Re: Mouse

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject	Re: Mouse
Date	2020-08-10 17:15 +0000
Organization	Sourthern Nevada Institute of Technology
Message-ID	<hpddlhFg3unU11@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On Aug 10, 2020 at 5:04:01 AM MST, "nospam" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <hpcdnqFc5f6U2@mid.individual.net>, Tim
> <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> 
>>>>>> What do people use for a basic mouse? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> trackpad.
>>>> 
>>>> You could have deduced from my OP that I don't want one of those.
>>> 
>>> you asked what people use.
>> 
>> I asked what people use "for a basic mouse". A mouse is not a trackpad.
> 
> trackpads, trackballs and mice are interchangeable devices which do
> exactly the same function.

Notice how you jumped from them being the same thing to serving the same
function. Of course they need not -- for example, most mice do not have swipe
gestures (though as you note the Apple mouse is a hybrid).

> apple's magic mouse is a hybrid, where the surface is a mini-trackpad
> for gesture support.
> 
>>>>>> Is there a basic mouse with a scroll-ball? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> the apple pea-mouse, but it was *awful*.
>>>> 
>>>> No it wasn't. It had one design defect, namely that you had to crack it open
>>>> to clean the pea, which after 9 months or so stopped working due to grot.
>>> 
>>> more like 9 days. it was horrible.
>> 
>> 9 days in your case, perhaps.
> 
> it needed cleaning far more often than 9 months and the pea was
> physically too small to be useful. it was junk.


-- 
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot
use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow
superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

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Mouse Tim <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2020-08-09 18:19 +0000
  Re: Mouse nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-09 14:26 -0400
    Re: Mouse Tim <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2020-08-09 21:23 +0000
      Re: Mouse nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-09 17:30 -0400
        Re: Mouse Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-09 23:50 +0000
          Re: Mouse nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-10 08:04 -0400
            Re: Mouse Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-10 17:17 +0000
        Re: Mouse Tim <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2020-08-10 08:10 +0000
          Re: Mouse nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-10 08:04 -0400
            Re: Mouse Tim <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2020-08-10 13:29 +0000
              Re: Mouse nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-10 09:45 -0400
            Re: Mouse Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-10 17:15 +0000
      Re: Mouse Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-09 23:52 +0000
  Re: Mouse Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2020-08-10 07:35 +0000
    Re: Mouse snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2020-08-10 08:56 +0100
    Re: Mouse Tim <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2020-08-10 08:19 +0000
      Re: Mouse Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-08-10 15:50 +0100
        Re: Mouse Tim <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2020-08-10 17:27 +0000
          Re: Mouse Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-10 17:43 +0000
            Re: Mouse Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-08-11 17:30 +0000
              Re: Mouse Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-11 18:43 +0000
              Re: Mouse Tim <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2020-08-11 21:32 +0000
  Re: Mouse Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-10 10:38 +0000
    Re: Mouse Tim <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2020-08-10 13:32 +0000
      Re: Mouse Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-10 16:23 +0000
        Re: Mouse Martin S Taylor <correspondence@mRaErMtOiVnEsTtHaIySlor.com> - 2020-08-18 10:10 +0100
          Re: Mouse Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-18 09:48 +0000
            Re: Mouse Sak Wathanasin <sw@nan.co.uk> - 2020-08-20 01:38 -0700
              Re: Mouse Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-20 09:51 +0000
                Re: Mouse Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> - 2020-08-20 11:26 +0000
                Re: Mouse Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-20 19:13 +0000
                Re: Mouse Tim <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2020-08-20 21:42 +0000
  Re: Mouse Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2020-08-10 11:41 +0100
  Re: Mouse bob <email@domain.com> - 2020-08-10 16:30 +0200
    Re: Mouse Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2020-08-10 16:41 +0100

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