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"...wrote you have the impression LibreOffice is "doing better". What does that mean? Have you observed what OpenOffice is doing? What is your metric?"

OpenOffice currently distributing 3.4.1

LibreOffice currently distributing 3.6.3

That could be one metric, another could be the number of patches being submitted, and another could be the number of developers involved.

It strikes me that user numbers are not the metric for free software above a certain threshold. What matters is the work being done on the code, and the 'tidying up' that is being done I gather mainly by LibreOffice.

I am a grateful user of both versions by the way (CentOS 6.3 and Ubuntu 12.10) and hope the projects merge some way down the line.
Sorry buddy, i think the world has bigger problems than that.

Why is this being upvoted anyway?
Without seeing the source code for the application, including the entire DX engine, this is a useless comparison.

There are really dumb ways of using all the different C++ libs and features out there, and there are really smart ways of writing WebGL (read: OpenGL ES 2.0 ish) code.

The author might be running into other threading issues in their old DX9 engine code, they might be locking things, they might be doing whatever, and the web stuff my be skipping that.

This is a rubbish comparison unless we see the whole picture--might as well compare a new bicycle doing a quarter mile to an old pickup with a clapped-out transmission, and then decide cars are now useless.
I asked for paper ballot this morning. Many volunteers are cheerful and apathetic, for them its just another gig. Lost on them is the fact this is something fundamental. Scary !!
That still doesn't establish malice.
Interesting. It could be a good starting point to relaunch the now defunct Google code search. It seems to be based on the https://code.google.com/p/codesearch/ library.

Until now, we cannot look at the source, it will be released in January.

http://codesearch.debian.net/faq

"While DCS is an open-source project, I cannot share the source code until January 2013 (when I hand in my thesis) because otherwise there might be attribution problems — that is, when you make contributions, is it really clear what’s my work and what’s not."
my Chrome in OSX was reporting 240,000 objects on screen at 30FPS. maybe there's just some bug in Chrome? This is on a i5 2500k @ 4.2Ghz with an Nvidia 670.
Something else. It's sort of a craving. Why am I drawn to the refrigerator late at night? "For fun" doesn't seem to cover it. "Just for the sake of doing something" sounds pathetic--as if I were bored, as if there were nothing good on TV, so what else am I going to do?

"To scratch my own itch" would be perfect, except that this poll implies that the itch is some external problem. For me, the itch is a craving for the flow state of working on a hard problem whose solution matters.
In the absence of a political party imposing partisanship onto politicians, is it possible that a new source of control over politicians might emerge?

Independents (whether politicians, startups, or any organization that isn't big) are always cash strapped and in pursuit of a voice.
Thanks for this, it's a wonderfully detailed explanation of what you went through - mind putting it into a bug report for me? We have a ton of user testing to do and this is the first breath of air this particularly set up has seen (it didn't even really exist two weeks ago!)

Some of these are things that just completely slipped my mind (e.g. clicking on the helpers), some are things that are just that the platform is so new it doesn't have any documentation, and some are just flat out busted assumptions on our part.
In the video they should have tested for calibration. It suggests that the votes are being forced to Mitt when really the screen is just off.

Further to this, why aren't the names randomized?!
Couldn't they just mix all the colors together in roughly equal proportions (by weight, for instance) before packaging them into packets, and just rely on the statistical improbability of a noticeable imbalance in colors? I doubt there is actually a machine that counts out the Skittles by color and makes sure each bag gets the right number of each.
Underpowered with one screen, I'd love to see it with 3...
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I don't have a windows machine so I can't run the exe, and so can't be sure what makes the difference here. But there are various things that could explain this.

First, the code is not identical in the two cases - the JS version is not identical the native one, it does things differently. So this isn't apples-to-apples. (If the JS was compiled from the original, this would be better, but the code does not appear to be compiled, at least not compiled C/C++.)

As one example, WebGL does not allow slow things like client-side state. Rewriting to avoid that will make your code faster than the original.

Otherwise, the measurement method can make a difference. The native build might block on flushing the commands, but the WebGL one might do that asynchronously, making it looks like it finished first.

So the result is interesting and warrants investigation, no immediate explanation for it that I can see. Could be nothing, could be something.
I don't think this is anywhere close to being as nefarious as voter suppression attempts.

If the increase in early voting schedules (even assuming that there is an intent to manipulate on the part of one side) are favoring one side, it is easily neutralized by the other side by participating in the early voting with equal, if not more, enthusiasm.

On the other hand, the victims of voter suppression tactics have no easy recourse to counter these attempts.
Hrmm...

"I just hope somebody - don't know who yet - will step up. I mean, the IT scene is definitely not a poor society - I used to be rich through IT too - so is it really fair that I don't even have a legal place to sleep in, just because I can't sell myself anymore?"

