Re: CRAP Poll: My Mouse Is...

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

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I've been late with this month's Completely Random And Pointless Poll.
So I won't take too long on the intro for this one. This time, let's
focus on your mouse. You know, that wiggly lil' plastic gadget beneath
your hand. Let's describe it!
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Please answer the following question. My mouse is:
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  1) ...Top of the line! It has more buttons than my keyboard!
  It has so many LEDs I need a special permit so airplanes
  don't mistake it for landing lights. It's DPI is measured
  in fentometers. It's more programmable than my primary PC.
  If I can't do it with my mouse, it can't be done by any
  mouse.
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  2) ... A high-end gaming mouse; high-DPI and easily
  programmable so I can pwn the n00bs!
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  3) ... A high-end regular mouse; more than the usual 3-buttons
  and perhaps an above-average DPI. I'm a good office worker!
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  4) ... A mouse. Click-click-click. Hey, look, it's even
  got a scroll-wheel! What else could a mouse have?
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  5) ... The cheapest piece of plastic tat available, but
  it gets the job done (barely).
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  6) ... An Apple mouse: stylish but horrid to use
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  7) ... Still got a ball!
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  8) ... A trackpad, because I hate myself.
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  9) ... A trackball! (or some alternate pointing device,
  like the Thinkpad's mouse nub)
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  10) ... A keyboard, because real users stick with the
  command line
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  11) ... What's a mouse? I move the cursor by inputting the
  coordinate deltas manually!
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Myself, I fall firmly into category 3, with my stylish and comfortable
Logitech mouse. Six buttons, although I almost never use any but the
main two. (well, more accurately -given my habit of collecting useless
electronics- I have a multitude which spans almost the entire list.
But my primary mouse -the one I most often use- is as boring as
described above).

Sounds a bit like mine, a corsair something or other.

I've been using ambidextrous mice since the logitech mx-310.

Standard layout + one button on each side and one behind the wheel.
Ever since Half-life, I think, which did not recognize more than 2 mouse
buttons, I have assigned them to pgup, pgdn and del (left side, right
side, behind wheel.)

If it's a shooter, pgup = reload, pgdn = interact, del grenade usually.

I navigate in text modes/browsers/etc with the pgup/pgdn buttons daily.

Index and middle finger on left/right, thumb and ring finger on the side
buttons - it's comfortable and efficient.

A crap load of Mx-310s (little plastic part inside wore down with use -
prefect layout design, crap manufacturing, then a razor Taipan I think
it was, same layout, a Steelseries sensei which didn't have articulated
left/right buttons, instead the case bent, until it snapped.
Replaced with some brand-x "Dragon Wars" mouse, which is still attached
to the alt computer, and then finally this corsair on the new one.

Wait, I lie, there was another mouse before the corsair, which I had to
return since you could not customize anything without the drivers, which
were not included and had to be downloaded, from a site that no longer
existed since the company failed 2 years earlier.

Frankly mousepad is if anything more important.

Used 3M Precise Mousing Surface since the days of ball mice, but you
can't find those anywhere anymore and I ended up with a Razer branded
one.   Add a little duct tape to the closest edge to stop it shifting
and away you go.

Hell you could even put cotton balls or something under the tape to make
your own non intrusive wrist rest.

Xocyll