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. -- Tuomo
