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Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009
An anonymous reader writes "WarMouse has announced their new multi-button OpenOfficeMouse for OpenOffice.org at the 2009 OOoCon in Orvieto, Italy. The mouse, which features 18 buttons, a scroll wheel, and an analog joystick, has double-click functionality on every button and stores up to 63 application and game profiles in its 512k of flash memory. The OpenOfficeMouse runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X; its customization software will be released as free and open source software." We couldn't decide if this was a protest against Apple's new magic mouse, an elaborate practical joke, or just plain insanity run amok. In any case, it is hard to imagine a world in which so many tiny buttons on a mouse make sense.
Just put a mouse-roller on the damned keyboard instead.
Table-ized A.I.
Perhaps we could just mount a mouse ball on the bottom of a key board. You just move the whole keyboard around when you want to scroll. The 105 button mouse.
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Almost makes me want to reopen my wow account,
Then i could bind them all to the same key and face roll my whole desk.
when he lays eyes on one of these -- 18 buttons! Seriously, I don't know how I would work this mouse as it looks cramped and it would be like learning a new keyboard layout.
WTF is OS/X? Bastard child of OS/2 and Mac OS X?
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Some guesses:
An insane bicyclist
An insane paraplegic
An insane clown posse (they are all riding in one small car)
Catatonia
Now that the snark is done:
Running amok is characterized by rage. Running around like a chicken with its head cut off isn't the same as running amok.
The more you know....
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Do the dials go to 11 ?
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and you could start considering it for Emacs.
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We're doing 19 buttons
Oh look at db32 and his fancy schmancy pencil. Why can't you record information by typing knots in string like everyone else?
"An insane clown posse (they are all riding in one small car)"
What does a hip-hop duo have to do with this?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Look at GNU/Linux. How many knobs and CLI-options does it have?
Seriously. They're obviously not as l337 as we are. They don't know how hard it is to PvP in OpenOffice. Those damn characters come from everywhere using all kinds of punctuation weapons. Go troll elsewhere you n00bs
To all of the people who ever said, "OSS should stop copying and start innovating" - this abomination is your fault.
it is hard to imagine a world in which so many tiny buttons on a mouse make sense.
You think that's crazy -- I've heard that some people keep an entire extra grid of buttons next to their mouse that has -- get this -- over *100* buttons. Not only that, but some of the really extreme cases out there actually develop *pure muscle memory* of where all those buttons are. There are even people who call themselves "Eee-Maxers" (sp? e-macksers maybe? emacsers?) who also memorize and even customize dozens of what they call "key chords" -- pressing multiple buttons simultaneously to extend vastly beyond the 100 key limitation.
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The prophet says "Thine mouse shall have at most one button"
My girl only has one button and so does my Mac but they are both MULTITOUCH!