"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."
He's referring to his support for the Internet and the Web in it's early days. He made sure projects got funding and encouraged the use of the 'Net in government. Here's a quote from Peter Hallam-Baker:
"In the early days of the Web, he was a believer, not after the fact when our success was already established -- he gave us help when it counted. He got us the funding to set up at MIT after we got kicked out of CERN for being too successful. He also personally saw to it that the entire federal government set up Web sites. Before the White House site went online, he would show the prototype to each agency director who came into his office. At the end he would click on the link to their agency site. If it returned 'Not Found' the said director got a powerful message that he better have a Web site before he next saw the veep."
More links about this lovely little mind virus are here: http://www.sethf.com/gore/
Hell, I had grave doubts about Gore in the last election--so much so that I voted for Nader. But give the man his due.
I ran my software consulting business on GnuCash. It was really pretty great, actually. Once you follow the tutorial and get a handle on basic accounting practices, I was able to handle all my expenses, invoicing, accounts payable/receivable, etc. Good stuff.
A lot of people kind of react poorly to GnuCash because it isn't a simple checkbook app. In my experience, that's a shame. It CAN be used that way--I run my personal finances on GnuCash, too. But it's powerful enough to run a mid-sized business on.
If your client is looking more for a POS app, take a peek at Banana POS. I don't know that much about it, but it is F/OSS and might be closer to a tracking application than GnuCash.
Curse my clicky finger, I hit submit before previewing:
An amazing array of many of the apps listed above and lots more, all bundled up nicely in RPM format: Planet CCRMA
You can even use apt-get to pull them all down at once, like a distribution. It's pretty well maintained for updates and compatibility. If you're using Linux, I highly recommend this site. One of my personal favorite weirdo sound apps is Timemachine.
By the way, check out Rosegarden (mentioned above) but also take a good look at MUSE. I prefer it to Rosegarden, mostly because it tends to crash less, but they're both quite good.
Also, if using Linux and JACK (recommended), Qjackctl will save your sanity. Trust me on this one; JACK ain't worth suffering through on the command line.
An amazing array of many of the apps listed above and lots more, all bundled up nicely in RPM format:
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/sou ndapps.html
You can even use apt-get to pull them all down at once, like a distribution. It's pretty well maintained for updates and compatibility. If you're using Linux, I highly recommend this site. One of my personal favorite weirdo sound apps is Timemachine:
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/sou ndapps.html#SECTION000324200000000000000
Admittedly, this is slightly (only slightly) off topic, but how does one do that with the ssh tunnel, so you can go back in from outside the computer that started the ssh session? I've been trying to do something similiar to what the original poster is attempting, but I haven't had any luck. What are the ssh command options for it?
Well, we may get it, we may not. Once upon a time, there were highly trained, very skilled workers who were at the forefront of technology. They were also fiercely independent--the last group of people you'd ever think would get together in something like a union. But when the shit started hitting the fan, that's what the auto workers did--they formed the UAW. And, say what you will about their state right now, for decades they were a MAJOR force for building the middle class in large parts of the industrial U.S.--the same middle class that is rapidly disappearing now.
Time will tell, but I remain optimistic if history is any guide. Union up, geeks; it's time to save our flat asses.
Get someone to bring back the Fox shows "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" and "Wonderfalls," and we'll really be talkin' progress. For that matter, bring back "Get A Life," too.
As soon as I read the earlier/. story about PlayFair, I went straight to SourceForge and downloaded a copy. It now sits at home in a (sadly) ever expanding directory named "samizdat", along with things like deCSS stuff, the Grey Album, and various other bits from Illegal Art. Some of those things are still available, but I have such little faith in the DCMA that I think private copies are warranted.
The problem I have, though, is that the article implies that the weak jaw is the result of a single mutation (or a small cluster of them). This would seem to point toward a very "punctuated" change in the strength of the jaw. The fact that it didn't do us any harm in the long run could indicate one of several things:
1) the environment we were living in didn't require us to chew the kinds of plants that simians did (and do). Weak jaws were not maladaptive.
2) it was better to be able to chew on plants that required a more simian jaw and dental arcade, but our brains carried us through. Weak jaw is potentially maladaptive, but less relevant.
