Remove your.vimrc, or make "set compatible" the first line of it. Or use -C to force compatibility mode.
I've tried all of these, and vim still doesn't behave like vi.
In short, compatibility mode isn't.
If you don't want compatibility with vi, why not use vile? If you do, vim doesn't get you there.
I don't think the OP was complaining about vi...
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I tried out vim, and the flexibility of keyboard commands has really helped w/ my sore wrists.
That's true also for nvi, the successor to the original vi. I have long been used to vi, and I've used both nvi and vim. For my aching wrists, I stick to nvi. Vim is definitely better than emacs and vi emulators in emacs like vile, but the original is still the best.
The biggest disposal problem with nuclear waste is caused by people blocking the reprocessing of nuclear waste. And even then it's a fraction of the problem of disposing of fossil fuel waste (an awful lot of which is done by storing it in people's lungs). Fossil fuel wastes are also extremely carcinogenic. They're also radioactive and contain significant amounts of uranium and thorium. There's several times as much "nuclear waste" released by coal plants each year than is produced by nuclear plants.
Microsoft can cut the price of Windows a long long way without "bleeding red ink", especially if they strip it down vertically by removing things like the Citrix code from the hypothetical "XP lite". Whether they're smart enough to do that instead of crippling it with restrictions, that's another question.
Also afaik vorbis and theora are not ITU, ISO or whatever standards, that's why they say they are propriatery.
Of microsoft got OOXML fast-tracked as a standard, would that have made it any less proprietary?
Proprietary doesn't mean "it's not GPL" and it doesn't mean "it's not ISO". It means there's a proprietor who has effective control or ownership of it. Whether it is, in short, "property". You can even have standards based on proprietary formats... like MP3 (licensed by Fraunhofer). Whether Xiph has effective control over Ogg or not, at this point, I don't know... but that's independant of whether it's adopted as a standard.
The word "proprietary" indicates that a party, or proprietor, exercises private ownership, control or use over an item of property. This doesn't mean that it's under any particular license, it just means that there's a mechanism to control it. For example, having an effective monopoly over the development of a package or format makes it proprietary whether the licensing terms are restrictive or not.
The real tests for whether a product is proprietary are whether it could be effectively forked or not, or whether the proprietor could impose the adoption of features or force changes in the product without a fork happening. Whether Ogg qualifies as proprietary under this "de facto" definition, I don't know, but the possibility shouldn't be automatically rejected out of hand.
In Greg Egan's Permutation City (1994) spam had evolved to the point where there were AI bots behind it, and AI bots checking your incoming messages to try and filter out the bots by pretending to be you and getting them to deliver the payload without bothering you...
You do realize that they got bought out by K-Mart a couple of years ago, right?
Yes, and yet somehow the last couple of times I've had a problem at Sears it's been "we'll take care of that"... and they have. Perhaps they decided that they'd lost the "race to the bottom" with Walmart and started trying another approach?
I tend to think of CompUSA as the "Sears" of electronics. They're a bit more expensive than the lowballers but if I had a problem with something I bought at CompUSA they'd absolutely take care of it. They're the only retail store where an extended warranty really means "yes, we take it back, no matter what".
Which is probably why they've been driven out by Walclones. It's Gresham's Law: when people can't tell good money (or support, or products) from bad you get a race to the bottom as the bad money drives out the good.
For example, Sears hasn't always been "Sears", and there was a pretty long period in the '90s where their support went in the tank... but lately they've been winning me back again. Pity they don't have "Sears Electronics".
First, it doesn't matter that they're storing associations, what they're storing is the first and last letters of the association, for 10 associations.
Second, I don't think even Richard Feynman would be expected to get past the password selection process.
* The inkblots don't really remind me of anything. I guess I haven't done enough psych tests or something, but they all look like masks to me, and "mkmkmkmkmkmkmkmkmkmk" is probably not a good password.
* You have to come up with the *same* associations over and over again?
I fail this test, it would be easier to simply memorize a random string of letters.
