I can see your point. The escape key (also one of the little chiclets) used to bother me -- more because it's a stretch than because of the feel, though -- but eventually I got used to it. Also I switched from VI to Emacs (I was running NT and couldn't find an editor I liked) and stopped using escape as much, which helped.
"Really there is only one option, ESR is crazy, copyright law is based on a flawed premise (that proprietary software is good), and the rest of it falls apart from there."
(See, anyone can make a blanket statement. If you can demonstrate that proprietary software is a good thing, I'd like to see how.)
Go read her books if you really want to know, but the only take-away you really need is if this guy cares what Ayn Rand would think you don't need to care what he thinks.
I'm not a VB programmer so I don't know what you're looking for, but try Python. It's easier to code than tcl/tk, it uses CORBA, it's got Gnome bindings, it interfaces cleanly with C and C++, it has an IDE (the IDE's only at version 0.2, though), and it's cross-platform. (Oh, and it will speak COM if you really need it to.)
On the one hand, it worries me that the Netwinder is now sold by a company nobody's ever heard of. That seems to increase the chance that it and HCC will both die a quiet death.
On the other hand, I've been trying to get someone at Corel to sell me a Netwinder for about two months, and they don't answer their email. Maybe HCC will.
Okay, so let's say someone writes a package that makes email-spamming easier, and they distribute it as open source. Should that be tax-deductible? Personally, as a taxpayer, I don't think I'd want to see the government supporting spam, which is what the tax write-off would amount to in that case.
But do you want the government put in the position of deciding on a case-by-case basis which open-source packages deserve tax writeoffs? That doesn't seem like a good idea either, considering, for instance the influence of big business on most governments, and the incompetence of most bureaucracies to make technology-related decisions.
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IMHO the *best* thing about GTK+ is that it doesn't require you to program in C++. If you want to use C++, use GTK--.
Overall the Maltron looks very similar to the Kinesis -- it's hard to believe it could be enough better to justify costing $200 more.
(See, anyone can make a blanket statement. If you can demonstrate that proprietary software is a good thing, I'd like to see how.)
Go read her books if you really want to know, but the only take-away you really need is if this guy cares what Ayn Rand would think you don't need to care what he thinks.
That's pretty damned funny.
I'm not a VB programmer so I don't know what you're looking for, but try Python. It's easier to code than tcl/tk, it uses CORBA, it's got Gnome bindings, it interfaces cleanly with C and C++, it has an IDE (the IDE's only at version 0.2, though), and it's cross-platform. (Oh, and it will speak COM if you really need it to.)
Unfortunately, I'm several time zones and an expensive phone call from Ottawa.
On the other hand, I've been trying to get someone at Corel to sell me a Netwinder for about two months, and they don't answer their email. Maybe HCC will.
Okay, so let's say someone writes a package that makes email-spamming easier, and they distribute it as open source. Should that be tax-deductible? Personally, as a taxpayer, I don't think I'd want to see the government supporting spam, which is what the tax write-off would amount to in that case.
But do you want the government put in the position of deciding on a case-by-case basis which open-source packages deserve tax writeoffs? That doesn't seem like a good idea either, considering, for instance the influence of big business on most governments, and the incompetence of most bureaucracies to make technology-related decisions.