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On a 101-key, I physically switched the Numlock and the Pause keys, relabelled and remapped the Pause to be Backspace (I love a backspace on the number pad), remapped the Capslock to be ^K (useful in the Joe text editor) and finally remapped Ctrl-Numlock to be Capslock. Now, I never end up doing this WHEN i'M TYPING.
Re:Screen, Keyboard and navigation tool.
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>BTW, I still prefer the Wordstar keyclusters for >editors...I recently amazed a co-worker on how >fast I could get around and edit a text file >with Joe in WS emulation mode. And he has >been using VI for a decade...
Yeah, joe's a great editor. I love it's small size and customizability. I tried both Emacs and vi, but found vi to be too counter-intuitive (I grew up on MS-DOS. Don't blame me.) and Emacs to be far too bloated. Other people are perfectly welcome to enjoy these two editors, but please don't ram either of them down my throat. Give me a small, fast, customizable and modeless editor like joe anyday.
Sorry, RMS, but I really don't want to have to learn Lisp just to customize my editor.
Maybe the SW trilogy, or six hours of Looney Toons, or six hours of porn. If someone wants six hours of stuff on a single ~$29 disc rather than pay ~$87 for three discs with two hours of stuff on each, they'll do it.
>Clueless journalists! Clueless poster! Next time, *think*.
Don't apologize. It's a few corrupt politicians who engineered this, not the average citizen. One a somewhat offtopic note, did anyone here read the bill that the last Australian referendum was about? It gave some rather frightening power to politicians, specifically the Prime Minister. It was touted as an independance vote, but both the Monarchists *and* the Democrats (for lack of a better word) united against it. Good thing it failed.
>How many people hear about CECIS (the canadian >equivalent of the CIA, possibly spelled wrong)? >Not many. Why? Because it is TINY, and has almost >NO power inside of the country! CSIS - Canadian Security and Intelligence Service. The only accurate part of that acronym is that they're Canadian.
I agree with your other points. Someone once said "Canada: It works in practise, but it sure doesn't work in theory."
>Frankly, this is getting very disheartening. Agreed. My sympathies to all you Aussies. May a giant flaming meteor crash into their boardroom on their first meeting.
>Isn't it striking that the two (democratic) >countries that seem the closest to implementing >far-and-wide, liberty-squashing legislation are >two of the most important members of the >Commonwealth?
>I do hope this trend is not going to spread any >further -- I'd hate to see Canada, the European >Union and the United States implement such >brain-dead laws...
The US has always had a strong individual rights tradition. The politicians there might not like total freedom on the Internet, but the courts will uphold privacy rights in the short term. This is all assuming the US Constution remains intact, of course.
Regulation of the Internet won't happen in Canada anytime soon, thank goddess. The Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission, our equivalent of the US's FCA (except with more authority), has decided that the CRTC will not regulate any aspect of the Internet. It was in a/. article awhile back, I think. They could always reverse the decision of course, but that would lead to (gasp!) public attention! Government agencies up here seem fanatically allergic to any hint of controversy. It usually means that decisions Aren't Changed, No Matter What. Sometimes it's bad, but for now it's a good thing.
As for the European union, I'm really worried. I don't mean to sound bigoted, but not many countries in Europe have ever had much respect for their citizen's privacy.
A little off-topic, but now we just have to convince our politicians and beaurocrats in Canada to get rid of our crypto regulations. There's an agreement between Ottawa and Washington that Canadian citizens can get any US encryption products without worrying about US export laws as long as the product stays in Canada or the US. I'm not sure if this is a treaty or simply an informal agreement. Does anyone know for sure?
>What on earth do we have to do to be left alone >by clueless politicians? Seems to me that the folks in America in the 1770s did a pretty good job, albeit a temporary one...
>Let's be honest - how many people really want to >go buying clothes online Very true. It's just that I hate Christmas shopping, and I'm getting pretty stressed out.
As for clothes shopping, it's pretty easy for me. Go to Wallmart, buy jeans, socks, and underwear. Go to Music World, buy t-shirts. Thank god I'm a full time student and can get away with a dress code that...
A little off-topic, but in a 40000-person population where I live, there are about five large malls. Each of them is desperate to attract businesses to set up there, and none of them have over 60% of their space filled.
A pity about Hycel Partners. "We're trying to deal with each of these on an individual basis," indeed. Sounds more like "We're scared, we're trigger-happy, and we don't really know what to do."
...completely unregulated, and now the recording industry isn't blinded by hatred of MP3s. It's nice to know that those in power aren't completely clueless up here in Canada.
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Because they're the ones whose legal department started the whole mess.
>No Voyager and no Dilbert!
Sounds more like a blessing than a curse.
Technically, neurosurgeons work on the nervous system as a whole.
My favourite was "Attack Of The Geek Hellmouth and Microsoft". Hmm. A call to arms in the wake of the US court decision?
I don't know about you, but it seems pretty deep in space to me.
Err... did you actually read the Wired article?
On a 101-key, I physically switched the Numlock and the Pause keys, relabelled and remapped the Pause to be Backspace (I love a backspace on the number pad), remapped the Capslock to be ^K (useful in the Joe text editor) and finally remapped Ctrl-Numlock to be Capslock. Now, I never end up doing this WHEN i'M TYPING.
>BTW, I still prefer the Wordstar keyclusters for
>editors...I recently amazed a co-worker on how
>fast I could get around and edit a text file
>with Joe in WS emulation mode. And he has >been using VI for a decade...
