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i remember reading something i guess in the grsec forums about it (by "paxteam" afair). i cannot find it right now, care to send a link? the only thing i found is this post[1], which gives a very nice introduction to smap/smep.

[1]: https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3046
I use LibreOffice on my own computers. If I ever had to exchange documents with anyone else, I don't think I would.

A friend and I were trying to pick a format to use for some files we're jointly working on via Dropbox, and .docx was not sharing well between multiple pieces of software. I don't know whether Pages on his iPad was more of a problem than LibreOffice, but either way, we settled on Markdown. It's simple, has 100% compatible editors on all platforms, and works just fine for simple documents.
That's not political correctness, that's anti-discrimination.

Political correctness is "Seasons Greetings" instead of "Merry Christmas" for fear of offending non-Christians. It's idiotic because for those not celebrating Christmas, indeed those that might be offended by mentions of Christmas, there is no season to celebrate. Don't send them a card. "Seasons greetings" is not "culture neutral", it's a code for Christmas. Pretending people are too stupid to figure out why suddenly people are eager to wish them a particular great third week of December is very offensive, IMO.
Force silence upon oneself is to shut up the mind as soon as it starts blabbering. There are means to ease this up, like counting or looking at things and focusing on their characteristics (green jacket, yellow leave, noisy car) or feeling your body (my thumb tickles, my stomach feels empty).

Just stop when the brain starts picking up from there: "My stomach feels empty (BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T EATEN AND WHENEVER YOU DO YOU EAT TRASH)" you just stop the thought on the BE and focus on the next inner or outer thing or on the next number of the count. When you can't stop the thought on time, just ignore it and move on.

At first is hard, especially with a noisy brain, but it gets easier and easier.
> movie tickets in New York cost around $13 each

That's cheap! I pay $ 14-18 here in Sweden. And there are still new theaters being built.
I agree, but for a different reason. "Movie Theaters" and "Prime Time Television" are much less "technologies" and more like entertainment business models.
How does any discussion of Mickey Mouse not touch upon "several distinct areas of law, like copyright and trademark"? When Disney forced that daycare company to remove the Mickey cartoons from the walls of the daycare center the issue was use of a trademarked image. With or without copyright extensions that daycare center will never have Mickey Mouse cartoons on the wall without Disney's express permission.
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Figurepool is a ready-to-use intuitive diagramming tool with which you can create any kind of graphics online. With Figurepool you can create workflow charts, user interface mock-ups, software architecture sketches and all other kinds of diagrams.

You can keep you graphics private or share them with others in the figure-pool, via social media, or include them in your blogposts - if your figures update, your blogs update too. When making your figures public you will see how other users rank your graphics. You can clone public figures of others and adapt them as you like.
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It's A Wonderful Life entered the public domain and was taken back from us. The rights holder forgot to apply for an extension. After it lapsed they argued that done they held the rights to the story it was based on, the rights to derive from that story, the score, etc., they should have the film too.

I can not, with humor, get across how dumb that sounds to me. So I'll state it plainly. That's amazingly stupid. And it worked.
In fact, true silence is so rare, it is perceived as noise.
This will make more advancement.
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So what will tomorrow's Microsoft look like?
Hearos ( http://www.hearos.com/ ) do a really nice range... I find their foamy ones amazing, comfortable and blocking even quite load noises.
Unless you are desperate for the cash can't you do some simple but nice utilities to put in the app store as your portfolio. If they are good enough to charge for you might get a trickle of revenue and if not you still have the portfolio.

You also get to choose what you demonstrate rather than what a client wants you to do and you won't be stuck implementing someone else's design mistakes and putting them in your portfolio.
Thanks for the idea. Yes we have it on the road-map with our poster app http://47posters.com . Our problem now is that we have more products that we want to integrate, but now we have to focus on one. And also we have to make clear who to target. More users here suggested to target more focused audience with premium account (backpackers etc).
MS Office, (especially Excel and Word) is some of the best software ever developed. Excel is a fantastically powerful and flexible system and honestly, beyond basic spreadsheet/word processor use, nothing comes close to MS Office.

I was kind of hoping that OpenOffice use in Germany would be a success but really can not see how it can compete with MS Office, except on sticker price.
The real losers are those that just wanted to go to a conference to talk about Ruby.
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XX/XX/YY is a terrible format and I wish people would stop using it.

