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  1. Re:The problem is the culture, not a lack of fairs on Sputnik Moment Or No, Science Fairs Are Lagging · · Score: 1

    That's true for Brazil too. We have far less engineers than needed, but say you graduated on engineering on a party and you are automatically viewed as a smart guy and a probable success later on life. If women in the US are like you are saying... Wow, that's dumb!

  2. Re:What Western World? on Brazil Using Smartphones For Planning the Future · · Score: 1

    So, "The West" is, according to you, countries that are, at the same time, culturally. economic and politically similar. I see. Is just a way to say "the west is better than the east", don't you think? Japan: highly developed, high HDI... But not culturally similar. Not West. So, it must be East, like... Well, Cambodja! They look alike, don't they? Hong Kong... Hey, East! I don't care that they have a bigger life expectancy than the US! East, like... Mongolia!

  3. Re:Backs down = on Vodafone Backs Down In Row With Android Users · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That is the problem with the whole "regulation is bad" dogma. In Brazil telecom companies are forced to use the standards, in a way that I can freely hop between carriers at will. And my phone number is MY phone number. No matter what carrier I contract, my number goes with me. That's how a free market was supposed to work. Competition, folks.

  4. Re:But do apps work with x86? on Intel Porting Android To x86 For Netbooks and Tablets · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you are talking about the type of App that you find in Android Market, those aren't neither binary nor interpreted per se. They run in Dalvik, a Java virtual machine made for hardware with constraints in terms of memory and processor speed (wikipedia). In plain english: yes, they will. No, there are no applications with native code in the Market. If you port kernel, middleware and key applications, every single app in Android Market that runs in Android 2.2 will run in x86.

  5. Why bother? on Fifth of Android Apps Expose Private Data · · Score: 1

    Anyone in the business that read CNET is surely a bad professional, sometimes even in the ethical sense. A bad magazine, that thrives on FUD to sell.

  6. Proprietary product, anyone? on Oracle Shuttering OpenSSO · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oracle is probably trying to leverage her own Identity Management product against IBM and Novell, who are kings on this market.

  7. Re:Anti-Union on NY To Replace IT Vendors With State Workers · · Score: 1

    Yes, and I'm sure that you have independent data that supports your story. Also, you can't compare a fed gov IT job in, let's say, NSA with an IT worker in Papa Joe's furniture shop. Specifically, which US states are paying 20% higher than private sector for IT positions?

  8. IPv6 on IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated · · Score: 1

    So, when will the network providers start to offer IPv6 connections?

  9. Re:Not listed phones works too, i.e. Nokia E51 on Nokia To Make GPS Navigation Free On Smartphones · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've not only checked that page, as I also tested it buy downloading the software. As I said before, you download the software, but no navigation license. I have an N95 8GB. I really would love to be wrong. Unfortunately, I'm not.

  10. Re:Not listed phones works too, i.e. Nokia E51 on Nokia To Make GPS Navigation Free On Smartphones · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, you can download it for non listed phones. But just the software. The license for navigation isn't free for non listed phones. I have an N95 8GB. Did you saw it in the list? Neither did I...

  11. Of course, the operators will be prosecuted on FBI Obtains Phone Records With a Post-it Note · · Score: 1

    Or sued. Not the agents or supervisors, of course. But some low level telecom operator will pay. They need a scapegoat. Now.

  12. Re:Working for Google on USPTO Grants Google a Patent On MapReduce · · Score: 1

    Defensive patent portfolio. If you don't now what it is, well, just google it.

  13. Re:Wow, so yet another screen size on Motorola's Rumored Android Phone Focuses on Screen Size · · Score: 1

    I'm not a developer, but even so, I have a hard time with this so called screen size problem. I'm typing this on a 19 inch 1440x900 screen, but Chrome would work just fine in 800x600, or 1024x768 or my 10.1 inch, 1368x768 netbook screen. Why is so hard develop for Android with regard to screen size? Nevertheless, it seems that all Android 2.0 have the same resolution, but different sizes. Or am I wrong?

  14. Re:Pathetic on Nokia Claims Patent Violations in Most Apple Products · · Score: 1

    Nokia has a 35% global market share. Not so good in the american market, but, nevertheless, I would not call a company that big pathetic. But as we are talking about free fall, Apple today is down by -1.19%. Nokia is up +0.31%.

