I learnt Vi when I had to telnet to a remote machine and no other decent tool was available. You're right, using it really is the best way to learn it. So maybe you could try reducing your dependency on IDEs. Open a terminal and stick with it. Symlink eclipse to vi. If you still feel you're faster in Eclipse, you could always stick with it. I agree the HJKL keys could have been JKL; but since you're either in insert mode or escape mode at any one time, hopefully it shouldn't be too much of a bother.
I used to use Vim extensively, but have now switched to Emacs for the sheer joy of learning something new and interesting. Not trying to flame here, but this is one of the strongest quotes I've read on Emacs (Stepehenson, of course):
I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor. It was created by Richard Stallman; enough said. It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files, which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining. In other words, the engineer-hours that, in the case of Microsoft Word, were devoted to features like mail merge, and the ability to embed feature-length motion pictures in corporate memoranda, were, in the case of emacs, focused with maniacal intensity on the deceptively simple-seeming problem of editing text. If you are a professional writer--i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed--emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish.
But vim is pretty cool too (I have windows ports for both the editors so I can use both in office). Arguing over which is better is a waste of time IMO, both do their job fantastically well.
I always wanted to get inside the mind of a cool haxx0r.
Give Up! There is no way to stop us. Everyone wants to cheat and we will always find a way to do it. Anyone reading this is simply jealous of the fact that I have enough nuts to cheat and play the game the way I want to.
Man that guy's got balls! None can stop our XBox-modding overlords.
Thanks/. for bringing this to our attention.
IPICO claims that its RFID tags can be read from at least six metres away, and at a rate of thousands of tags per minute. The passive chips require no battery, as they are powered by the energy in radio waves from the RFID reader.
So they're gonna drive by each and every house in every continent with their scanners? Or put one in every airport, every department store, every port?
And the cost for all those installations will end up in the DVD we buy. Great idea, jerks.
(Oh wait, TFA also says its the DVD players that will check the DVDs and reject it if its in the 'wrong' geographical region, but why would you need RFIDs for that? Why would a player need to scan thousands of tags per minute?)
1. Switch off your computer when you're not using it. (unless you're running a really important server or something. SETI@home does not count. 2. Switch off the lights when you leave a room. 3. The TV doesn't need to run all the time. Every little bit helps. If you're already doing stuff like this & you're bills are still soaring, then you can try the measurement parts.
I-Names and XRI developers are an active part of the emerging OpenID 2.0 specification process. With the release of those specifications and the libraries, i-names will be accepted alongside all OpenID identifiers... [snip]
And, of course, there is a lot that i-names can bring to OpenID. Without i-names, your globally unique identifier is a URL that might be complex (http://www.myurl.com/member/my.name) where your i-name could be simpler =my.name. OpenID is also mostly about authentication (soon it will exchange some data) where i-names are build around XRI and XDI which is all about data exchange.
Nobody should own this. Nobody's planning on making any money from this. The goal is to release every part of this under the most liberal licenses possible, so there's no money or licensing or registering required to play.
Now I really haven't heard about OpenID or I-Names before, can somebody clarify? Is OpenID the (free) specification or standard, and I-Names the (charged) implementation? And as everybody's already pointing out, whats wrong with good ol' email ID authentication, HTTPS etc?
There's another article I found that puts down the rationale to all this down to simple greed. Some snippets from there:
Xinhua News Agency, long a mouthpiece for China's Communist Party, is getting a boost from the Beijing government in its quest to become an international media power.
The regulations give Xinhua a virtual monopoly over the distribution inside China of news, information and other services from foreign agencies. Their release comes as the communist leadership has clamped down on mainstream media and the Internet, firing and even arresting aggressive reporters and editors.
"Xinhua, which is a government propaganda arm, is not rolling in money and they're looking for ways to get rich, to make Xinhua a player."
Xinhua "has the right to select the news and information released by foreign news agencies in China and shall delete any materials mentioned in the items above," it said.
Wouldn't an actual terrorist serious about hiding his transactions probably be having an account in a Swiss bank? You know, those we'll-never-disclose-customer-information places?
Or have I just read one too many Frederick Forsyth novels?
I was actually under the impression that compound eyes were poorer than mammalian eyes ins pite of being more numerous, but you are correct. A page from everything2 says: Compound Eyes: apposition eye: An eye type consisting of multiple ommatidia (lenses) which are each seperated by pigment cells, which surround them individually. Having the lenses seperate in this way creates the problem of poor photon reception, which led to the development of the superposition eye. The apposition eye is found in diurnal insects, some crabs and lower crustacea. superposition eye: Found in dipteran insects, crustacea and crabs this eye type is unique because the ommatidia aren't isolated from each other; together they produce a brighter image due to better photon reception.
Mod parent up, and thanks for the link. The wired articles are yet to open up in my browser and the waxy link is blocked at office:(
The responses look sad, really sad. I really feel sorry for these people. Playing a prank is alright, the least he could've done was hiding their personal info.
