{"id":169,"date":"2007-06-18T00:48:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T07:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/06\/18\/mouse-wtf\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T00:48:13","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T07:48:13","slug":"mouse-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/06\/18\/mouse-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouse WTF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I just bought a new mouse.  My old one was giving me double-clicks on the middle button when clearly inappropriate, and the battery charger wasn&#8217;t working, forcing me to change batteries every couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Since I didn&#8217;t want to fight with batteries any more, and my mouse doesn&#8217;t really move out of its one square foot area, I decided to go with a corded mouse.  Most mice are cordless.  I was left with the cheap mice, and a few high-end corded &#8220;gamer&#8221; mice.  I eventually decided on a $23 Logitech mouse.<\/p>\n<p>While I was looking around, I saw this for $70 in London Drugs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/17-06-07_1636.jpg' title='17-06-07_1636.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/17-06-07_1636.thumbnail.jpg' alt='17-06-07_1636.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are the claims made on the box.  It&#8217;s like a case-study in marketing bullshit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;6400+ frames per second&#8221;.  Okay, mice don&#8217;t have &#8220;frames&#8221;.  I&#8217;m willing to assume they meant &#8220;samples per second&#8221;.  6400 times per second, the mouse checks to see how much it has moved.  They couldn&#8217;t have said &#8220;6400 updates&#8221; or something like that?<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;5.8 megapixels per second&#8221;.  WTF?  Mice have megapixels?  I can&#8217;t even imagine what that could mean.  Are they using &#8220;pixel&#8221; to mean &#8220;position&#8221; or something?<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;40 inches per second, high speed motion detection&#8221;.   I can&#8217;t seem to move my $23 mouse fast enough that it misses out.  Maybe 16 year olds have somehow managed to develop freakishly strong forearm muscles that lead to phenomenal mouse speeds?<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;7 buttons, independently programmable&#8221;.  I&#8217;m all for programmable buttons, but what would it mean for buttons to be &#8220;dependently programmable&#8221;?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I just bought a new mouse. My old one was giving me double-clicks on the middle button when clearly inappropriate, and the battery charger wasn&#8217;t working, forcing me to change batteries every couple of weeks. Since I didn&#8217;t want to fight with batteries any more, and my mouse doesn&#8217;t really move out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}