12-31-2017 12:12 PM
01-01-2018 07:22 AM
01-01-2018 07:22 AM
snowdog said:
It's actually spelt 'analog' from the American spelling, and they got my vote. All you need to do is look at the Vive sub-Reddit to see how unreliable trackpads are, at least on the Vive wands. I guess some of them have gone wonky after spending so much time in a dodgy warehouse lol 😄
01-01-2018 07:28 AM
01-01-2018 07:42 AM
The first Latin-English dictionary was written in the early 1500's. Followed by Robert Cawdrey's in the early 1600's. Both writers are from England. However I would not be surprised if there are earlier ones.
elboffor said:
Well the first english dictionary was actually written by an american and he decided from the many ways things were spelt around England which ones were "correct".
As a coder ive kind of gotten used to spelling colour as color although i still think its vastly wrong.
01-01-2018 01:08 PM
01-01-2018 02:45 PM
01-01-2018 04:12 PM
snowdog said:
American's crappy spelling is all down to people of poor education leaving their home countries to emigrate after America was discovered. The vast majority of the so-called Founding Fathers and early settlers were poor and ill-educated and moved over there for new opportunities. That's why the majority of words are speld the way they sound.
01-01-2018 04:15 PM
01-01-2018 04:44 PM
DaftnDirect said:
I'd like to try thumb trackpads before deciding. I mean laptops used to have a little finger stick thing before trackpads came along and I never did get used to that stick thing. So I'm guessing it depends on the game or app.
01-01-2018 04:58 PM
kojack said:
Track pads are good at controlling a mouse cursor. Although on my laptop I disabled the track pad and use a real mouse with it (Logitech MX Master) and on my Surface Pro I use the pen.
In VR we usually don't move a mouse cursor around with our thumbs.
I used to commute long distance and the only seats you could sometimes get were the single seats with tiny table... not ideal for mouse use, so I eventually got good with the pad.
I guess I only ever need mouse-look in a desktop FPS, whereas in VR we only use our heads to look. I'm just wondering if there would be any games where a thumbpad, emulating a mouse would be a good idea. Maybe an RTS... where you're looking around and at the same time controlling stuff with yer thumb? group selecting etc. Probably a niche scenario. I just haven't tried track pads for thumbs in VR so I wouldn't want to dismiss it for other stuff.