Then I want to pose a straightforward devil's advocate question. What is different about what you just described from every other patent in existence? Every patent is a design for a widget. The patent for that widget is a guide/physical steps/algorithm for building that widget. Why does physically moving stuff instead of logically moving information make one patentable and fine and the other "as wrong as it gets"?

Actually, they did fix the sound control from being directly tied to the scroll wheel. There is now an option in the hotkey selection window to allow the scroll wheel to seek or be ignored and subsequently mapped to a hotkey. I just noticed the setting this release. Since it was a pulldown option instead of just using hotkey mapping, it was non-obvious.

Nope, not what I intended. The visual and measured portion of the percentage scale is from 0-100. Where the sqrt of the maximum value of the scale is 10. That is where I was saying that the natural milestone or increment is.

To apply it to what you were saying. The range of numbers in your scale is that you have a set of 100 Hundredths. Since we are talking about a range of hundredths, treating the hundredths as a discrete entity, the sqrt(100) of the set of hundredths is 10 hundredths. Not mathematically correct if all units are considered, but numerically accurate with a discrete set, or just an interesting aside if nothing else.