Mindfucked is definitely better. It means that the Powers That Be have had to resort to more indirect methods of control. That's a small victory, but it's a worthwhile one.
Sun doesn't make any money off J2SE - they make money off the J2ME and J2EE. GPLing (or so other real OS licence) a meaningful core set of J2SE would create real value for Sun by making Java a standard part of more distros and more OS projects. ("A meaningful core set" might well turn out to be all of it, but that's a long discussion:-)
Gnome, for example, might feel real pressure to reconsider their plans to heavily use Mono if Sun made such a move.
Or maybe their Thinkpads would do a better job of supporting linux - read through the linux-thinkpad list and see how much work is needed to configure linux for a recent TPad and how much stuff (like power management) still won't work as well as it does under Windows.
At the very least IBM could patch their broken DSDT
My friend's 2004 Prius regularly gets 50 MPG or better. For a car with the interior room of a Camry and a zero to 60 of 10 secs, that's pretty excellent.
Plus we ran out of gas on a road trip and the battery carried us three miles to the next gas station - try that in a non-hybrid. (And yes, Toyota says you aren't supposed to do that...)
The Prius, btw, also has pretty excellent Bluetooth integration and the built in speaker phone is quite impressive.
Right now diesel is a pretty questionable choice in the US due to the high sulfur content of US diesel fuel - means that you put out high rates of lung-destroying fine particulates.
Once US diesel gets cleaned up (a few years from now) it'll be a better choice.
I can understand that, but I don't agree with it. If Microsoft/SCO/whoever sends an army of lawyers marching through the open source world, the strict principles of Debian might make them the only one invulnerable to the attack.
Really? I think it's more that Debian's crankyness threatens to make it too irrelevant to be worth suing out of existence.:-)
And if SCO proves anything, it's that you don't need much of a case to sue someone.
A current nasty scam on Ebay is to hijack the account of someone who's built up a good reputation rating and then to do fraud through that account (e.g. sell something big that you have no intention of delivering - like a G4 Powerbook or such).
In a certain way buying an account from someone on EQ is the same (admittedly much less nasty) scam. What's different is the real currency being exchanged in game. In Ebay it's cash, in EQ its admiration. In Ebay you see someone with a good rep, you feel safe giving them your money. In EQ you see someone with a +bigSomething staff of whateveringImpressively you feel it might be appropriate to have them join your group that's going to camp the OverweightTrollOfAtkins.
But unfortunately, comes the day/hour of reckoning and there's no G4 and your enchanter has the grouping skills of a lizard.
(Two notes - I last played EQ long before "platinum servers" so the assumption players had was that you'd "earned" whatever you had *in game*. And yes, I know, that *we* know better than to bid on notebooks on ebay at unreal prices or [insert EQ equivalent] but such fraud does grind away at the broadening of the attraction of these sort of things for newbies...)
Oct. 28, 2003 | WASHINGTON (FX) -- President Bush blamed both the Sun and Moon for the recent rash of potentially devastating solar flare attacks in and around Earth.
"Basically what they're trying to do is cause people to run," he told a Rose Garden news conference Tuesday. "That's what terrorists, major weather phenomena, fires, and large things in space do." Bush said the United States was working closely with Papau New Guinea and Mongolia to prevent foreign fighters from going to the Sun in order to help it "cause more trouble".
"The Sun is dangerous because it believes that we are soft, that the will of the United States can be shaken by major stellar eruptions," he said in a 45-minute exchange with reporters. However, he said that experts in his administration had warned him that, rather like North Korea, that the Sun was equipped with nukular weapons therefore to attack it would be dangerous.
The Moon on the other hand, had clearly not provided an eclipse to shield the Earth from a solar flare. While some academic paper-pushing bureaurcrats (denounced by Bill O'Reilly as a "bunch of pansy telescope wankers") argued that this was a natural consequence of the Moon's orbit, Bush hinted that if the Moon "really wanted to" it could have protected the Earth from this attack.
"The Moon is much weaker than the Sun and we already have people in the military who know how to get there" Bush argued. "And we have intelligence documents showing that lunar-driven tides helped a ship containing Nigerian yellowcake reach a dock in Iraq in 1991."
