Poll: The Mouse Scroll Wheel: Would We Cope Without It?

[Zepren]

erm yes, im on my laptop so i gotta cope. Hard not life and all

 

[the wako kid]

well i HAD to use my scroll whell just to get to the bottom of this page and reply.....
no i would die
my english teacher lets us use her computer and without that scrollbar..its like touching something diseased.....
it doesnt have a trackball tho lol cus people open up the mouses and steal em

 

[ezeroast]

How would I throw back nades? How would I adjust volume in winamp? How would I scroll? How would I zoom in my sniper in l4d?

 

[SquirrelPants]

I would miss it, but these days I mostly use the arrow keys to scroll about these days. So...Yes and no. I'd definitely miss it in most video games, since it's pretty much necessary for switching weapons in quite a few of 'em.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Try programming in DOS where you didn't even have cursors. You kids with your WYSIWIGS...

Actually...I remember being in University when Windows was announced. We used to program in Modula-2 using EDLIN.

Try typing out a 4000 line program with no edit functions except overwrite. That's why grind doesn't bother me.

 

[Ghostkai]

I managed before, I'm sure I'll manage again.
Though it would be wierd.

 

[Nemu]

I have learned to adapt without one at work, as some of our comps don't have scroll wheels (either due to just being too old or broken/missing balls).


It's not easy, but the things one must do for a paycheck...

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

Some of the mice at my school don't have scroll wheels and good lord is it terrible. You take the scroll wheel for granted but boy do you miss it when it's gone.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

Oh crap I didn't see "/touchpads"

so I voted no, but yea I'd miss it a lot.

 

[Lunar Templar]

i would miss my scroll wheel, it's to useful, and i have having to scroll manually, sucks anymore

 

[maddawg IAJI]

I barely use mine on my laptop as it is. Hell, I have a mouse attached to my Laptop right now, but out of habit, I keep using the touch pad. I learned how to first use a computer with a scroll wheel, I think I can do it again.

 

[EnzoHonda]

It's like the computer's clitoris.

The worst thing in the world? Maybe even worse than no scroll wheel? Having one that jumps around when you use it.

 

[fer1wi]

Probably not all that much. My Mac scroll "ball" stopped working a while ago, but I just use the page up/page down buttons.

Though, I'm on my personal laptop right now, so I use the up/down arrow keys to scroll.

The scroll wheel isn't that important to my computer usage now.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Well, considering I'm on a laptop, i.e, not using a mouse right now, I'm gonna have to say....yeah.

 

[Nmil-ek]

Love the scroll wheel from gaming to browsing become such an intregal part for me could not live without it, had the same mouse for 3 years now ever since I nicked it from college basic as hell but reliable and comfortable.

 

[Lineoutt]

Not at all! I regularly have to use 10-year old mice with only two buttons because my school is Cheap.

Oh yeah, and those mice still have trackballs.

Ewwwwwwww... the dirt wont come off Dx