Re:Vim most definitely can't "do everything"
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Hacking Vim 7.2
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Case in point: I want it to show me a vertical line at 80 chars, like TextMate or GEdit. Not even GVim can do this.:-)
I don't know if they discussed this hack in the book, but one simple fix for that is to "drag" the vim "window" to the edge of your monitor. Continue to drag to the right until the line on the edge of the monitor overlaps 80 characters. If you have a dual monitor setup, you can even view the remaining characters. Of course, this may not work if you don't have a window manager!
Interesting idea, but due to Hollywood Accounting it would probably never be feasible in practice.
I'd accept a return to reasonable copyright terms as an alternative.
The countries that are kicking our asses in science education don't have "less Federal inerfernce" they have more. Plus, the countries that are most successful in teaching their children have free education, financed by taxpayers.
When you scratch the surface of the "let the free market run everything" argument, you don't have to go very far before you start to see the FAIL showing through.
FAIL, like in South Korea, where almost every student goes to private, after school academies in a variety of subjects? Academies that go well beyond what the public schools teach? Academies that answer directly to angry mothers, who remove their students from the academy when they perform poorly?
No, my experience with South Korea has strongly affirmed the libertarian idea that schools do not need to be controlled by the government.
I had this thought exactly. And likewise if someone in Iran had assembled a cluster of PS3's as a super computer, we'd accuse them of being involved in other nefarious deeds...
First "Pirate Bay" and torrents and now Hash?!? What next, cocaine?!
You wouldn't believe the the file sharing benefits of coketables! The only reason they haven't really taken off yet is that many users don't want to overclock their hardware when they share.
South Korean kids clean their schools too, and their parents are just as convinced as American parents that they are all geniuses, destined to be the next UN Head.
First they're going to sell the lesson plans like they are now. Then as it becomes more popular, the supply will grow and price will drop. Then the plans will basically be free, and there won't be enough revenue to worry about. Teachers everywhere will have access to better materials, which will help the children learn better.
Except that instead the school districts are going to say "No, that's my money too!" They will shut this down as it starts to take off, and the teachers will be no better off than they are today.
I understand, on principle why they charge early termination fees. $350 for a smartphone seems extreme, but taking the new Droid for example, the phone costs $550 without a plan and the customer gets it for $200 which is right in line. What doesn't make sense is the fact that if I cancel my contract 1 year and 11 months in, I'm expected to pay the whole termination fee, despite the fact that Verizon has already made back $335 of it. That's just abusive. Termination fees should be proportional to the amount of the contract you are terminating and capped at the amount of subsidization on the phone.
The principal is that they can charge the fee, and nothing more than that. It's basic contracts, you agreed to it when you signed up. Paying back the phone is a red herring they use to make you feel less violated. At the rates these companies are charging for sending radio waves back and forth the phone is paid off well before the end of the contract.
The problem with Keychain is that, by default, you don't actually need the master password to use the passwords it holds. It's deceptive, because if you use Keychain.app to access the passwords, you need to enter your master password. But if you use another application to access the Keychain, you don't need the master password. Access to any item in the keychain is easy using the Quicksilver Keychain Plugin. In Quicksilver:
'keychain' 'right arrow' 'right arrow'
And you are looking at a list of all available passwords in the keychain. You can copy any of the passwords by hitting tab, and then typing 'copy' to put it in the clipboard. The system will ask you if you want to allow access to that password, and you just have to click 'okay.' It doesn't ask for the master password. OS X does this for any password that an application asks for, as far as I can tell. Quicksilver is just an easy way to do it.
As I said above, this is the default behavior. The problem is not that it can't be changed, but that the default settings give an illusion of better security than actually exists.
I've been looking into GPG a bit lately. I was thinking it would be nice if you could have encryption in javascript for webmail.
I found some javascript that can encrypt, but not decrypt, GPG messages. Apparently decryption is very slow in javascript, and possibly there isn't support for the large numbers needed for decryption? But maybe JIT would be fast enough, allowing math libraries to be used to support the large calculations needed.
As far as extensions go, I won't be using Chrome until it has a tree style tab extension. I can't live without that anymore.
