On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:17:02 -0800, Tim Rowledge tim@sumeru.stanford.edu wrote:
Yes, it completely voids the 'direct' pointing aspect since moving from point A on your desk to point B and back will not neccessarily put the cursor back in the same place.
OTOH, they do make navigating on big screens a bit easier, it seems. A trade-off, here?
At least they kept the 'tangential' property of the mechanical mice, so that moving your hand in an anatomically sensible arc corresponds to left-right.
Gosh. I never knew that. Just moved the cursor over a straight line left-to-right and back, checking the actual movement of the mouse, and indeed, it describes an arc rather than a straight line. Learned something again today (at least I know can go to bed knowing that my day was not completely spent in vain trying to cook up accounts for the taxman ;))