On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:15:52AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 22 oct 10, 01:25:28, lee wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 04:34:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 10/21/2010 03:48 PM, lee wrote: > > > > > > > >On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when > > > >you move the scrollbar down. Where´s the logic in that? Why isn´t the > > > >text moving up together with the scroll bar? > > > > > > Take a piece of construction paper and cut a 2mm slit in it. > > > > > > Now open a book to the middle and put the construction paper on the > > > book's page so that you only see the first few lines. > > > > > > As you pull down the slit, the visible lines appear to move *up* the > > > slit. > > > > But who´s reading books like that? > > We are. Even Superman has to turn pages (he never used his super sight > to just read an entire book at once), so his slit is one page big, > whereas ours is just a few rows big ;) > > Even assuming you could comprehend an entire book at once, our > view-angle is limited, so we can only look at a limited part of a big > text at once.
Still we don´t put construction paper with a small slit in it onto the pages of books we´re reading, and the text on the pages isn´t moving. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101023114415.gf3...@yun.yagibdah.de
