You must not play any online computer games; any player with a trackball would get completely destroyed. ;) Thats not to say that I use a mousepad myself; a quality laser mouse is very necessary for any type of game requiring speed (such as Starcraft/Counterstrike/Quake/etc). For instance, try either of the Reaction games (reaction 1 is for rts, reaction 2 is for fps) at http://www.missionred.com with a trackball, and then try again with a laser mouse. HUGE difference. I would never trade the speed and accuracy of my laser for anything... but feel free to play against me using whatever you want :)

What's an "online computer game"?

{grin}

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

Think of it as rogue, with some of the monsters being other people somewhere else on the Internet, only designed for people with no imagination.

Or, put another way, rogue with some smart monsters and pretty pictures to distract you while you get killed.

That make sense? :-)

Is a laser mouse a new innovation or is it just a wrong name for an optical mouse? (They use LEDs, that just aren't lasers).

Anyway, I don't use a mouse, I don't use a trackball or glidepoint. My favorite pointing device is the Wacom Graphire. I also use a small joystick-like thingy for when I only need to change focus (Don't wanna pick up the pen, point and drop the pen just to tell my machine I want another xterm :).
Yes, my system does have a mouse. It's just for visitors :) (Just like the non-split keyboard)

As for games, what do games have to do with computers? :)

2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$
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Yeah, apologies; I meant an optical mouse. As for the last question - If it wasn't for games, what would we do in order to avoid work? ;)

I have been a trackball user since the very beginning and played from quake on with a trackball and i have since given up playing online games but when i used to play tribes and the early versions of CS i used to OWN with my trackball...and yes i've used a laser mouse just give me my logitech trackball anyday.

My favourite mouse has 102 buttons - and doesn't move