3) weak jaws were maladaptive, but other parts of our morphology (e.g. the attachment point of the muscle, different kinds of teeth) soften the blow long enough for the benefit of a weak jaw, larger potential cranial capacity, to come to the fore.
I don't pretend to have the answer to any of this, but I think a lot these points support my main idea: the gene is not the silver bullet. There are other anatomical issues that have to resolve themselves before we get to modern humans (narrowed, flattened zygomatic arches, change in placement of key muscle anchors, smaller cheeks, reduced protusion of the lower face) as well as the onset of "culture"--i.e. at what point did habilis/rudofensis start using handaxes and other tools to the point where teeth were far less important to our survival than they might otherwise have been. Was there a "perfect storm"? Did we suddenly have weaker jaws at the right point where we could replace teeth with tools?
We also have to figure out which of the Australopithicines was our ancestor--the more gracile species or the robust (which have the very large muscles you pointed out, extending up to the crest of the skull). That would impact on the severity of the change between this ancestor and the genus Homo.
It's really fascinating stuff, and this discovery will probably play an important role in how we imagine the crossover from the Australopithicines. But, like I said, there's a lot more work to do and a lot more that needs explaining. There is no silver bullet, and I think the researchers would agree with that. The media, on the other hand, will probably stick to the hype--they seem to like simple, gene-based explanations these days. Ultimately, though, the question will be resolved by a confluence of ideas from geneticists and the stones-and-bones folks.
While it's true that Australopithecus species had much smaller brains than anatomically modern humans and other of the Homo genus, this isn't the gene that separates us from the apes--earlier species made that division.
It also seems to me that they may be putting the cart before the horse here. Depending on the feeding habits of our Homo genus ancestors, a smaller jaw could be a decidedly large disadvantage, limiting the kinds of foods that could be eaten by a scavenger species such as our ancestors. It seems possible, and even likely, in this case, that our already advanced brains provided a large enough offset against the loss of powerful jaw muscles. This might mean that we were well on our way toward advanced thinking before the loss of muscle mass in the jaw.
Anatomical structures always pretty tricky, especially when it comes to judging cognitive development and other tangential related adaptations. The kinds of mutations that make us human (smaller jaws, larger heads, versatile voiceboxes) also tend to cause of a lot of potential problems (restricted diet, difficult birth, tendency to choke). Weighing the value of one change over another become enormously difficult.
Not to knock their work, though--this is pretty amazing stuff and will definitely be another piece of the puzzle for anthropologists to consider. My only concerns are that we not look at this as a) the great divide between us and the other apes or b) the silver bullet that made us the brainy folks we are today.
Back in one of my college anthropology classes, our professor noted sociological studies that showed people's music buying habits dropping significantly at age 25. Anecdotally, that seems to be true. The history of games is much shorter, so I don't think any similar studies have been done, but they both may be manifestations of the same root cause. That root cause, though, has not yet been revealed.
ET is a really good game, lots of fun, great gameplay, nice graphics. Even an OSS zealot like me felt really happy when this came out as a free binary. Now the source, too? This is just fantastic. I eagerly await the amazing mods to come.
Rapid anti-Bush propaganda? Check out the ad. All it says is that the deficit being created now will be paid for by our children. That's really a very moderate and, in the classic sense of the word, conservative point of view.
Naturally, CBS is under no obligation to air the ad, but it is upsetting that such a mild ad gets the shaft while a company like Pepsi can pretty much do whatever it wants.
Remember, these are our airwaves. The same airwaves that will broadcast ads from Bush' drug policy office, in case anyone was getting worried about "equal time". If an organization is willing to pay fair market value, I see no good reason, aside from outright obscenity or something the FCC wouldn't allow, why they should be stopped from airing their views, commercial or political. If Pepsi can nudge the RIAA, then MoveOn can nudge Bush for the same dime.
Great. That is somehow not the least bit controversial for CBS, but they refuse to broadcast MoveOn.org Voter Fund's winning Bush in 30 Seconds Ad. While I support the freedom to do what you want with your own music, the double standard at Viacom is sickening. If controversy moves product, show it. If it informs political debate, can it. It makes me sad. Very, very sad.