Thanks for pointing that out, I was totally off track there:)
My point was about the parent's comment on the state of the operators and regulations here, and yes, the article's stats aren't a measure of that.
Compare India (with it's administrative circles, weird government regulations and crappy operators) with something in Europe instead. In fact, India is so far behind on the scale it isn't even funny.
Oh. That must explain why its second in the list of 'the top ten countries for volume of new connections over the last year' (RTFA).
I'm from India, the operators are pretty cool here. You have a choice of GSM and CDMA, you're phone isn't locked down by your operator, and I've personally faced no problems with either the tariffs or the coverage.
Not very convincing when you link to a free-energy crank site.
On the other hand, are there decent alternatives to the Big bang theory these days? All I can remember from college are the steady state and oscillating ones.
For that matter, this news doesn't disprove the theory either. AFAIK other factors like the distribution of stellar matter are still suggestive of a Big Bang.
How can the big bang cast a shadow if there's nothing outside thereof on which to cast it?
Shadows require light, an object and an observer. The 'observer' is us here at the earth. The 'object' is this (from TFA):
Galaxy clusters are the largest organized structures in the universe.[snip] The gravity created at the center of some clusters traps gas that is hot enough to emit X-rays.
This gas is also hot enough to lose its electrons (or ionize), filling millions of cubic light years of space inside the galactic clusters with swarming clouds of free electrons. It is these free electrons which bump into and interact with individual photons of microwave radiation, deflecting them away from their original paths and creating the shadowing effect. This shadowing effect was first predicted in 1969 by the Russian scientists Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov Zel'dovich.
And the 'light' is the background microwave radiation, until now assumed to be from the edges of the universe, beyond these clusters.
Can anyone explain if this thing they've identified in the temporal lobe is different from Broca's Area, which also (AFAIK) deals with language processing and semantics?
Do both perform different functions or does one invalidate the other?
While the idea is interesting, the project is still in its early stages (only 3 books are available, 2 are incomplete). Wikibooks has progressed farther, but as TFA notes, this one operates on slightly stricter policies that might be useful for academic books.
A fairly new linux user who fiddled around with Ubuntu, Mandriva and a couple others, I finally settled down with slack and never looked back.
I found it much easier to manage through the config scripts than all the GUI wrappers the other distros put up: you know exactly what to change and where to change it. And my ageing comp runs perfectly with fluxbox (and enlightenment when I want to impress my friends).
Hats off to Pat for the neatest distro around.
Session Saver: Saves sessions, snapback closed tabs, restore last session...
MileWideBack: Go back/forward by right- or left-clicking anywhere on the entire left edge of the window.
BookmarksHome: My homepage! Makes a neat page out of all your bookmarks.
ScrapBook: Save web pages with a simple right click. Very useful, 'cos when you're browsing an rfc or something offline from ScrapBook, you have other tools like highlighting, adding text boxes etc.
just as 1 mile = 1.6 x 1 km approximately,
E = (c^2) x m
Its just a conversion from one unit to another, the beautiful thing here being that it relates a unit of energy to a unit of mass (not energy to energy or mass to mass), showing that energy and mass are effectively two sides of the same coin.
If he were alive today, Einstein woulda got a +5 Insightful at/.
'Test Equipment Finds Life in Mars-like Conditions '
Yes, but its life that has evolved over millions of years on the Earth. Living creatures are extremely adaptable. Given time, you could expect some life form or the other to make it thru' in the worst of climates.
So it does not follow that you can extrapolate this to a conclusion that life of a similar sort could have existed in Mars. The toughie is finding out if life can start anywhere, and in what initial conditions. Natural selection will take care of the surviving.
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I learnt Vi when I had to telnet to a remote machine and no other decent tool was available. You're right, using it really is the best way to learn it. So maybe you could try reducing your dependency on IDEs.
Open a terminal and stick with it.
Symlink eclipse to vi.
If you still feel you're faster in Eclipse, you could always stick with it. I agree the HJKL keys could have been JKL; but since you're either in insert mode or escape mode at any one time, hopefully it shouldn't be too much of a bother.
But vim is pretty cool too (I have windows ports for both the editors so I can use both in office). Arguing over which is better is a waste of time IMO, both do their job fantastically well.
Man that guy's got balls! None can stop our XBox-modding overlords.
Thanks
An article on YRO that's actually a positive piece of news.
Outside, the pigs are flying.
So they're gonna drive by each and every house in every continent with their scanners?
Or put one in every airport, every department store, every port?
And the cost for all those installations will end up in the DVD we buy. Great idea, jerks.
(Oh wait, TFA also says its the DVD players that will check the DVDs and reject it if its in the 'wrong' geographical region, but why would you need RFIDs for that? Why would a player need to scan thousands of tags per minute?)
1. Switch off your computer when you're not using it. (unless you're running a really important server or something. SETI@home does not count.
