It's more than what you call "bloated salaries", which is
more aptly called "wages adjusted to cost of living".
One must realize that often these replacement workers
may not have retirement plans, health insurance, or
high workplace safety standards and the costs associated
with them.
This difference in cost due to environmental,
political, or economic differences between countries
in known as comparative advantage.
If a country has a significant comparative advantage
over another which might lead to the loss of critical
infrastructure in another country, that country might
enact a protective tariff to prevent the loss of
that manufacturing ability. For example, Bush enacted
a steel tariff in March of 2002 which taxed steel
imports between 8% and 30% depending on the
type of steel. It's estimated that the protective
tariff added $300 per year to a family of four's
expenses through the purchase of automobiles
or household appliances.
In the case of videogame software it is unlikely that a
protective tariff would be created to preserve
the videogame programming infrastructure.
However, what I feel could be accomplished
is a human-rights tariff.
This tariff would be added to all goods to
compensate for the use of low-wage labor
which is worked beyond 40 hours per week,
is not given health insurance, and works
in suboptimal working conditions.
Thus it would remove the comparative
advantage achieved through the use
of underpaid, uninsured, overworked
employees and might give us a fighting chance.
I know how people hate hearing that "Apple has already
done it" but it must be said.
In MacOS they've replaced the picture of a floppy used for
their save icon with a holographic crystal.
You've all heard that all Apple hardware comes with holographic
drives now right?
Being recognized as simultaneously sexy and a gamer is not inherently objectification. I think you'd agree that the original contest seeking sexy male and femal gamers is relatively benign.
However, I believe the article referenced in my original post
crossed the line when it subjected the female and only the
female winner of the contest to questions with strong sexual
content.
The argument in your first sentence is
that because the original contest may have
a small degree of both male and female objectification
present, that escallating that objectification in a subsequent
interview for only the woman should only be expected.
You follow that because a woman engages in acts
which allow themselves to be objectified that they
must submit to subsequent attempts willingly.
This is essentially an argument to excuse serial victimization
which employs the victim's past behavior as justification.
This bit of circular logic assumes that the existance of
objectification justifies further objectification.
What I'm trying to say is that objectification is inherently bad
and the article in question clearly directed it at a female
while ignoring the male.
I believe it is just common sense that the questions
quoted in my top post could only be asked of a person
who has been reduced to the status of an object.
Could you ask a coworker or boss such questions?
What if they were voted first place in a sexy boss
gamer competition? Would you ask those questions
of a man?
Being recognized for being attractive or even sexy is
possible without objectification. Like intelligence it's
a quality we all posses in some amount. The contest
was seeking a woman and man who are both avid
game players and are sexy.
During the interview, the reporter asks three questions
which allude to intercourse (2) or masturbation (1).
Additionally, these questions were only asked of the
female (the male was given no interview).
These two facts demonstrate two things.
The interviewer's questions were sexual (not sexy) in nature.
These questions were asked only of the female.
This is clear sexual objectification of women.
It wouldn't be either if the questions didn't involve
references to intercourse and masturbation and the
man was asked the same questions.
A good test of inappropriate questions are:
Would you pose this question to a female family member (grandmother, mother, sister)?
Would you pose this question to a female in a position of power (boss, judge)?
Would you ask a man that question?
The EGM article unambiguously exemplies the
sexual objectification
of women.
What I find particularly disturbing are the invasive
and almost abusive questions asked in the
EGM America's Sexiest Gamer article.
For example, in the article the interviewer asks
"What's the best game to use as foreplay?",
"What's your favorite position...to play games in?",
and "Are vibrating controllers sexy?".
Based on her asexual responses, I would be willing
to argue that the sexual
nature of the line of questioning was nonconsensual.
I submit that you are not prude,
rather I believe you are simply taking offense at the blatant objectification.
Yes Spencer, I do know of ways to improve "brain power".
(You did ask a yes or no question didn't you?)
Thank you for your question, which I assume
was actually just a vehicle to let us all know
how extremely high you feel your intelligence is
(based on what people tell you).
I mean it both in the good and bad way.
Linux is a VolksOS (people's OS) much the
same way that Volkswagen was the people's car.
Yet at the same time Apple and Mercedes enjoy
a certain prestige that sets them apart from
their competitors.