The dumbest thing about DRE's is that they negate the point of voting for most folks. Voting is part of process of creating a "legimate" government - a government that appears to rule by the consent of the governed.
DRE's strike at the heart of that consent by making the process completely opaque. How many citizens understand concepts like encryption? Heck, most citizens have a hard time understanding how a paper-based voting system works.
A voting system must include a auditable paper component - it's the only way to make the process real to most voters.
And what's with the laundry list of other ways of screwing up elections that Garfinkel puts forth? That's like a certain operating system vendor saying, "Well, gee, it's true our new OS is made of swiss cheese, but look , we've discovered that the desk you have your monitor on sucks, too, so it's okay, right?"
[And I heard that! No snarky comments about whether legitimacy is a good thing in a government - the only thing worse than a legit gov is one that's not...]
"The Linux business model was bound to change, and some people are having a hard time accepting this, he says. "The whole concept of getting something for nothing just doesn't hold up," he [McBride] says. "The notion that you're going to run a Fortune 1,000 company on something that in the end could be more like Napster than an enterprise software system, it's a big question mark."
Pretty backward when you think about it. Seems that at best the SCO case is about how a company can use our currently twisted legal system and a mistake to cause damage to one of the most productive software creation processes we have.
Furthermore, McBride's comparison might hold up if the Napster net had distributed one copyrighted work for every million public domain ones, but then who would have objected to Napster?
Wifi ought to just be the first beginning, and 3G ought to be just the first end.
Remember something called Interactive TV? It delivered a high-bandwidth interactive experience - but to deliver a service over it you had to negociate with the likes of Time-Warner. If you don't remember it, that probably has to do with its eclipse by the Internet - a net that you didn't need *anyone's* permission to offer a service over. (And yes there was a bubble, but a huge amount of valuable activity happened among all the scams.)
Unlicensed spectrum could spur the next technical value explosion. This conference had some great discussion of this issue - and how this will only happen if more spectrum is allocated for open access.
But nothing will happen unless geeks (and Intel, etc:-) write their congresscritters and organize.
Unless you've got the resources of Mitch Kapor, your best bet is to get active now to avoid having to make such difficult decisions later. (Come to think of it, Mr. Kapor has a pretty impressive record of getting active himself - if more of us had joined him maybe he wouldn't have had to leave Groove...)
So now would be a good time to join the EFF or ACLU or whatever fits your particular view of the world.
Facing the future alone is a losing strategy.
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But you gotta admit the food and women, at least are getting better. (Those Neolithic gals? Yeech!:-)
No doubt you were one of the guys on IRC getting a kick out of blaming New Yorkers for 911.
Apart from disasters such as the Indonesian fires the average "third world" person produces far far less C02 than folks like you do. And their reasons for producing waste tend to be somewhat more convincing than an "SUV just looks much cooler than a minivan";-)
Intellectual property rights regimes are expensive to maintain and they limit the natural tendency of ideas and their expressions to multiply and mutate. The standard justification for these costs is twofold - first that someone who makes something, even a thing as insubstantial as an idea, has a moral right to that thing. Part of that right is asserted to be the right to stop anyone else from using it. Secondly, that inventors/creators will be more likely to make ideas/expressions if they can demand payment for that idea's use.
Copyright, for all it's problems, is something that just about creative person can benefit from (you don't even need a lawyer to assert a copyright) and represents a clear and limited restraint on the productive work of other people.
Patents, on the other hand, suffer from a bunch of cost-creating problems. For something like pharmaceuticals where a single invention can cost $100M to bring to market, patents can make sense. Unfortunately, all of these negatives become much bigger with software patents.
Soft Pats are expensive to apply for and maintain (it takes years and tens of $K to apply for one and (often > 10) years and $M to pursue claims. Given that and the uncertainty of getting a patent the plus side is long time coming.
But it gets worse. A good property rights regime (PRR) has the property (baabing!) of producing clear distinctions between what's yours and mine. Under a good PRR it's cheap (relative to possible gains) to find out whether you're using someone else's property. If you buy a house, you do a title search to see if you are getting a clear right to the house or not. Imagine what it would do to house investments if it cost 100X the house cost to do a title search - and there were rumors that a lot of houses might not belong to their sellers. People would still use houses, but they wouldn't pay much for one and would be reluctant to spend to repair them.