Try The Coccinella for whiteboard stuff. Works great, peer to peer or Jabber modes, lots of cool features. The developer just added chess to it, too. Fun little app that works on all Windows, Macs, and Linux.
First off, it is true that open-source games lack a lot of the glitz and spectacle of closed-source games. But that's actually not relevant. Look at a great open-source game like armagetron. My non-geek friends love this thing. Everyone I've introduced it to gets hooked on it. But it's really nothing more than "Worms" done right with great gameplay.
Armagetron, in my opinion, is like "The Blair Witch Project". They are both the work of talented amateurs. Armagetron will never be Doom 3, but Blair Witch will never be Waterworld. The great thing about open-source games is the same as ultra-low-budget moviemaking: the barriers for entry are so low that anyone can cross over. No one will make Doom 3 or Waterworld that way. But I for one liked Blair Witch better than Waterworld. And while I'm not prepared to say I'll like Doom 3 less than Armagetron, I do think there is a strong niche for light, cheap, well-made games. I mean, honestly, if it were all about the frills, who would still bother playing chess?
The quote is from Revolution Books, a historically Communist bookstore here in New York. In context, what it means is that voting alone cannot solve the problems in a democracy. Direct action is also required--think about the civil-rights movement. Technically, African-Americans could vote, but it took more than that to accomplish real change. So, the offending quote is more of an exhortation to do MORE in your democracy than simply vote--march, speak out, dump the odd bale of tea in the harbor.
Nope, I'd have to say, having dealt with kids this age before, that they are surprising clever and funny--almost insufferably so, in fact, especially when they keep running off at the mouth without really knowing what they're talking about. The Tetris section is a case in point. They are both so verbally acute and so out of touch with the game that the results are pretty hilarious.
I'm sure my friends and I talked like this at that age. I'd probably wanna smack me upside my head.
...was the day I saw the C64 at the Musuem of Modern Art in its history of design exhibit.
Seriously, I was pretty young when we got ours (6 or 7), but I loved writing in BASIC. Especially good were the weird non-ASCII (or, rather, Commodore ASCII) characters that you could use to draw just about anything. I made countless looped animations with PRINT commands. Most of them involving doughnuts (if you remember the characters, you can imagine why I chose that subject).
I think I got my first real hacking experience opening up BASIC "Adventure" style games that I'd become frustrated with to see how to win.
What does this mean for Sodipodi?
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I wonder what the Sodipodi developers are going to do with this. Hopefully, there will be lots of cooperation. Sodipodi is rapidly maturing into a truly great vector graphics app for Linux and Windows (and OS X over X11, I'd guess). If the two projects cooperated, we could have an Illustrator killer on our hands!
The usage is actually evolving, much in the same way we say a point is moot when we don't mean that it is a matter for debate.
Anyway, Dean's first responsibility viz. taxes would be to roll back the tax cuts that have failed to revive the economy and, likely, will wind up hurting it by keeping the budget in deficit and adversely influencing interest rates. A healthy economy helps all of us, including geeks.
I would also beg to differ (heh) about the median income of geeks. It has been dropping over the past few years as many of our jobs are run by fewer people working longer hours, plus a general downturn in technology spending and investment. It is not taxes that have done this to us, but poor economic policy and predatory investment schemes.
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The full quote from the Blitzer interview is:
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."
He's referring to his support for the Internet and the Web in it's early days. He made sure projects got funding and encouraged the use of the 'Net in government. Here's a quote from Peter Hallam-Baker:
"In the early days of the Web, he was a believer, not after the fact when our success was already established -- he gave us help when it counted. He got us the funding to set up at MIT after we got kicked out of CERN for being too successful. He also personally saw to it that the entire federal government set up Web sites. Before the White House site went online, he would show the prototype to each agency director who came into his office. At the end he would click on the link to their agency site. If it returned 'Not Found' the said director got a powerful message that he better have a Web site before he next saw the veep."
More links about this lovely little mind virus are here:
http://www.sethf.com/gore/
Hell, I had grave doubts about Gore in the last election--so much so that I voted for Nader. But give the man his due.