On the negative side I think that most Apple hardware
is priced out of my reach much like most Mercedes are
and sometimes Linux can be very difficult to get things
done with.
What do I run? I use both. I have a Linux server,
a Linux gaming machine, and
two Apple Powerbooks. I enjoy them both for their
individual strengths and feel I'm better off having
used both of them.
Use your nervous energy to organize a union.
When the union is formed, initiate worker contracts
that would guarantee a 2-month notice before termination.
In return you would provide your employer with a 2-month
notice, if you're quitting.
The benefits to both are obvious. Workers can focus on
their work without waiting for the axe to fall. Employers
will benefit from the increased productivity.
Additionally, employers will also
be freed from the onerous burden of treating humans
like objects, something for which I'm sure they feel much guilt.
If you mean the part about the integral, here it is really quickly.
An integral is a way of finding the area under a curve between two points. These two points are called limits. If you evaluate the integral with the limits accidentally reversed, your answer will be negative.
An integral is used in calculus and is basically the same thing as multiplication in algebra.
Here's an example of the punch line using algebra.
If you have a long piece of wood that is
10-cm tall and you need to cut a piece out
of the middle, say from the 3-cm point to
the 13-cm point, the area of that piece
would be:
area = width * length = 10 * (13 - 3) = 100.
The cut points, 3 cm and 13 cm, are exactly
the same as the limits in calculus. If you
reverse them you get the negative answer:
10 * (3 - 13) = -100.
Drag and drop a Desktop icon or Konqueror file into a Konsole and it is quoted and the tcsh shell supports case-insensitive file name completion
as well if "set complete = enhance" is set.
*Lick lick* Your tears of sorrow taste so sweet.:)
I'm the original poster and I agree with you totally!
I do not tollerate spaces in my Unix filenames with the
sole exception of mp3 files.
As a matter of fact, that's one of the main reasons
I wrote my
ren-regexp perl script.
For files with unsightly spaces I simply type:
ren-regexp "s//-/g" *\ *
and my files are sane again.
Isn't that strange that I prefer my mp3 file names with
spaces? I never really thought about it until now.:)
As long as we're on the topic of useful perl scripts
for manipulating metadata, let me
offer some other scripts as well.
ren-regexp
- A perl script that renames many files in parallel
using a series of regular expressions from the command line.
It's a profoundly useful script for those who are command-line and regexp power users.
mp3-ren-nice
- A perl script that attemts to clean up munged mp3 file names downloaded
from P2P networks. For example running the script on
"artist-title_title.2.MP3" will yield "Artist - Title Title.mp3".
newpl
- A perl script that creates an empty perl script template complete
with GetOptions code and a POD skeleton for writing more
scripts that manipulate mp3 files.
I satisfy my corporate requirement for Microsoft by
running it under Linux in
VMware.
As a client or a host, Linux with VMware is a much better
decision than cygwin with XP hacks to make the UI feel
like Linux. It never completely satisfies.
My favorite feature is the ability to search for items
using regular expressions. Just type the string
"site:/^[cs].*?edu$/" and BAM! You get jack squat.
Some day our Linux search engine
heros will grace us with regular expressions.
I've been waiting with great anticipation
for the new perl release for years, having picked it up, while I was a systems adminstrator for
Unixops
at the University of Colorado.
I've since been living and breathing perl,
whether it's via Mason in the perl scripts
that run my website, as an aid to data analysis in my research, or for one of the
many
command-line scripts I've written over the years.
My current favorite is
ren-regexp, a utility which allows the renaming of many files on the command line using one or more regular expressions.
I look forward to rewriting it with the future additions and
modifications to regular expression in Perl 6.
The upgrade has been quite good to me!
Before the upgrade a search for my name would rank
my website
many pages down and then only secondary links not the
root site. Now I rank number one! It looks like all
my slashdot posting has finally paid off.
GarageBand does take quite a bit of horsepower.
Previewing and rendering even
these songs
required me to turn my 1-GHz Titanium laptop's
CPU performance to "full", when I'm on the go.
GarageBand notifies the user of the system load by changing the color of a clear time-indicator jewel as it sweeps across the samples.
It's a brilliant way to display the system load directly in a program. I speculate that the
update affects not just the dialogues but also
the subsystem which monitors and displays the CPU usage. (Hey, now I'm making up news just like CNN does.)