You're selling yourself here, and extremely poorly.

You've fallen in to some sort of trap where you think that you should get to work on whatever you want, and things should magically be given to you (or so it seems). Life doesn't work like that. You have to figure out a way to have your basic needs taken care of first, then play time comes. Some people manage to get to a point where step 2 covers step 1, but you're not there.

Maybe you'll get there one day, but begging for money doesn't seem a sustainable way of making that happen. You'll be here in 3 months again even if someone gave you a boatload of money for an apartment or car, because you value "doing whatever and only whatever I want" over "providing for my own needs first".

As others have said, I'm surprised that you have no medical care in Germany because it's too expensive. My presumption was that some degree of medical care was available free of charge. Perhaps you've got some special disease which requires paid medical support only?
But I still would like to be able to have it proven to me that the way I voted matches what the system records. To me, that seems more important, but I also cannot say that it's more important than your points. Hm.
How well are you guys doing? How much money did you make?
Yeah, I'm not happy with how that works yet. I ended up compromising on what it does now, because I couldn't seem to get CSS to cooperate with me on how I really wanted it to work. There will definitely be improvements to that bit.
> you can sign up for a developer license (free, renewed each month)

Great, my OS is now timebombed to permit me to only install what I want on it at Microsoft's pleasure.

How on earth is this "easy" compared to "compile it and you can run it forever" like Windows has been since Windows existed?

(Also: what happens when Windows 8 support is "sunset"? You just can't use that computer anymore? Jeez.)
Give me a break, 'the intent is the same'.

Trying to disenfranchise people is wrong and should be outside the bounds of political activity, it's not 'the same' as trying to get your people to vote.

If they were taking up weapons and shooting up precincts likely to vote for the other guy, would 'the intent be the same'? I mean, they're just trying to win the election.
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I agree. Has no one here used a touchscreen on an airplane seat before, it's usually more than one finger width offset...
Man quits job, spends time on hobby, runs out of money.

Not a great piece of news, and nothing unexpected.

But the hobby he's working on may be of interest to other people. If I were that man, I'd focus my message on that: let's further the development of LuaOS! Let's start with providing some food, shelter, and electricity to the founder :) Such a stance might attract more donations, from right people.
You should also develop a seamless and easy way to migrate blogs off of Wordpress and/or Wordpress.com.

I also agree that they are taking WP to do too much and if you look at the history, it all seems like trying to keep up with the popular trends everywhere.
He seems like a less-crazy version of the losetheos guy. Here's a bit of advice: When asking for donations, 1. Do not call your mother evil. 2. Have a way to receive money.

Take a look at his other postings. Apparently, the main Lua mailing list is evil (http://luaos.net/pages/a-new-beginning.php). It looks like he posted that after this thread: http://lua.2524044.n2.nabble.com/Let-s-make-a-new-place-td70... The others in that thread seem to treat him respectfully even though he tried to split the Lua community.

Also, take a look at his other projects to get a better idea of his behavior. http://tinybrain.friedensrevolution.de/ has some rather unprofessional rants on it. Ditto for his own blog's news page: http://luaos.net/pages/morenews.php

I feel sorry for the guy. He seems like a talented coder, but his behavior and attitude undermines his projects.
Oh man that sounds serious! What does that mean? Is there a way to get un"hellbanned"?
AFAIK the 2012 air supports more than one external monitor when daisy chained.
Thank you. I'm looking back through my code and there are really a lot of indicators. It would get pretty technical to explain them. They are all explainable it's just that each one corresponds to slightly different market conditions and I just didn't want to get into it.
I haven't looked at Civitas. The other crypto based voting systems I did study don't actually hide voter's identity in real world elections.

The trick to these systems is there's some one-way hash done. This requires a lot of ballots, with enough hash collisions to ensure one's ballot gets lost within the herd.

Alas, elections in the USA are precinct-based, typically 1 to 1,000 voters in size. And our ballots are complicated. My ballot this election had 20 issues.

So combinatorially, it's very likely my ballot will be utterly unique within my precinct. Meaning my ballot is not secret.

Edit: Clarification at end.
Breitbart is much less credible than a reddit poster with video.

Actually, he'd be much less credible than an anonymous 4chan poster without video.
As an added bonus, because it creates more [viable] parties, it makes attack adds less effective: If you have one opponent, causing that opponent to lose a vote is just as good as gaining a vote for yourself. If you have two or more viable opponents then attacks against any individual opponent helps the remainder as much as you. And in that case, better to be positive about yourself than negative about the opposition.
Actually, Chrome's WebGL implementation is somewhat inefficient since another process actually talks to the driver (separate process from the one executing JS).

