Well I'm using another layout altogether, a variation on the maltron (http://www.maltron.co.uk/) layout on my kinesis (http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/) keyboard.
Especially if they're those 'anti-globalisation' protesters (whatever that means). For people supposedly fighting to ensure that 'the little guy. gets treated fairly they sure do love trashing the shops owned by small family businesses.
I don't know how it is at most other places, but at the University I attend the labs run NetBSD and KDE2. I know a few people have copies of MS Visual Studio at home, but why bother, when gcc + emacs is in the labs and you can get it free at home?
I don't believe that using ms office, internet explorer etc. is necessary to *use* linux. But the majority of people won't even consider switching unless they can run their apps.
Consider Photoshop, to most people the word is synonymous with 2d graphics editing. Even if the gimp offers better support for what they do. Photoshop *is* 2d graphics.
Once they're using linux and they see newsgroup posts about the gimp then they may check it out. But to get the initial switch we need as little as possible change. After that, we can hit them with LyX + Gnumeric + emacs.
"Weta is based in Wellington which has a fibre infrastructure. They could I think get fibre where they are. "
Unfortunatly they can't at present. Weta is based in suburbia and Citylink (the fibre infrastructure we have in wellington) only covers the inner city.
They are currently in negotiations with TelstraSaturn to extend their nearest fibre to their doorstep. Though it will be expensive.
Unfortunately the cost of labour is not significantly lower than the US as most of the staff are Yankee imports !:) However the cost of living in wellington is *significantly* lower than the US so they do gain some slight savings.
The Weta's are pretty frightening things, though they are completely (not just mostly) harmless:)
I have installed OpenBSD on my desktop machine and a few routers/firewalls over the past 8 months. With each successive experience I'm completely amazed at the quality of the man pages. Returning to linux and trying their man pages is a Horrible experience.
Do the development team see the need to develop a linuxdoc.org style web based documentation project or will man pages continue to be the focus
One of the attractions which drew me on-line was the fact that it was the one last frontier where the rules and regulations were still being developed. Those rules which had developed came about organically:
HTML was used because it was effective
Tags such as <frame> etc. remained because they were popular
Tags such as <blink> left because they weren't
etc.
My question for the candidates is:
"What is your policy on regulation of the internet? Do you believe it should remain the Last Untamed Frontier it is at present or does the government have a role regulating our conduct on-line?"
The Myticism in hackers has always interested me.
To me it seems contradictory for a 'profession' which relies so heavily on science and strict logic to be so riddled with mystics. I'm an Atheist myself and to me one of the appeals of Mathematics/Computer Science was it's very clean logical structure.
How can people who accept contradictions and hunches in reality manage to flush them out for when they sit down to hack on GNOME?
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Well I'm using another layout altogether, a variation on the maltron (http://www.maltron.co.uk/) layout on my kinesis (http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/) keyboard.
But I'd wager good money that he's using QWERTY
You forgot then/than his favourite silly mistake.
I watch more Toonami then any channel.
I really don't understand how he can keep making it. The keys are nowhere near one another (different fingers & rows man!)
Especially if they're those 'anti-globalisation' protesters (whatever that means). For people supposedly fighting to ensure that 'the little guy. gets treated fairly they sure do love trashing the shops owned by small family businesses.
I don't know how it is at most other places, but at the University I attend the labs run NetBSD and KDE2.
I know a few people have copies of MS Visual Studio at home, but why bother, when gcc + emacs is in the labs and you can get it free at home?
I don't believe that using ms office, internet explorer etc. is necessary to *use* linux. But the majority of people won't even consider switching unless they can run their apps.
Consider Photoshop, to most people the word is synonymous with 2d graphics editing. Even if the gimp offers better support for what they do. Photoshop *is* 2d graphics.
Once they're using linux and they see newsgroup posts about the gimp then they may check it out. But to get the initial switch we need as little as possible change. After that, we can hit them with LyX + Gnumeric + emacs.
"Weta is based in Wellington which has a fibre infrastructure. They could I think get fibre where they are. "
:) However the cost of living in wellington is *significantly* lower than the US so they do gain some slight savings.
:)
Unfortunatly they can't at present. Weta is based in suburbia and Citylink (the fibre infrastructure we have in wellington) only covers the inner city.
They are currently in negotiations with TelstraSaturn to extend their nearest fibre to their doorstep. Though it will be expensive.
Unfortunately the cost of labour is not significantly lower than the US as most of the staff are Yankee imports !
The Weta's are pretty frightening things, though they are completely (not just mostly) harmless
Vodafone NZ (relative newcomer) runs a GSM based network and their SMS service works with almost every other service on earth! However......
Telecom NZ (incumbent former state monopoly) runs some old hack of a system and their SMS is a bit of a shambles:
So here it really depends on your provider. Either the Clunky old tech monopoly or the High tech new-comer
Standard Oil? If it doesn't ring a bell that's because the US broke it up! :)
I think that the NICs and credits should suffice. Alternatively you could offer them employment...
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:-)
The distribution of sales tax between consumer and producer depends on the elasticities of supply and demand of the good in question.
Goods with a highly elastic demand will lose HUGE amounts of demand if they increase price with a sales tax.
But of course you knew that didn't you
I have installed OpenBSD on my desktop machine and a few routers/firewalls over the past 8 months. With each successive experience I'm completely amazed at the quality of the man pages. Returning to linux and trying their man pages is a Horrible experience.
Do the development team see the need to develop a linuxdoc.org style web based documentation project or will man pages continue to be the focus
One of the attractions which drew me on-line was the fact that it was the one last frontier where the rules and regulations were still being developed. Those rules which had developed came about organically:
- HTML was used because it was effective
- Tags such as <frame> etc. remained because they were popular
- Tags such as <blink> left because they weren't
- etc.
My question for the candidates is:"What is your policy on regulation of the internet? Do you believe it should remain the Last Untamed Frontier it is at present or does the government have a role regulating our conduct on-line?"
The Myticism in hackers has always interested me. To me it seems contradictory for a 'profession' which relies so heavily on science and strict logic to be so riddled with mystics. I'm an Atheist myself and to me one of the appeals of Mathematics/Computer Science was it's very clean logical structure. How can people who accept contradictions and hunches in reality manage to flush them out for when they sit down to hack on GNOME?