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Trackballs were occasionally used in e-sports prior to the mainstreaming of optical mice in the early 2000s because they were more reliable than ball mice, but now they are extremely rare because optical mice offer superior speed and precision.
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Trackballs and used
Trackballs can be used whilst browsing a laptop in bed, or wirelessly from an armchair to a PC playing a movie.
Trackballs are sometimes used instead of joysticks, especially in games from the early 1980s, spinners are used to control horizontally the action on screen, such as Arkanoid and Pong.
Trackballs and early
Trackballs have appeared in computer and video games, particularly early arcade games ( see a List of trackball arcade games ) notably Atari's Centipede and Missile Command – though Atari spells it " trak-ball ".
Trackballs and ball
Trackballs are generally either thumb-operated, with a ball about an inch in diameter or smaller moved by one digit ( almost always the thumb ) and the buttons clicked by others, or finger-operated, with a ball over two inches in diameter operated by the middle fingers and the buttons by the thumb and little finger.
Trackballs and are
Trackballs are provided as the pointing device in some public internet access terminals.
Trackballs and .
Trackballs remain in use in pub golf machines ( such as Golden Tee ) to simulate swinging the club.
Trackballs have also been regarded as excellent complements to analog joysticks, as pioneered by the Assassin 3D 1996 trackball with joystick pass-through capability.
were and occasionally
At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).
Individual nuclei were usually oval to round, though occasionally elongated, and frequently small and somewhat pyknotic.
Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War ( when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly ), and particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, and non-Europeans.
During the Hellenistic and Roman periods, many of the existing buildings in the area of the Acropolis were repaired, due to damage from age, and occasionally, war.
Niven also occasionally refers to arcologies in his Known Space series, particularly in the stories involving Gil Hamilton, or the Pierson's Puppeteers, whose arcologies are enormous ( The smallest were cubes a mile in height, length and width.
Roof tiles were also occasionally employed, as at early Helladic Lerna and Akovitika, and later in the Mycenaean towns of Gla and Midea.
The three cartoonists were close personal friends and professional associates throughout their adult lives, and occasionally referenced each other in their strips.
Deaths from tourists and locals becoming stranded on outback trips occasionally occur, sometime because insufficient water and food supplies were taken, or because people have walked away from their vehicle in search of help.
Soviet bilateral trade is occasionally called " barter trade ", because although the purchases were denominated in U. S. dollars, the transactions were credited to an international clearing account, avoiding the use of hard cash.
Even certain male deities representing regeneration and fertility were occasionally depicted with breast-like appendices, such as the river god Hapy who was considered to be responsible for the annual overflowing of the Nile.
However, when observing the native bees in the Canterbury province in the South Island, the scientists were astonished to see the bees biting the top off the buds, then pushing with their legs, occasionally popping open the buds to allow the bees to harvest the nectar and pollen, and therefore aid in the pollination of the mistletoe which is in decline in New Zealand.
The conventional view of Chinese history is that of alternating periods of political unity and disunity, with China occasionally being dominated by steppe peoples, most of whom were in turn assimilated into the Han Chinese population.
After a few presidents of the Provisional Junta, there were again consuls of the republic, 14 March 1841 – 13 March 1844 ( ruling jointly, but occasionally styled " first consul ", " second consul "): Carlos Antonio López Ynsfrán ( b. 1792 – d. 1862 ) + Mariano Roque Alonzo Romero ( d. 1853 ) ( the lasts of the aforementioned juntistas, Commandant-General of the Army )
Coyotes ( both single individuals and groups ) have been known to occasionally kill bobcats – in most cases, the bobcats were relatively small specimens, such as adult females and juveniles.
Children between the ages of 8 and 13 were imprisoned and occasionally executed.
Allegedly, concubines were occasionally buried alive with their masters to " keep them company in the afterlife.
In Ireland, crannogs tend to reach a floruit during the Early Historic period when they were the homes and retreats of kings, lords, prosperous farmers and occasionally socially marginalised groups such as monastic hermits or metalsmiths who could work in isolation.
This system was so fixed, the mores so strong, the affiliation and culture so widely ingrained that while nobles were insisting that certain exclusive privileges be theirs, theirs alone and of their offsprings, shepherds in the countryside were insisting, occasionally with violent demonstrations, that their jobs be strictly hereditary.
He secured none of the posts that were occasionally given to needy men of letters ; he could not even obtain the bare official recognition of merit which was implied by being chosen a member of the Académie française.
It has occasionally been argued that its origins were in heterodox Judaism or Oriental and Grecian philosophies.
According to Southern Maldivian oral tradition, traders and fishermen were occasionally lost at sea and got stranded in one of the islands of the Chagos.
This meaning is still occasionally found, especially in names which were originally given long ago.
One theory, dating from 1872, indicates that cooping – in which unwilling citizens who were forced to vote for a particular candidate were occasionally killed – was the cause of Poe's death.
were and used
Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.
Actually, two flags were used at the mansion -- a small one on rainy days, and a big one on bright days.
In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.
It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.
`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.
Ballets were used in opera from its beginning.
Visual and operable training aids developed by the Medical Illustration Service, were used in support of Army Medical Service mass casualty exercises.
In 1959, according to the Engineers, Lake Texoma was only one of thirty-two artificial lakes and reservoirs which were used for recreation by over 1,000,000 persons.
Previously, FN actions were used for the larger cartridges.
Opaque cantaloupe and transparent wood brown were used.
Stainless steel screws were used to minimize corrosion stains.
A system had to be used which did not depend upon the feeding of the fluid into the manometer if measurements of the normal pressure were to be made in a reasonable time.
These cells were used rather than square Pyrex tubing because of the tendency of the latter to shatter when thawing frozen carbon tetrachloride.
Two types of light source were used, a thousand watt projection lamp and an AH6 high pressure mercury arc.
Three of the anti-Rh sera used were taken from recently sensitized individuals.
In several instances group O cells were also used as controls.
The red cells were used within 2 days after donation and were washed with large amounts of saline before use.
Homozygous and heterozygous Af cells, Af and homozygous and heterozygous Af cells were used to test each sample ; ;
The saline tubes were saved and used for the indirect Coombs test in the following manner.
The anti-human sera used were prepared by injecting whole human serum into rabbits.
The red cells for the Rh antibody tests were used within 3 days after drawing except for the Af cells, which had been glycerolized and stored at -20-degrees-C for approximately 1 year.
A flow rate of 72 Af was used and 12 ml fractions were collected.
When paper electrophoresis was to be used for preparation, eight strips of a whole serum sample or a chromatographic fraction concentrated by negative pressure dialysis were run/chamber under the conditions described above.
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