Post #197,147
3/4/05 2:58:48 AM
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You're right-handed, aren'tya, Wade?
Meself, I put the task bar on the left.
And I'm not sure, but I *think* which side one prefers has to do with handedness.
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Post #197,148
3/4/05 3:00:33 AM
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Could be.
My Dock is on the left, and I tend to put my GNOME panel on that side, too.
I'm left-handed.
Peter
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Post #197,150
3/4/05 3:04:12 AM
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How 'bout the sprog? This shit is supposed...
...to be at least somewhat hereditary, innit?
Mine's still vacillating, but I think he seems to be tending towards the right. :-(
Oh well, I suppose you *can* be smart -- even genius-level smart -- even though you're a right-hander...
It's just a lot less probable. :-(
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Post #197,151
3/4/05 3:06:02 AM
3/4/05 3:06:36 AM
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Right-handed.
At least he's able to pick up a pair of scissors and have at least a fighting chance of cutting a straight line in a piece of paper.
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March 4, 2005, 03:06:36 AM EST
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Post #197,153
3/4/05 4:54:51 AM
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Bah - *that* is hardly a problem, nowadays.
Hey, man -- if you haven't yet, treat yersel' to a working pair of scissors:
[link|http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/acatalog/scissors.html|Left Handed Shop > Scissors]
[link|http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=Fiskars+scissors+left-handed|Froogle search: Fiskars scissors left-handed]
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Post #197,299
3/5/05 9:14:08 AM
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Scissors are easy enough...
Golf clubs are harder, because they're expensive.
I'm left handed, but I mouse, throw, and golf right.
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Post #197,301
3/5/05 9:21:09 AM
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My mother's left handed, but bowls right handed.
She injured her elbow years ago and finds bowling more comfortable with her right arm.
But I guess bowling balls don't have mirror image problems the way many other things do, so never mind... ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who wonders if there are left-handed pool cues out there...)
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Post #197,324
3/5/05 6:53:08 PM
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Uhh ... bowling balls aren't right/left handed?
I don't know what alleys you've been to, but all the bowling balls I ever saw were one or the other. Except one guy with huge hands who only had a thubhole. Looked like he was pitching softball. Bowled straight up the middle, too, because he threw so hard the ball was usually still spinning backwards when it hit.
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Post #197,329
3/5/05 7:16:28 PM
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I don't think they are.
I'm looking on [link|http://www.bowling.com|http://www.bowling.com] and I can't see a left/right variation for any ball.
You'd certainly expect something like [link|http://www.bowling.com/display.asp?SKU=1059-50|this] to be available in both types.
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Post #197,332
3/5/05 7:33:25 PM
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They don't come with holes in them
When you spend that much for a ball, you get it custom drilled.
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Post #197,334
3/5/05 7:37:50 PM
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OIC.
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Post #197,330
3/5/05 7:25:45 PM
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The holes are handed, the balls aren't. At least AFAIK. ;-)
[link|http://www.left-handed.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=68|What makes a bowling ball left or right-handed?].
Yeah, it bites if you're left-handed and don't have your own ball. But if you have your own ball, the driller started with the same ball whether you're left or right handed. Unlike golf clubs, etc., which have an intrinsic asymmetry depending on which directionality you are.
Unless, of course, you're playing something like [link|http://www.bowlcandlepin.com/Rules.htm|candlepin] which has hole-less balls. In that case, the ball truly is ambidextrous:
[image|http://www.bowlcandlepin.com/BALLSPEC.jpg|0|candlepin bowling ball|240|240]
(So who was being more pedantic in this case? You or me? :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #197,333
3/5/05 7:36:47 PM
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For once, I wasn't being pedantic
I meant that the balls you find to use a bowling alleys are almost always right-handed. People who have their own will obviously have them made for whichever hand they prefer.
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Post #197,335
3/5/05 7:38:28 PM
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Just teasing. I should have mentioned she had her own.