I use virtual machines to run IE for testing. This gives me a double win - not only do I get to run multiple browsers, I can keep the VM sandboxed (no shared host drives) and restore the VM to a checkpoint before every run. It's a pity this isn't really practical for most end users since the state of their installed browser actually matters (bookmarks, browser history, plugins, and for some people persistent cookies and certificates they need would all be lost), but it's great for testing.
Setting aside the unfortunate historical accidents that made it impossible for Microsoft to properly protect the root directory of the system disk or enable traverse checking... I'm really surprised that
(1) boot.ini isn't being monitored and replaced by the same code that watches files in %systemroot% (2) Windows XP service pack 2 is STILL using the same moronic NTLDR that seemingly hasn't been updated since 1995 or so, and isn't even as smart as FreeBSD's Booteasy. How hard is it for it to list the partitions on C: and let the user select from them if it can't find a good boot.ini?
I recently had a similar experience. My system disk on my Wintendo died and when I restored my backup onto a new disk I had an extra 50 gigabytes at the end of the disk. Being a conservative soul, rather than risking further hilarity and mayhem by resizing the partition, I created a new partition. I'd done this the last time this happened, so I already had two partitions on the disk... the original boot partition from when it was a 40GB drive, and the rest of the recently deceased 80GB drive. So now I had an 150GB drive containing C:, D:, and F:.
And my system wouldn't boot. Why?
Well, it turned out that while the partitions on my 80GB drive had been physically laid out as C: and D:, the partition table looked like this:
Partition 1 - D:, Active/Boot, at end of disk, contains NTLDR, boot.ini, etc... Partition 4 - C:, System, contains WINNT, Program Files, etc...
Why it was like this, you'll have to ask Microsoft. I had no idea... I'd partitioned the disk originally using their disk manager in Windows 2000 on the original 40GB drive that's been pushing up daisies for years.
Notice that "partition(2)". Not "partition(4)" (actual partition in partition table) or "partition(1)" (physical partition on disk). It seems that NTLDR counts non-empty partitions only, but goes by the order in the partition table.
After adding partition F:, the partition table on the new drive had 3 partitions, with partition 1 still D: and partition 4 still C:, so F: ended up in the middle.
So now the "partition(2)" that NTLDR saw was "F:". Which was empty.
What is PDF (as an ISO standard) supposed to accomplish?
Defining a typeset document format.
I have always had mixed feelings about PDF, due to the way it has been pushed as an alternative to HTML. As you say, it's not a general document format... it's a text-oriented structured graphics format that happens to be useful for distributing formatted documents. In this domain, though, PDF is a better standard than the bitmap-oriented alternatives.
The only mentions of Jobs or Apple in the NYT article are: "Disney, of which Steve Jobs is a director and large shareholder, sells movies through the iTunes Store, and the other major studios don't. The issue has been that the studios want to charge more money for downloads than Mr. Jobs thinks they are worth." and "Apple has relented and has agreed to a higher wholesale price for movies."
The following paragraph continues, "More interestingly perhaps, the studios are hoping to create "premium" versions of DVDs that include a copy of the movie that can easily be put on an iPod (and presumably a laptop with iTunes or an Apple TV). Fox has tried this already, with a version of "Die Hard 4 that includes a digital copy. Mr. Greenfield writes that this version costs $3 or $4 more than an ordinary DVD."
This paragraph doesn't refer to Jobs at all, but rather to a DVD that Fox released.
I'm missing the connection between Apple and Fox that Tim Lee's seeing. Can someone explain where this is hiding?
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What does that have to do with whether it's legal to "Rip, Mix, Burn"?
What version of vi are you talking about?
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vi, nvi, vim, elvis, stevie,
You're talking about a problem with some particular implementation or installation.
Remove your .vimrc, or make "set compatible" the first line of it. Or use -C to force compatibility mode.
I've tried all of these, and vim still doesn't behave like vi.
In short, compatibility mode isn't.
If you don't want compatibility with vi, why not use vile? If you do, vim doesn't get you there.
I tried out vim, and the flexibility of keyboard commands has really helped w/ my sore wrists.
