I just hold down multiple fingers on my trackpad...is that cheating?
That being said, the modifier cluster gives me 2^4 combinations, which is hard to achieve even on my 12-button mouse. (Of course, with said 12-button mouse, I have 12 * 2^4 possibilities, but that's getting a bit silly.)
It's nonintuitive and it requires enabling "tapping" on an oversensitive surface, leading to false clicks.
But I really hate "tap" functions.
What bothers me is that they put in a single massive button below the pad instead of two separate buttons, which would have been both A) standard and B) useful for people who hate "tapping" functions.
Huh. I spend most of my time lately sitting using a machine with a two-button trackpad and using it to interact with software that expects a three-button mouse.
I always figured that tapping was an expected part of using a trackpad, whether it had one, two, or three buttons, regardless of how many buttons the software expected.
But I really do wish this computer had a clit as well as the trackpad.
This explains so much about the invasive behaviour of their Windows malware line - you know, iTunes, Quicktime, Bonjour, Safari, Apple Software Update, iPod helper, Apple Device Manager, etc etc etc.
Just think of it as turn-about for those dreadful "'I'm a Mac.' 'I'm a PC.'" ads.
-- Steve's wondering how many swirlies that other Steve must've went through to make those ads seem like a good idea. "Hey, let's accuse anyone not already buying our product of being a geeky nebbish. That'll get 'em to come over in droves."
#2: I have the displeasure of occasionally having to fix the problems of people who mistook Macs for useful office computers, when in fact they are simply $5000 toys. By paying more than twice as much as for the equivalent non-Apple product, they have gotten a machine that is slower, less powerful, has a much less useful interface, has less (and much more expensive) software working for it, and that makes things like shared folder access and simple networking unnecessarily difficult in casual, capricious, pointless ways.
So I get to mock them, sometimes. Apple owes me that, for the difficulty their idiot designers have put me through over the years.
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Date: 2008-07-01 10:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-07-02 03:47 pm (UTC)That being said, the modifier cluster gives me 2^4 combinations, which is hard to achieve even on my 12-button mouse. (Of course, with said 12-button mouse, I have 12 * 2^4 possibilities, but that's getting a bit silly.)
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Date: 2008-07-02 04:04 pm (UTC)But I really hate "tap" functions.
What bothers me is that they put in a single massive button below the pad instead of two separate buttons, which would have been both A) standard and B) useful for people who hate "tapping" functions.
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Date: 2008-07-02 05:44 pm (UTC)I always figured that tapping was an expected part of using a trackpad, whether it had one, two, or three buttons, regardless of how many buttons the software expected.
But I really do wish this computer had a clit as well as the trackpad.
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Date: 2008-07-03 02:52 am (UTC)http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/0385267746
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Date: 2008-07-02 01:39 am (UTC)-- Steve's wondering how many swirlies that other Steve must've went through to make those ads seem like a good idea. "Hey, let's accuse anyone not already buying our product of being a geeky nebbish. That'll get 'em to come over in droves."
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Date: 2008-07-02 02:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-07-02 02:57 am (UTC)It's so BRILLIANT when you explain it that way!
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Date: 2008-07-03 01:21 pm (UTC)http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20060513
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Date: 2008-07-02 12:10 pm (UTC)#2: I have the displeasure of occasionally having to fix the problems of people who mistook Macs for useful office computers, when in fact they are simply $5000 toys. By paying more than twice as much as for the equivalent non-Apple product, they have gotten a machine that is slower, less powerful, has a much less useful interface, has less (and much more expensive) software working for it, and that makes things like shared folder access and simple networking unnecessarily difficult in casual, capricious, pointless ways.
So I get to mock them, sometimes. Apple owes me that, for the difficulty their idiot designers have put me through over the years.
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Date: 2008-07-02 02:37 pm (UTC)...
"Show me on the doll where the bad computer touched you."
Coffee. I need coffee.
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Date: 2008-07-03 01:21 pm (UTC)