Years later, the first Windows personal computers were sold with a mouse and GUI.
Plenty of tablets come with a mouse mode, so it's just down to the limits of your budget.
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Investigators said Mr Galiatsatos, 47, had been grappling with a mouse problem in his own shop, Nina's Bella Pizzeria.
There are plenty of PC games I play with a controller, and many more that I play with a mouse.
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Then I started to think how much more fun it would be with a mouse and keyboard rather than an Xbox controller.
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While Windows 8 will work with a mouse or touch pad and a keyboard, it will be heavily oriented toward tablet-type touch-screen navigation.
All this content is conveniently accessible via the Home Dashboard, which can be navigated using the Magic Remote or alternatively, with a mouse and keyboard.
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These days we can avoid long waits in line, on hold and get the exact flight or room we want with a mouse click or two.
Imagine downloading a software upgrade for your cable box from the Internet or upgrading your printer with a mouse click (for more on PLDs click here).
It can also provide gentle guidance to those who are perhaps a little more used to drawing in their MIDI notes one by one with a mouse.
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In fact MarketMind believes that the ability to move billions of dollars in an instant, with a mouse click actually implies that comparative advantage is alive and well.
The vivid and animated tiles fill the screen and are built for multi-touch compatible computers (although you can still navigate live tiles with a mouse on a non-touch screen).
An interactive window appears midway prompting viewers to contribute to the landscape, typed on a keyboard or drawn with a mouse, which extend into branches and attract a flock of flying birds.
Mixing with a long motorised fader and real transport controls is certainly more fun than clicking at an icon with a mouse (or pushing the space bar, which starts and stops most software sequencers).
Any one with a mouse can see that the US pays a scant amount of taxes compared with the rest of the developed nations, while at the same time getting less bang for the buck.
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Over the next couple of years Apple introduced user-friendly computers with the Lisa-the first pc with a mouse and a menu bar-and the Macintosh, which was pitted as a human alternative to that mechanical juggernaut IBM.
"You're not putting two gorillas in a cage, you're putting a gorilla in with a mouse, " says Marick Masters, a professor at the Katz Business School at the University of Pittsburgh who specializes in the airline industry.
Based around Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system the TouchSmart PC doesn't dispense with a mouse and keyboard totally -- these are readily available when required -- but rather it takes the emphasis off them as tools of necessity for all tasks.
Of course the Mac was created in part as sort of a backlash against the command line interface of DOS (typing long strings of complicated computing commands, not pointing and clicking with a mouse like we're used to now), though Mac OS X now boasts a Unix Shell terminal with its own command line interface.
When they were injected into the tumour site, these cells apparently helped the mouse fight the cancer - with a treated mouse living 90 days or more longer than an untreated mouse.
With a single mouse click, you can arrange to record a program to the hard drive.
With a few mouse clicks, the co-worker sent a signal over the Internet that remotely shut off the power to a single fan inside a 10-foot section of ductwork directly above the microphone.
The DLV-100 projector is HDTV-ready and comes with a port for a mouse that can be used to navigate onscreen menus.
Meanwhile Google Earth, though it works just fine with a regular mouse and keyboard, cries out for experimenters to devise cooler navigation techniques.
Suddenly, information-technology departments could set up programs with a few mouse clicks instead of taking days or weeks to install servers and software.
The eToys sites also offered "one-click" shopping, which allows customers to leave their credit card details once in a secure server and then make repeat orders with a single mouse click.
With a few mouse clicks, Mr. Levine found the sole, surviving occupant of that quartet, 91-year-old Isabella Lee, a former educator who still lives in the apartment she and her husband shared.
The Net lets anyone with a computer and a modem compete mouse to mouse with mainstream media. (Drudge's publishing empire is the living room of his Hollywood apartment.) But many of the Net's would-be Woodwards and Bernsteins are journalistic novices and wouldn't think, say, to ask court or police sources to confirm a rumor.
One interface feels better with a touchscreen and gestures, the other with a keyboard and mouse or touchpad.
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People sitting at home can research complicated issues with a few clicks of a mouse.
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