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Not a trademark.

Strange, how the "rooting for the underdog" effect makes fighting for software patents a noble act of a single person versus the big ugly faceless judicial bodies.

Being another hopeless victim of modal editing, I do have sometimes those "I press a key and it appears on the screen?! What is this madness!" moments when using other editors. However, I do not think that Vim is The One True Text Editor. Actually, I am envious of Emacs users for their flexible, programmable text editor (operating system? CLI application framework?), but couldn't make the switch yet, I really do miss the Vim interface.

On2 is the company that originally developed the VP3 codec, on which the Ogg Theora codec is based.

I'm as anti-hassle as it gets, but I think email validation actually makes sense. If a company NEEDS my email address for communication, go on and verify if it works and an overly eager spam filter inbetween does not eats everything up. Or if, god forbid, I accidentally put a comma instead of a period somewhere while typing.

If they don't care whether I can be reached by that email address, why even bother asking for one?

I've been an amateur composer for a decade, and picked up guitar recently.

On a side note, coding VSI instruments and then utilizing them in my music can be really gratifying. (And sometimes annoying too, when after dozens of man-hours it still sounds like aliased hell.)

I've noticed that when I pull all nighters right before deadlines, and manage to get finished before code freeze, I have an overwhelming feeling of accomplishment and get so psyched that I spend the following workday much more productive than during regular (albeit generally laden with sleep debt) workdays.

But when the real accomplishment is missing and drowsiness creeps upon me, I take regular 5 minute walks at the corporate campus (a really nice green spot in the middle of the city), and have some 10-15 minutes powernaps. (I never drink coffee/cola)