The easiest way to switch is to make sure the buttons are inverted. This has to do with how our brains are hardwired. Hundreds of years of the development of piano playing technique attest to this.
Try the following in a moment of idleness: start tapping on a table with your right hand, one finger at the timee from thumb to pinky and back.
Try synchronizing that movement with your left hand, first using the same finger at the same time. Compare that to synchornizing fingers according to their position (i.e. both leftmost fingers first). The results would make obvious what is the easiest practice (it is not gratuitous that you actually have the option to define your mouse lefthanded).
Countless hours of practice when one is learning to play any keyboard instrument (at least in the classical tradition, where you need full finger independence) try to teach your brain and hand to behave in a way akin to the one you are recommending. In the other hand the first lesson you will do is playing "in mirror", this can be done by a 5 year old without much fuss.
Left handed people should not make allowances for right handed people, specially when it takes a couple of minutes to configure the mouse correctly, which is the way nature intended, and that makes the switch much faster and easier.
People that learn to use Linux first (hello mum!) feel completely lost in a Windows machine. Ask Mac users how they feel when dropped in front of a Windows desktop.
The problem with many pro-windows folk is that they confuse between usability and familiarity.
Familiarity is a very important part of why something is usable, but it is not the only componenet and in some situations is not even the most important.
Todays black people should just shrug the fact that generation after generation of their ancestors could not build up an inheritance to give them a head start in life.
All that wealth went instead to the exploitative class that became rich and whose descendants (you may be one of them) got a better start in life for the simple fact that they lacked melanin on their skin.
If you can't appreciate how unfair it is to all US black people to ask them just to shrug it of, then you have deeper issues that you need to address.
It is pretty lame to remind us that yes, some white people may have been slaved by black people at some moment in human history.
There are several problems with that, firstly is of course one of scale. Black people were the only group enslaved in a quasi industrial manner, pretty much indistinguishible from dealing with animals. That did not happen to the few white people that may have been slaved through history.
Slavery created an underpiviledged group of people, it is no coincidence that black people in the US are the most disadvantaged when it comes to any economical and educational indicators.
White people, specially in the South, profitted for generations from the work of black people, all that work went directly to a privileged clas that up to this date can trace their better situation in life to the wealth created by slave labout.
Black people in contrast, once they achieved freedom, were left with nothing, very often they only owed the clothes they were wearing and little else.
And to top it all, for a further 100 years they were forced to live under a defacto apartheid in many US states tha denied them the status of an equal human being.
Only somebody that is a racist, an ingnorant or both would not care about this monumental human tragedy. Any person with any principles should be doing something to redress the balance in favour of the descendents of thos people that were forcibly removed from their homes and brought into forced servitude.
Black people in the US should have preferential treatment in many sitiation for at least as long as they were slaves and they were mistreated under the apartheid years in the US>
Comedy: Little Britain. Dead ringers. Have I got news for you (were current affairs are made fun!).
Drama:
Dr Who (enough said really). and many one off programmes.
Documentaries: Walking with dinosaurs. No private company would have undertaken such a project.
and so on and so forth.
Just a couple of weeks ago they showed a series about silent cinema, Worldcup histories with a very interesting histories about the teams that have won the Worldcup, a programme with the best goals in Worldcup history and now is the PROMS season.
Belive me, the BBC may very well be the best TV organization in the World, I have watched TV in at least 20 countries, in 4 or 5 for more than a month in a row (US included) and franly only the BBC has always to pique my interest.
Indicador 1990 1995 2000 2005 Tasa de crecimiento medio anual de la poblacion 2.6 2.0 1.9 1.0 Tasa global de fecundidad 3.2 2.9 2.4 2.1
those are the population growth and fecundity rates respectively. Note the trend downwards.
Your picture of Mexican families with hoards of children is out of date by at least 40 years.
Many religious Mexicans have known for long time that the Pope and the religious authorities may not necessarily be well informed about practical matters.
The religious leadership in Mexico has always aligned itself against the popular causes in the country (they were against Mexican independence, they propped up Mexican puppet Emperor Maximilan of Habsbourgh and dictator Porfirio Diaz and have been in general a very visible block to the progress of the poor).
What the Pope has to say about earthly matters is politely listened too but swiftly ignored if it is bullshit, as the statistics above clearly ahow.
We are the mammal that is reproducing at the fastest and most furious level.
