0:00:00.000,0:00:08.046 My thoughts of course beginning with Microsoft Mouse Mischief SDK. So, here's the thought 0:00:08.046,0:00:13.610 someone at Microsoft probably some underpaid intern -- who was probably trying very hard to keep their 0:00:13.610,0:00:16.742 job after the summer ended -- 0:00:16.742,0:00:21.368 if you're listening Microsoft don't let them stay...let them go...yeah. 0:00:21.368,0:00:27.037 They decided to invent a technology where you could take a set of young students -- like, elementary 0:00:27.037,0:00:34.612 school level -- give a classroom of students each their own wireless mouse and then set up a projector. 0:00:34.612,0:00:40.359 On the projector, have a shared environment where all these students -- like, 20+ students 0:00:40.359,0:00:44.658 -- with their wireless mice could interact on-screen. 0:00:44.658,0:00:51.442 Some goofball thought, "hey, it's a good idea to get already over-sugared, overly-hyper kids to share 0:00:51.442,0:00:54.544 a computer screen with mice." 0:00:54.544,0:00:58.619 ADD is going to kick in very soon here people. 0:00:58.619,0:01:01.675 There's going to be a lot of kids, a lot of mouse pointers going all over the screen. 0:01:01.675,0:01:07.527 I would try this myself by-the-way, but, in Microsoft infinite wisdom that is about the size of a small 0:01:07.527,0:01:12.464 pumpkin seed. They only made this available for 32-bit versions of office. 0:01:12.464,0:01:15.624 The world has run on 64bit for some time. 0:01:15.624,0:01:21.826 Microsoft sells their OS, primarily now in 64bit. And, mouse mischief runs only on 32bit. 0:01:21.826,0:01:27.353 It's kinda a nice way of kicking the public school system for having old tech, but, eh... 0:01:27.353,0:01:33.127 So, you got ADD kids, you got classroom focus -- or lack of classroom focus -- and you can thank Microsoft 0:01:33.127,0:01:38.795 for it. Well, they've made this entire thing free; because, let's be honest, no one in their right mind 0:01:38.795,0:01:40.470 would pay for it. 0:01:40.470,0:01:45.195 But if you want it you can go to microsoft.com and I think it's called multi-point. 0:01:45.195,0:01:51.700 If you want to do a search for it it's mouse mischief in the Microsoft search area, powered by Bing. 0:01:51.700,0:01:54.584 You can check out mouse mischief. 0:01:54.584,0:01:58.936 Free download for Office 2007 and 2010, full versions or trials or betas... 0:01:58.936,0:02:06.082 ...if you're still cheap. And, you can grab that sucker if you run 32bit office or are using their on-the-run 0:02:06.082,0:02:11.129 installation they provided for beta testers and you can try it out yourself. 0:02:11.129,0:02:18.951 There's also this very, very awkward video that accompanies mouse mischief that talks about how Microsoft 0:02:18.951,0:02:23.282 is taking the world into the future...by, distracting small children. 0:02:23.282,0:02:27.357 But, yeah, go watch that and comment about it in the comments of this video. 0:02:27.357,0:02:33.861 If you have concerns, questions or your own thoughts; I don't want to hear them, I want to see them, 0:02:33.861,0:02:36.291 so, video responses please. 0:02:36.291,9:59:59.000 'Till next time.