Good fences make good neighbors the New Englanders used to say. Want to know which bits of land in a big city are the subject of title (ownership) disputes? Go find the lots with derelict houses and weeds - i.e. the land no one wants to spend money on.
In the presence of software patents investing in most software is essentially that 100X case - you *can* have no real idea before you build something whether it's clear of claims or not. (Just look at how long it takes big companies with lots of smart lawyers to figure out whether their *own* patents apply to something as well specified as a W3C standard. Now imagine a small company doing the same thing with a more poorly specified program and having to decide whether *any* of the tens of thousands of software patents possibly apply. It can't practically be done - I dare anyone to disagree and not feel like an idiot:-)
Software patents being regularly litigated would turn our entire industry into derelict cities - imagine the core technologies becoming like Soviet era housing blocs - managed by monopolies unwilling to spend money on new investment because they don't have to - surrounded by broken down crumbling suburbs full of tents cities filled by hordes of homeless engineers constantly being told "Out! - that's somebody else's property you're using!"
I can see how they can use a phased array to get the signal *to* a remote user, but how does the signal travel back from the user's standard 802.11 card?
Does this mean that you need a custom mini phased array on the client side too?
(I suppose that big phased array might be really good at picking up weak signals... is that it?. Hmmm.)
"Officials could not say for certain what caused the ship to heel, but they think the ballast system was probably at fault. A malfunction became evident about 3:30 a.m., when the 653-foot ship started to tilt. The crew was evacuated and no one was hurt....
The ship, in operation since June, has an automated ballast system that adjusts water levels in 28 compartments to keep it righted on the high seas."
Kind of frightening - wonder if the crew even knows how to do a manual override. (Also weird that evacuating the upper port balast chamber would cause it to list to port...)
In the real world kids get the crap beat out of them all the time for being different. (Girls, of course, are socially isolated instead - which tends to be more damaging in the long run...)
Walk a mile in their Keds before you go diss'ing the chips on the shoulders of some of those atheists - you might find they earned them. In *most* of the US being anything but Christian isn't acceptable at all.
Just look at how all the Senators and congress critters are falling over themselves to denounce this decision.
It's pretty weird to me that we have 700+ comments and no one has mentioned the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This group of experts is about as close as you're going to get to a definitive source for answers on the likely sources, dimensions and costs of climate change. And what do they say? (Well read the reports for yourselves if you really want to know.) But in summary, a large collection of people who've dedicated their lives to understanding the climate via the physical sciences agree:
We're likely changing the climate, and such change may occur in a non-linear irreversible manner
The likely benefits to be gained from reducing the human causes of climate change are likely bigger than costs of those reductions.
Parroting the words of oil-company PR firms may make you feel better about being irresponsible. But most of the physical world doesn't really care what you believe.
Fluid dynamics and statistical mechanics and organic chemistry study systems that have a surprising resistance to TV commercials as well as those who do not:-)
Hey ozzie, I get a kick out of the the old 'Merican pissing on the rest of the world show as much as the next US citizen, but I'm a little nervous about this sort of thing ever since I found out that we're dependent on the rest of the world to the tune of 1.2 billion of foreign capital a dayto finance our trade deficit.
Lately, it seems that our leaders are trying awfully hard to convince the rest of the world that we're all a bunch of violent dim-witted corporate scam artists. We citizens might not be able to do much about our leaders (what with the Supremes deciding who they are and all), but at least we don't have to help out so much...;-)
Actually, pianists and guitarists have been being forced to give up performing by various repetitive strain injuries for years.
In fact, when I needed help in the mid-nineties, the best doctors to treat RSI in Boston worked exclusively with musicians. (The one time in my tech career that playing an instrument turned out to be a critical advantage.:-)
It's very easy to blow off RSI as something that happens to [insert favorite character flaw here] people until, of course, your hands go out on *you*. Finding a keyboard that adjusted to my needs helped me, but only as a part of larger reworking of my technique and positioning - YMMV.
BTW - I use a Goldtouch keyboard, you can see it and a bunch of other weird keyboards at:
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Mindfucked is definitely better. It means that the Powers That Be have had to resort to more indirect methods of control. That's a small victory, but it's a worthwhile one.
