Suppose the death star gets about halfway done, and the requirement to convert to metric kicks in. All those parts machined to imperial units will have to be scrapped and the whole thing rebuilt.

Sigh. Venus gets no love. Ironic, isn't it?

There are Windows Phone users?

You do not want to encourage antibiotic resistance in this genus!

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How about strong encryption for the data network, so that it can't be hacked by a simple R2 unit?

It's not true. But then, I am not a woman.

Or maybe Shifty Grades of Fey.

Once I read all the poll options, the last thing I had read was "Print is Dead".

->stat Atlantic time
stat: cannot stat `Atlantic': No such file or directory
stat: cannot stat `time': No such file or directory

Well after reading the announcement or whatever we're calling it, I'd have to say it affirms my recently evolved judgment (over about the last two years) that Apple is the opposite of cool...So no worries, they are definitely not infringing your patent.

1. Create something nobody needs, and everybody but the most juvenile will find annoying.
2. Create (obvious) method for limiting the annoyance created by step 1.
3. Patent the method in step 2.
4. ????
5. Profit!

I don't think you meant "ring and index gripping the right side", but "ring and pinky gripping the right side". Well, I have large hands, but gripping the mouse between thumb and ring finger feels (to me) like an unnatural stretch. Even more so for click-and-drag" operations. So it's between thumb and pinky for me. Maybe it's a difference in musculature between us, but I find that gives the best fine positioning control.

I've already uninvented it for you. How long since you last saw a time traveler?

I'll amend that -- every *desktop* GUI.

I've always preferred keyboard input over mouse. But I'm using one now. Why? Because every GUI on earth is too reliant on them. But the mouse is ergonomically a terrible invention. Why is it so hard to drag without accidentally tripping the right button (left button, if you are left-handed) with the ring finger? I'd want to un-invent the mouse so that I could reinvent it without a button in that position. I'd have two buttons, one would be under the index finger, the other under the middle finger. Then it wouldn't be such a pain in the ass.