The genetic variety combined with the different environments we live in is creating new posibilities (for example, people of pale skin, an anomality in human evolution, will disappear in the turn of a few hundred years, which is a dumb inconsequential example, but illustrates that we don;t fully appreciate the consequences of human intermixing at a global scale).
Combine political leaders in poor countries that profit from having a hungry population with the shameful and disgraceful subsidies for the agricultural sector in rich countries, add the shameful practices of food producers that prefer to let food to waste than to sell it cheaper, and you'll realize that there is enoough food but little will.
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2. Give free downloads of all songs in their iTunes libraries
3. I have got you by the short hairy ones, you are now locked in! Mwha,Mwha,Mwha!
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The easiest way to switch is to make sure the buttons are inverted. This has to do with how our brains are hardwired. Hundreds of years of the development of piano playing technique attest to this.
Try the following in a moment of idleness: start tapping on a table with your right hand, one finger at the timee from thumb to pinky and back.
Try synchronizing that movement with your left hand, first using the same finger at the same time. Compare that to synchornizing fingers according to their position (i.e. both leftmost fingers first). The results would make obvious what is the easiest practice (it is not gratuitous that you actually have the option to define your mouse lefthanded).
Countless hours of practice when one is learning to play any keyboard instrument (at least in the classical tradition, where you need full finger independence) try to teach your brain and hand to behave in a way akin to the one you are recommending. In the other hand the first lesson you will do is playing "in mirror", this can be done by a 5 year old without much fuss.
Left handed people should not make allowances for right handed people, specially when it takes a couple of minutes to configure the mouse correctly, which is the way nature intended, and that makes the switch much faster and easier.
People are inflexible.
People that learn to use Linux first (hello mum!) feel completely lost in a Windows machine. Ask Mac users how they feel when dropped in front of a Windows desktop.
The problem with many pro-windows folk is that they confuse between usability and familiarity.
Familiarity is a very important part of why something is usable, but it is not the only componenet and in some situations is not even the most important.
No factual basis for the damage caused by 2nd hand smoking?
Don't insult our intelligence, please.
Heck, sure as hell the McDonalds accross the street is sending some money back to the mothership in the US.
And that is just ione example of many.
Claiming that US people don't see any of that money (in the form of taxes, profits or even share value), is frankly ludicrous.
It has been shown beyond reasonable doubt that protectionism is bad for the economy.
People enjoying a surplus in the trade with the US are then able to buy US products.
Teh aim of any country should be to have a balanced trade with the rest of the world in the medium and long term.
An economy that is always in deficit or always in surplus will eventually face problems.
What are you smoking, I want some.
If I put a WiFI card and connect to the net, the most I get is one hour from a fully charged battery.
Todays black people should just shrug the fact that generation after generation of their ancestors could not build up an inheritance to give them a head start in life.
All that wealth went instead to the exploitative class that became rich and whose descendants (you may be one of them) got a better start in life for the simple fact that they lacked melanin on their skin.
If you can't appreciate how unfair it is to all US black people to ask them just to shrug it of, then you have deeper issues that you need to address.
Spare us your tears, you are clearly ignorant about the matter.
Read about apartheid (which is pretty much what was practiced in the US) and imagine for a moment that you are treated like that.
Then, and not before, you will know what racism is all about.
If you faced racial attacks is pretty bad, but all the system was and is still stacked in your favour simpley because you lack melanine in your skin.
It is pretty lame to remind us that yes, some white people may have been slaved by black people at some moment in human history.
There are several problems with that, firstly is of course one of scale. Black people were the only group enslaved in a quasi industrial manner, pretty much indistinguishible from dealing with animals. That did not happen to the few white people that may have been slaved through history.
Which is a very comfy position to be in.
Slavery created an underpiviledged group of people, it is no coincidence that black people in the US are the most disadvantaged when it comes to any economical and educational indicators.
White people, specially in the South, profitted for generations from the work of black people, all that work went directly to a privileged clas that up to this date can trace their better situation in life to the wealth created by slave labout.
Black people in contrast, once they achieved freedom, were left with nothing, very often they only owed the clothes they were wearing and little else.
And to top it all, for a further 100 years they were forced to live under a defacto apartheid in many US states tha denied them the status of an equal human being.