That's true also for nvi, the successor to the original vi. I have long been used to vi, and I've used both nvi and vim. For my aching wrists, I stick to nvi. Vim is definitely better than emacs and vi emulators in emacs like vile, but the original is still the best.
You should have spoken up when they started using this tactic for drug law violations.
Most of the changes sound like improvements, but this one... no:
In the scene where Batty confronts Tyrell, the line, "I want more life, fucker" has been replaced with "I want more life, father".
That really changes the whole scene.
The biggest disposal problem with nuclear waste is caused by people blocking the reprocessing of nuclear waste. And even then it's a fraction of the problem of disposing of fossil fuel waste (an awful lot of which is done by storing it in people's lungs). Fossil fuel wastes are also extremely carcinogenic. They're also radioactive and contain significant amounts of uranium and thorium. There's several times as much "nuclear waste" released by coal plants each year than is produced by nuclear plants.
The idea is that if people have these batteries in their cars *anyway*, why not take advantage of them?
Microsoft can cut the price of Windows a long long way without "bleeding red ink", especially if they strip it down vertically by removing things like the Citrix code from the hypothetical "XP lite". Whether they're smart enough to do that instead of crippling it with restrictions, that's another question.
Also afaik vorbis and theora are not ITU, ISO or whatever standards, that's why they say they are propriatery.
Of microsoft got OOXML fast-tracked as a standard, would that have made it any less proprietary?
Proprietary doesn't mean "it's not GPL" and it doesn't mean "it's not ISO". It means there's a proprietor who has effective control or ownership of it. Whether it is, in short, "property". You can even have standards based on proprietary formats... like MP3 (licensed by Fraunhofer). Whether Xiph has effective control over Ogg or not, at this point, I don't know... but that's independant of whether it's adopted as a standard.
The word "proprietary" indicates that a party, or proprietor, exercises private ownership, control or use over an item of property. This doesn't mean that it's under any particular license, it just means that there's a mechanism to control it. For example, having an effective monopoly over the development of a package or format makes it proprietary whether the licensing terms are restrictive or not.
The real tests for whether a product is proprietary are whether it could be effectively forked or not, or whether the proprietor could impose the adoption of features or force changes in the product without a fork happening. Whether Ogg qualifies as proprietary under this "de facto" definition, I don't know, but the possibility shouldn't be automatically rejected out of hand.
So you're saying the people who like his stuff are the ones being made fun of?
In Greg Egan's Permutation City (1994) spam had evolved to the point where there were AI bots behind it, and AI bots checking your incoming messages to try and filter out the bots by pretending to be you and getting them to deliver the payload without bothering you...
Used to avoid Seacrate drives like the plague. Especially after a Barracuda caught fire in a server.
Not as bad as HP Surestores, but sheesh.
Maxtor and IBM only, baybee.
Of course Maxtor is now a Seacrate brand and IBM is Hitachi.
You do realize that they got bought out by K-Mart a couple of years ago, right?
Yes, and yet somehow the last couple of times I've had a problem at Sears it's been "we'll take care of that"... and they have. Perhaps they decided that they'd lost the "race to the bottom" with Walmart and started trying another approach?
It's browser based, and you can try it online, so why are you asking?
Why bother? A European patent can only be opposed in this fashion within 9 months of it being granted.
I tend to think of CompUSA as the "Sears" of electronics. They're a bit more expensive than the lowballers but if I had a problem with something I bought at CompUSA they'd absolutely take care of it. They're the only retail store where an extended warranty really means "yes, we take it back, no matter what".
Which is probably why they've been driven out by Walclones. It's Gresham's Law: when people can't tell good money (or support, or products) from bad you get a race to the bottom as the bad money drives out the good.
For example, Sears hasn't always been "Sears", and there was a pretty long period in the '90s where their support went in the tank... but lately they've been winning me back again. Pity they don't have "Sears Electronics".
First, it doesn't matter that they're storing associations, what they're storing is the first and last letters of the association, for 10 associations.
Second, I don't think even Richard Feynman would be expected to get past the password selection process.
* The inkblots don't really remind me of anything. I guess I haven't done enough psych tests or something, but they all look like masks to me, and "mkmkmkmkmkmkmkmkmkmk" is probably not a good password.
