The button is right there, and yet most don't use it.  Why?
135697
i think it is because they dont want to take the time. or they just dont care enough to check it. i personally dont use it but i always read what i wrote before i post it so i can catch my errors.
71553
it is a "Home Key" for touch typists...so those who can type without looking at the keys can get there baring on the kbrd without looking at it.
210381
I agree with you!  Why are there so many... There is a certain pride to doing things...If your'e going to do something, do it right.  Most people don't seem to care.
291042
because most of us do
516599
There was a very good reason, but that reason is worthless now.\n\nRemember in the old days when typewriters had little arms attached to the keys that would go up and strike the ink ribbon and imprint the letter on paper?  Well, if you have ever typed on a typewriter like this, you know that if you hit 2 keys close together you would get the arms stuck.  The keyboard layout was made such that the likelyhood of the arms getting stuck together was minimal.\n\nIf anyone tells you that the keyboard layout is for ergonomic reasons that is the furthest from the truth.  The layout was the best working layout to prevent the typewriters from constantly jamming.  The reason for not changing it? Because that's the way it's always been.
313903
Happens to me alot too...I'v finally realized I need to double check before I start typing..Not sure why, haven't found out myself, but I do know if you click then make sure and click again, it will stay put.
29325
I think the click is intentional, it makes people feel more connected to thier computer. But I'd buy a quiet mouse myself, if I found one.
266536
People have shorter attention spans. As proved by several statments above, people want just the main points, and don't want to make things overly complicated. It's rather ironic, then, that as we have more complicated machines, that we want everything in it's simplest form. But, on the other hand, the media is encouraging it, too, so it's hard to pinpoint who is starting all this.
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Probably the button is broken :)\nJust so you know there is usually a manual open button that looks like a little pinhole on the cd-drive. \nThis probably isn't a software issue because if it was, no software would be able to open the CD-drive either. Nearly 99% chance of a hardware problem.
60105
Well, we Americans are often criticized for being lazy. To make a capital letter, you need to press the "shift" key. Since most people like to get things done the quickest, easiest way, they don't want to spend that extra millisecond (sp?) pressing that key. Hey, we're living in fast paced society! Just a guess. P.S. It drives me nuts when people do stuff like that too!
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There can be different reasons.  One apparent reason is that your browser is not able to render the button correctly.  If you are using internet Explorer, try using Firefox or Opera for opening the Web page and verifying.  If this doesn't work, try to run a virus scan and some adware removing tool such as AdAware.  I hope that helps :)
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Why are you playing with or pressing your belly button to begin with?!?...So you cannot blame us if we are thinking the way we are!....Were you cleaning your belly button?  If so, then I can understand.  There are nerve endings there almost like the bottoms of some folks feet.  Some are ticklish there and some are not!
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I usually just press "0," which should take you directly to the Operator, who, hopefully, is a human. They usually have this option on most systems, for those people who can't figure out what to press or won't wait through an entire list of options (like me). Try it. (Don't wait through the whole list; just do it at the start)
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At least part of it is apathy and laziness. Too many people don't really care, and feel that they can't make any difference, so why bother.\n\nBut at least part of it is because of the two-party system we've been locked into. Between congressional gerrymandering and the electoral college as implemented, all third-party candidates are largely shut out at the federal level, and don't get much support at local levels. So, many who would support a third-party candidate don't bother wasting their time, because their votes are literally not even counted.
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There is another reason.\n\nOnce this convention was set up, video game makers brought out optical sensing guns / pointers that would make use of this scanning feature to determine where the gun was pointed when the trigger is fired.\n\nBasically, these devices blank out the screen when the trigger is depressed, and start a counter. Since the screen has to be refressed from L to R and then the next row and so on, it can determine the time required for the screen to blank to the position it is aimed at. The controller then determines the position by interpolating the time.\n\nSince no one wants to break these devices by choosing any other convention, it stuck.\n\nThere may be reasons why it was chosen in the first place. The ray is actually moved by magnetic fields, and usually a ramp is used to generate this field. Therefore once it has moved to the right, the ramp is reset and the motion resumes from the left.
234056
why don't you suggest it to the oldest member or to the most active one?
242109
Amidst all of the ignorance and nonsense posted in response to this question, I'm once again amazed that some of these people even know how to operate a computer.\n\nYeah, I said it.  Some days I just get fed up with you people... :(