I do agree that it is possible to go overboard with too many mouse buttons, just like you can have too many modifier keys on a keyboard, but 2 buttons is too much? I dislike the 1 button mice because if I want to do something that is a right-button operation on a 2-button mouse I have to either triple click or click and hold or [shift]-click or some other junk. If you make the right button smaller than the left, you can put common click operations on the left and strange ones on the right. It's a lot better than using two hands to [shift]-[alt]-click.
So it doesn't matter if a round mouse couses wrist pain, just so long as it looks neat? Or if your screen size has to be smaller to fit it into a funny-shaped box? Or if your case tips over because the base was narrow and the top wide?
There are some things that quantum computers cannot do, and while factoring large numbers is one thing they can do (leading to the end of all known secure public key encryption) it is possible to make codes that cannot be effectively attacked by a quantum computer. In addition, programming a quantum computer (as they exist now) is a NASTY thing, so any complex and ugly algorithm would be secure for as long as it takes to devise a quantum method of doing it. Make it nasty enough and it could be just as secure as triple-DES or IDEA is today.
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Now RAM will be even cheaper...
So lazy programmers can write even MORE memory-hungry programs, in the expectation that people will have more RAM.
What ever happened to 640k?
I do agree that it is possible to go overboard with too many mouse buttons, just like you can have too many modifier keys on a keyboard, but 2 buttons is too much? I dislike the 1 button mice because if I want to do something that is a right-button operation on a 2-button mouse I have to either triple click or click and hold or [shift]-click or some other junk. If you make the right button smaller than the left, you can put common click operations on the left and strange ones on the right. It's a lot better than using two hands to [shift]-[alt]-click.
Where'd the circular one-button mouse come from, then?
So it doesn't matter if a round mouse couses wrist pain, just so long as it looks neat? Or if your screen size has to be smaller to fit it into a funny-shaped box? Or if your case tips over because the base was narrow and the top wide?
There's an old cliche: Form follows function.
There are some things that quantum computers cannot do, and while factoring large numbers is one thing they can do (leading to the end of all known secure public key encryption) it is possible to make codes that cannot be effectively attacked by a quantum computer. In addition, programming a quantum computer (as they exist now) is a NASTY thing, so any complex and ugly algorithm would be secure for as long as it takes to devise a quantum method of doing it. Make it nasty enough and it could be just as secure as triple-DES or IDEA is today.