I don't honestly believe that if my choice McCain had won, anything would be any better. So what's it matter whether my vote was counted or not.
This is a major problem, but it is a separate issue. We can't have a healthy democracy without solving both of them. You can't tell me which needs to be solved first.
Healthy REPUBLIC!
No wonder it's unhealthy, no one knows what they actually want...
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned already, but there was legislation introduced this year to allow the president to shut down the internet in an emergency. The bill is called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009. Imagine if they wanted to shut down the phone system or TV/Radio systems in an emergency.
Read about it here and here.
Apple bad, Nokia good when we are talking about mobil phones. Nokias N900 has great Linux Comunity, and they are writing a Free cell phone communication stack ofono.
I had to read this a couple times, trying to figure out why an open sourced free cell implementation on a phone would get you so excited.
Co-opted or not, it should be legalized. It should have never been prohibited in the first place, just like alcohol should have never been prohibited in the 20s. It was a very large, costly, and deadly mistake...
Speaking of alcohol prohibition. Can anyone give a response as to why alcohol prohibition required an amendment, and pot (or any other drug, available by prescription or not) can be prohibited with a simple law?
Ok, so Mars is effectively "close." How about all the other planets, stars, and galaxies that are still "far"? This research would apply to them equally.
My handwriting was horrible for most of my life--I'm twenty-seven--until the last two years when I became interested in improving it. (One of my motivations was that I am an ESL teacher. My students only know English printing, not cursive. They can't read the answers in my books!) Now, Instead of having horrible print, I have reasonably good cursive handwriting. As a result of my work, my print has improved as well.
The reason handwriting is so painful is because at some point, approximately fifty years ago I believe, the way handwriting is taught was changed. Years ago, students learned to use their shoulders to generate the up and down motion, and used finger and wrist movements as little as possible. Devices were even sold to tie the fingers, so that they couldn't move at all! The hand was not rested on the desk, but floated lightly. To most people today, this seems ridiculous to make such small movements with such big muscles, but it's very effective (as I have learned).
Later (possibly because it was thought to be easier?) students were allowed to rest their hand heavily on the desk, and use the wrist and fingers to make the letters. The result is that the hand works like a compass, with the wrist as the center point. The word starts on the line, then moves up and back down, making a rough circle. Then the wrist is lifted and reset for the next word.
The switch from using large muscles to small is probably why most people today can't write well, and why it hurts for so many people to write. If you ask older people how they write, you will probably find that grandparent aged folks write with their shoulders, while younger people write with their fingers and wrists.
As I understand it, the main network is CDMA as you said, while the 3G networks are compatible with the iPhone. If you look at the iPhone specs page, you will see the supported network types: UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz) GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz). As I understand it, there is actually a GSM network here for people who are roaming. However, I don't believe the iPhone would be using that, it would be using the 3G UMTS/HSDPA network instead. That should limit it to 5 hours talk time instead of 12, but it will work.
I'm confident that the iPhone will work here once it is released, even though I'm not 100% clear on the technical details. Apple and the Korean Telecom companies have been discussing releasing the iPhone since the 3G came out, they just haven't reached an agreement yet. Supposedly we will hear the final decision this week. However, there is no technical reason why it won't work here. It's been in the Korean news quite a bit.
The main reason the iPhone has been held up in Korea is WIFI. The carriers here don't want it and there is not a single phone here currently that has WIFI. Although the iPhone 3G and 3GS can be used here (they have network support) they have not been accepted by the carriers so far. In the last month both have passed testing by the Korean FCC (Radio Research Agency). However, you still can't import an iPhone here, since carriers require all IMEIs to be registered with them. They so far have refused to register IMEIs for imported iPhones. Supposedly Apple will be reaching an agreement in the next week regarding selling the iPhone here in Korea. Hopefully their agreement won't be the same as that in China!
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Case in point: I want it to show me a vertical line at 80 chars, like TextMate or GEdit. Not even GVim can do this. :-)
I don't know if they discussed this hack in the book, but one simple fix for that is to "drag" the vim "window" to the edge of your monitor. Continue to drag to the right until the line on the edge of the monitor overlaps 80 characters. If you have a dual monitor setup, you can even view the remaining characters. Of course, this may not work if you don't have a window manager!
