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On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:40:54 -0500, Herb Schaltegger
wrote:

OSX works fine with most two-button mice. At work I have a Logitech USB
optical scroll wheel mouse that I plug into my iBook and "it just works"
(TM). Apple may still pretend that a single-button mouse is superior but
even they know better if they put the hooks for it into the OS. :-)

....There's a two-pronged reason that Apple doesn't abandon the
one-button mouse for a more versatile two-button one:

1) Apple raised a major stink years ago and tried to get other mice
manufacturers to either license the mouse design from them or quit
making one-button mice. All the manufacturers simply dropped the
one-button design and went to two and even three-button ones -
Logitech and Summagraphics being the leaders in the latter. Summa, in
fact, had the *first* ballless LED mouse in 1985, and was far more
accurate than 95% of the mice in use at the time. Apple actually went
to court over it, but dropped their cases after it was pointed out
that they really only had the rights to the one-button design due to
an oversight on the part of their patent submissions people. Even
then, they stole it from Xerox, so even if they had gone all the way
it wouldn't have done them any good in the end.

2) Steve Jobs hates two-button mice *and* scroll-wheels. He's made
this clear in interviews and Q&A sessions where the inefficiency of
one-button mice is raised. As long as he runs the company, odds are
they'll never abandon one button mice, at least as far as the hardware
is concerned. The OS, on the other hand, is a different situation
obviously.


OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
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- General George S. Patton, Jr

OM wrote:

2) Steve Jobs hates two-button mice *and* scroll-wheels. He's made
this clear in interviews and Q&A sessions where the inefficiency of
one-button mice is raised.

Steve Jobs is a jerk.
"If inventing the imac is so easy, what color should it be?"

Pat

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:49:47 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

OM wrote:

2) Steve Jobs hates two-button mice *and* scroll-wheels. He's made
this clear in interviews and Q&A sessions where the inefficiency of
one-button mice is raised.

Steve Jobs is a jerk.
"If inventing the imac is so easy, what color should it be?"

....And this coming from a man who *is* clinically color blind.

OM

--

"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org spewed:
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:15:46 -0700, Hop David
wrote:

Can't make aquariums out of Wintel machines.
Viral infections would kill the fish in no time.

...Right before I read this, I was reading an old DC comic with one of
Henry Boltinoff's _Cap's Hobby Hints_ as a page filler. Ironically,
this one dealt with the kid who broke his model of a sailing frigate,
and was really ****ed that his model was ruined. His father showed him
how to salvage it by breaking off more pieces, then dropping it in the
fish tank where it would look cool like a sunken ship.

...However, what Boltinoff failed to follow-up on in a later _Cap's_
half-pager was the fact that, since most kids in the 60's used the
original Testor's Red Tube - the glue that made you so high that you
didn't give a **** that your model was thrown together in 30 minutes
or less and looked like it was and/or your fingertips were coated and
could no longer leave fingerprints - throwing a kit assembled with
said adhesive would outgas and partially dissolve in the tank water,
and kill your fish within a month or two after submerging.

OM

Hey, I remember (vaguely) that glue. Many Revell Model-Of-The-Month club
projects were assembled under the influence of Testor's Red ;-).

Herb Schaltegger wrote:
Yet another reason to use a Mac: right-clicking and "Download Image As .
. ." works just fine in Safari. ;-p

Works just fine for me in firefox. Heck, it works just
fine in IE, being as how I actually set up the IE
security settings properly rather than just use the
deaults like some random noob. =)

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:16:41 -0400, "Ned Pike"
wrote:

Hey, I remember (vaguely) that glue.

....If you remembered Testor's Red Tube, you either a) didn't use it
enough, b) never used it, c) used it every damned day and had the
empty tubes to remind you of why your fingers are now fingerprint
proof :-P

Many Revell Model-Of-The-Month club
projects were assembled under the influence of Testor's Red ;-).

....Which finally gives us the reason why *nobody* complained about
Revell's CSM stack never being updated to Block II configurations
until the ****wits at the FDA made Testor's change the formula so
their glue couldn't get us high anymore.

OM

--

"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

OM wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:15:46 -0700, Hop David
wrote:


Can't make aquariums out of Wintel machines.
Viral infections would kill the fish in no time.


...Right before I read this, I was reading an old DC comic with one of
Henry Boltinoff's _Cap's Hobby Hints_ as a page filler. Ironically,
this one dealt with the kid who broke his model of a sailing frigate,
and was really ****ed that his model was ruined. His father showed him
how to salvage it by breaking off more pieces, then dropping it in the
fish tank where it would look cool like a sunken ship.

After my Mom explained to me that hydrogen peroxide was water with an
extra oxygen atom, I tried helping out some of our fish by "oxygenating"
the water. That didn't work very well .


...However, what Boltinoff failed to follow-up on in a later _Cap's_
half-pager was the fact that, since most kids in the 60's used the
original Testor's Red Tube - the glue that made you so high that you
didn't give a **** that your model was thrown together in 30 minutes

Rat Fink and other Ed Big Daddy Roth models couldn't be fully
appreciated unless seen through the lens of a Testor glue buzz.

--
Hop David
http://clowder.net/hop/index.html

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:23:11 -0700, Hop David
wrote:

Rat Fink and other Ed Big Daddy Roth models couldn't be fully
appreciated unless seen through the lens of a Testor glue buzz.

....Oddly enough, I never *did* get the appeal of Ed Roth's "Rat Fink"
scribbles. That's why I never did buy any of his kits *or* his
t-shirts.

OM

--

"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

"Hop David" wrote in message
...
After my Mom explained to me that hydrogen peroxide was water with an
extra oxygen atom, I tried helping out some of our fish by "oxygenating"
the water. That didn't work very well .

I will never, *never* ask you for CPR...


--
Alan Erskine
We can get people to the Moon in five years,
not the fifteen GWB proposes.
Give NASA a real challenge

Ned Pike wrote:


Hey, I remember (vaguely) that glue. Many Revell Model-Of-The-Month club
projects were assembled under the influence of Testor's Red ;-)

Part of an old posting, regarding the tiny AMT Apollo CSM/LM kit:

"Whoop-tee-doo for the young
space enthusiast whose parents gave him this tiny gift rather than the
Almost God-like Revell Saturn V; or wonderful Apollo/LM kit with upper
S-IVB stage and escape tower in 1/48th scale... I say that we track
down the address of every Commie-Loving Pinko Parent who thought that
they COULDN'T afford a DECENT Apollo model for little Timmy; and have
Buzz beat them to within an inch of their Miserable Red Lives- so it may
have meant taking a second job....would you prefer Timmy to be a ROCKET
SCIENTIST...or some DOPE SMOKING, ANTI-MOON, _HIPPY_ because YOU couldn't
spring for the few extra dollars that the child needed for a REAL model
of an Apollo?! My parents bought me THE GOOD ONES, and as Monogram
Models assured us on the side of their model kit boxes: "A Boy's Future
Begins With Model Building....".... ABSOLUTELY FUKIN' RIGHT, MONOGRAM! I
remember those days... frantically gluing and painting those wonderful
models in our tiny unventilated kitchen dinette, woozy as hell from the
fumes of the Testor's paint and plastic model cement, and thinking:
"THIS IS HOW MY FUTURE BEGINS- I DON'T NEED DRUGS!"...and from the
ceiling, Wernher von Braun would reach down to congratulate me on my
civic patriotism, and place his winged, purple-clawed hand into my
translucent twelve-fingered one.....excuse me....I seem to be drifting a
bit."

Pat