Thanks. I'll probably get one, judging from this thread it seems like the best option available.

I think you might have the right idea. Some other people have suggested making my own mouse with a 3D printer or some such, but I could just take out the internals from one of the Contour mice, which have a really great shape, and put in the internals from something else. Something wireless... I'll think about that.

I appreciate the suggestion, the pain seems to come from the small stretch of having my ring finger off to the side and down from the other two for an extended period. It's not really RSI, though as I understand it I'm ripe for RSI pain there - I pretty well plant the heel of my hand and move the mouse with just my wrist and finger tips. I've been told that this is exactly wrong, but aside from a thick callus on my hand where it rests on the desk it's never given me any pain or trouble. As long as I've got a mouse where I can keep my three middle fingers together, that is, and not dangling to one side.

I'm using a grey Contour mouse right now and either the DPI isn't that high or the sensor accuracy isn't sufficient for that to matter. I don't know if this is a 4th gen mouse, they aren't labeled that way. The older mice were white, so if all the grey ones are 4th gen then the upgrade was insufficient. On the other hand, I've had this for a few years and the label on the bottom says 2011, so maybe this is a 3rd gen mouse? Feh.

I like the shape of the contour enough to buy another one if I thought it would make a difference, but I'm not just going to take a shot in the dark and hope to randomly get a new model.

Arg. I knew that was too good to be true. I knew it!

"Lets make a totally customizable mouse with tons of buttons so users can configure it however they like."
"Great idea! Only, you know, not anyone who doesn't use Windows or Mac OS."
"Natch."
"Also, let's make it totally customizable _except_ for the ability to put the middle mouse button in the middle or the right button on the right."
"Ha! Won't it be hilarious to see all those idiots trying to right click with the right mouse button. What a bunch of moroons..."

Thanks for that bit of validation. I've never had this kind of trouble with a mouse before, not even with a roller mouse, and had a small concern that maybe I was just getting old or something.

Well, the Contour mouse that I mentioned in the summary comes in several sizes for lefties. Not wireless though, we're in the same boat there. The Evolent mouse also has a left-handed version, though no no wireless for that one.

Thank you, that is very helpful.

Another commenter suggested that this might be driverless, in other words your configuration is stored on the mouse and is OS independent. That's pretty appealing if that's true, I don't suppose you could confirm that?

I'll certainly agree that the DPI thing has been blown out of proportion for marketing purposes, and I can't speak for accurate vs. inaccurate, but the Contour is just not good enough for fast games like first person shooters.

As for wireless - this is another thing that I think has been inaccurately represented. I've had some good wireless mice / joysticks / controllers which have given me no problems at all in this respect. Granted, these have all been infrared, not bluetooth, and I understand that bluetooth introduces some additional overhead. So maybe that's what people complain about? I don't know.

I have an MX Revolution. When I realized that I'd finally have to give up my Mouseman I first got myself a Creative Fatal1ty Gaming Mouse (because it was the only one I could find with three buttons) and after my third one of those died in short order (because they were shit) I got the MX Revolution. This was when I learned that not only did I have a preference for three button mice, but that it was physically painful for me to use a two button one for extended periods.

Also the Revolution didn't have a middle mouse button at all, though maybe the Performance Mouse has changed that. I did like the flying scroll wheel, that was fun, and the wireless performance with the nice little cradle was great. I would absolutely love a three button version of one of those.

I haven't used the g600, but Creative used to make something similar - the Fatal1ty Gaming Mouse. The biggest problem with those was the faulty microswitches, which made them basically unusable, but they had the same layout as the g600 with the right mouse button in the middle. Using those in Windows the answer was no, there was no way to remap the primary buttons aside from swapping right and left (for lefties). I say this baring any special utilities which may have added that functionality, and I was only using Windows at the time (using Linux now) so, you know, maybe. With the g600 though, the right button is a shift key. That's not necessarily remappable or even visible to the OS. I don't know how that's set up, maybe someone else could weigh in on that.

Also, there's no wireless version for the g600. Though it's a gaming mouse so the DPI is good.

The Contour used to be ~$120, I hadn't noticed that the price had changed. None the less, it's still a wired mouse with low DPI. I know people say that DPI doesn't matter that much, but it's definitely evident with one of these in fast games.

Neither one was a "campaign" of accusations, they were just regular accusations, and the two really don't have a lot in common. Who are the people who can't take "no" for an answer? The resentful ex-boyfriend? That's what the "ex" part means, it means that he took "no" for an answer. He wasn't happy about how their relationship had gone down, but it was pretty clear that he wasn't under any delusion about it continuing.

Who's the other person who couldn't take "no" for an answer? The professor? The professor's accuser? The article didn't say how their relationship ended, and it was a little shy on details... It did say that she didn't realize that it was harassment until a year after the fact, which sorta implies that something happened to change her mind on the whole thing. That's kinda sketchy, but if we set aside the harassment label and recognize that it's not allowed for a faculty member to enter into a romantic relationship with their pupil then her criticism is valid regardless of what motivated it.

Answer: no, I don't see any parallels between this and gamergate.