I ran my software consulting business on GnuCash. It was really pretty great, actually. Once you follow the tutorial and get a handle on basic accounting practices, I was able to handle all my expenses, invoicing, accounts payable/receivable, etc. Good stuff.
A lot of people kind of react poorly to GnuCash because it isn't a simple checkbook app. In my experience, that's a shame. It CAN be used that way--I run my personal finances on GnuCash, too. But it's powerful enough to run a mid-sized business on.
If your client is looking more for a POS app, take a peek at Banana POS. I don't know that much about it, but it is F/OSS and might be closer to a tracking application than GnuCash.
Is there a package list for FC 2? I found one on the fedora site for FC 1, but not FC 2 yet.
Curse my clicky finger, I hit submit before previewing:
An amazing array of many of the apps listed above and lots more, all bundled up nicely in RPM format: Planet CCRMA
You can even use apt-get to pull them all down at once, like a distribution. It's pretty well maintained for updates and compatibility. If you're using Linux, I highly recommend this site. One of my personal favorite weirdo sound apps is Timemachine.
By the way, check out Rosegarden (mentioned above) but also take a good look at MUSE. I prefer it to Rosegarden, mostly because it tends to crash less, but they're both quite good.
Also, if using Linux and JACK (recommended), Qjackctl will save your sanity. Trust me on this one; JACK ain't worth suffering through on the command line.
An amazing array of many of the apps listed above and lots more, all bundled up nicely in RPM format: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/sou ndapps.html
You can even use apt-get to pull them all down at once, like a distribution. It's pretty well maintained for updates and compatibility. If you're using Linux, I highly recommend this site. One of my personal favorite weirdo sound apps is Timemachine:
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/sou ndapps.html#SECTION000324200000000000000
Admittedly, this is slightly (only slightly) off topic, but how does one do that with the ssh tunnel, so you can go back in from outside the computer that started the ssh session? I've been trying to do something similiar to what the original poster is attempting, but I haven't had any luck. What are the ssh command options for it?
Well, we may get it, we may not. Once upon a time, there were highly trained, very skilled workers who were at the forefront of technology. They were also fiercely independent--the last group of people you'd ever think would get together in something like a union. But when the shit started hitting the fan, that's what the auto workers did--they formed the UAW. And, say what you will about their state right now, for decades they were a MAJOR force for building the middle class in large parts of the industrial U.S.--the same middle class that is rapidly disappearing now. Time will tell, but I remain optimistic if history is any guide. Union up, geeks; it's time to save our flat asses.
Get someone to bring back the Fox shows "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" and "Wonderfalls," and we'll really be talkin' progress. For that matter, bring back "Get A Life," too.
As soon as I read the earlier /. story about PlayFair, I went straight to SourceForge and downloaded a copy. It now sits at home in a (sadly) ever expanding directory named "samizdat", along with things like deCSS stuff, the Grey Album, and various other bits from Illegal Art. Some of those things are still available, but I have such little faith in the DCMA that I think private copies are warranted.
Excellent points!
The problem I have, though, is that the article implies that the weak jaw is the result of a single mutation (or a small cluster of them). This would seem to point toward a very "punctuated" change in the strength of the jaw. The fact that it didn't do us any harm in the long run could indicate one of several things:
1) the environment we were living in didn't require us to chew the kinds of plants that simians did (and do). Weak jaws were not maladaptive.
2) it was better to be able to chew on plants that required a more simian jaw and dental arcade, but our brains carried us through. Weak jaw is potentially maladaptive, but less relevant.
3) weak jaws were maladaptive, but other parts of our morphology (e.g. the attachment point of the muscle, different kinds of teeth) soften the blow long enough for the benefit of a weak jaw, larger potential cranial capacity, to come to the fore.
I don't pretend to have the answer to any of this, but I think a lot these points support my main idea: the gene is not the silver bullet. There are other anatomical issues that have to resolve themselves before we get to modern humans (narrowed, flattened zygomatic arches, change in placement of key muscle anchors, smaller cheeks, reduced protusion of the lower face) as well as the onset of "culture"--i.e. at what point did habilis/rudofensis start using handaxes and other tools to the point where teeth were far less important to our survival than they might otherwise have been. Was there a "perfect storm"? Did we suddenly have weaker jaws at the right point where we could replace teeth with tools?
