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From: Sullivan@cup.portal.com (sullivan - segall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Optical Mice
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Date: 8 May 90 02:35:18 GMT
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>>I too prefer that direction of movement be relative to the orientation of
>>the mouse and not the pad.  But that doesn't mean you can't use optical mice.
>>You should try out a Xerox workstation sometime.  They have optical mice, but
>>they don't have the undesirable property you describe.
>
>straight up with respect to the pad (and the orthogonal system your desk or
>table is likely to be), the pointer *still* moves only vertically.
>How can this be an undesirable property? I don't understand that at all!
>I mean, it has to be much easier to have an intuitive feeling in your head for
>the orthogonal system your desk (and pad) is than feeling a rotation of the
>mouse in your hand 5 or 10 degrees (without looking at the mouse).
>
On the contrary, it is much more intuitive to *feel* the mouse directly under 
your hand and move it forward relative to your own coordinates than it is to look
down at the mouse pad and figure out which direction is forwards and which is 
sideways.  If you accidentally turn the mouse 10 or 15 degrees the cursor will
start moving diagonally on the screen when you move it forward.  I mean it 
*has* to be much easier to have an intuitive feeling in your hand...

Really this is just a matter of preference.  Let's leave it that way.  I say 
tomAto, you say tomAHto....


                           -Sullivan Segall
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