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Comment Re:The Body Count Unit of Time (Score 1) 534

Your post is not entirely unambiguous. A point has 0 dimensions. It's relative location in space can be described in at least 1 dimension if the relational space is a line, 2 if a plane, etc. A line is one dimensional but requires at least 2 dimensions to be located. A plane is 2 dimensional but requires at least 3 dimensions to be located. Keep going on up from there. Do not confuse the concept of a mathematical object with the description of its relative location.

Comment Old mouse is better still (Score 1) 414

About 5 years ago I bought a Logitech Cordless Mouse. It is the mechanical rolling ball with optical sensor wheels. It has a firm click feel on the middle button and wheel rolling action. It only just barely has ergonomic sides. The size is minimal rather than those really tall ergonomic mice.

So last Christmas somebody gave me a gift certificate from Walmart. Welp. I'm pretty sure you all know that they have a tiny selection of computer accessories. Knowing I didnt want probably anything from there but had to spend it on something I ended up with this Logitech laser mouse. Its tall, has extra buttons, no ball. Here's the problem. For twice the price it gives me a lot of hand pain. The extra buttons are cool but awkward. The laser skips a lot. The wheel has virtually no tactility. The main buttons are soft as well. After 6 months of figuring it'd get better, I gave up on it.

I'm a 3dsmax user. I really spend a lot of time clicking. Eventually using max was so tiring I didnt enjoy it any more. Going back to the old mouse took away my hand pain and I regained my speed. Not long ago the plastic on the left button became dented enough to cause failure. I went with a piece of cardboard under the plastic. That works fine for now. Still have to clean it now and then but it works better than any mouse I've ever had. Too bad for AAA batteries though. The new mouse has AAs which sadly don't seem to last any longer!

Remembering the old IBM keyboards of yore, I am fast coming to the same point with mice. Now most mice sold are laser mice and have some funky shapes. Engineers seem to be regressing. Why is it technology goes up while product quality continues to go down? Thank you market.

I don't even want to get into this touch screen argument because its just simply inane. I have 4 monitors wide on an elevated shelf (2 on main computer, the side monitors are driven by 2 other machines). BTW Synergy for the win! The view doesn't get much better than that, so why would I want to hold my arms up? The one keyboard and mouse work across all 3 machines, 4 monitors. Very little mouse movement from screen to screen. I hate to say it but for this desktop, that touch thing is not going to work. Sorry touch screen advocates.

Comment Re:The mouse... (Score 1) 414

No way. As a multi-monitor user I absolutely hate the idea of the same image on 2 displays. If you have that much screen space you want to use all of it. Duplication gives you a sickly off balance feeling.

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