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- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -8/+65For god's sake if you're going to rip off Slashdot, get it right:
In Soviet Russia, mice click you! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+48My friend said that getting a thicker ethernet cable makes the lan more faster. ROFL.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29@Nougat
Those jokes have been around long before Slashdot. - henrik.falk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff
- hapax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Since this IS from Soviet Russia, we should conclude that elsewhere, mice design people.
- lintmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21"Ack, seriously, do people still find those Russian reversals to actually be funny?"
Yes. - Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I like my mouse's design where its impossible for the cable to break, due to it not existing, hooray for new designs
- JangoFett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Ha! In Soviet Russia, Wikipedia edits you!
- mtbz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9diggywiggit - just adding to what osjbmg said, thicker cables could also mean a heck of a lot more shielding, which cuts down on the SNR (signal to noise ratio), allowing for a better data rate (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_hartley). If you don't believe me, compare a CAT-3 cable (generally for 10Mbps ethernet / phone wiring), a CAT-5 cable, and a CAT-7 if you can find one. CAT-7 actually shields each individual pair together with a total pair shield. It's noticeably thicker.
- Shorties, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Haha, as soon as I soviet in the title I knew someone had to have already made a Soviet joke like that.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Are you referring to the story, submission or comments?
The story appears to have been translated from Russian, or written by a Russian.
The submission is not exactly neutral, but it's humourous.
As for the comments... so far (@134) nothing that catches the eye.
I get your point, but I think you're worrying too much. - ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Those are a hell of a lot more ergonomic than IBM's old mice. Those were like a flat brick with buttons.
- capellathestar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Forward about 70 years into the future, picture the planet ravaged by the radiation storms - the every-present remnant of the last war...The only remaining survivors of once lush green plants are cockroaches....and Soviet computer mice.
- zip000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It's funny in the way that Family Guy is funny - if you just making the same joke again and again and again (and again) - eventually it's funny, and then its not, and then it is again...and then it gets old...and then it's funny again...ad infinitum.
- kanned, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7No No No...
"The Manipulator For Graphical Information"
It should be something like this.. In Soviet Russia, Mouse Manipulates You. - blackbelt88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Haa, I love your story description. James Bond, lol.
- TimDub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5+digg strictly for the James Bond joke
- joolsd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5webcrumb: Actually, ergonomics is from a Greek rather than Latin root.
"Ergo" means work.
"nomics" literally means keeping (in fact economics literally means housekeeping) but often means the study of, so ergonomics means the study of work, ie. the study of making it more efficient. - Webler707, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Of course those days exist, I remember them. Sitting around playing with the windows(the concept hasn't changed much, mostly new designs and blah) and a cooring program, where I could choose the color to color in a specific part of a dinosuar. I loved that becuase it would always be in the lines, most unlike me.
- KamelJockey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I think the Russian word for "ergonomics" is Siberia :)
- 47f0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Neal Stephenson may have said it best:
"Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas ***** Edison." - mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Here comes another submission of the level "In Soviet Russia... " joke.
I lived in Russia in 1986-1994 and I have never seen these rats. Must have been a rarity even then. - neschek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dugg, but really, these don't look all that different from mice I saw when I was a kid in Singapore. Considering these are Soviet mice, they actually look great.
- CamoChris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wish there was a coin or a ruler to get the sense of scale in all the pictures (like the 9V battery in the first pic). The big rounded one in the 5th and 6th pictures looks particularly uncomfortable to use, perhaps there is no Russian word for ergonomics. But maybe I'm just too attached to my MX1000.
- fifty50, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5God, that site renders horribly under Safari
- bayonetblaha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Best comment on the page:
Pildil on Nõukogude arvutitööstuse saavutus: arvutihiir kaheksakümnendate lõpust. Arvutihiirte disain ei ole viimase kümne aastaga oluliselt muutunud, sest ergonoomiliselt optimaalne kuju on saavutatud ja selle muutmine ainult halvendaks kasutamismugavust
lol- so true, so true. - blakespot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Doug Engelbart's first mouse (he invented the mouse among other things):
http://www.bootstrap.org/chronicle/pix/img0001.jpg - webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Actually, ergonomics is from a Greek rather than Latin root."
MIStranslation, Godammit. But I take your point. - usp8riot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I don't sense that. Are the diggers' hits to this site that it's been getting lately racist? I've been surfing it for the past week, great site. It's good to get a perspective from other people in other countries.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hey , even Russians got it...right-clicking is way more productive.
- t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think the story is written by a Russian person, and their English isn't perfect, thereby sometimes giving you the wrong impression.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ah ha, I knew it.
http://images.vnunet.com/v6_image/pcw/pcw_images/history/Mouse.pdf
or in plain HTML (no images)
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:KvnFkkgtB8oJ:images.vnunet.com/v6_image/pcw/pcw_images/history/Mouse.pdf
Cranston and Longstaff's mouse, made in 1952.
"beautifully made, actually used two pairs of wheels driven by a standard 4in Canadian bowling ball resting on an air bearing" - Darthmalt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I remember using a mouse like the rounded one you mention on an old computer my aunt had. The buttons had weird ridges on it and it wasn't very comfortable. I can't recall who made the computer though.
- Strd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I really like the first one. It seems it have steel ball.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Reading the article again, Cranston and Longstaff also arguably invented the GUI and hard disk. Not bad going.
"Surprisingly,Cranston does not have a computer. ‘They are too fascinating,’ he said. ‘I’d get so involved I wouldn’t have time for anything else.’ "
I know that feeling. :D - EvilTesdall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2if someone got pissed off at you and hit you with that...i believe you would die...instantly
- oblongmouth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was referring to the story itself - not the diggers.
After looking at the rest of the site, I think you could be right webcrumb - does look like a russian-speaking writer, in which case they're well entitled to laugh at themselves.
usp8riot - I wouldn't suggest a visitor to the site is racist. - ptrcd003, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thats not Russian..unless I've been speaking/reading it wrong my whole life..
- datsclark, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just use the keyboard.
How quaint! - shosterman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Seriously, what gave you guys the impression that the author was Russian?
A)He says, "I can translate what is written on the mouse back side"
B)The website is www.englishrussia.com
C)Image Copyright, the name is Sergei Frolov
D)The email is frs@overlink.ru
Watch your back Sherlock! - webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Or it's a mistranslation.
Ergo: therefore / It follows
Nomics: the economic policies and principles thereof
Ergonomics is all about the reasons behind making money. How that translates to mice, though, I'm not sure... - joelsp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2the selection on this is kinda limited. But the Movies are kinda cool
- ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You could defend yourself with an old Microsoft mouse ... I have one packed away around here somewhere. 25 pin connector and a metal ball. Not rubber coated metal, *metal*.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I thought the first mouse was actually inverted (i.e. a trackball) and made out of a bowling ball on a cushion of air?
I know I read it somewhere... - CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Someone call the care police.
- sixdays, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In Sovjet Russia, mice have balls of steel.
- lagrange, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3In Soviet Union worker is punished by making mouse heavier and heavier until arms as big as wifes.
- anagai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the mouse has a ball of steel. Thats one tough bastard. guess steel dont grip to well but can take punishment.
- hockey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Oh yeah, it's not like there isn't any anti-american sentiment on digg. . . .
- ptrcd003, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What the hell?
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