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- From: hevans@estwm0.wm.estec.esa.nl (Hugh D.R. Evans (ESA/ESTEC/WMA Netherlands))
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: End-user on-line Motif tutorial
- Message-ID: <C17ro4.2vr@wm.estec.esa.nl>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:09:39 GMT
- References: <19JAN199322093522@cvdv99.mayo.edu> <1993Jan21.124937.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
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- In article <1993Jan21.124937.1@vxdesy.desy.de>, pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de writes:
- |>From: pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de
- |>Subject: Re: End-user on-line Motif tutorial
- |>Organization: (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
- |>Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:49:37 GMT
-
- |>
- |>In article <19JAN199322093522@cvdv99.mayo.edu>, fisk@cvdv99.mayo.edu (Tom Fisk | 2D-337 STM | 5-4341) writes:
- |>> [deleted....]
- |>>
- |>> Oh...here is a situation you are going to really like. We have some female
- |>> employees that just can not get the hand/eye co-ordination going with the
- |>> mouse. They always want to move their hand/mouse the _opposite_ direction they
- |>> want to move the pointer. We tried to figure out why this was. Turns out that
- |>> when the look at the terminal, they have some mental connection that says
- |>> they are in front of a mirror (where I am told some females spend some time)
- |>> and they do exactly everything _backward_ with the motor functions. The
- |>> only way we have been able to get them to move the pointer in the right
- |>> direction on the screen is to turn the mouse _upside down_. Yes...another
- |>> amazing but true story from the journals of learned behavior.
- |>>
- |>Hmmm... It can't be true. Workstation is a mirror! Stand side to side
- |>with the screen and move the mouse to see what I mean. Also don't they
- |>have 'up-down' problems with the turned mouse???
- |>
- |>Sorry, this post has nothing to do with VMS, I know....
- |>
- |>Michal (pawlak@vxdesy.desy.de)
- |>
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- When working on one project, there was a chap that always used the mouse
- upside down. He said he preferred it because he was left handed. There
- are some strange people out there.
- --
- Hugh Evans - hevans@estwm8.dnet.estec.esa.nl
-
- "Alcohol is very important for young people because it provides a sort of
- 'liquid adulthood.' If you are young and you drink a great deal it will
- spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you
- into an adult."
- P.J. O'Rourke - Modern Manners, Etiquette for Rude People
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