Why doesn't anyone read the article?
I'm not picking on you personally, but everyone seems fixated on this horizontal scroll wheel.
The wheel doesn't scroll leftright.
It just leans that way.
Which unless your hand is in a cast is quite easy to do.
Oh don't troll.
This is actually an interesting article.
Although this might not be world-shattering it is still a pretty nifty thing.
The uses for a trackball in the mouse would incredible for a gamer.
Imagine instead of WASD layout you could have all movement and shooting controls on one hand with the other one free for equipment managment and chatting.
... I believe that this warrants a visit to http://www.insultmonger.com/
Thank you! We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view, you ridiculous little carnival freak. Dullard, do yourself and everyone else a favor: disconnect your computer from the Internet.
You read like a gimpzoid teenager splashing spit onto the monitor. Donâ(TM)t you ever have a point beyond giving your fingers some exercise by dancing them randomly over the keyboard? You wouldn't know Up from Down if you had three guesses. Well, you're certainly thoughtless; I just wish that you were keyboard-less, too. Oh well, as the late Douglas Adams said: "You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
I'm busy trying to imagine you with a personality. Maybe you'd be less boring once I got to know you, but I don't want to take that chance. I bet you thought it was just coincidence that your parents had the same surnames before they married? Maybe you wouldn't read like such a pathetic loser if you weren't afflicted with mental retardation; if your weren't so fat from all that cheap beer you spend your Welfare payments on that your belly jiggle is the first ever perpetual motion machine, or if you didn't have a face so ugly that Peeping Toms break into your house and close the blinds. Who am I kidding? You would.
In conclusion, thank you. We were all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view. Now get the hell out of here!
Because if you get them for free there is no chance that you would buy them.
Thus the money that they could have gotten is no longer available to them.
Strangely it seems that even if they aren't selling the games anymore still you are stealing money from them
I think that their thought processes work like this.
Come up with a game idea
Develop game
Sell game
Profit!
Rehash game idea and release a crappy clone/sequel
Profit!!
Repeat former two until no longer profitable
Release compilation of all previous releases
Profit!!
Stop selling game
Sue anyone who attempts to make copies of the games that you no longer sell
I also don't see why anyone has a problem with IE being included.
I mean its not like they prohibit the installation of other browsers.
I see it as a form of code reuse.
IE and windows explorer basically serve the same function.
At the very least having IE installed on a MS platform is no worse than running an apple Os on an apple machine.
Wrong.
Both are possible although difficult.
The computers in my school's libray for a long time only had Netscape (3.02 ugh) installed on them up until last year. (They still might I haven't been there in a while)
IE had been completely removed from the system.
Apple has screwed over a number of companies in their time.
They lost one of their biggest chip makers a while back because they insisted that they were the only ones who could buy the chips when the manufacturer was depending on the sale of chips to clone outlets to sell enough chips to make them profitable.
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I have this on my phone right now.
Currently its set just to be active when I dial 911, but I could turn it on and have it running constantly.
All you would have to do is unplug the battery if you absolutly didn't want to use it.
Thats what they put a full screen mode in for.
ALT+SHIFT+ENTER I believe.
Why doesn't anyone read the article?
I'm not picking on you personally, but everyone seems fixated on this horizontal scroll wheel.
The wheel doesn't scroll leftright.
It just leans that way.
Which unless your hand is in a cast is quite easy to do.
YES! Buttons GOOD!! Dammit I have five fingers on my right hand and I want a mouse that uses all of them.
Oh don't troll. This is actually an interesting article. Although this might not be world-shattering it is still a pretty nifty thing. The uses for a trackball in the mouse would incredible for a gamer. Imagine instead of WASD layout you could have all movement and shooting controls on one hand with the other one free for equipment managment and chatting.
:)
What are these 'ads' of which they speak?
They can't Microsoft paid them off already.
I beg of all who post here.
Don't make any beowulf cluster jokes about this.
We've already heard them.
In Soviet Russia Supercomputers make Beowulf cluster of YOU!
"non-technical reasons" == "my 12 year old son liked the candy the demo guy gave out"
So Am I close?
Java may win either way, but Sun won't.
These people aren't looking to save the world. They just want to make money
They will take the path that has the least risk and the highest potential profit.
.NET is MS's latest development platform.
At it's heart it is meant to be a way for various programming languages and protocols to communicate with each other and work together.
The main problem is (of course) that to truly become platform independant MS would have to release a large amount of the code that runs it.
Microsft'sToo bad more people haven't heard about this.
That site makes a number of interesting points about the way people drive and how just one person can make a difference in traffic jams.
You forgot: In Soviet Russia CPU coolant system cools YOU!
The water would be hot. Would be better for coffee and hot chocolate.
I see by your pathetic attempts at insulting me why you are relegated to posting as Anonymous Coward. You dead monkey flea!
...
I believe that this warrants a visit to http://www.insultmonger.com/
Thank you! We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view, you ridiculous little carnival freak. Dullard, do yourself and everyone else a favor: disconnect your computer from the Internet.
You read like a gimpzoid teenager splashing spit onto the monitor. Donâ(TM)t you ever have a point beyond giving your fingers some exercise by dancing them randomly over the keyboard? You wouldn't know Up from Down if you had three guesses. Well, you're certainly thoughtless; I just wish that you were keyboard-less, too. Oh well, as the late Douglas Adams said: "You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
I'm busy trying to imagine you with a personality. Maybe you'd be less boring once I got to know you, but I don't want to take that chance. I bet you thought it was just coincidence that your parents had the same surnames before they married? Maybe you wouldn't read like such a pathetic loser if you weren't afflicted with mental retardation; if your weren't so fat from all that cheap beer you spend your Welfare payments on that your belly jiggle is the first ever perpetual motion machine, or if you didn't have a face so ugly that Peeping Toms break into your house and close the blinds. Who am I kidding? You would.
In conclusion, thank you. We were all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view. Now get the hell out of here!
Thus the money that they could have gotten is no longer available to them.
Strangely it seems that even if they aren't selling the games anymore still you are stealing money from them
I think that their thought processes work like this.
Cool.
No unfortunatly I paid to see MR.
Ah yes the old slippery slope bit.
Thats my plan.
I also don't see why anyone has a problem with IE being included.
I mean its not like they prohibit the installation of other browsers.
I see it as a form of code reuse.
IE and windows explorer basically serve the same function.
At the very least having IE installed on a MS platform is no worse than running an apple Os on an apple machine.
Wrong. Both are possible although difficult. The computers in my school's libray for a long time only had Netscape (3.02 ugh) installed on them up until last year. (They still might I haven't been there in a while) IE had been completely removed from the system.
Apple has screwed over a number of companies in their time. They lost one of their biggest chip makers a while back because they insisted that they were the only ones who could buy the chips when the manufacturer was depending on the sale of chips to clone outlets to sell enough chips to make them profitable.