Paginate entries with 'page' query parameter? Is it possible to use a page query parameter for paginating entries with {% paginate %} instead of a dynamic segment?

So instead of http://example.com/articles/p2 i would like to use http://example.com/articles?page=2.

This would simplify interoperability with client side MVC frameworks because the query parameter would be clearly separated from a dynamic route for a single entry in articles (i.e. http://example.com/articles/a-single-article).

The only solution I can think of at the moment is to not use {% paginate %} altogether and instead calculate limit and offset for craft.entries.find(...) manually from craft.request.getQuery("page"). I hope there is an easier way?
I think this is what are you searching for:

http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/config-settings#pageTrigger