Comment Re:Funny! (Score 2) 182
S 19 13' E 156 56'
Actually, Sandy Island is S 19 13' E 159 56' not E 156, maybe this is the reason why they cant find it!
Comment Re:poor choices for locations (Score 2) 430
Could someone explain to me where water would come in the manufacturing process of LCDs?
LCD - "Liquid" crystal display, they intend to manufacture the cheap models, with water as Liquid.
Comment Re:Trade war (Score 1) 265
Which means most electronic devices of today. Including the iPhone.
iPhone is also made in Brazil and Tvs, Xbox, the list goes on. Why? Because Brazil puts tariffs on anything made outside of south america, (cars from Mexico is excluded as well).
Comment Microsoft is betting on next wave (Score 2) 183
Microsoft don't bother too much in losing this round with windows 8 in the tablets market, they know that is an uphill battle.
They are betting in the windows 9. They have 90% of desktop market? If they make a huge mistake with the windows 8 on desktop, they will get 80% of desktop market? So on the next software cycle, they have a lot a people already using windows 8 GUI, because they don't have really any other choices, and will be a more easy sell the next tablet with Windows 9, because they will share the same interface with the "previous windows 8" GUI. Right now they dont have the APPs, dont have the developers, but with the windows 8, this will change, people will develop software for windows 8 interface, and will be ready to develop or port the software to new Windows 9.
Submission + - Programming languages not copyrightable, rules highest EU court (zdnet.com)
perplexing.reader writes: The European Court of Justice ruled this morning that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language it is written in cannot be protected by copyright. The court judment. http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2012-05/cp120053en.pdf
Submission + - Sony PlayStation Orbis Not Going To Allow Legacy Games (slashgear.com) 1
KatchooNJ writes: "It appears that the Sony PlayStation Orbis is not going to be fitted to allow for legacy gaming. It seems that Sony has been slowly moving away from this for cost reasons, even with the PS3's ability to play PS1 and PS2 games. Is this the biggest news or is it that there is more talk about trying to elbow out the used game market? Will gamers revolt and boycott?"
Submission + - Interstellar Space Travel Should Remain A Mind-Warping Pipe Dream (vice.com)
pigrabbitbear writes: "The Alcubierre warp drive, theorized by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre, essentially proposes a mechanism where a spacecraft may actually travel faster than the speed of light, allowing for interstellar space travel. More elaborately speaking, this states that the spacecraft’s motion, in its insanely high speeds, would create a situation where the area in front of the spacecraft would diminish, as the area behind it would expand. At this point, the spacecraft would land itself in a theoretical “wave bubble,” and would essentially whip the bubble so that the spacecraft would travel faster than the speed of light, via the bubble’s propulsion, not the spacecraft itself."
Comment Re:An effort to avoid tariffs in Brazil (Score 1) 148
Microsoft also will manufacture Xbox in Brazil.
in Portuguese http://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2011/09/microsoft-anuncia-na-terca-producao-do-xbox-no-brasil-fonte.html