Sun doesn't make any money off J2SE - they make money off the J2ME and J2EE. GPLing (or so other real OS licence) a meaningful core set of J2SE would create real value for Sun by making Java a standard part of more distros and more OS projects. ("A meaningful core set" might well turn out to be all of it, but that's a long discussion :-)
Gnome, for example, might feel real pressure to reconsider their plans to heavily use Mono if Sun made such a move.
Or maybe their Thinkpads would do a better job of supporting linux - read through the linux-thinkpad list and see how much work is needed to configure linux for a recent TPad and how much stuff (like power management) still won't work as well as it does under Windows.
At the very least IBM could patch their broken DSDT
My friend's 2004 Prius regularly gets 50 MPG or better. For a car with the interior room of a Camry and a zero to 60 of 10 secs, that's pretty excellent.
Plus we ran out of gas on a road trip and the battery carried us three miles to the next gas station - try that in a non-hybrid. (And yes, Toyota says you aren't supposed to do that...)
The Prius, btw, also has pretty excellent Bluetooth integration and the built in speaker phone is quite impressive.
How could a geek *not* like this car? lol...
Right now diesel is a pretty questionable choice in the US due to the high sulfur content of US diesel fuel - means that you put out high rates of lung-destroying fine particulates.
Once US diesel gets cleaned up (a few years from now) it'll be a better choice.
Really? I think it's more that Debian's crankyness threatens to make it too irrelevant to be worth suing out of existence.
And if SCO proves anything, it's that you don't need much of a case to sue someone.
Then again, if enough slashdotters registered on Eclipse's bugzilla and voted for that bug to be fixed ...
Just like Ebay
A current nasty scam on Ebay is to hijack the account of someone who's built up a good reputation rating and then to do fraud through that account (e.g. sell something big that you have no intention of delivering - like a G4 Powerbook or such).
In a certain way buying an account from someone on EQ is the same (admittedly much less nasty) scam. What's different is the real currency being exchanged in game. In Ebay it's cash, in EQ its admiration. In Ebay you see someone with a good rep, you feel safe giving them your money. In EQ you see someone with a +bigSomething staff of whateveringImpressively you feel it might be appropriate to have them join your group that's going to camp the OverweightTrollOfAtkins.
But unfortunately, comes the day/hour of reckoning and there's no G4 and your enchanter has the grouping skills of a lizard.
(Two notes - I last played EQ long before "platinum servers" so the assumption players had was that you'd "earned" whatever you had *in game*. And yes, I know, that *we* know better than to bid on notebooks on ebay at unreal prices or [insert EQ equivalent] but such fraud does grind away at the broadening of the attraction of these sort of things for newbies...)
Here's a good example of a recent flash cartoon - wouldn't want to lock myself out of seeing it completely, even if IANAV...
Oct. 28, 2003 | WASHINGTON (FX) -- President Bush blamed both the Sun and Moon for the recent rash of potentially devastating solar flare attacks in and around Earth.
"Basically what they're trying to do is cause people to run," he told a Rose Garden news conference Tuesday. "That's what terrorists, major weather phenomena, fires, and large things in space do." Bush said the United States was working closely with Papau New Guinea and Mongolia to prevent foreign fighters from going to the Sun in order to help it "cause more trouble".
"The Sun is dangerous because it believes that we are soft, that the will of the United States can be shaken by major stellar eruptions," he said in a 45-minute exchange with reporters. However, he said that experts in his administration had warned him that, rather like North Korea, that the Sun was equipped with nukular weapons therefore to attack it would be dangerous.
The Moon on the other hand, had clearly not provided an eclipse to shield the Earth from a solar flare. While some academic paper-pushing bureaurcrats (denounced by Bill O'Reilly as a "bunch of pansy telescope wankers") argued that this was a natural consequence of the Moon's orbit, Bush hinted that if the Moon "really wanted to" it could have protected the Earth from this attack.
"The Moon is much weaker than the Sun and we already have people in the military who know how to get there" Bush argued. "And we have intelligence documents showing that lunar-driven tides helped a ship containing Nigerian yellowcake reach a dock in Iraq in 1991."
The dumbest thing about DRE's is that they negate the point of voting for most folks. Voting is part of process of creating a "legimate" government - a government that appears to rule by the consent of the governed.