This shouldn't matter if you can factor your render loop into uploading textures and vertices infrequently and having the majority of frames consist of setting shaders and uniforms and calling drawArrays...
I supposed "newly laid pipes" would offend you as well. Well, let's sign a petition to the Times of Malta to change their offensive wording.

</sarc>

Source:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121026/local/Cou...
Yes, you can prove which way you voted. That could potentially commoditise votes.
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Dead people voting is manipulation. Just because more votes are cast doesn't mean they are legitimate.
This guy is a sociopath. He has been the worst participant in the official Lua mailing list and even gone to the extend to swear to the language deg team members for not listening to his suggestions. (I trust they'd know if the suggestions where worth it or not).

I have rarely seen such a bad behavior in my life, I cant feel pity, sorry.
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Typing from a 13 rMBP purchased today. Hopefully its an upgrade from my 2010 mba 13" but from the sounds of this review I'll probably be returning mine too in a few weeks, as I have a similar workload as the author. Thanks for writing the review.
Link at http://www.qcard.ca/.
Honestly curious - what kind of abuse could cause a calibration error?

My kids abuse my iPad pretty heavily but generally smacking on the screen with their hands and fingers a lot but I still have never seen it mis-calculate a touch.
It's a fresh rewrite of a pipeline originally in DirectX. Unless they went and decided to write optimal DX11 code too, I would be very hesitant to ascribe too much awesome to it.
Whether the voting public is a "representative sample" or not, it does not change the main point of the GP.
Russia would probably be an example of a corrupt mafia run state. India is just corrupt or rather indian politicians. And at that population & diversity (given the limited resources), that's pretty much inevitable. It's just human greed. Is there a solution? I don't know but education and trying to curb the population would be a start
Yup. There is exactly no way to ensure the secret ballot (voter privacy) or public count (auditable results) with any form of electronic voting.
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Can anyone here clarify what this is about, and what "I can't sell myself anymore" means?

I feel like I'm missing a back story.
"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting." - Jumpers (1972)
Okay, I'll be "that guy".

What would be the advantage of Lua as an OS base? We've seen some decent efforts in the Lisp machines so the general idea makes sense, but why Lua?
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All right, I have been living in the US for a while, and didn't know about the move to electronic voting. However, my point about there being FAR more abuse in India stands. Here are some references:
Fatal attacks near polling booth - 2009 - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123985213176424031.html

Booth capturing "found primarily in India" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth_capturing

intimidation on racial lines:
http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162808/1/5847

You are plain kidding if you feel elections in India are anywhere close to being as good as US.
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Exactly. Sites like visual.ly are the 99designs of infographics. They're graphic design 101 projects with often misleading/misinterpreted data thrown on a document the size of the moon. They're hard to read and even harder to digest.
Whether it's "underpowered" depends on what you're doing, I'd say. Writing text, looking at photos, watching videos, browsing 99% websites, etc it performs just fine, and I'd venture to say that that's probably what most people will be doing with the machine. I had mine hooked up to 2 30" monitors the other day and it worked great.
If you had complete control over a voting machine, it wouldn't make any sense to try to lower turnout or confuse anyone- you'd want people to vote and leave without having noticed anything, so you could change their vote.

The result here is that the voting machine was taken out of duty and will be investigated. If the strategy was to make the error so outlandish that nobody would believe it was happening, the strategy has failed.

Since it's pretty obvious that this would be the outcome, it's not a good strategy, and is therefore not likely to have been enacted.
"This, it turns out, really harms the capacity for governments to make decisions that make everyone better off on average but might make any given small region of people unhappy (say, by building a powerplant or a garbage dump)."

Can you explain why? I don't understand this. I would have thought that, for example, given a country of 50 districts, and the decision is being made "shall we build this dump in district 1", you'll get 49 voting yes and the representative of district 1 voting no.
so why do people learn this way?

i am an old fogey. i wrote my first program on a piece of paper after watching my fiend use his zx spectrum. i didn't do exercises - i knew i could make this awesome spinning prism (dude! a spinning prism!) and so i just bugged the hell out of my friend until i found out what commands did what.

isn't it obvious that you should start by building something fun? what's so wrong with people that they think they need to do exercises first?

what is wrong with culture when programming is a "task" that requires "exercises" rather than something awesome you're going to make happen?

are these people that are being made to program (when they don't want to)? do they have no imagination? are they scared? why are they spending their lives doing exercises rather than things they want to do? don't they know they will die?
You are still missing the point. Voters can't be given a receipt for how they voted, because then they can sell their vote.
Your suggestion would a much better way to go about this. As it is now, I've got absolutely zero sympathy for his situation. I mean, you don't work, and then grumble about having no money? Also,

>Someone in the IT scene should step up

Why? It feels like OP is asking us to support his life style, which I am not prepared to do. Want to keep working on your project? Throw it up on kickStarter. If people are interested, you'll get some funding. If not, well, maybe it's time to get a part time job rather than begging online. I mean, of the two, one allows you to retain dignity.
They did say "cashflow" positive by Q4 though, cashflow is recorded when cash moves, not when revenue accrues.
There is an error in the paraphrasing, Sergey Brin is not calling for all politicians to abandon their political parties. He is suggesting the "victors" to withdraw from their party affiliation while they are governing. There is a big difference.

