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When they go dead EXACTLY, when I had to give a critical reply to critical question during an argument with mates/Boss at work. (who are in other locations)
This has happened multiple times now. These type of chats we make is like the punches exchanged inside a boxing ring.
When you don't reply on time. (Damn, it has to be real time) A minute you delay, people sum it up like, 3,2,1, K.O! And get over the rings to announce the Winner. It's insane! 
I've suffered this often, so I carry a strip of rechargeable AA batteries wherever I go.
Today the battery in use, dies again. EXACTLY when I had to punch back. It just dies abruptly without any kind of beep or cursor slow down. It just went dead, right after an accusation was fired over me. It's like a missile coming down the trajectory. & people are waiting for me to respond.
Here, in my room, I was just pulling off the old battery and taking the ones from the strip. WTF! All of them dead. ALL of them! One by one like AK-47 rifle with fully of dummy bullets. 0 charge. And a fanatically blinking *Reload* *Reload*. I don't know how on earth they all got discharged. And finally I had to run in search of the tailed mate, that was deep buried under the e-rubble, long ago. It did help!
Whenever I return like this after a few seconds 'unexplained' wait, I'll be returning like Popeye-after-the-spinach. DAMN EM ALL with a backlog of punches in one go. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Wireless has it's place: but not for peripherals that never go far from the device they are supposed to be connected too... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nah, give me wireless power and I'm in.
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Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I use a wireless mouse that has a wired option. The wire is a special usb cable that plugs in the front of the mouse and recharges it. I can use it in either mode. I use it wireless until it dies, then I plug it in and continue using it for a few hours until it is recharged. I unplug it again and carry on, repeat... It lasts a few days when wireless.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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one of the many reasons I hate wireless keyboards & mice
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I like having my mouse wireless because it is moving constantly and the cord gets hooked on anything and everything that it can get hooked on but I am starting to prefer a wired keyboard as I have not owned a wireless keyboard that didn't have problems getting the keystrokes to the computer in a timely and organized fashion.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Foothill wrote: I like having my mouse wireless because it is moving constantly
Get a wired trackball - you move the "mouse" with your thumb, and once you are used to it (takes a few days as you are using muscles to power your thumb that you don't exercise much) they are brilliant - particularly for delicate work as you can click away at the buttons without the mouse moving even slightly.
I've been using them for oh...more than twenty years now and I wouldn't go back. They are a bit slow for action games, but for sniping? Perfect!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You move the mouse with your thumb? What do click with. Your pinky crossed under your wrist? Oh wait, you're one of those sinister people, aren't you? Do they not expose them at birth in Wales anymore?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Oh! Weird! How do they stop the ball rolling away?
I just have the standard Logitech USB Marble Mouse[^] mesen.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I'm getting this one!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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..do you remember when a mouse came with a cord, and a hard plastic ball on the underside?
That's what I'm using 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: do you remember when a mouse came with a cord, and a hard plastic ball on the underside? And you had to scrape the cr@p away from the rollers every couple of days?
FTFY!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Every week.
..but then the thing just works, without a battery dying in a battleground.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Rofl! stole it from the museum? 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I might have to one day, if this one would die 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Along with those 8" floppies the DOD is using?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Don't mock my raid-5 720k floppy drive!
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Don't be surprised if they also use some old IBM 350's 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Two practical jokes I've played on colleagues with those.
- remove the ball; place it in the drawer. The use was getting frustrated because it wouldn't work and almost called for a replacement before looking. This is also shortly after we moved from VT terminals to desktops, so not as used to the 'feel' of a mouse yet.
- find an identical mouse; loosely tie the cords together leaving one plugged into the desktop unit; drop the mouse plugged in behind the desk; put the unplugged mouse on the desk with the cord hanging over the back of the desk. Because the desk was so close to the wall, it wasn't obvious there were two items at play.
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evil!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Calculate the typing/clicking time/battery power you spend on CP.
It's a drug, I tell you! A drug!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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