[OT] "The Condescending UI" (was: Do we need Win95/98/Me support?)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrew Wiley" <wiley.andrew.j at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.76.1327644483.25230.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
>> "Andrew Wiley" <wiley.andrew.j at gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:mailman.40.1327562674.25230.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>>>
>>>YES, I'm not the only person alive using a trackball! Thumb-ball,
>>>marble, or one of those giant pool-ball things?
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Trackman-Wheel-Optical-Silver/dp/B00005NIMJ
>>
>> (I don't know why the price there is so high, though. They're only around
>> $35-ish in stores.)
>
> It's that high because Logitech has stopped selling them.

WTF? That blows! Those are the best trackballs in existence!

> They've been
> replaced by this:
> http://www.logitech.com/en-us/mice-pointers/trackballs/devices/wireless-trackball-m570
>

Ewww. Bad move on their part. I got one of the wireless ones one time and 
returned it the next day. It was terrible. Physically it was the same, but 
it was painfully less smooth and less responsive (and inconsistently so) 
than every other mouse I've ever used.

>
> The only downside I've found is that when I'm showing someone
> something on my computer, there's always an awkward moment when they
> try to move the trackball on the desk and notice that nothing happens.
> :D

Heh. At the last job I had before going self-employed, I can't tell you how 
many weird/deer-in-the-headlights reactions I got every time someone would 
be about to do someting on my computer. Then they'd try to use it and 
complain they didn't understand how I could use it.

Here's the real funny thing though: They would do that *every* time, without 
fail, despite the face that I also has a regular mouse plugged in and 
sitting in plain view. 'Course, this particular group wasn't exactly the 
brightest bunch to begin with...(I even got posted on TheDailyWTF's Code SOD 
thanks to that group. My name was anonymized as "Nate" and it was some VB 
stuff.)