Well, you have to consider that two is a large sample size for such a small group. How many high profile chess players are there?!
Interesting idea, but due to Hollywood Accounting it would probably never be feasible in practice. I'd accept a return to reasonable copyright terms as an alternative.
The countries that are kicking our asses in science education don't have "less Federal inerfernce" they have more. Plus, the countries that are most successful in teaching their children have free education, financed by taxpayers.
When you scratch the surface of the "let the free market run everything" argument, you don't have to go very far before you start to see the FAIL showing through.
FAIL, like in South Korea, where almost every student goes to private, after school academies in a variety of subjects? Academies that go well beyond what the public schools teach? Academies that answer directly to angry mothers, who remove their students from the academy when they perform poorly?
No, my experience with South Korea has strongly affirmed the libertarian idea that schools do not need to be controlled by the government.
Obviously, they want a fast way out in the unlikely event that the front door becomes blocked!
I had this thought exactly. And likewise if someone in Iran had assembled a cluster of PS3's as a super computer, we'd accuse them of being involved in other nefarious deeds...
Citation granted
First "Pirate Bay" and torrents and now Hash?!? What next, cocaine?!
You wouldn't believe the the file sharing benefits of coketables! The only reason they haven't really taken off yet is that many users don't want to overclock their hardware when they share.
South Korean kids clean their schools too, and their parents are just as convinced as American parents that they are all geniuses, destined to be the next UN Head.
First they're going to sell the lesson plans like they are now. Then as it becomes more popular, the supply will grow and price will drop. Then the plans will basically be free, and there won't be enough revenue to worry about. Teachers everywhere will have access to better materials, which will help the children learn better. Except that instead the school districts are going to say "No, that's my money too!" They will shut this down as it starts to take off, and the teachers will be no better off than they are today.
I understand, on principle why they charge early termination fees. $350 for a smartphone seems extreme, but taking the new Droid for example, the phone costs $550 without a plan and the customer gets it for $200 which is right in line. What doesn't make sense is the fact that if I cancel my contract 1 year and 11 months in, I'm expected to pay the whole termination fee, despite the fact that Verizon has already made back $335 of it. That's just abusive. Termination fees should be proportional to the amount of the contract you are terminating and capped at the amount of subsidization on the phone.
The principal is that they can charge the fee, and nothing more than that. It's basic contracts, you agreed to it when you signed up. Paying back the phone is a red herring they use to make you feel less violated. At the rates these companies are charging for sending radio waves back and forth the phone is paid off well before the end of the contract.
The problem with Keychain is that, by default, you don't actually need the master password to use the passwords it holds. It's deceptive, because if you use Keychain.app to access the passwords, you need to enter your master password. But if you use another application to access the Keychain, you don't need the master password. Access to any item in the keychain is easy using the Quicksilver Keychain Plugin. In Quicksilver:
'keychain' 'right arrow' 'right arrow'
And you are looking at a list of all available passwords in the keychain. You can copy any of the passwords by hitting tab, and then typing 'copy' to put it in the clipboard. The system will ask you if you want to allow access to that password, and you just have to click 'okay.' It doesn't ask for the master password. OS X does this for any password that an application asks for, as far as I can tell. Quicksilver is just an easy way to do it.
As I said above, this is the default behavior. The problem is not that it can't be changed, but that the default settings give an illusion of better security than actually exists.
I've been looking into GPG a bit lately. I was thinking it would be nice if you could have encryption in javascript for webmail.
I found some javascript that can encrypt, but not decrypt, GPG messages. Apparently decryption is very slow in javascript, and possibly there isn't support for the large numbers needed for decryption? But maybe JIT would be fast enough, allowing math libraries to be used to support the large calculations needed.
As far as extensions go, I won't be using Chrome until it has a tree style tab extension. I can't live without that anymore.
I don't honestly believe that if my choice McCain had won, anything would be any better. So what's it matter whether my vote was counted or not.