Here is his original post,

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SergeyBrin/posts/B9VnJXd6Rir
Well, we wouldn't want money to be part of the political process!

Oh wait.
This seems like a fairly poor way to implement voter fraud. The screen gives instant feedback. No Obama voter is going to say "Oh well, I guess I'll just cast my vote for Romney then."

If you were reprogramming the machine, wouldn't you be better off changing it to show Obama had been selected on the screen, but then print Romney onto the paper ballot? There's a better chance a voter won't bother scrutinizing the printout.
This is why our ~530 senators and representatives are important - they are also supposed to represent our interests. Then each state has a governor and state senators and representatives. And each state is divided into counties, which usually have a county chairman and county council. Additionally, cities usually have a mayor or director and a city council.
> The problem is the idea that a single elected official can somehow represent the entire United States. Can one person understand and represent 300 million people?

He's not actually supposed to.

The President has two essential jobs: (1) administrating and executing the laws he signs from Congress and (2) being the country's spokesperson to the rest of the world. To actually do these jobs, he presides over the vast bureaucracy that is the federal government. Sometimes his speech involves bombs; other times, it's more diplomatic.

The idea that such a person should be representative of yourself is silly. I don't want to talk to Iran; that's why I elect a President to do it for me.

Read Article 2 of the Constitution. It says nothing about representation, or anything like it.
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> But if you read the voter's story it happened only for Obama's field.

Easy explanation- the voter was lying.
It's generally fun to observe. When I've seen ISS, it has been around sunset. It is a readily discernible point of light, in my memory brighter than Venus and certainly brighter than any star, that moves from horizon to horizon in only about 4 minutes ("faster than a speeding plane"), even less time considering trees, buildings, and hills.

Because of the speed, it is helpful to know what place on the horizon the overpass will start at, in addition to the precise time.
Re-read the article. The guy tested just for that and it wasn't a case.
I used to call my friends to look up to see it fly by. One friend got everyone working at his restaurant on the roof to see it. It looks like a star crawling across the sky for about a minute. It's not visually spectacular if you don't know what you're looking at.

I would definitely suggest signing up to get text notifications on this. Call your friends to step outside for a minute to see it too. "HEADS UP!"
I think what you are referring to is better captured by "Median voter theory" rather than "Hotelling's Law": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_voter_theory
Well, just because you can roll your own javascript library doesn't mean it's always the most effective way to build a website. What I like about this specifically is: it extends and overrides bootstrap, which makes it forward-compatible, and it does a great job of creating a very distinctive UI while retaining standard bootstrap DOM structure, so (in theory) you can just drop it into your existing bootstrap site and nothing will break.

Everything else I've seen so far re: skinning bootstrap has been very underwhelming. Tweaking the default color variables just isn't enough.
I intend this in the best possible way: go talk to a mental health professional.
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Very good app for this is Android SatTrack. It also shows the Iridium Flares.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1

The best educational demographic for Democrats is "No High School". The best for Republicans is "College Graduate".
I can only imagine his mother as Ayn Rand.
except the guy who recorded it claims that selecting candidate that's below Obama worked correctly.
According to http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how-to/computer-s.... a quarter of the country in this election will use paperless machines. No paper trail at all.

You aren't reading your source correctly.
As stated here, 2 party system is corrupt and self-destructive. When you listen to Jill Stein or Gary Johnson, you hear rational people talking about real problems and real solutions.
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I urge EVERYONE who is not in a battleground state to vote 3rd party, so that the news covers them more, and more voters hear their positions. This is the soft way to break the duopoly. The only other way I know involves bloodshed.
The title is a bit sensationalist. The real conclusion, as the author admits towards the end, is that smartly written & optimised javascript can beat lazily written c++ on this particular test.
I think the author's primary complaint was that it wasn't worth the premium; if you've already bought it, haven't you already made that decision?

Yes, it's not completely smooth scrolling The Verge (something that, as a Verge reader, I didn't even notice until it was pointed out), but personally I'd rather have that amazing screen for looking at text and photos and watching videos instead of having 60fps scrolling on a 1440x900 screen.
This is serious, but I'm getting a lot of amusing out of news reporters asking questions on Reddit, and have dozens of Reddit users pipe in with jokes.