2. Switch off the lights when you leave a room.
3. The TV doesn't need to run all the time.
Every little bit helps. If you're already doing stuff like this & you're bills are still soaring, then you can try the measurement parts.
Still not interested, no thanks.
Now I really haven't heard about OpenID or I-Names before, can somebody clarify? Is OpenID the (free) specification or standard, and I-Names the (charged) implementation?
And as everybody's already pointing out, whats wrong with good ol' email ID authentication, HTTPS etc?
Wouldn't an actual terrorist serious about hiding his transactions probably be having an account in a Swiss bank? You know, those we'll-never-disclose-customer-information places?
Or have I just read one too many Frederick Forsyth novels?
I was actually under the impression that compound eyes were poorer than mammalian eyes ins pite of being more numerous, but you are correct. A page from everything2 says:
Compound Eyes:
apposition eye: An eye type consisting of multiple ommatidia (lenses) which are each seperated by pigment cells, which surround them individually. Having the lenses seperate in this way creates the problem of poor photon reception, which led to the development of the superposition eye. The apposition eye is found in diurnal insects, some crabs and lower crustacea.
superposition eye: Found in dipteran insects, crustacea and crabs this eye type is unique because the ommatidia aren't isolated from each other; together they produce a brighter image due to better photon reception.
Mod parent up, and thanks for the link. The wired articles are yet to open up in my browser and the waxy link is blocked at office :(
The responses look sad, really sad. I really feel sorry for these people. Playing a prank is alright, the least he could've done was hiding their personal info.
Thanks for pointing that out, I was totally off track there :)
My point was about the parent's comment on the state of the operators and regulations here, and yes, the article's stats aren't a measure of that.
I'm from India, the operators are pretty cool here. You have a choice of GSM and CDMA, you're phone isn't locked down by your operator, and I've personally faced no problems with either the tariffs or the coverage.
Not very convincing when you link to a free-energy crank site.
On the other hand, are there decent alternatives to the Big bang theory these days? All I can remember from college are the steady state and oscillating ones.
For that matter, this news doesn't disprove the theory either. AFAIK other factors like the distribution of stellar matter are still suggestive of a Big Bang.
Shadows require light, an object and an observer. The 'observer' is us here at the earth. The 'object' is this (from TFA):
Galaxy clusters are the largest organized structures in the universe.[snip] The gravity created at the center of some clusters traps gas that is hot enough to emit X-rays.
This gas is also hot enough to lose its electrons (or ionize), filling millions of cubic light years of space inside the galactic clusters with swarming clouds of free electrons. It is these free electrons which bump into and interact with individual photons of microwave radiation, deflecting them away from their original paths and creating the shadowing effect. This shadowing effect was first predicted in 1969 by the Russian scientists Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov Zel'dovich.
And the 'light' is the background microwave radiation, until now assumed to be from the edges of the universe, beyond these clusters.
Can anyone explain if this thing they've identified in the temporal lobe is different from Broca's Area, which also (AFAIK) deals with language processing and semantics? Do both perform different functions or does one invalidate the other?
While the idea is interesting, the project is still in its early stages (only 3 books are available, 2 are incomplete).
Wikibooks has progressed farther, but as TFA notes, this one operates on slightly stricter policies that might be useful for academic books.
..being held at Bangalore?
I thought it was over a week back.
A fairly new linux user who fiddled around with Ubuntu, Mandriva and a couple others, I finally settled down with slack and never looked back.
I found it much easier to manage through the config scripts than all the GUI wrappers the other distros put up: you know exactly what to change and where to change it. And my ageing comp runs perfectly with fluxbox (and enlightenment when I want to impress my friends).
Hats off to Pat for the neatest distro around.
lol no this am not a virus!
Carl Sagan's Contact?
And LOTR?
and HG Wells' Time Machine?
Session Saver: Saves sessions, snapback closed tabs, restore last session...
MileWideBack: Go back/forward by right- or left-clicking anywhere on the entire left edge of the window.
BookmarksHome: My homepage! Makes a neat page out of all your bookmarks.
ScrapBook: Save web pages with a simple right click. Very useful, 'cos when you're browsing an rfc or something offline from ScrapBook, you have other tools like highlighting, adding text boxes etc.
just as 1 mile = 1.6 x 1 km approximately, /.
E = (c^2) x m
Its just a conversion from one unit to another, the beautiful thing here being that it relates a unit of energy to a unit of mass (not energy to energy or mass to mass), showing that energy and mass are effectively two sides of the same coin.
If he were alive today, Einstein woulda got a +5 Insightful at
'Test Equipment Finds Life in Mars-like Conditions '
Yes, but its life that has evolved over millions of years on the Earth. Living creatures are extremely adaptable. Given time, you could expect some life form or the other to make it thru' in the worst of climates.
So it does not follow that you can extrapolate this to a conclusion that life of a similar sort could have existed in Mars. The toughie is finding out if life can start anywhere, and in what initial conditions. Natural selection will take care of the surviving.