Just use your two mouse fingers and walk them around on the desktop as if they were legs. Then explain that this is your left leg and this is your right leg. When you kick the button with your left "leg", that's a left kick and with the "right" leg, it's a right kick. Since kick sounds like click, it should be easy to understand.
If that fails, take a marker and write L and R on the subject's fingers and L and R on the mouse buttons.
The way I figure it, if someone can't understand how to use a two button mouse, how are you going to explain something like file folders to them?
In my opinion, if someone you are teaching cannot understand how to use a two button mouse,... run. Run like your life depended on it. Otherwise you will be sucked into a never-ending Q and A quagmire for the rest of your life!:)
Dave
Ha, beat me to the link. Captured! By Robots is definitely an experience not to be missed. Bring your earplugs though. GTRBOT666 makes GuitarBot look like a wind-up plastic guitar.:)
- Dave
One of my sites had two images in the top 10 hits on that julia fractals search page. By the time I figured it out, although very early in the day, I had already consumed about 30 gigabytes of bandwidth. My hosting plan allows for 8 and every gig over that is $5. So, when I realized that Google had just cost me over $100, I had to make a decision. Either take the site down and eat it or plea to the public to help me pay for the bandwidth and keep the site up. That turned out pretty good. I put a PayPal donate link up and people donated about $250 in total. I won't know for sure if that covers the bandwidth costs until the end of the month though. It will be really close.
I thought it was fair. I kept the original images up and let the public decide and they came through. I only got flamed by 2 people for "taking advantage" of the google link. One of them told me "your bandwidth is fine... loser" or something stupid like that and the other was just someone who seemed completely oblivious to what this was going to cost me.
Anyway, my hosting provider laughingsquid.com was incredibly cool about it. They actually called me to warn me about how serious the problem was. It was in danger of taking down their entire server and all of my other sites! But, we sat and watched the traffic and the server (well, they watched the server, I just listened as they watched... is load factor 11 bad?). It held up though! So, I let the donations trickle in as my bandwidth flooded out and I think I'm going to come out even... except for the half day of work I had to miss.
Anyway, I'm not trying to solicit donations from you guys and I hope that this reply is buried enough to not get my site slashdotted too. Here's the site URL if anyone is curious. Please excuse the long diatribe if it's still there. I'm going to take it down as soon as I get a chance.
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Just use your two mouse fingers and walk them around on the desktop as if they were legs. Then explain that this is your left leg and this is your right leg. When you kick the button with your left "leg", that's a left kick and with the "right" leg, it's a right kick. Since kick sounds like click, it should be easy to understand. If that fails, take a marker and write L and R on the subject's fingers and L and R on the mouse buttons. The way I figure it, if someone can't understand how to use a two button mouse, how are you going to explain something like file folders to them? In my opinion, if someone you are teaching cannot understand how to use a two button mouse, ... run. Run like your life depended on it. Otherwise you will be sucked into a never-ending Q and A quagmire for the rest of your life! :)
Dave
Ha, beat me to the link. Captured! By Robots is definitely an experience not to be missed. Bring your earplugs though. GTRBOT666 makes GuitarBot look like a wind-up plastic guitar. :)
- Dave
One of my sites had two images in the top 10 hits on that julia fractals search page. By the time I figured it out, although very early in the day, I had already consumed about 30 gigabytes of bandwidth. My hosting plan allows for 8 and every gig over that is $5. So, when I realized that Google had just cost me over $100, I had to make a decision. Either take the site down and eat it or plea to the public to help me pay for the bandwidth and keep the site up. That turned out pretty good. I put a PayPal donate link up and people donated about $250 in total. I won't know for sure if that covers the bandwidth costs until the end of the month though. It will be really close.
... loser" or something stupid like that and the other was just someone who seemed completely oblivious to what this was going to cost me.
... is load factor 11 bad?). It held up though! So, I let the donations trickle in as my bandwidth flooded out and I think I'm going to come out even ... except for the half day of work I had to miss.
I thought it was fair. I kept the original images up and let the public decide and they came through. I only got flamed by 2 people for "taking advantage" of the google link. One of them told me "your bandwidth is fine
Anyway, my hosting provider laughingsquid.com was incredibly cool about it. They actually called me to warn me about how serious the problem was. It was in danger of taking down their entire server and all of my other sites! But, we sat and watched the traffic and the server (well, they watched the server, I just listened as they watched
Anyway, I'm not trying to solicit donations from you guys and I hope that this reply is buried enough to not get my site slashdotted too. Here's the site URL if anyone is curious. Please excuse the long diatribe if it's still there. I'm going to take it down as soon as I get a chance.
http://www.unpronounceable.com/julia/
Sincerely,
Dave