You are 100% correct! While I wasn't clear
in my original post, you said it better than
I could have. First and foremost it is the
standards compatibility followed by the high
quality of its output.
I used to code for Mozilla due to its strong
adherence to standards and support for transparency
in PNGs.
However, now that I've added an Apple G5 to
my collection of Linux machines, I find myself
developing
my website content
exclusively for Safari.
As long as it works perfectly in Safari, I'm
satisfied.
The sole reason is that Safari's output is
immaculate. The output (specifically the fonts)
is so perfectly rendered that the HTML almost
looks like it is typeset in LaTeX.
Thus, to answer your question, I recommend
Safari over other browsers for the same
reason I recommend LaTeX over word processors.
It's one step up.
The jump to link this observed creation of ozone with
the popularly held belief that power lines adversely
affect health is erroneous.
In the original study which created the popular myth
that power lines cause illness, the authors correctly found a
correlation between living in the proximity of power lines
and leukemia rates but never found causation.
After much debate it was revealed years later that traffic density
has an even greater correlation with the observed leukemia rates
and provides a well understood and now obvious causation --
pollution.
It just happens that power lines exist in areas
of greater traffic density.
Unfortunately, the general public was never copied
on the second corrected paper and to this day believe
that power lines have adverse health effects,
when they instead should be worried about pollution
from traffic.
Although the article states that the creation of ozone around power lines could be a health risk, the quantity of ozone
created for various transmission structures is never
quantified and nor compared with ambient urban polution.
Thus at worst it is yet another vehicle for the propagation
of a scientific urban legend or at best a warning to shut
of indoor air ionizers whose output of ozone can lead to
concentrations in excess those present of ambient pollution levels.
Kris Gleason implemented a similar scheme
in his gettyps code back in the 90s (it still available and in most distributions).
For the "knock" one would dial into a modem (or any serial port) and let it ring a specified number of times. If the right number of rings was received before disconnect, gettyps would allow the next call to connect.
There are several methods by which this could be accomplished.
The first is to create a link budget using the
two-ray approximation (1/R^4 attenuation)
and the estimated antenna patterns.
This allows one to bound the maximum range as
a function of antenna orientation and receiver sensitivity.
Most likely this is the analysis that was done
when installing the network.
A second and much more enjoyable way is to use a
ray-trace simulation program such as
Wireless InSite
to model your campus.
This model will pick up multipath effects and
folliage losses.
The most time consuming but most accurate
method is to walk around with an antenna,
measuring the power as one goes.
It should be noted that when one measures
in a given location the power will change
over time sometimes quickly.
Known as Rayleigh fading, it is due to
time-varying multipath from a dynamic environment.
I recommend tracking down a communications professor
in EE and borowing their copy of Wireless InSite. If you pitch
it right you could even get a credit of independent study
from it.
The problem with menu systems is that they
are static trees organized by catagorical metadata. For instance "Utilities", "Applications", "Games".
This guarantees that because the trees are organized by nonstandard catagorical metadata you must hunt under catagories, which are different from system to system and user to user, for a program. Even worse is that entries don't always reflect what is and is not on the disk.
As the number of applications increase in time
the overhead required for searching grows by O(n).
Desktop icons are not useful for large numbers of
applications due to obvious limitations in area.
One solution is to keep things flat.
In unix a single word on the command line will invoke an application with no overhead.
A complication of a such a flat structure is, when the number of available applications becomes very large, it is difficult for users to remember
all the commands. It is thus necessary to provide a database that allows users to search for applications with a desired functionality. For instance, although MacOS uses
a directory listing of "/Applications" for its menu, because there is no database to search, one must do a serial lookup of all programs to find the one of interest. (Again with the O(n)!)
Currently the only system which provides this "future solution" is unix. It has a method to invoke applications
with zero overhead (the command line) and a database
to search for useful programs (man -k mkfs). Thus,
unix, the 25-year-old operating system is your future solution.
I must warn you not to purchase the
IBM Wireless Navigator Pro Keyboard (SK-8810)
. Although it has a great layout
and an integrated mouse, it has usable range of about a meter. Beyond that it starts dropping letters. Nt vry usefl for typng meangfl contnt and evn wrse for the cmmand lne.
If you are fortunate enough to have invested in Apple
hardware, I cannot recommend enough the new
Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
They're flawless.
