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Keyboards are Good; Mouses are Dumb

Posted by timothy on from the trackballs-are-savants dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Most emacs/vi users know this, but it seems the more I use the mouse, the less output I am making. The keyboard does seem to make much more of a mind-meld than the imprecise mouse. Paul Tyma hits it on the head."

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  1. Don't make such claims. by mcwop · · Score: 0, Troll

    You might destroy the world that the Apple-only-has-one-button-mice people live in.

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    "I don't think it's selfish, to eat defenseless shellfish." -NOFX

    1. Re:Don't make such claims. by rd4tech · · Score: 0, Troll

      Lets break it to them gently...

  2. Re:Nice read and all, but... by goldspider · · Score: 0, Troll

    You haven't watched cable "news" channels lately, have you...

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    "Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
  3. Re:Not quite. by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 0, Troll
    I primarily use IE in conjunction with Window-Eyes as a screen-reading application.

    Bet that was really fun at work before they took goatse.cx offline. I imagine the occasional GNAA troll is equally amusing: "I'M GAY AND I LIKE BIG BLACK ..." <diving for speaker volume>.

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
  4. WRONG by dingfelder · · Score: 1, Troll

    WRONG. Mod Parent Down.
    CNN was founded in 1980.
    Fox News was not launched until October 7, 1996