01/02/03 can be January 2nd or February 1st, and often there's not enough context to determine which was meant.
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I disagree with both. We are born atheists, but we can create our own god(s) even without the influence of others. How else would religions come to existence?
It might even be an evolutionary trait or something. Having bigger brains, larger set of emotions etc, we needed something to protect us from the sensation of a meaningless life, injustice, the concept of death, the ending of our consciousness, etc.
The main problem with this being the limited bandwidth of the "air", correct? In other words, wireless works fine and dandy right now precisely because everybody isn't using it as a cable replacement.
Actually, most modern academic work on racism goes by his latter definition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Sociological
I'm with pg here on the endless search for silence as well as your use of late nights to find it. I have sound-blocking ear muffs scattered all over the house and in two backpacks for when I'm studying on campus at Stanford, because at Stanford "quiet study area" seems to be an oxymoron. Studying, like everything at Stanford, is a social event.

One disturbing phenomenon I've discovered: When I use these ear muffs to block other people's noise, I gradually get more sensitive to their noise. My brain gets weaker at filtering out the distractions if I go too long without practice. I discovered that I had to force myself to NOT artificially block the noise for a few hours every few days to maintain an ability to block out the distraction in circumstances where I was UNABLE to artificially block the noise. Resistance to noisy distraction is a perceptual skill that can atrophy without practice.
This principle is likely the reason imperial units stick: they're fantastic for fast fractional math. For the same reason, it's easier to work with 360 degrees in a circle than 2*pi radians.
Optical disc in computers are on their way out, but I think (hope?) BluRay is here to stay for a while at least. I know there is iTunes, I know there is Netflix, but the data rates in both are wildly inferior...
The Senna documentary last year cost me £12 in central London, around $19 at current rates - I can't imagine it has changed massively. I was as surprised as Axel Foley: "I could get blown for 12 bucks!"
> sounds like that happened with TripAdvisor

is this a reference to another post or story? I Googled and couldn't find it
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> There are female interest groups to promote women in surgery, female only exam practice etc despite them making up the majority. Could there ever be male only revision sessions? Of course not, that would be sexist

Are women definitely the majority in surgery as opposed to medicine? My impression was that men dominated the surgical specialisms. This isn't really intended to be a knock on your argument but to ask you to double check this point.

In answer to the general point I have heard discussion of ways to encourage men to become Primary School teachers although that might have been more to balance out the role models for young children than being a matter of pure justice.
So what exactly does this mean for Meraki and its customers?
Certainly true, but the switch doesn't simply flip overnight. Take the US: the impact the Civil Rights Act had is immeasurable.

Laws can and do cause drastic change. I think we could safely say that if hypothetically the supreme court was to find prohibiting same-sex marriage as unconstitutional the impact would be far more immediate and greater than legislating on a state-by-state ad hoc basis.
There is gorilla arms, screen bounces, and screen smudges.

These things keep being repeated as if they're showstoppers, and it seems usually by people without any experience in the matter. I have been using a laptop purely by touch screen for 1-8+ hours a day for two years, and here's my experience:

- Gorilla arm simply doesn't exist. I use the laptop in a variety of setups and haven't had any problems. Yes, if your desktop PC suddenly accepted touch you'd probably want the screen much closer, likewise some laptop users with good eyesight (which I don't have - relevant since it makes me close already).

- Screen bounces do exist, but I haven't noticed them since a week or two in. I usually use the laptop with the screen up and facing backward (I don't use the keyboard), so I definitely get them. The Surface form factor does seem better for touch in a laptop, but I haven't tried it yet.

- Smudges do exist, especially if you use an on-screen keyboard so they accumulate, but in most indoor lighting they are not a problem at all. Then again, they don't bother me on my desktop screen either - if I'm looking at the screen content I don't see them.

I'm excited to see what possibilities Leap Motion provides, but at this point I think it's unlikely I'll buy a non-touch screen again. In the meantime, I'd quite like something like your last idea, and have thought about making a program to do it.
It's already replaced the "last few feet" of most Internet connections already, though!

Fiber solves "the last mile", but wireless is handy that last little bit of the way. I think that today's "wired to the home, wireless devices" will remain the most common option.
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Why are you SHOUTING programmer?
Do any of you technical types still use a word processor on a regular basis (apart from to read documents others have sent)?

I just can't remember the last time I created a document in one.

If I want to communicate, a plain text email is fine.

Want to collaborate on a document? Wiki or git versioned text file is better.

Want to publish something for others? Wordpress or straight HTML is better.