Slashdot Mirror
It's more than what you call "bloated salaries", which is more aptly called "wages adjusted to cost of living". One must realize that often these replacement workers may not have retirement plans, health insurance, or high workplace safety standards and the costs associated with them. This difference in cost due to environmental, political, or economic differences between countries in known as comparative advantage.
If a country has a significant comparative advantage over another which might lead to the loss of critical infrastructure in another country, that country might enact a protective tariff to prevent the loss of that manufacturing ability. For example, Bush enacted a steel tariff in March of 2002 which taxed steel imports between 8% and 30% depending on the type of steel. It's estimated that the protective tariff added $300 per year to a family of four's expenses through the purchase of automobiles or household appliances.
In the case of videogame software it is unlikely that a protective tariff would be created to preserve the videogame programming infrastructure. However, what I feel could be accomplished is a human-rights tariff. This tariff would be added to all goods to compensate for the use of low-wage labor which is worked beyond 40 hours per week, is not given health insurance, and works in suboptimal working conditions. Thus it would remove the comparative advantage achieved through the use of underpaid, uninsured, overworked employees and might give us a fighting chance.
Michael.
I know how people hate hearing that "Apple has already done it" but it must be said. In MacOS they've replaced the picture of a floppy used for their save icon with a holographic crystal. You've all heard that all Apple hardware comes with holographic drives now right?
Michael.
Being recognized as simultaneously sexy and a gamer is not inherently objectification. I think you'd agree that the original contest seeking sexy male and femal gamers is relatively benign. However, I believe the article referenced in my original post crossed the line when it subjected the female and only the female winner of the contest to questions with strong sexual content.
The argument in your first sentence is that because the original contest may have a small degree of both male and female objectification present, that escallating that objectification in a subsequent interview for only the woman should only be expected. You follow that because a woman engages in acts which allow themselves to be objectified that they must submit to subsequent attempts willingly. This is essentially an argument to excuse serial victimization which employs the victim's past behavior as justification. This bit of circular logic assumes that the existance of objectification justifies further objectification. What I'm trying to say is that objectification is inherently bad and the article in question clearly directed it at a female while ignoring the male.
I believe it is just common sense that the questions quoted in my top post could only be asked of a person who has been reduced to the status of an object. Could you ask a coworker or boss such questions? What if they were voted first place in a sexy boss gamer competition? Would you ask those questions of a man?
Michael.
Being recognized for being attractive or even sexy is possible without objectification. Like intelligence it's a quality we all posses in some amount. The contest was seeking a woman and man who are both avid game players and are sexy. During the interview, the reporter asks three questions which allude to intercourse (2) or masturbation (1). Additionally, these questions were only asked of the female (the male was given no interview).
These two facts demonstrate two things. The interviewer's questions were sexual (not sexy) in nature. These questions were asked only of the female. This is clear sexual objectification of women. It wouldn't be either if the questions didn't involve references to intercourse and masturbation and the man was asked the same questions.
A good test of inappropriate questions are:
Would you pose this question to a female family member (grandmother, mother, sister)?
Would you pose this question to a female in a position of power (boss, judge)?
Would you ask a man that question?
Michael.
The EGM article unambiguously exemplies the sexual objectification of women. What I find particularly disturbing are the invasive and almost abusive questions asked in the EGM America's Sexiest Gamer article. For example, in the article the interviewer asks "What's the best game to use as foreplay?", "What's your favorite position...to play games in?", and "Are vibrating controllers sexy?". Based on her asexual responses, I would be willing to argue that the sexual nature of the line of questioning was nonconsensual.
I submit that you are not prude, rather I believe you are simply taking offense at the blatant objectification.
Michael.
Yes Spencer, I do know of ways to improve "brain power". (You did ask a yes or no question didn't you?)
Thank you for your question, which I assume was actually just a vehicle to let us all know how extremely high you feel your intelligence is (based on what people tell you).
Mod this as flamebait. Thank you.
Michael.
Exactly. Sort of.
I mean it both in the good and bad way. Linux is a VolksOS (people's OS) much the same way that Volkswagen was the people's car. Yet at the same time Apple and Mercedes enjoy a certain prestige that sets them apart from their competitors. On the negative side I think that most Apple hardware is priced out of my reach much like most Mercedes are and sometimes Linux can be very difficult to get things done with.