We also have to figure out which of the Australopithicines was our ancestor--the more gracile species or the robust (which have the very large muscles you pointed out, extending up to the crest of the skull). That would impact on the severity of the change between this ancestor and the genus Homo.
It's really fascinating stuff, and this discovery will probably play an important role in how we imagine the crossover from the Australopithicines. But, like I said, there's a lot more work to do and a lot more that needs explaining. There is no silver bullet, and I think the researchers would agree with that. The media, on the other hand, will probably stick to the hype--they seem to like simple, gene-based explanations these days. Ultimately, though, the question will be resolved by a confluence of ideas from geneticists and the stones-and-bones folks.
While it's true that Australopithecus species had much smaller brains than anatomically modern humans and other of the Homo genus, this isn't the gene that separates us from the apes--earlier species made that division.
It also seems to me that they may be putting the cart before the horse here. Depending on the feeding habits of our Homo genus ancestors, a smaller jaw could be a decidedly large disadvantage, limiting the kinds of foods that could be eaten by a scavenger species such as our ancestors. It seems possible, and even likely, in this case, that our already advanced brains provided a large enough offset against the loss of powerful jaw muscles. This might mean that we were well on our way toward advanced thinking before the loss of muscle mass in the jaw.
Anatomical structures always pretty tricky, especially when it comes to judging cognitive development and other tangential related adaptations. The kinds of mutations that make us human (smaller jaws, larger heads, versatile voiceboxes) also tend to cause of a lot of potential problems (restricted diet, difficult birth, tendency to choke). Weighing the value of one change over another become enormously difficult.
Not to knock their work, though--this is pretty amazing stuff and will definitely be another piece of the puzzle for anthropologists to consider. My only concerns are that we not look at this as a) the great divide between us and the other apes or b) the silver bullet that made us the brainy folks we are today.
Back in one of my college anthropology classes, our professor noted sociological studies that showed people's music buying habits dropping significantly at age 25. Anecdotally, that seems to be true. The history of games is much shorter, so I don't think any similar studies have been done, but they both may be manifestations of the same root cause. That root cause, though, has not yet been revealed.
Darn. Interesting articles, but I was hoping that inside it was filled with creamy nougat center. Oh, wait. I'm thinking Mars bar. Nevermind.
ET is a really good game, lots of fun, great gameplay, nice graphics. Even an OSS zealot like me felt really happy when this came out as a free binary. Now the source, too? This is just fantastic. I eagerly await the amazing mods to come.
Rapid anti-Bush propaganda? Check out the ad. All it says is that the deficit being created now will be paid for by our children. That's really a very moderate and, in the classic sense of the word, conservative point of view.
Naturally, CBS is under no obligation to air the ad, but it is upsetting that such a mild ad gets the shaft while a company like Pepsi can pretty much do whatever it wants.
Remember, these are our airwaves. The same airwaves that will broadcast ads from Bush' drug policy office, in case anyone was getting worried about "equal time". If an organization is willing to pay fair market value, I see no good reason, aside from outright obscenity or something the FCC wouldn't allow, why they should be stopped from airing their views, commercial or political. If Pepsi can nudge the RIAA, then MoveOn can nudge Bush for the same dime.
Great. That is somehow not the least bit controversial for CBS, but they refuse to broadcast MoveOn.org Voter Fund's winning Bush in 30 Seconds Ad. While I support the freedom to do what you want with your own music, the double standard at Viacom is sickening. If controversy moves product, show it. If it informs political debate, can it. It makes me sad. Very, very sad.
