Yep. And then all that money that would be used to pay salaries that would be used on expenses locally, making the local economy work, will be redirected to Bill Gate's pockets.

I remember when Munchen waived Windows, in 2004. This was noticed a lot on Open Source news, as Quilombo Digital and BR-Linux in Brazil.

I did my share of criticize - Star Office was not ready at that time for the task, and a lot of documents were locked down in a proprietary format that would be a nightmare to convert from and back to be shared. As it's nowadays, by the way.

And things are gonna be worse.

When in a few years, when all our documents will be locked in a proprietary cloud (that anyone with the right influence will have access) or stored locally in a format that you must pay to read, remember 2004.

It's weird, but I have different feelings about Facebook (other that being a piece of shit - I was happy with Orkut and didn't knew it).

But I do my part: I'm impolite and rude with spam and bulshit like "oh-my-god, is the new NAZsgulI!!". Three strikes, and they're gone - I ban the S.O.B. and problem solved.

Facebook is like real lfe (tm): tag around with people you like, avoid people you don't really like, and everything will be fine - unless you are the kind of people you don't like :-)

One thing doesn't excludes the other.

There's a man-power shortage on T.I. in the whole world, and everybody wants to pay less to the ones that are still working in the field.

For two reasons:

1) It's easier to MARK the heap on the beginning of the task, using it as there's no tomorrow and then just RELEASE everything at once on the end. (nothing prevents you from deleting some pointers in the job to save memory).

2) You avoid HEAP fragmentation, easing the memory management's life.

Anyway, it appears to me that you missed the point. I was criticizing the pretense "no overhead garbage collector" from Azul.

MARK / RELEASE from the Pascal days used to work pretty well - this is the less overhead "garbage collector" possible.

It's impossible to have a Garbage Collector without some kind of overhead - all you can do is try to move the overhead to a place where it's not noticed.

There's no such thing as Free Lunch.

Yes, it will. It's not common, but it happens - and when it happens, it's nasty. Pretty nasty.

But not so nasty as micromanaging the memory by myself, so I keep licking my wounds and moving on with it.

(but sometimes would be nice to have fine control on it)

whoops....

I.Q. :-)

People usually make the big mistake of taking himselfs as measure for everybody else.

Turing was a hell of a smart guy - I bet my mouse that he had this mindset ("everybody is more or less smart as me") when he designed that Test.

By the way, there's a joke around here that states: The sum of all Q.I. in the Earth is a constant - and the population is growing...

There's more instructed people nowadays, but smart? I'm afraid that not - Turing didn't live to see what we are nowadays.

There was a reason USSR give up making processors in the 80's.

I can't see what could be possibly changed from that time - au contraire, the status quo beame even more hardened.

Easy. You americans charge 20 times more for the shipping than the chinese.

Simple like that.

Last year I got some arduino spare parts costing about 40USD. I got free shipping, It took 3 months to get delivered at my home, but the shipping was free.

The same parts on eBay would cost me 45, 47 USD. Not bad. But the cheapest shipping would cost me another 50USD.

Do your math.

On the other hand, PR0N is going to rock! :-)

Yep. Until not that much time ago, M.L. was a fine place to buy and sell. But from some years to now, things changed - user's support is near zero, you just can't make a complaint online. Too much rules are relaxed, what favors bad faith sellers.

EBay was a partner until recently, but what we heard is that eBay got fed with all that and decided to do business directly around here. What is one of the best noticies we got in years : we *need* competition around here.

I found something here to supports what I'm saying. Google translating here.

I stand corrected.

Please read "Because IBM didn't improve the PowerPC processor line enough to meet Sony's new requirements since them" instead.

There's nothing so bad that could not be worse.

eBay is going to Brazil. Guess what? I'm happy.

Our currently "best" auction site, Mercado Livre, is so broke that sometimes I speculate if these guys are operating in bad faith (I know for sure that they would had be sued if they operated in USA).

Yes, exactly that countries. Now, keep in your mind that only a tiny fraction of PS3 are currently "jailfree", as only the first models (the "Fat PS/3") run the firmware version that allowed the hack, and only a even smaller fraction of that fraction was never updated (downgrading the firmware is risky - usually bricks the console).

On the other hand, the hacked XBox "installed based" is huge. Every single friend of mine that are XBox users has a hacked console to play pirated games. About half has also an original XBox to play Network.

The other half that are PS3 owners, I'm not aware of a single one that has a pirate capable PS3. We all buy our games (most of the time, second hand) or download them (legally) from PSN.

And Yes, we're doing this on a country where pirating goes unchecked for decades (no, I'm not chinese! =D).

That's something to think on.