Re: Oberon/Acme/etc. mouse heavy interfaces

On 2007-10-14, Sylvain Abélard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The touchpad in particular must be forbidden
>> technology under some human rights conventions.
>
> Why such hatred ?
> I know that's not a conventional point of view but I'm a great fan of
> touchpads and I regard buying mice for laptops as an heresy.

You can't even speak of precision pointing -- which most pointing-device
dependent tasks involve -- in the same sentence with the touchpad. And
to make it even semi-tolerable, the surface must be disabled as a button,
as its far too sensitive, and has no response unlike a real button. But 
even after that you feel for long afterwards that you've rubbed your 
fingers against the plastic surface of the touchpad, trying to hit a 
single pixel with a device having the precision of a shotgun. Same 
itchy feeling applies to the nipple too, but in a lesser extend, and 
at least it's quite precise.

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Tuomo