anyone remember those old icon computers they had in schools? they had trackballs.
and i had bought a logitec trackball once, it had an ergonomic shape, and was very comfortable... but unfortunately, i never got used to dealing with it.
and as for any precision comments.... i have a 15$ creative optical mouse here, and i have never had precision problems... i even have it set so that an inch of movement spans the whole screen.
i find that you can, with practice, patience, and skill, achieve good precicion in mice, precision that (in my experience) has equalled any trackball i have ever tried. the trick isnt in the mous itself, but in a good mousepad. for opticalmice, get a matte black pad with a wrist rest.
iuf you mousepad is too coloury or shiny, it wont get good precision.
the one thing i couldnt stand about trackballs was gaming. i could get speed, or precision, but i couldnt seem to get the middle ground. i could whip around real fast, but lost the precision that had with a mouse, or i could move it precisely, but i lose the speed of a mouse.
it was great fro sniping in fps's, and good for turning around when getting shot at... but otherwise, the mouse trumped it.
my grandfather worked as a janitor for 10 years at a PCB board manufacturer. they had millions of dollars in equipment, supplies and, finished boards.
they even made boards for the RCMP.
i used to help him do it for the last 4 years he did it.
we had to (3 times a week) vacuum, mop, and clean the whole place. we had to come in every day to empty the garbage.
the only nice workers there were (luckily) the night staff. we did all our work at night. every time something went wrong, he was blamed, to the point where he was fired over the boss not being able to find 5.50$ in change.
it is incredibly hard work
once a month, we stripped and waxxed the floors. the temperature in the room would go up to 45 degrees celcius from the machines we used. and we were in there for at least 8 hours.
jaitorial work is the most exerting work you can do (In my experience)
considering the ottawa valley area (where the mint that produces these coins is located) is considered by some to be the second silicon valley, and has a very large percentage of its industry located in the technological sector, if i had to say that a nano-scale device came from anywher other than the US or Japan, that it would be from Canada.
despite the fact that we were a part of england at the time, the colonies were called upper and lower canada, and a significant proportion of the troops were militia. hence: CANADIANS.
oh, and besides: we built the bigger boat, nyeh nyeh nenyeh nyeh.
tossup between total anihilation and Oblivion. oblivion if i have access to only one user (ie: no WAN or LAN) and total anihilation if LAN or WAN access. also, i wouldnt complain if there was battlefield 1942 DC final on a LAN.
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anyone remember those old icon computers they had in schools?
they had trackballs.
and i had bought a logitec trackball once, it had an ergonomic shape, and was very comfortable... but unfortunately, i never got used to dealing with it.
and as for any precision comments.... i have a 15$ creative optical mouse here, and i have never had precision problems... i even have it set so that an inch of movement spans the whole screen.
i find that you can, with practice, patience, and skill, achieve good precicion in mice, precision that (in my experience) has equalled any trackball i have ever tried.
the trick isnt in the mous itself, but in a good mousepad.
for opticalmice, get a matte black pad with a wrist rest.
iuf you mousepad is too coloury or shiny, it wont get good precision.
the one thing i couldnt stand about trackballs was gaming. i could get speed, or precision, but i couldnt seem to get the middle ground.
i could whip around real fast, but lost the precision that had with a mouse, or i could move it precisely, but i lose the speed of a mouse.
it was great fro sniping in fps's, and good for turning around when getting shot at... but otherwise, the mouse trumped it.
my grandfather worked as a janitor for 10 years at a PCB board manufacturer. they had millions of dollars in equipment, supplies and, finished boards. they even made boards for the RCMP. i used to help him do it for the last 4 years he did it. we had to (3 times a week) vacuum, mop, and clean the whole place. we had to come in every day to empty the garbage. the only nice workers there were (luckily) the night staff. we did all our work at night. every time something went wrong, he was blamed, to the point where he was fired over the boss not being able to find 5.50$ in change. it is incredibly hard work once a month, we stripped and waxxed the floors. the temperature in the room would go up to 45 degrees celcius from the machines we used. and we were in there for at least 8 hours. jaitorial work is the most exerting work you can do (In my experience)
considering the ottawa valley area (where the mint that produces these coins is located) is considered by some to be the second silicon valley, and has a very large percentage of its industry located in the technological sector, if i had to say that a nano-scale device came from anywher other than the US or Japan, that it would be from Canada.
despite the fact that we were a part of england at the time, the colonies were called upper and lower canada, and a significant proportion of the troops were militia. hence: CANADIANS. oh, and besides: we built the bigger boat, nyeh nyeh nenyeh nyeh.
tossup between total anihilation and Oblivion. oblivion if i have access to only one user (ie: no WAN or LAN) and total anihilation if LAN or WAN access. also, i wouldnt complain if there was battlefield 1942 DC final on a LAN.
id buy one, but i think a bumper sticker would be better, and cheaper, even though it would reveal it to more peepl