Want to make a posh looking document? LaTeX generated PDF is better.
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Except that the point of the conference was to present the audience with itself as a community. If the conference was only about the talks, then they might as well just make a YouTube channel and ask people to send them videos of talks.
The frustrating thing is that people think that they have to use a word processor where a simple text editor would suffice.
It seems there are ways:

http://forums.pythonforios.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=405
http://forums.pythonforios.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=453

Whether Apple haven't noticed yet, or are just turning a blind eye, I don't know.
Tablets don't preclude keyboards (see the Microsoft surface pro for their take on the problem). Also tablets don't preclude attaching to a 30" monitor and your external keyboard and mouse combo of choice. I suspect that in two-three years time I'll be running xmonad and vim on a tablet more powerful than most current laptops and with a choice of keyboard solutions every bit as good as the one on my macbook.
This can become a no true scotsman argument. What's the difference between political correctness and anti-discrimination? Is saying "spouse" or "partner" (instead of "wife") to a man you know is married politically correct or anti-discrimination?

Mostly PC is not about avoiding "offence", but about ensuring under-represented minority is not felt left out purely for being in that group. Despite what right wing tabloid newspapers print, very few people are actually offended by the mention of the word Christmas. Instead saying "Happy Christmas" implies you aren't thinking about the non-christians, and/or that there is nothing wrong with not thinking about non-christians. Saying "Seasons Greetings" is a code for "We are aware there are non-christians here, and we want to let them know we think you're just as welcome here as christians".
I've actually done this thing, as in I've participated in a 10-day Vipassana meditation course, during which participants cannot listen to music or interact with each other.

I can say that forcing silence upon myself resulted in a "mental withdrawal", if you will. It wasn't very pleasant, the music gets louder and louder and quite unbearable at times. That said, I did indeed see some effects at the end, in a form of periods of silence in my mind(which was kind of spectacular for me; there's some music in the back of my head at all times). My opinion is that even longer period of non-listening would yield even bigger results.

I really recommend the experience(the deprivation, I mean; the Vipassana part is also cool, but kind of orthogonal). Even though it's very demanding, you can really put things into perspective and learn a lot about how your body reacts to things. It also gives you a completely different outlook on stuff like solitary confinement.
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It's fun sometimes to go through the beer aisle and look at the company information on the bottom of the bottle 6-pack. You'd be surprised who owns what.
If you're in a under-represented group seeing that "all people who do Ruby/Tech/IT/knitting/nursing/$ACTIVITY are members of $OTHER_GROUP" can be just another reminder that your group shouldn't be here, that you'll stick out, that you'll be the different one here.

We have numerous expressions in the English language saying that lots of little things can build up: The straw that broke the camel's back, death by a thousand cuts. Let's try to get rid of as many straws as we can, and get rid of as many cuts as we can.
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I guess it was bound to happen. Does anyone know if it's real or not : http://awmconf.github.com/
That sounds like reverting to the style of much older word processing software such as WordStar.
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I wonder why SoftMaker doesn't push itself in its home market hard enough. They are at least not worse than Open/LibreOffice.

On a different note, it surprises me there doesn't seem to be any effort on a LyX-like editor, probably less tied to LaTeX (LyX already has to do a lot itself, it even got at least one renderer (LyXHTML) that doesn't involve LaTeX at all).

That would be a word processor I'd use (otherwise it is as jiggy2011 says).
If you are working with people using Markdown editors built on top of different libraries, they might not really be 100% compatible. John Gruber's spec leaves quite a few ambiguities.

http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/faq.html#what-are-some-...
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markd...
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encourage men to become Primary School teachers although that might have been more to balance out the role models for young children than being a matter of pure justice.

It can be both.
"Numerous statements concerning LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice are incorrect or outdated," they said in the letter, adding that the support of LibreOffice and OpenOffice is at a professional level these days. "The assessment of the evaluation that compatibility to Microsoft Office cannot be reached in the next few years, is also wrong," they said.

This is not the best way to respond to losing a customer. Though a lack of customer relations is in favor of participation in an ideology is one of FOSS's great weaknesses.

The Council changed vendors. They had no choice because Open Office was killed off.
Most of the negatives you mention are perhaps styled in the language of religion, but they're underpinned by deeper causes.