  15. Re:Verizon's Droid? on Bizarre Droid Auto-Focus Bug Revealed · · Score: 1

    And, in countries that doesn't acknowledge the existence of software patents, you will have multitouch in Motorola Milestone. Yes, the Droid have hardware to do multitouch. Hack to enable it in 5, 4, 3...

  16. Re:nothing new here on Gigantic Air Gun To Blast Cargo Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    Fuel is not an explosive material. Fuel plus oxidizer plus fuse (e.g., a gun shell) is explosive material. Even then, it will not explode inside the barrel or in transit unless you really want to. Next question, please.

  17. Re:Interesting poll on the article site on Model Drops Lawsuit After Outing Anonymous Blogger · · Score: 1

    I find amusing that we can compare a Fashion Student calling a model a whore with the Founding Fathers writing letters to the King. I suggest you read the judge's reason to lift the anonymity protection in this case. Anonymity is a protection for political/ideological criticism, not a shield for defamation without responsabilization.

  18. Re:excellent sales story on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 1

    The problem with Xen is its I/O perfomance sucks donkey balls - all I/O is performed in software by a qemu process, and on the mailing lists they recommend you pin that to a processor to improve performance... but that's a poor hack, and doesn't really work.

    VMWare server may not scale but it's ten times better than Xen for this. ESX or ESXi beat it sideways.

    Not in my experience, but, anyway, I don't use Xen on a full virtualized setup. I simply can't see the point if I can use it paravirtualized. As Windows 2008 can be run in a paravirtualized setup, I believe that you won't have any IO performance issues, since the guest OS will not have to handle any qemu process. Maybe. As I said, I never used Xen with a full virtualized setup outside the lab. This guy reached the same conclusions. "When the host OS can be modified, much higher performance numbers are obtained"[...]

  19. Re:excellent sales story on When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails · · Score: 1

    Actually, Xen does paravirtualization very well. We use a flavor of it (a major enterprise one, but I'm not paid to tell names) with great success in a production environment. On our environment at least, it has a better performance than ESX in the same hardware. We don't use Windows servers very much, but this flavor (hint, hint) works very well with Windows in a paravirtualized setup. A little better than ESX, but, as always, your mileage may vary.

  20. Re:"coming" on DisplayLink Releases LGPL USB Graphics Code · · Score: 1
    It really worked. The link on TFA shows that the Mimo Monitor is sold out.

    Well it worked... I've already used up all my actual graphics outputs and now I'm trying to think of an excuse (other than "it's cool") to get an expensive USB touchscreen.

    Damn companies trying to trick me with that whole "making stuff I want to buy" scam.

  21. And then, someone will make a mash-up with Google on Test Driving the Wolfram Alpha · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And what we will have? A computational data engine working with the biggest search engine. I, for one, welcome our new cybernetic overlord, Skynet, err, Wolfram Omega-Google.

  22. Re:Still not..... on A New Way To Produce Hydrogen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... Still not economically viable, but hopefully continued research in hydrogen will replace the hype about plant based ethanol, which is not really a solution (because we need to eat corn, etc).

    Despite what some farmers want you to think, there ate plenty of ways to make biofuel other than corn. Soy, rapeseed, jatropha, mahua, mustard, flax, sunflower, palm oil, hemp, field pennycress, pongamia pinnata and algae are some examples. In Brazil we use sugar cane since 1978 with great success, and flex fuel engines now have 50% market share of the vehicle fleet (excluding diesel-powered engines).

  23. Re:Do the math... on Spectrum Fees May Preclude US Low-Cost Cellular · · Score: 1

    In my country government regulation mandates that companies must provide basic services with "nothing but a phone". But what really make prices go down is that I can change my carrier whenever I want and keep my phone number. You have to love when regulation makes a market more competitive than it would like to be.

  24. Re:Big brother knows where you are on Google Maps To Add 'Friend' GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    Sadly I think most of today's generation has forgotten why 1984 is scary. Especially if you wrap it up in pretty colors and throw a 2.0 and a medallion that says "BETA" on it.

    Ok, that guy is REALLY overrated. Insightful? He really thinks that only Google can track him? Hey, did you ever heard about cell towers? Your phone company can track you down anytime! "But they would not do that without a court order... Oh, wait!"

  25. Re:To Clarify on In Finland, Nokia May Get Its Own Snooping Law · · Score: 1

    In Brazil, is completely legal to a company or organization monitor email or any other traffic sent from or to company servers. The company has to make a public statement regarding that they monitor all traffic, and that's all. In my opinion, that's fair. Company time, company data. In my house, however, that's a completely different issue.