DRE's strike at the heart of that consent by making the process completely opaque. How many citizens understand concepts like encryption? Heck, most citizens have a hard time understanding how a paper-based voting system works.
A voting system must include a auditable paper component - it's the only way to make the process real to most voters.
And what's with the laundry list of other ways of screwing up elections that Garfinkel puts forth? That's like a certain operating system vendor saying, "Well, gee, it's true our new OS is made of swiss cheese, but look , we've discovered that the desk you have your monitor on sucks, too, so it's okay, right?"
[And I heard that! No snarky comments about whether legitimacy is a good thing in a government - the only thing worse than a legit gov is one that's not...]
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"The Linux business model was bound to change, and some people are having a hard time accepting this, he says. "The whole concept of getting something for nothing just doesn't hold up," he [McBride] says. "The notion that you're going to run a Fortune 1,000 company on something that in the end could be more like Napster than an enterprise software system, it's a big question mark."
Pretty backward when you think about it. Seems that at best the SCO case is about how a company can use our currently twisted legal system and a mistake to cause damage to one of the most productive software creation processes we have.
Furthermore, McBride's comparison might hold up if the Napster net had distributed one copyrighted work for every million public domain ones, but then who would have objected to Napster?
Um and what do you think businesses would have to run on those Macs? MS Office perhaps?
:-)
You can't leave the empire that easily (Bwahaahaa...
Remember something called Interactive TV? It delivered a high-bandwidth interactive experience - but to deliver a service over it you had to negociate with the likes of Time-Warner. If you don't remember it, that probably has to do with its eclipse by the Internet - a net that you didn't need *anyone's* permission to offer a service over. (And yes there was a bubble, but a huge amount of valuable activity happened among all the scams.)
Unlicensed spectrum could spur the next technical value explosion. This conference had some great discussion of this issue - and how this will only happen if more spectrum is allocated for open access.
But nothing will happen unless geeks (and Intel, etc :-) write their congresscritters and organize.
Unless you've got the resources of Mitch Kapor, your best bet is to get active now to avoid having to make such difficult decisions later. (Come to think of it, Mr. Kapor has a pretty impressive record of getting active himself - if more of us had joined him maybe he wouldn't have had to leave Groove ...)
So now would be a good time to join the EFF or ACLU or whatever fits your particular view of the world.
Facing the future alone is a losing strategy.
There's a discussion with a number of interesting comments here.
But you gotta admit the food and women, at least are getting better. (Those Neolithic gals? Yeech! :-)
No doubt you were one of the guys on IRC getting a kick out of blaming New Yorkers for 911.
;-)
Apart from disasters such as the Indonesian fires the average "third world" person produces far far less C02 than folks like you do. And their reasons for producing waste tend to be somewhat more convincing than an "SUV just looks much cooler than a minivan"
Intellectual property rights regimes are expensive to maintain and they limit the natural tendency of ideas and their expressions to multiply and mutate. The standard justification for these costs is twofold - first that someone who makes something, even a thing as insubstantial as an idea, has a moral right to that thing. Part of that right is asserted to be the right to stop anyone else from using it. Secondly, that inventors/creators will be more likely to make ideas/expressions if they can demand payment for that idea's use.
:-)
Copyright, for all it's problems, is something that just about creative person can benefit from (you don't even need a lawyer to assert a copyright) and represents a clear and limited restraint on the productive work of other people.
Patents, on the other hand, suffer from a bunch of cost-creating problems. For something like pharmaceuticals where a single invention can cost $100M to bring to market, patents can make sense. Unfortunately, all of these negatives become much bigger with software patents.
Soft Pats are expensive to apply for and maintain (it takes years and tens of $K to apply for one and (often > 10) years and $M to pursue claims. Given that and the uncertainty of getting a patent the plus side is long time coming.
But it gets worse. A good property rights regime (PRR) has the property (baabing!) of producing clear distinctions between what's yours and mine. Under a good PRR it's cheap (relative to possible gains) to find out whether you're using someone else's property. If you buy a house, you do a title search to see if you are getting a clear right to the house or not. Imagine what it would do to house investments if it cost 100X the house cost to do a title search - and there were rumors that a lot of houses might not belong to their sellers. People would still use houses, but they wouldn't pay much for one and would be reluctant to spend to repair them.