What do I run? I use both. I have a Linux server, a Linux gaming machine, and two Apple Powerbooks. I enjoy them both for their individual strengths and feel I'm better off having used both of them.
Michael.
Use your nervous energy to organize a union. When the union is formed, initiate worker contracts that would guarantee a 2-month notice before termination. In return you would provide your employer with a 2-month notice, if you're quitting.
The benefits to both are obvious. Workers can focus on their work without waiting for the axe to fall. Employers will benefit from the increased productivity. Additionally, employers will also be freed from the onerous burden of treating humans like objects, something for which I'm sure they feel much guilt.
Michael.
If you mean the part about the integral, here it is really quickly.
An integral is a way of finding the area under a curve between two points. These two points are called limits. If you evaluate the integral with the limits accidentally reversed, your answer will be negative.
An integral is used in calculus and is basically the same thing as multiplication in algebra. Here's an example of the punch line using algebra. If you have a long piece of wood that is 10-cm tall and you need to cut a piece out of the middle, say from the 3-cm point to the 13-cm point, the area of that piece would be:
area = width * length = 10 * (13 - 3) = 100.
The cut points, 3 cm and 13 cm, are exactly the same as the limits in calculus. If you reverse them you get the negative answer:
10 * (3 - 13) = -100.
Michael.
KDE does that too, silly goose.
Drag and drop a Desktop icon or Konqueror file into a Konsole and it is quoted and the tcsh shell supports case-insensitive file name completion as well if "set complete = enhance" is set.
*Lick lick* Your tears of sorrow taste so sweet.
Michael.
I'm the original poster and I agree with you totally! I do not tollerate spaces in my Unix filenames with the sole exception of mp3 files.
As a matter of fact, that's one of the main reasons I wrote my ren-regexp perl script. For files with unsightly spaces I simply type:
ren-regexp "s/
and my files are sane again.
Isn't that strange that I prefer my mp3 file names with spaces? I never really thought about it until now.
Michael.
As long as we're on the topic of useful perl scripts for manipulating metadata, let me offer some other scripts as well.
- ren-regexp
- A perl script that renames many files in parallel
using a series of regular expressions from the command line.
It's a profoundly useful script for those who are command-line and regexp power users.
-
mp3-ren-nice
- A perl script that attemts to clean up munged mp3 file names downloaded
from P2P networks. For example running the script on
"artist-title_title.2.MP3" will yield "Artist - Title Title.mp3".
-
newpl
- A perl script that creates an empty perl script template complete
with GetOptions code and a POD skeleton for writing more
scripts that manipulate mp3 files.
That and more here. Now wasn't that informative?Michael.
I satisfy my corporate requirement for Microsoft by running it under Linux in VMware.
As a client or a host, Linux with VMware is a much better decision than cygwin with XP hacks to make the UI feel like Linux. It never completely satisfies.
Michael.
My favorite feature is the ability to search for items using regular expressions. Just type the string "site:/^[cs].*?edu$/" and BAM! You get jack squat.
Some day our Linux search engine heros will grace us with regular expressions.
Open Source Industrial Music.
Michael.
I've been waiting with great anticipation for the new perl release for years, having picked it up, while I was a systems adminstrator for Unixops at the University of Colorado. I've since been living and breathing perl, whether it's via Mason in the perl scripts that run my website, as an aid to data analysis in my research, or for one of the many command-line scripts I've written over the years.
My current favorite is ren-regexp, a utility which allows the renaming of many files on the command line using one or more regular expressions. I look forward to rewriting it with the future additions and modifications to regular expression in Perl 6.
Michael.
The upgrade has been quite good to me! Before the upgrade a search for my name would rank my website many pages down and then only secondary links not the root site. Now I rank number one! It looks like all my slashdot posting has finally paid off.
Ahh. The small victories of the computer geek.
Michael.
Programmable ergonomic hardware on Linux with a vertical shape and click and hold?
Sure! Tape the keyboard to your monitor and use vi.
Mod all vi jokes as Funny unless you're an emacs user, then mod them as Flamebait.
Michael.
GarageBand does take quite a bit of horsepower. Previewing and rendering even these songs required me to turn my 1-GHz Titanium laptop's CPU performance to "full", when I'm on the go.
GarageBand notifies the user of the system load by changing the color of a clear time-indicator jewel as it sweeps across the samples. It's a brilliant way to display the system load directly in a program. I speculate that the update affects not just the dialogues but also the subsystem which monitors and displays the CPU usage. (Hey, now I'm making up news just like CNN does.)
