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# I beat you
by one wheel... dead handy, although I'm sure I'm supposed to make more imaginative usage of them than just going forwards/back through pages/folders
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:50, archived)
# ive got a wheel on my keyboard
that just gets in the way. I wanted one with a trackball, but ebuyer weren't selling them.
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:52, archived)
# I have one of them too
but I don't use hardly any of the extra buttons... I don't even use windows-key shortcuts
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:53, archived)
# i wouldn't use anything above 98
for along time because they changed some keyboard shortcuts. ^_^
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:55, archived)
# I'm still using 98
but I don't even have a windows key : (
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:56, archived)
# I don't have a mouse!
I feel left out of all this "mouse" talk.

it's the same as when all the big kids talk of boobies!

waaaaah!
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:52, archived)
# No mouse?
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:53, archived)
# Terrible!
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:54, archived)
# Graphics tablet?
Trackball?
Synaptics pad?
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:55, archived)
# direct
synaptic interface
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:55, archived)
# Blimeh!
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:56, archived)
# Biofeedback unit.
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:56, archived)
# I've got a laptop
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:56, archived)
# No cursor control, or
a nipple mouse, or
a synaptics pad?
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:57, archived)
# I don't know the technical term
but it looks nothing like any mouse I've ever seen!
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:58, archived)
# How rare.
is it a nipple in the middle of the keyboard, a la Toshiba, or a pad you move your finger around on?

Or something else?

sorry, nosey
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:59, archived)
# It's a pad
I move my finger eroticly over....
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:01, archived)
# Yeah,
I'm using one of those on my laptop at the moment.

It is generally called a Synaptics pad after the company that developed them, and hold 90% of the pad-type HMI devices market, Synaptics Corp.

/geek
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:03, archived)
# no
it's generally called a touchpad, 'cause no-one cares who invented them, and you touch them a lot

:P
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:04, archived)
# touchpad sounds about right
i agree with you justhere, knower of all knowledge.
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:06, archived)
# Oh, well
thats what most people who work for the Dixons group call them because they can't pronounce Synaptics :D

I mainly hear them called Synaptics, but then I work with a lot of computer geeks...
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:07, archived)
# I hate those things
I keep getting other fingers in the way so that the cursor suddenly jumps to the other side of the screen.

Hence getting the posh mouse that could do loads of great things, but only has one functional button.
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:05, archived)
# ah
it's all done with bailing wire and guesswork then
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:57, archived)
# Our department had a forcefeedback mouse
it was fun, if a little pointless.

They were working on mounting a tactile array on one last time i looked.
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:59, archived)
# mmmmmmm
boobies...
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:53, archived)
# evening ms viper
nicorette patches not working eh!
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:57, archived)
# just using
willpower and lack of money
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:00, archived)
# forget about the health side of things
it's flippin' expensive.
glad i never started to be honest!
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:02, archived)
# I started 13 years ago
when I didn't know any better
(, Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:03, archived)