This is a major problem, but it is a separate issue. We can't have a healthy democracy without solving both of them. You can't tell me which needs to be solved first.
Healthy REPUBLIC! No wonder it's unhealthy, no one knows what they actually want...
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned already, but there was legislation introduced this year to allow the president to shut down the internet in an emergency. The bill is called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009. Imagine if they wanted to shut down the phone system or TV/Radio systems in an emergency. Read about it here and here.
Apple bad, Nokia good when we are talking about mobil phones. Nokias N900 has great Linux Comunity, and they are writing a Free cell phone communication stack ofono.
I had to read this a couple times, trying to figure out why an open sourced free cell implementation on a phone would get you so excited.
Co-opted or not, it should be legalized. It should have never been prohibited in the first place, just like alcohol should have never been prohibited in the 20s. It was a very large, costly, and deadly mistake...
Speaking of alcohol prohibition. Can anyone give a response as to why alcohol prohibition required an amendment, and pot (or any other drug, available by prescription or not) can be prohibited with a simple law?
At least according to this Slashdot article http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/10/19/1324222/VASIMR-Ion-Engine-Could-Cut-Mars-Trip-To-39-Days
Ok, so Mars is effectively "close." How about all the other planets, stars, and galaxies that are still "far"? This research would apply to them equally.
The U.S. Congress should ban the use of Slashdot to propose unconstitutional laws.
Obviously your post would be the first to go!
I took that as the point of the post...
It's absurd to imply that holding your phone to your ear in Australia will kill even one person in the US, much less 2600 people!
My handwriting was horrible for most of my life--I'm twenty-seven--until the last two years when I became interested in improving it. (One of my motivations was that I am an ESL teacher. My students only know English printing, not cursive. They can't read the answers in my books!) Now, Instead of having horrible print, I have reasonably good cursive handwriting. As a result of my work, my print has improved as well.
The reason handwriting is so painful is because at some point, approximately fifty years ago I believe, the way handwriting is taught was changed. Years ago, students learned to use their shoulders to generate the up and down motion, and used finger and wrist movements as little as possible. Devices were even sold to tie the fingers, so that they couldn't move at all! The hand was not rested on the desk, but floated lightly. To most people today, this seems ridiculous to make such small movements with such big muscles, but it's very effective (as I have learned).
Later (possibly because it was thought to be easier?) students were allowed to rest their hand heavily on the desk, and use the wrist and fingers to make the letters. The result is that the hand works like a compass, with the wrist as the center point. The word starts on the line, then moves up and back down, making a rough circle. Then the wrist is lifted and reset for the next word.
The switch from using large muscles to small is probably why most people today can't write well, and why it hurts for so many people to write. If you ask older people how they write, you will probably find that grandparent aged folks write with their shoulders, while younger people write with their fingers and wrists.
As I understand it, the main network is CDMA as you said, while the 3G networks are compatible with the iPhone. If you look at the iPhone specs page, you will see the supported network types: UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz) GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz). As I understand it, there is actually a GSM network here for people who are roaming. However, I don't believe the iPhone would be using that, it would be using the 3G UMTS/HSDPA network instead. That should limit it to 5 hours talk time instead of 12, but it will work.
I'm confident that the iPhone will work here once it is released, even though I'm not 100% clear on the technical details. Apple and the Korean Telecom companies have been discussing releasing the iPhone since the 3G came out, they just haven't reached an agreement yet. Supposedly we will hear the final decision this week. However, there is no technical reason why it won't work here. It's been in the Korean news quite a bit.
The main reason the iPhone has been held up in Korea is WIFI. The carriers here don't want it and there is not a single phone here currently that has WIFI. Although the iPhone 3G and 3GS can be used here (they have network support) they have not been accepted by the carriers so far. In the last month both have passed testing by the Korean FCC (Radio Research Agency). However, you still can't import an iPhone here, since carriers require all IMEIs to be registered with them. They so far have refused to register IMEIs for imported iPhones. Supposedly Apple will be reaching an agreement in the next week regarding selling the iPhone here in Korea. Hopefully their agreement won't be the same as that in China!