Good fences make good neighbors the New Englanders used to say. Want to know which bits of land in a big city are the subject of title (ownership) disputes? Go find the lots with derelict houses and weeds - i.e. the land no one wants to spend money on.
In the presence of software patents investing in most software is essentially that 100X case - you *can* have no real idea before you build something whether it's clear of claims or not. (Just look at how long it takes big companies with lots of smart lawyers to figure out whether their *own* patents apply to something as well specified as a W3C standard. Now imagine a small company doing the same thing with a more poorly specified program and having to decide whether *any* of the tens of thousands of software patents possibly apply. It can't practically be done - I dare anyone to disagree and not feel like an idiot
Software patents being regularly litigated would turn our entire industry into derelict cities - imagine the core technologies becoming like Soviet era housing blocs - managed by monopolies unwilling to spend money on new investment because they don't have to - surrounded by broken down crumbling suburbs full of tents cities filled by hordes of homeless engineers constantly being told "Out! - that's somebody else's property you're using!"
I can see how they can use a phased array to get the signal *to* a remote user, but how does the signal travel back from the user's standard 802.11 card?
... is that it?. Hmmm.)
Does this mean that you need a custom mini phased array on the client side too?
(I suppose that big phased array might be really good at picking up weak signals
From the Pacific Northwest, home of "innovative" approaches to software reliability, comes:
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/1
"Officials could not say for certain what caused the ship to heel, but they think the ballast system was probably at fault. A malfunction became evident about 3:30 a.m., when the 653-foot ship started to tilt. The crew was evacuated and no one was hurt.
The ship, in operation since June, has an automated ballast system that adjusts water levels in 28 compartments to keep it righted on the high seas."
Kind of frightening - wonder if the crew even knows how to do a manual override. (Also weird that evacuating the upper port balast chamber would cause it to list to port...)
In the real world kids get the crap beat out of them all the time for being different. (Girls, of course, are socially isolated instead - which tends to be more damaging in the long run ...)
Walk a mile in their Keds before you go diss'ing the chips on the shoulders of some of those atheists - you might find they earned them. In *most* of the US being anything but Christian isn't acceptable at all.
Just look at how all the Senators and congress critters are falling over themselves to denounce this decision.
It's pretty weird to me that we have 700+ comments and no one has mentioned the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This group of experts is about as close as you're going to get to a definitive source for answers on the likely sources, dimensions and costs of climate change. And what do they say? (Well read the reports for yourselves if you really want to know.) But in summary, a large collection of people who've dedicated their lives to understanding the climate via the physical sciences agree:
:-)
We're likely changing the climate, and such change may occur in a non-linear irreversible manner
The likely benefits to be gained from reducing the human causes of climate change are likely bigger than costs of those reductions.
Parroting the words of oil-company PR firms may make you feel better about being irresponsible. But most of the physical world doesn't really care what you believe.
Fluid dynamics and statistical mechanics and organic chemistry study systems that have a surprising resistance to TV commercials as well as those who do not
Hey ozzie, I get a kick out of the the old 'Merican pissing on the rest of the world show as much as the next US citizen, but I'm a little nervous about this sort of thing ever since I found out that we're dependent on the rest of the world to the tune of 1.2 billion of foreign capital a day to finance our trade deficit.
... ;-)
Lately, it seems that our leaders are trying awfully hard to convince the rest of the world that we're all a bunch of violent dim-witted corporate scam artists. We citizens might not be able to do much about our leaders (what with the Supremes deciding who they are and all), but at least we don't have to help out so much
Actually, pianists and guitarists have been being forced to give up performing by various repetitive strain injuries for years.
:-)
In fact, when I needed help in the mid-nineties, the best doctors to treat RSI in Boston worked exclusively with musicians. (The one time in my tech career that playing an instrument turned out to be a critical advantage.
It's very easy to blow off RSI as something that happens to [insert favorite character flaw here] people until, of course, your hands go out on *you*. Finding a keyboard that adjusted to my needs helped me, but only as a part of larger reworking of my technique and positioning - YMMV.
BTW - I use a Goldtouch keyboard, you can see it and a bunch of other weird keyboards at:
http://www.tifaq.com/