn't Apple all over this?
I always get a kick out of people who get confused when the real world doesn't live up to the mental cartoon they've created.
RedHat, Knoppix, then back to XP because I was tired of editing.CONF files to do simple things like set up dual displays. Windows got better, so I haven't tried Linux since the early 2000's.
Driving on a mountain road around a sharp corner where there is a steep cliff on the right side. Auto-car is passed on the left by some *sshole "manual" driver, but then the *sshat driver cuts in short because of oncoming traffic at the last second. Robo-driver identifies there is suddenly a car intruding into its safe-T-zone (TM) and does what its programming tells it to do, avoid hitting other vehicles. So the self-driving wonder swerves right to avoid the other car and zooms off the cliff.
First off, yes you would have. It's been a complaint around here since well before the iPad came out. Even sites like Gizmodo and Engadget have features to turn off stories in the weeks approaching Apple releases.
Second, the comments breed the stories. Lots of people comment (love or hate) when Apple stories come up, Slashdot serves ads, we get more stories.
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Two reasons:
1. The reason pinch-to-zoom works is because the other finger is defining range by human intuition. The scroll wheel does not provide even similar intuitive feedback, not to mention the ergonomics of trying to hold a button down and zoom.
2. Most scroll wheels provide clicks, not a smooth roll. (Think: the difference between integers and floats.)
Now I don't know for sure, but I'd also be willing to bet that that when an app does a pinch-to-zoom, they're not doing anything special to identify it as such. The software wouldn't know the difference bewteen "zooming' and "interpreting a gesture based on two inputs". If I'm right, then there's no way to auto-detect being able to swap the zoom gesture with a mouse + scroll wheel input. That would mean the scroll wheel would provide bizarre results for just about any Android app running on the PC.
The scroll wheel is not an alternative to multi-touch-input.
Pinch to zoom could easily be implemented using the scroll wheel of a mouse.
No, it can not.
Are there any documented cases of food-poisoning-by-phone-in-bathroom?
Go to video and turn off the kiddie filter and search what your little black heart desires.
Um... just for clarification, do you mean 'safe search'?
That's weird, iddn't it? It was a lot easier to find porn before Google came along.
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27, @12:38AM (#41474035)
what... too busy searching to post?
what... login information too hard to type with one hand?
Every time somebody makes a change to Docs, they have to test this format.
Uh, the point is that the doc format hasn't changed in 5 years. So there's no cost to maintain as is.
Docs (as in Google Docs), not .doc.
Such elements do not occur in nature and must be produced through experiments involving nuclear reactors or particle accelerators...
So what you're saying is that they are unable to obtain any... mmm?
Was it expensive to maintain this functionality? It seems like the .doc format shouldn't be changing much these days, making it fairly cheap to keep around.
Funny, this is the second time this week I've heard this question about Google. The answer is: Every time somebody makes a change to Docs, they have to test this format. Expensive? Who knows, but it is a cost.
The real question is: Why is Google running around doing all this cost cutting?
I don't even know what regedit looks like in Windows 7. Even back in the Windows 2000 days where I did frequently mess with it, I wasn't using it for configuration, I was usually nuking stuff I didn't want anymore. I cannot think of a time where I used it for configuration purposes.
However, you do have a point. I did have a habit of doing a fresh reinstall every 6 months due to the registry. That habit died with Windows 7, but I have endured two major hard-drive failures due to not trusting my machine. (I only mean that as a silver lining, not as a 'feature'.)
How is a wax figure, soon to be pawed over and posed with by thousands of tourists, some of whom will no doubt sneak the "I'm giving this wax figure a blowjob" pose for their iphone-wielding friend, any better than that? Why isn't Apple all over this?
I always get a kick out of people who get confused when the real world doesn't live up to the mental cartoon they've created.
Are you sure it doesn't have anything to do with you posting shit like this?
Cause and effect. Where do you think Microsoft Apologists came from?
RedHat, Knoppix, then back to XP because I was tired of editing .CONF files to do simple things like set up dual displays. Windows got better, so I haven't tried Linux since the early 2000's.
Driving on a mountain road around a sharp corner where there is a steep cliff on the right side. Auto-car is passed on the left by some *sshole "manual" driver, but then the *sshat driver cuts in short because of oncoming traffic at the last second. Robo-driver identifies there is suddenly a car intruding into its safe-T-zone (TM) and does what its programming tells it to do, avoid hitting other vehicles. So the self-driving wonder swerves right to avoid the other car and zooms off the cliff.
Wasn't this an episode of Knight Rider?
"It's like massively-multiplayer undo!"
Wow... that's a reference to a PC configuration we haven't seen in so long that nerds use it in "Yo Mama's so old" jokes.
Let's hope that the weather on the 8th is as good as they hope for...
I just hope that if he gets too hot during re-entry he can unzip his suit!
So you're a vegetarian and decided to go into a Slashdot story about bacon to brag about it? Don't you have a salad to toss?
Hooray! Finally, disaster porn I can really get worked up about!
Roland Emmerich, director of 2012 and Day After Tomorrow presents: Bacgone.
Well, that covers footballs ...*rimshot*
Yeah, that had us in stitches.
Those poor Foxconn workers. I bet Apple hires kids to work at Foxconn! I hear they also burn the bodies of the ones that die to heat the factory.
To avoid similar penalties for 'underconsumption of electricity' this year, the data center burned through $70,000 worth of electricity in three days.
What'd they do, shift all the load to AMD servers?
This proves that Apple is the new Microsoft. At least around these parts.
It also proves that stories about Apple around here cannot be taken at face value. Eyeball-bait.
First off, yes you would have. It's been a complaint around here since well before the iPad came out. Even sites like Gizmodo and Engadget have features to turn off stories in the weeks approaching Apple releases.
Second, the comments breed the stories. Lots of people comment (love or hate) when Apple stories come up, Slashdot serves ads, we get more stories.
The people who hate Apple are posting a bunch, too. Slashdot, being an ad-supported site, wins either way.