Michael
You are 100% correct! While I wasn't clear in my original post, you said it better than I could have. First and foremost it is the standards compatibility followed by the high quality of its output.
Michael.
I used to code for Mozilla due to its strong adherence to standards and support for transparency in PNGs. However, now that I've added an Apple G5 to my collection of Linux machines, I find myself developing my website content exclusively for Safari. As long as it works perfectly in Safari, I'm satisfied.
The sole reason is that Safari's output is immaculate. The output (specifically the fonts) is so perfectly rendered that the HTML almost looks like it is typeset in LaTeX. Thus, to answer your question, I recommend Safari over other browsers for the same reason I recommend LaTeX over word processors. It's one step up.
Michael.
The jump to link this observed creation of ozone with the popularly held belief that power lines adversely affect health is erroneous.
In the original study which created the popular myth that power lines cause illness, the authors correctly found a correlation between living in the proximity of power lines and leukemia rates but never found causation. After much debate it was revealed years later that traffic density has an even greater correlation with the observed leukemia rates and provides a well understood and now obvious causation -- pollution. It just happens that power lines exist in areas of greater traffic density. Unfortunately, the general public was never copied on the second corrected paper and to this day believe that power lines have adverse health effects, when they instead should be worried about pollution from traffic.
Although the article states that the creation of ozone around power lines could be a health risk, the quantity of ozone created for various transmission structures is never quantified and nor compared with ambient urban polution. Thus at worst it is yet another vehicle for the propagation of a scientific urban legend or at best a warning to shut of indoor air ionizers whose output of ozone can lead to concentrations in excess those present of ambient pollution levels.
Michael.
Kris Gleason implemented a similar scheme in his gettyps code back in the 90s (it still available and in most distributions). For the "knock" one would dial into a modem (or any serial port) and let it ring a specified number of times. If the right number of rings was received before disconnect, gettyps would allow the next call to connect.
Michael.
There are several methods by which this could be accomplished.
The first is to create a link budget using the two-ray approximation (1/R^4 attenuation) and the estimated antenna patterns. This allows one to bound the maximum range as a function of antenna orientation and receiver sensitivity. Most likely this is the analysis that was done when installing the network.
A second and much more enjoyable way is to use a ray-trace simulation program such as Wireless InSite to model your campus. This model will pick up multipath effects and folliage losses.
The most time consuming but most accurate method is to walk around with an antenna, measuring the power as one goes. It should be noted that when one measures in a given location the power will change over time sometimes quickly. Known as Rayleigh fading, it is due to time-varying multipath from a dynamic environment.
I recommend tracking down a communications professor in EE and borowing their copy of Wireless InSite. If you pitch it right you could even get a credit of independent study from it.
Michael.
The problem with menu systems is that they are static trees organized by catagorical metadata. For instance "Utilities", "Applications", "Games". This guarantees that because the trees are organized by nonstandard catagorical metadata you must hunt under catagories, which are different from system to system and user to user, for a program. Even worse is that entries don't always reflect what is and is not on the disk. As the number of applications increase in time the overhead required for searching grows by O(n). Desktop icons are not useful for large numbers of applications due to obvious limitations in area.
One solution is to keep things flat. In unix a single word on the command line will invoke an application with no overhead.
A complication of a such a flat structure is, when the number of available applications becomes very large, it is difficult for users to remember all the commands. It is thus necessary to provide a database that allows users to search for applications with a desired functionality. For instance, although MacOS uses a directory listing of "/Applications" for its menu, because there is no database to search, one must do a serial lookup of all programs to find the one of interest. (Again with the O(n)!)
Currently the only system which provides this "future solution" is unix. It has a method to invoke applications with zero overhead (the command line) and a database to search for useful programs (man -k mkfs). Thus, unix, the 25-year-old operating system is your future solution.
Michael.
I must warn you not to purchase the IBM Wireless Navigator Pro Keyboard (SK-8810) . Although it has a great layout and an integrated mouse, it has usable range of about a meter. Beyond that it starts dropping letters. Nt vry usefl for typng meangfl contnt and evn wrse for the cmmand lne.
If you are fortunate enough to have invested in Apple hardware, I cannot recommend enough the new Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. They're flawless.
Michael.