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Comment Re:I'm a lefty (Score 1) 267

"Mousing", as in your ability to manipulate the mouse. The mouse itself should obviously be accurate.

I just meant the dexterity required in order to be proficient at mousing is very low. It doesn't require extensive training and use to master. For example, my three year old niece's typing is for shit. However, she can get the mouse around and click on things no problem.

Comment Re:I'm a lefty (Score 4, Interesting) 267

As a lefty, I always thought it was a good thing that the mouse is on the right. Mousing isn't something that requires incredible accuracy, and the accuracy it does require is easily learned in a rather small amount of time, so long as my hand was compatible with the ergonomics of the mouse, I was in good shape. And it freed up my left hand for combination keystrokes and shortcuts and one-handed typing, which definitely requires more deliberate movements and precision than right-handed mousing does for a lefty.

Comment "blah" as atheletes (Score 4, Insightful) 152

I still don't get this. If you want to call what you do a "sport", as in a structure competition or whatever gets to be a sport these days, OK then. But I thought "athlete" still implied some sort of extreme physical activity. Becoming dehydrated or mentally exhausted with a lightning quick mousing hand doesn't exactly qualify in my book.

Comment Re:The old connector isn't just for pins... (Score 1) 427

For the two docks I own, the design of the dock (i.e.: the phone resting in a form-fitting recessed "receptacle") accomplishes that task. Devices which rely on the data connector for structural support are a bad idea. Every time it wiggles while docked, it is weakening the dock's connector as well as potentially damaging the data connector on the phone.

Comment 11 pins, free of charge (Score 1, Interesting) 427

Why were they using 30 when they only needed 19? Is some functionality going to be lost in the new connector? Are they serializing some functions that used to be parallel over the cable? Did the originally plan for some functionality they never got around to adding? Maybe just giving themselves the opportunity to remove them later and and create a market for adapters?

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