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

[Andrew Wiley]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
> "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.

I had the same experience with the original wireless Trackman, but
they seem to have genuinely fixed the new one.  I'm using it now, and
I think it's better than my TrackMan Silver.