my college just upgraded all the computers

[LS20]

ball mice are dumb

 

[suse920]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: Mike2002
At least your school does not superglue the mice so you can't get the balls out. So when the mice get dirty there is nothing you can do to fix them.

QFT :| :| :|

and what kind of inconsiderate immature bastards steal the balls anyway?

i did once back in the day

 

[screw3d]

I haven't seen a single balled mice on all my school's computers.. but I think they do have a healty budget just by looking at the hardware they have

 

[Tylanner]

Dont dis the mitsumi

 

[cerebusPu]

Originally posted by: suse920

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: Mike2002
At least your school does not superglue the mice so you can't get the balls out. So when the mice get dirty there is nothing you can do to fix them.

QFT :| :| :|

and what kind of inconsiderate immature bastards steal the balls anyway?

i did once back in the day

i stole an entire mouse once! 10 years ago.

now i buy $70 mice with freaking lazers on their head.....

 

[blinky8225]

at my high school it's so bad that before we leave the computer lab we have to flip our mice over and have the teacher check it one by one

 

[Chompman]

Proof of a mouse with balls owning a optical one.

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: spanky
that would make sense, but it's likely that 80gb might have been the smallest capacity hd was offering. however, it is sorta dumb that in buying (or leasing) such a large amount of computers, the university was unable to broker a deal for some optical mice.

Some people cut corners on the wrong items. They probably re-used the current mice instead of purchasing them with the new systems.

 

[cerebusPu]

Originally posted by: blinky8225
at my high school it's so bad that before we leave the computer lab we have to flip our mice over and have the teacher check it one by one

hah! thats pretty funny. they could save effort by getting cheap optical mice.

 

[bootymac]

Same case at my school. I think the problem is that the poor kids steal the optical mice

 

[Chompman]

Originally posted by: bootymac
Same case at my school. I think the problem is that the poor kids steal the optical mice

They make good projectiles.

 

[cerebusPu]

Originally posted by: Chompman

Originally posted by: bootymac
Same case at my school. I think the problem is that the poor kids steal the optical mice

They make good projectiles.

thats about all you can do with a stolen mouse ball.

kids vandalize because its fun..and no other reason

 

[Quasmo]

My school has a TON of HP workstations, they run Maya, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, 3DSMax, ect. But we have to use ball mice, wtf is up with that, you have $7000 worth of software on a computer but you only have ball mice?

 

[fbrdphreak]

NC State Engineering Lab:
Dell P4 2.8, XP Pro, 2GB RAM, xx HDD, 19" Dell LCD's, ball mice