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Post #197,506
3/7/05 1:22:16 PM
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Left-handed pool cues
There are places where you can have a custom made pool cue, although I'm not really sure why left or right would matter in that sort of case, because it's completely round and usually symmetrical, I would think, so that you can use it in either hand the same way. I know when I play pool with John in our basement, I sometimes switch hands to shoot, and feel no difference other than in left or right handed control of the cue.
HTH
Brenda
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Post #197,589
3/8/05 1:52:38 AM
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That "Woosh!" sound you just heard, Fluffy...
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Post #197,590
3/8/05 1:59:57 AM
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Gotta better one than that.
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Post #197,606
3/8/05 9:09:26 AM
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Pipe stretching oil and left handed monkey wrench
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Post #197,614
3/8/05 9:40:23 AM
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muffler bearings and halogen fluid.
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Post #197,636
3/8/05 10:54:49 AM
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Metric Cresent Wrench, Box o'scribed lines, Aluminum Magnet
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Post #197,724
3/8/05 7:58:21 PM
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whats a muslim wrench a mirror and a hand gotto do with it?
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Post #197,158
3/4/05 6:24:41 AM
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Why yes.
Mind you, I was aiming to mimic the way WindowMaker works. It's dock is by default on the right.
Wade.
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Post #197,161
3/4/05 7:21:11 AM
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Complete the thought: And *Y* is that the WM default...? :-/
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Post #197,163
3/4/05 7:36:58 AM
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Because that's what NeXTStep did...
...and WindowMaker is the nearest thing to a complete implementation of GNUStep (the Free version of NeXTStep) that exists.
Personally, I think NeXTStep only looks nice when it's running on one of those dandy NeXT computers; it looks good from a distance but when you get up close it's very 1995. Of course, one of the problems is that there areally aren't all that many applications that run within the GNUStep framework; there are a few, but there's no GNUStep browser, for example[0]. However, one benefit of coding to GNUStep is that you can trivially modify your application to compile on OS X.
[0] Unless, of course, someone wrapped Gecko up in GNUStep when I wasn't looking.
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Post #197,169
3/4/05 8:33:33 AM
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Sigh... So why did THEY do that, then? A: Because most...
...most people are right-handed, I (to borrow an expression) wot.
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Post #197,171
3/4/05 8:47:14 AM
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I wot that your wot is wotful, I wot.
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Post #197,172
3/4/05 8:55:08 AM
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Werd.
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Post #197,215
3/4/05 2:11:50 PM
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I don't know but ...
When I ran WindowMaker I would have the Dock on the right and have windows minimize to icons down the left side of the display, starting at the top. I think the default was across the bottom from the left. (Mac OS X has combined the two into one dock so you can't do that anymore.)
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Post #197,292
3/5/05 8:25:18 AM
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I really don't know.
But I suspect that if they'd originally put the Dock on the left then it'd probably be there today. Even for right-handed people.
WM has a Clip which functions a little like a dock but the app icons are local to each screen. The Clip is, by default on the left. I left it there and put things on it, too. The value of the Dock was that the apps were there in every screen. The value of the Clip was that the apps weren't.
I may have been more inclined to get used to WindowMaker's Dock because a) I'm right-handed and b) it lives on the right of the screen but the reason I choose to mimic it there has less to do with the fact that I'm right-handed than that I had gotten used to it there and found it useful and convenient.
Besides, because of how we read (left-to-right, top-to-bottom), our brains associate different importances and roles to things on the left and right edges. With the left-aligned text usually in use in applications, one's attention tends to be towards the left. Having the Dock on the right helpfully and automatically dissociates it with the main content on the screen. I'm not as convinced as you are that mere right-handedness can be used to explain such a preference. :-) OTOH, the vast majority of the population down through the ages being right-handed has undoubtedly influenced the writing system in use in European languages... (-:
Wade.
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Is it enough to breathe
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Post #197,282
3/5/05 2:26:09 AM
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I used to put it on the right
and I'm right handed. I like to use as much of the screen real estate as possible, so I end up having the right scroll bar against the right side of the screen and then I end up fighting with the dock over whether it should come out when I mouse over the scroll area. It didn't take long for me to move the dock to the left side of the screen and now I'm much happier.
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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