Yeah, joe's a great editor. I love it's small size and customizability. I tried both Emacs and vi, but found vi to be too counter-intuitive (I grew up on MS-DOS. Don't blame me.) and Emacs to be far too bloated. Other people are perfectly welcome to enjoy these two editors, but please don't ram either of them down my throat. Give me a small, fast, customizable and modeless editor like joe anyday.
Sorry, RMS, but I really don't want to have to learn Lisp just to customize my editor.
>Yup. We still go to movie theaters for some shows
:)
>and some reasons. Big screen, better sound, more
>companions..
Don't forget to buttery popcorn, massive drinks and terrible seats.
Yeah. I like theatres.
Maybe the SW trilogy, or six hours of Looney Toons, or six hours of porn. If someone wants six hours of stuff on a single ~$29 disc rather than pay ~$87 for three discs with two hours of stuff on each, they'll do it.
>Clueless journalists!
Clueless poster! Next time, *think*.
Don't apologize. It's a few corrupt politicians who engineered this, not the average citizen. One a somewhat offtopic note, did anyone here read the bill that the last Australian referendum was about? It gave some rather frightening power to politicians, specifically the Prime Minister. It was touted as an independance vote, but both the Monarchists *and* the Democrats (for lack of a better word) united against it. Good thing it failed.
>How many people hear about CECIS (the canadian
>equivalent of the CIA, possibly spelled wrong)?
>Not many. Why? Because it is TINY, and has almost
>NO power inside of the country!
CSIS - Canadian Security and Intelligence Service. The only accurate part of that acronym is that they're Canadian.
I agree with your other points. Someone once said "Canada: It works in practise, but it sure doesn't work in theory."
>Frankly, this is getting very disheartening.
/. article awhile back, I think. They could always reverse the decision of course, but that would lead to (gasp!) public attention! Government agencies up here seem fanatically allergic to any hint of controversy. It usually means that decisions Aren't Changed, No Matter What. Sometimes it's bad, but for now it's a good thing.
Agreed. My sympathies to all you Aussies. May a giant flaming meteor crash into their boardroom on their first meeting.
>Isn't it striking that the two (democratic)
>countries that seem the closest to implementing
>far-and-wide, liberty-squashing legislation are
>two of the most important members of the
>Commonwealth?
>I do hope this trend is not going to spread any
>further -- I'd hate to see Canada, the European
>Union and the United States implement such
>brain-dead laws...
The US has always had a strong individual rights tradition. The politicians there might not like total freedom on the Internet, but the courts will uphold privacy rights in the short term. This is all assuming the US Constution remains intact, of course.
Regulation of the Internet won't happen in Canada anytime soon, thank goddess. The Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission, our equivalent of the US's FCA (except with more authority), has decided that the CRTC will not regulate any aspect of the Internet. It was in a
As for the European union, I'm really worried. I don't mean to sound bigoted, but not many countries in Europe have ever had much respect for their citizen's privacy.
A little off-topic, but now we just have to convince our politicians and beaurocrats in Canada to get rid of our crypto regulations. There's an agreement between Ottawa and Washington that Canadian citizens can get any US encryption products without worrying about US export laws as long as the product stays in Canada or the US. I'm not sure if this is a treaty or simply an informal agreement. Does anyone know for sure?
>What on earth do we have to do to be left alone
>by clueless politicians?
Seems to me that the folks in America in the 1770s did a pretty good job, albeit a temporary one...
>Let's be honest - how many people really want to
>go buying clothes online
Very true. It's just that I hate Christmas shopping, and I'm getting pretty stressed out.
As for clothes shopping, it's pretty easy for me. Go to Wallmart, buy jeans, socks, and underwear. Go to Music World, buy t-shirts. Thank god I'm a full time student and can get away with a dress code that...
>What would the world be like if you didn't have
>to go running through screaming people to get
>your furby?
A hell of a lot easier. Death to Mauls.
"What's a pretty girl like you doing sitting alone in this monument to consumerism?"
[Close captioned for the humor impaired.]
>and maybe some really loud speakers so that my ;)
>neighbors can enjoy it too
Haven't seen Escaflowne yet. It's on my to-do
list. But as for the speakers, amen!
A little off-topic, but in a 40000-person population where I live, there are about five large malls. Each of them is desperate to attract businesses to set up there, and none of them have over 60% of their space filled.
A pity about Hycel Partners. "We're trying to deal with each of these on an individual basis," indeed. Sounds more like "We're scared, we're trigger-happy, and we don't really know what to do."
>all 24 episodes and both movies of Evangelion, >on DVD.
26 episodes. And the TV ending was better than the movie ending anyway.
>A stars wars parody with john candy would of been
>funny- too bad he is dead
Rent "Spaceballs" sometime. Not a flame, just a friendly suggestion.
-- G
>Could someone tell me why there are heavier
>elements like Silicon and Magnesium and no
>Hydrogen?
I think you just answered your own question.
>Geregorian tricks - no one susppects the spanish
>inqusition.
(In a badly done loud British voice)
NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
Okay. I'm done now.
>but we'll be smiling inside knowing that all is
>right with the world on 8/9/01
Will God Be In His Heaven?
Sorry, obscure anime reference...
And the really funny thing is that your post is actually #8...
Damn. I forget about that.
May Sheilla be destined for the Region Of Thud.
...completely unregulated, and now the recording industry isn't blinded by hatred of MP3s. It's nice to know that those in power aren't completely clueless up here in Canada.