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You can try MS office. If you dont want to buy/install it you can just use the in browser version. All you need is a MS account and you can also export the files as pdf..

Well, some people think of skydrive as superior to DB (myself included). E.g. if you are a student and bought MS Office, you get 20gb skydrive storage for free. Also your normal free storage is at 7gb. And it's conveniently tyed into outlook.com, which still has push support unlike gmail. Also (of course personal tAste, too) but I prefere MS's online Office over google's.

I think skydrive support would be great :)!

Btw, really really well done from what I tried!

Well, while it makes a brute-force attack somewhat easier, it is still certainly not easy. While I haven't tried it, I suppose Facebook has some strong brute-force prevention methods (rate limiting, for instance, captchas etc).

Most Facebook account's get compromised through social engineering / keyloggers. And that risk is not increased by facebooks login implementation.

It might have something to do with my PC (i7 x220) but I cannot stand the Firefox viewer for anything but plain text. I find it very lacking in terms of performance compared to a native pdf viewer. Everytime a somewhat complex pdf opens up (mostly formulas, few images), the fan begins to rev up significantly..

i am not sure if that is possible actually, since the kindle's browser's connection is routed through amazon's servers to optimise the webpage for the kindle and to compress it. therefore it might not be possible to access local pages on it. although there could certainly be a hack allowing this.

Unfortunately does not have a wacom digitiser nor touch screen...

I am really surprised that no one mentioned the lack of OneNote, yet. Although it might not actually apply to libreoffice, if their ultimate goal is to replace ms office though then some really really good OneNote alternative has to be developed. OneNote and esp. Excel have to have an extremely good alternative for MS Office to become somewhat less important.

they offer MS exhange support instead. which is really nice. esp. also due to push support.

in japan, it is even more prevalent to some extend than in germany. e.g., amazon will ship to any convenience store for you to pick your parcel up. raktuen etc. as well! and there are way, way more convenience stores in japan than anything else (apart from vendin machines :))!

I wish I could go, most likely going to be great!

I'd recommend anyone to go, if possible. Knowing from the Tokyo Events, it's a great gathering :)!

Even worse is, that in their kickstarter video they even say that the "old way" of increasing processor frequency does not work anymore and we therefore have to scale the amount of cores.

It does not make any sense at all for them to add the numbers up, aside from being able to present a huge single number for marketing purposes. Even non tech people understand that a 4 x 2ghz processor is not a 8ghz processor....

also, if e.g. the algos for the rank of the articles would be known exactly, it would make it substentially easier to game them...

Well, if you are on a FAT32 file system (e.g. often used for SD cards, USB Keys etc.), then you cannot store files which exceed 4gb in size if IIRC. Please correct me if I am wrong!

Worse than the battery life implications are the security implications. I do not ever want to connect to some random, sniffed wifi network and have automatically all my data pulled to my notebook.

However, as you will most certainly be able to disable that feature, I think it is a great addition, since there seems to be no downside. If you do not like it, do not install it :)

He was referring to the inflation rate. What he was saying was (as far as I understood it), if you safe e.g. $10k now, in e.g. 10years you could not buy as much with it as you could at the time you earned the money. Therefore, you "lose" money (or rather purchasing power) by not using it.

Ah, great! Thank you very much. Looks exactly like what I needed. He does include a link to a book on .NET basics for C/C++ programmers, too!

The EU does certainly not place restrains on vendors which DOUBLE their costs. Is Windows twice as expensive? Are apps on any appstore twice as expensive?

This is just Adobe trying to rake more cash in. They are betting that companies are not going to switch from Adobe products to something else because a licence is twice as expensive. So far, it seems to have worked.

The problem which might arise is also, that being locked out of your email account will most likely result in being locked out of any "recover password" functions anywhere on the web. Thus, you need a backup of your email and preferably a working email address, too!

The problem is, that it prevents you from resetting passwords, too. Which could very well lock you out of your own accounts.

You do not have to give GMail up, not sure where you read that...

The point was, that exclusively relying on it is not smart, if email is important to you. You can easily use the full benefits of your gmail convenience while still having a fully working fallback. There are even two ways of doing it, one would be to simply forward your email, or using your own domain on google apps.

I have been there the last few times and I was never disappointed! There were roughly about 30 people I would guess, working on very different things (arduino hackers, lawyers, web devs, firmware programmers, people who just enjoy reading HN etc.). The majority foreigners and most Japanese people who attended spoke a decent amount of English. However, at the last meeting (or the one before) it was maybe around 50/50 foreigners/japanese...

The atmosphere was very relaxed and "open", so you got to talk to everybody who you wanted to, which made for some really interesting discussions.

Afterwards, I'd say about half the people or more headed out to the "Tap room", a nice bar with all sorts of beer. If you're in Tokyo and have never attended before, I'd give it a go.

Well, there always is "the small wifi ipad", which is called ipod touch ;). Actually, it may be a very good fit for that purpose.

Actually, I do not think so. Apple would have nothing to gain from integrating own Apps further and/or producing more of them.

However, they have something to gain if the mail app is not good enough for powerusers and all of them buy Sparrow instead. That saves them a whole lot of developer/maintenance time and gets them 30% of every e.g. Sparrow sold. While that may not be Apples main incentive, it is definitely something I think.

Derek Sivers: There is no speed limit. Actually, very true I think.

http://sivers.org/kimo

Your Starcraft example is flawed, because Starcraft is NON OSS. Therefore, they chose other means of cheating prevention. You might argue that it is security by obscurity but it is working more or less to a certain extend.

I have an example of OSS software with yet no cheater. Check out xonotic (www.xonotic.org), a heavily modified quake based shooter. They partly implement anti-cheat functionality by more or less shifting tasks from the client side to the server side, making e.g. wallhacks impossible. Also they use encryption for certain packages to prevent them from being tapered with. Aimbots are another thing, but I have yet to see one. I didn't really dig into the security features though, that is just what I picked up by casually browsing the forums...

It will actually ask you to chose a browser before anything...

This is ridiculous. Of course I hope it is going to work best on the MS Tablet. Why not? It'd be a fail if it wouldn't work best on their own OS. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with that, in fact, it is called decent engineering. And if e.g. Apple does not want to provide the same access to iOS as MS has to Windows, it will not work as slick.

Also, I heared Apple is leveraging Safari on iOS, where is the law?

it carries a thoroughly positive connotation with it, though, as suggested by the 「歓」。

I am actually surprised that the battery only lasts 3-4h on a mbp on linux. on the x220 i get around 6h with the 6cell battery, obviously depending on use.

As far as I know, you could do delta uploads with encrypted files. It should not be any different if the file itself is encrypted. For the same reason you can e.g. use rsync delta syncs with encrypted files...