Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009 265
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An anonymous reader writes "WarMouse has announced their new multi-button OpenOfficeMouse for OpenOffice.org at the 2009 OOoCon in Orvieto, Italy. The mouse, which features 18 buttons, a scroll wheel, and an analog joystick, has double-click functionality on every button and stores up to 63 application and game profiles in its 512k of flash memory. The OpenOfficeMouse runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X; its customization software will be released as free and open source software." We couldn't decide if this was a protest against Apple's new magic mouse, an elaborate practical joke, or just plain insanity run amok. In any case, it is hard to imagine a world in which so many tiny buttons on a mouse make sense.
Reinventing the wheel (Score:5, Funny)
Just put a mouse-roller on the damned keyboard instead.
A modest proposal ... (Score:5, Funny)
Wow (Score:1, Funny)
Almost makes me want to reopen my wow account,
Then i could bind them all to the same key and face roll my whole desk.
Re:A modest proposal ... (Score:5, Funny)
I'd like to see Steve Jobs face (Score:5, Funny)
OS/X (Score:5, Funny)
WTF is OS/X? Bastard child of OS/2 and Mac OS X?
Re:A modest proposal ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A modest proposal ... (Score:3, Funny)
What about scroll-wheel? My keyboard doesn't have one.. Even this bland featureless mouse oly has ONE? Even the old Microsoft Explorer had atleast two. I am not buying it until it has more scrollwheels!
I call Shenanigans (Score:5, Funny)
It truly is the world of tomorrow... Today!
Re:Ahem (Score:4, Funny)
Some guesses:
An insane bicyclist
An insane paraplegic
An insane clown posse (they are all riding in one small car)
Catatonia
Now that the snark is done:
Running amok is characterized by rage. Running around like a chicken with its head cut off isn't the same as running amok.
The more you know... [wikipedia.org].
11 (Score:1, Funny)
Do the dials go to 11 ?
Re:Reinventing the wheel (Score:5, Funny)
Grandparent meant the bottom of the keyboard.
Re:A modest proposal ... (Score:5, Funny)
That's nothing. I keep my mouse stationary, and rotate Earth to scroll.
Double the buttons (Score:5, Funny)
and you could start considering it for Emacs.
Re:A modest proposal ... (Score:5, Funny)
That's nothing. I keep my mouse stationary, and rotate Earth to scroll.
You rotate Earth to scroll? I have a teamouse. It scrolls by Brownian motion and then I simply destroy the Universe when the cursor moves in a way I didn
Fuck it (Score:5, Funny)
We're doing 19 buttons
Re:A modest proposal ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A modest proposal ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I call Shenanigans (Score:5, Funny)
Oh no! They've put the WordPerfect 5.0 interface on a mouse!
Re:God damnit (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ahem (Score:2, Funny)
"An insane clown posse (they are all riding in one small car)"
What does a hip-hop duo [wikipedia.org] have to do with this?
Well, it's a perfectly FOSSist-style! (Score:0, Funny)
Look at GNU/Linux. How many knobs and CLI-options does it have?
Re:Oh yeah? (Score:5, Funny)
It's like the Homermobile from the Simpsons (Score:5, Funny)
18 Buttons? Madness! (Score:5, Funny)
it is hard to imagine a world in which so many tiny buttons on a mouse make sense.
You think that's crazy -- I've heard that some people keep an entire extra grid of buttons next to their mouse that has -- get this -- over *100* buttons. Not only that, but some of the really extreme cases out there actually develop *pure muscle memory* of where all those buttons are. There are even people who call themselves "Eee-Maxers" (sp? e-macksers maybe? emacsers?) who also memorize and even customize dozens of what they call "key chords" -- pressing multiple buttons simultaneously to extend vastly beyond the 100 key limitation.
Heathens (Score:5, Funny)
Well (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A modest proposal ... (Score:1, Funny)
Anyone starting a project to convert an office chair into a mouse? you get 2-D movement, a rotation movement, tilt, bounce, and at least two levers. Should be enough for most applications.
I just want to see one in action by someone with a large screen....
Re:Reinventing the wheel (Score:3, Funny)
... we who worked in the lab all loved that KB.
Can a keyboard handle that much love? Seems like it would get sort of... sticky...
Re:Reinventing the wheel (Score:3, Funny)
I know. I was going for informative, not funny. :S
Oh well. I can't complain.
Re:Reinventing the wheel (Score:3, Funny)
Don't apologize. I'm as confused as you.
BTW, if you're looking for a laugh, perhaps this [slashdot.org] or this [slashdot.org] will elicit a chuckle.