* You have to come up with the *same* associations over and over again?
I fail this test, it would be easier to simply memorize a random string of letters.
No, that one's a dog...
IDGI. Why are they using cat captcha to front end this?
There's no way a screen scraper is going to be able to get past the password selection.
I use virtual machines to run IE for testing. This gives me a double win - not only do I get to run multiple browsers, I can keep the VM sandboxed (no shared host drives) and restore the VM to a checkpoint before every run. It's a pity this isn't really practical for most end users since the state of their installed browser actually matters (bookmarks, browser history, plugins, and for some people persistent cookies and certificates they need would all be lost), but it's great for testing.
(1) boot.ini isn't being monitored and replaced by the same code that watches files in %systemroot%
(2) Windows XP service pack 2 is STILL using the same moronic NTLDR that seemingly hasn't been updated since 1995 or so, and isn't even as smart as FreeBSD's Booteasy. How hard is it for it to list the partitions on C: and let the user select from them if it can't find a good boot.ini?
I recently had a similar experience. My system disk on my Wintendo died and when I restored my backup onto a new disk I had an extra 50 gigabytes at the end of the disk. Being a conservative soul, rather than risking further hilarity and mayhem by resizing the partition, I created a new partition. I'd done this the last time this happened, so I already had two partitions on the disk... the original boot partition from when it was a 40GB drive, and the rest of the recently deceased 80GB drive. So now I had an 150GB drive containing C:, D:, and F:.
And my system wouldn't boot. Why?
Well, it turned out that while the partitions on my 80GB drive had been physically laid out as C: and D:, the partition table looked like this:
Partition 1 - D:, Active/Boot, at end of disk, contains NTLDR, boot.ini, etc...
Partition 4 - C:, System, contains WINNT, Program Files, etc...
Why it was like this, you'll have to ask Microsoft. I had no idea... I'd partitioned the disk originally using their disk manager in Windows 2000 on the original 40GB drive that's been pushing up daisies for years.
The boot.ini on D: looked like this: Notice that "partition(2)". Not "partition(4)" (actual partition in partition table) or "partition(1)" (physical partition on disk). It seems that NTLDR counts non-empty partitions only, but goes by the order in the partition table.
After adding partition F:, the partition table on the new drive had 3 partitions, with partition 1 still D: and partition 4 still C:, so F: ended up in the middle.
So now the "partition(2)" that NTLDR saw was "F:". Which was empty.
Cue mayhem and hilarity.
What is PDF (as an ISO standard) supposed to accomplish?
Defining a typeset document format.
I have always had mixed feelings about PDF, due to the way it has been pushed as an alternative to HTML. As you say, it's not a general document format... it's a text-oriented structured graphics format that happens to be useful for distributing formatted documents. In this domain, though, PDF is a better standard than the bitmap-oriented alternatives.
The wording of the 5th category is "all copyrights and trademarks, except for the trademarks UNIX and UnixWare".
If the exclusion was referring ONLY to the Netware IP in the previous categories, then why the hell would it mention "UNIX" here?
There's no reason I can see to assume the 5th category is a modifier for the other categories, rather than a separate category of its own.
The only mentions of Jobs or Apple in the NYT article are: "Disney, of which Steve Jobs is a director and large shareholder, sells movies through the iTunes Store, and the other major studios don't. The issue has been that the studios want to charge more money for downloads than Mr. Jobs thinks they are worth." and "Apple has relented and has agreed to a higher wholesale price for movies."
The following paragraph continues, "More interestingly perhaps, the studios are hoping to create "premium" versions of DVDs that include a copy of the movie that can easily be put on an iPod (and presumably a laptop with iTunes or an Apple TV). Fox has tried this already, with a version of "Die Hard 4 that includes a digital copy. Mr. Greenfield writes that this version costs $3 or $4 more than an ordinary DVD."
This paragraph doesn't refer to Jobs at all, but rather to a DVD that Fox released.
I'm missing the connection between Apple and Fox that Tim Lee's seeing. Can someone explain where this is hiding?