The Middle East isn't solely a religious conflict, it's very much an ethnic one as well. Oppressive countries are oppressive, they're not liberal countries that just happened to read in a book that they should kill and maim those that worship in the wrong way. Closely knit groups (families, societies) are going to sanction deviators regardless of religion.
Syntax colouring is unreliable. I want a visible distinction between constants and variables even when editing in black and white, and it's more important to make variables readable than to make constants readable. It's as simple as that.
This kind of reminds me about affirmative action. This is an oxymoronic action where people attempt to reverse race/religious/sexual discrimination effects by discriminating by race/religion/sex, but in a "positive" way.

This can even apply where no discrimination was intended until the do-gooders come along and attempt to apply their own reality distortion fields to a situation.
If they won't wikify all they need to do is add comments to their page via disqus or some other third party system.

Then people can post corrections and examples.

They can disallow links if they are worried about spam.
I don't think so. Over the last Х years I've tried using touchpads on Dell, Acer, Asus and other laptops (Apple's family included) with different hardware and software and came to a sad conclusion that there is no way I could use any laptop completely without a mouse, even though I try to avoid using it as much as I can even on a desktop. Touchpads feel like extremely slow and imprecise input method, a real distraction and obstacle in interaction with OS or app. So, I think that while something definitely may be in the drivers, there's another part in this problem where you have to decide which level of comfort do you agree to drop to when switching from a mouse to a touchpad/trackpad.
Strange that if you create a Word Processing format so byzantine that even the combined might of IBM, Sun, Google and the open source community can't reverse engineer it, (and that you yourself struggle with when porting to Mac OS X or Win 8 RT) that the result is people considering you the safe option for their government data.
> noisy people is not that they're inconsiderate, but that they don't have any train of thought to interrupt

I once have read an article about introverts vs. extroverts and the articles conclusion was that extroverts need to communicate with others in order to reflect on their ideas, while introverts tend to do reflection with themselves.

So, according to this article, if you tell extroverts to be quiet you are actually interrupting their train of thoughts.

Being an introvert myself, I would have never come to this conclusion on my own.
Political correctness had taken hold in local government by the early 1980s

I must point out Section 28 in the UK ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28 ). It was passed in 1988, and banned local authorities from "promoting homosexuality". This was wildly interpreted as banning any mention of homosexuality in schools (amoung other things). It's the height of the AIDS epidemic and you can't teach gay kids in school how to have safe sex, and you can't tell them it'll OK to be gay, you can't have any books that have gay characters. It was repealed in 2003.

Political incorrectness and discrimination were enshrined in local government law in the 1980s.
An AWS micro is designed for burstable CPU loads, i.e. Websites. Performing a CPU intensive task will never do well. Amazon even says this in their own documentation.

The second fault I have is that articles like this, is that they only every look at the OnDemand price, which most people using AWS seriously don't pay. AWS has reserved pricing and spot both of which will dramatically drop the pricing. Maybe not as inexpensively as Joyent, but much much closer.
Efficient text editor usage is still voodoo to anyone who isn't a hacker
It's weird, because it is Imperial for some things,and Metric for others.

Temperature: Either

Building Materials: Metric

TV Sizes: Imperial

Beer: Imperial

Soft Drinks: Metric
omg why :/
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Do you mean that formatting itself is superfluous or that everyone should learn something like Markdown?

I'm a geek and I don't particularly enjoy using Markdown. I know wysiwyg editors can be frustrating but solve that problem rather than reverting to the modern equivalent of Wordstar formatting codes in some fit of neo-ludditism.
The ruby "community" is visibly a lot more snobbish and condescending than other languages of similar power (python); the whole ruby culture seems to be this toxic one where you're respected in proportion to how rude you are. The whole tone of this article is a good example, actually. Note the complete denial that there might be tradeoffs and legitimate reasons not to use ruby; rather, anyone not using it must be an idiot.
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I've been doing all my editing in plain text (vim if you must know) for about 6 months. Then I use the wonderful PanDoc [1] to convert it to anything I need (usually PDF, sometimes .docx).

Everything's much simpler and much more peaceful.

[1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
I don't understand why Joyent clings to a dead operating system.
Are they planning to single-handedly keep solaris alive?

Cloud computing is a commodity. Many (most?) customers use multiple clouds in parallel. Learning and maintaining the intricacies of a niche OS in this environment is a nonsensical proposition.

And for what? For a few percentage points on a CPU benchmark? Seriously?
Want to collaborate on a document?

Want to make a posh looking document?

I'd like to live in this world of yours, where everybody is comfortable with Wiki, git, and even LaTeX.

Seriously, even most technical types cry out in dismay when they try LaTeX.