"forty cents in New York City
fifty cents elsewhere
It makes no goddamn sense at all"
As an XSL guy, I felt left out. So, given this xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<hanoi>
<arg n="3"/>
</hanoi>
you can transform with this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="n">
<xsl:value-of select="//arg/@n"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:element name="hanoi-solve">
<xsl:call-template name="dohanoi">
<xsl:with-param name="n" select="number($n)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="to" select="3"/>
<xsl:with-param name="from" select="1"/>
<xsl:with-param name="using" select="2"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="dohanoi">
<xsl:param name="n"/>
<xsl:param name="to"/>
<xsl:param name="from"/>
<xsl:param name="using"/>
<xsl:if test="number($n) > 0">
<xsl:call-template name="dohanoi">
<xsl:with-param name="n" select="number($n) - 1"/>
<xsl:with-param name="to" select="$using"/>
<xsl:with-param name="from" select="$from"/>
<xsl:with-param name="using" select="$to"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:element name="move">
<xsl:attribute name="from">
<xsl:value-of select="$from"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="to">
<xsl:value-of select="$to"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>
<xsl:call-template name="dohanoi">
<xsl:with-param name="n" select="number($n) - 1"/>
<xsl:with-param name="to" select="$to"/>
<xsl:with-param name="from" select="$using"/>
<xsl:with-param name="using" select="$from"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Try The Coccinella for whiteboard stuff. Works great, peer to peer or Jabber modes, lots of cool features. The developer just added chess to it, too. Fun little app that works on all Windows, Macs, and Linux.
First off, it is true that open-source games lack a lot of the glitz and spectacle of closed-source games. But that's actually not relevant. Look at a great open-source game like armagetron. My non-geek friends love this thing. Everyone I've introduced it to gets hooked on it. But it's really nothing more than "Worms" done right with great gameplay.
Armagetron, in my opinion, is like "The Blair Witch Project". They are both the work of talented amateurs. Armagetron will never be Doom 3, but Blair Witch will never be Waterworld. The great thing about open-source games is the same as ultra-low-budget moviemaking: the barriers for entry are so low that anyone can cross over. No one will make Doom 3 or Waterworld that way. But I for one liked Blair Witch better than Waterworld. And while I'm not prepared to say I'll like Doom 3 less than Armagetron, I do think there is a strong niche for light, cheap, well-made games. I mean, honestly, if it were all about the frills, who would still bother playing chess?
The quote is from Revolution Books, a historically Communist bookstore here in New York. In context, what it means is that voting alone cannot solve the problems in a democracy. Direct action is also required--think about the civil-rights movement. Technically, African-Americans could vote, but it took more than that to accomplish real change. So, the offending quote is more of an exhortation to do MORE in your democracy than simply vote--march, speak out, dump the odd bale of tea in the harbor.
Nope, I'd have to say, having dealt with kids this age before, that they are surprising clever and funny--almost insufferably so, in fact, especially when they keep running off at the mouth without really knowing what they're talking about. The Tetris section is a case in point. They are both so verbally acute and so out of touch with the game that the results are pretty hilarious.
I'm sure my friends and I talked like this at that age. I'd probably wanna smack me upside my head.
...was the day I saw the C64 at the Musuem of Modern Art in its history of design exhibit.
Seriously, I was pretty young when we got ours (6 or 7), but I loved writing in BASIC. Especially good were the weird non-ASCII (or, rather, Commodore ASCII) characters that you could use to draw just about anything. I made countless looped animations with PRINT commands. Most of them involving doughnuts (if you remember the characters, you can imagine why I chose that subject).
I think I got my first real hacking experience opening up BASIC "Adventure" style games that I'd become frustrated with to see how to win.
I wonder what the Sodipodi developers are going to do with this. Hopefully, there will be lots of cooperation. Sodipodi is rapidly maturing into a truly great vector graphics app for Linux and Windows (and OS X over X11, I'd guess). If the two projects cooperated, we could have an Illustrator killer on our hands!
The usage is actually evolving, much in the same way we say a point is moot when we don't mean that it is a matter for debate.
Anyway, Dean's first responsibility viz. taxes would be to roll back the tax cuts that have failed to revive the economy and, likely, will wind up hurting it by keeping the budget in deficit and adversely influencing interest rates. A healthy economy helps all of us, including geeks.
I would also beg to differ (heh) about the median income of geeks. It has been dropping over the past few years as many of our jobs are run by fewer people working longer hours, plus a general downturn in technology spending and investment. It is not taxes that have done this to us, but poor economic policy and predatory investment schemes.