• Era Scarecrow <rtcvb32 yahoo.com> Jan 26 2012

Era Scarecrow <rtcvb32 yahoo.com> writes:

 Heh, yea. That's something thing I always found funny:


 prepackage one-button mice with their


 because "one-button mice are simpler and easier". But I


 "control-click" qualified as simpler or easier than


 <snip>
 
 A one-button mouse _is_ simpler than a mouse with three
 buttons and a scroll wheel.
 
 OTOH, _using_ a one-button mouse is neither simpler nor
 easier....
 
 (The IT manager of my uni department back in the day told me
 (probably speculatively) that 
 the reason for fewer buttons is "less to go wrong".)


 Let's see... I don't have a math degree, but how many keys are there on a
keyboard? With a 2 button mouse, you have up to 4 combinations you can work
with. If you include double click, that does up to 9, include a scroll wheel
click, that's 27.

 Now instead of using one hand and two fingers (index and ring), you instead
have to use one hand, with one button, the other hand, and you have to probably
drop your eyes to find the key. So with a single mouse, and you have click and
double click, plus a 101 key keyboard, you have 202 combinations, all of which
require two hands. Amputee? Get a PC... (now there's an ad slogan :P)

 Also reminds me something I never understood. The apple machines required you
to have a keyboard plugged into turn on the computer, because the power button
was on the keyboard..... Who the hell made that genius decision? I mean if it
was something like, oh the Atari 800XL, or Commodore 64, that goes hand in hand
as you COULDN'T remove the keyboard (which was the computer) but geez....
Really...