Only somebody that is a racist, an ingnorant or both would not care about this monumental human tragedy. Any person with any principles should be doing something to redress the balance in favour of the descendents of thos people that were forcibly removed from their homes and brought into forced servitude.
Black people in the US should have preferential treatment in many sitiation for at least as long as they were slaves and they were mistreated under the apartheid years in the US>
THat the government back then did not understood their own Constitution is damning, no matter how you want to spin it.
Comedy:
Little Britain.
Dead ringers.
Have I got news for you (were current affairs are made fun!).
Drama:
Dr Who (enough said really).
and many one off programmes.
Documentaries:
Walking with dinosaurs. No private company would have undertaken such a project.
and so on and so forth.
Just a couple of weeks ago they showed a series about silent cinema, Worldcup histories with a very interesting histories about the teams that have won the Worldcup, a programme with the best goals in Worldcup history and now is the PROMS season.
Belive me, the BBC may very well be the best TV organization in the World, I have watched TV in at least 20 countries, in 4 or 5 for more than a month in a row (US included) and franly only the BBC has always to pique my interest.
But that does not give TV broadcasters rights to dictate how I record and replay what I am legitimately recording.
.... which is why people vilify them.
There are few things as vile as sneaking into my brain real state.
I don't think I am alone in saying that many people make a point of not buying a product that has used intrusive advertisement techniques.
You say rubbish.
s panol/rutinas/ept.asp?t=mpob00&c=5262
The most annoying thing is the air of complacency while saying this nonsense like if you were an expert in the matter.
Go to the official source, you'll need a translation tool:
http://www.inegi.gob.mx/est/contenidos/e
I will point out only a couple of statistics:
Indicador 1990 1995 2000 2005
Tasa de crecimiento medio anual de la poblacion 2.6 2.0 1.9 1.0
Tasa global de fecundidad 3.2 2.9 2.4 2.1
those are the population growth and fecundity rates respectively. Note the trend downwards.
Your picture of Mexican families with hoards of children is out of date by at least 40 years.
Many religious Mexicans have known for long time that the Pope and the religious authorities may not necessarily be well informed about practical matters.
The religious leadership in Mexico has always aligned itself against the popular causes in the country (they were against Mexican independence, they propped up Mexican puppet Emperor Maximilan of Habsbourgh and dictator Porfirio Diaz and have been in general a very visible block to the progress of the poor).
What the Pope has to say about earthly matters is politely listened too but swiftly ignored if it is bullshit, as the statistics above clearly ahow.
We are the mammal that is reproducing at the fastest and most furious level.
The genetic variety combined with the different environments we live in is creating new posibilities (for example, people of pale skin, an anomality in human evolution, will disappear in the turn of a few hundred years, which is a dumb inconsequential example, but illustrates that we don;t fully appreciate the consequences of human intermixing at a global scale).
The origin of famine and hunger is political.
Combine political leaders in poor countries that profit from having a hungry population with the shameful and disgraceful subsidies for the agricultural sector in rich countries, add the shameful practices of food producers that prefer to let food to waste than to sell it cheaper, and you'll realize that there is enoough food but little will.
God: you screw up for a few years, in spite of having no concrete evidence of my existence. You are condemned to an ethernal unimaginable punishment.
....
Me: Thank goodness you are perfect. Imagine if you were imperfect
Religious nuts, one ought to love them....
... you don't measure your purchase by dollars/square meter, you should do it by dollars/oportunities.
The quality of life in a big town comes from the posibilities of having an interesting life.
I may be pretty peaceful and green in Saskachewathever, but you don't have great movies, food, orchestras and sport minutes from where you live.
You part from the incorrect assumption that there is only one way of being a CEO and only one way to be a boss.
That is wrong in so many levels that I will not waste any more time to explain why it is nonsense.
I have used 3rd party cartridges for ages with no problems with several models.
Epson IMHO is not bad.
Lexmark are litigious bastards that should not be rewarded with your custom.
Why should we notice that another company with failings has a female CEO?
There are many suuceesful companies with female CEOs on the helm, thus your inuendo is puerile, unjust and unnecessary.
... then maybe yes :-)
There are millions of people in those countries with the means to emigrate but that are happy to remain where they are.
1. Sign iTunes users up for the new M$ music store
2. Give free downloads of all songs in their iTunes libraries
3. I have got you by the short hairy ones, you are now locked in! Mwha,Mwha,Mwha!
4. Profit!