OP here, could you reach out to me at jjunos@gmail.com? I would love to talk to you about this opportunity, and I can pass on my CV to you. Thanks!

OP here, is your company transparency.org? If you could reach out to me at jjunos@gmail.com, I would love to talk about any opportunities.

You'll also have to understand that G&D LIFEBLOOD is the sim market. They get a cut of every sim card they make (also with the visa/mc cards you get). In essence, G&D is a company that is on life support with the new waves of technology (software sims, electronic payments, etc) unless they start to innovate on how they generate their revenue.

Why they haven't gone Software sims? Pretty simple, Carriers are fighting tooth and nail to not go that road. The carriers last piece of the phone that they own is the Sim card and they will fight to keep it that way. They don't want you to have the ability to just switch carriers in 10 seconds by simply receiving a new sim card to your phone via binary sms.

Which is also why they are pushing NFC technology into the SIM card as well. I wish Google all the luck, but google's NFC technology is going to be moot if the Carriers have their way with NFC.

And THIS is how funding for games should be done.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/posts/190757

Two days of funding, $1 million. If the funding reaches $1.5 million, the OSX and Linux versions are in, which is almost a foregone conclusion at the rate it's currently going. Best quote so far?

Amen.

Not sure why you have difficulty believing this. Our company does major mobile dev, and I can attest to this. It really depends on each company, but almost all companies usually ask you to buy all the hardware. Unless you are the one or two companies that everyone is after, why would you expect another company to pay for your hardware? Don't even ask about trying to get early releases. The only company that has been consistently open about their handsets with us lately (and this could be a special cases with us) is Blackberry, who was willing to provide both handsets AND early releases of their upcoming handsets. Probably because they are losing market share (?).

I can tell you don't work in the mobile sector. From my own company, we do heavy mobile development and we litterally have cabinets FULL of mobile phones. Not just one of each, we generally have the same phone with multiple versions on it as well. It's the nature of the beast. We've found issues that for device specific reasons need to be worked around. We catch a lot of the issues in our automated testing, but we do a sanity test on all major devices and revisions. Any that come up later on, we need a real world testing environment. I have no idea how you think Google can fix this, unless you thing Google is going to come around and start telling mobile handset developers to use X cpu, Y gpu, with no additional mods), with Z version. Good luck with that.

That's weird....I believe that when the dataset is bigger than ram, you just break it into different servers (or just get more ram). This isn't anything new, this is actually old OLD technology, and you can find cases of this everywhere (google, microsoft uses it for hotmail, etc), called the Brick architecture or something like that.

Actually, a ton of research was done on these types of architectures by Jim Gray (who tragically was lost at sea a few years ago) at Microsoft. Not sure how many of these links are still active but: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gray/

From my own experience, at a job a few years ago, we were dealing with a little over 1 petabyte of data, and the system was engineered to NEVER hit platter, and to always have data in ram.

lol, well I did actually bring my helmet and my gloves to work since I bike...

WAIT A MINUTE IS THIS MY BOSS!?

uh, not sure if you even read the original article but..

There IS an open implementation of java, the openJDK, which is why this is being shut down (IBM who was the main contributor to Harmony has moved it's resources to openJDK).

But I guess it's more in line with slashdots javahate if we ignore those facts.

Are you sure about that?

And more to the fact, why would they? I don't believe any of their message transfering is encrypted, so why would India need to ask them for it? Note, blackberries encrypt by default. Also note, in the articles linked, they talk about Nokia giving access, so this isn't a blackberry only thing.

RIM is also not giving them access to the BES servers it seems, so they are pushing back....and to be honest, this ENTIRE slashdot submission is pretty much just here for more blackberry bashing (which seems to be pretty popular these days). This was originally announced 6 months ago, but now it makes the slashdot headlines.....

False sense of security.

There have been studies, and more well known, mythbusters did an episode on something very similar (is talking on a cellphone while driving just as bad as drinking and driving), and while mythbusters is a bit hollywood science at times, they confirmed the myth. Texting isn't that far off. And in other studies, is just as bad.

But don't take my word for it, take a look at all the studies and materials.

There's a reason why texting/talking on the phone is rapidly becoming illegal while driving. But hey! Maybe in Nebraska, facts and truths aren't the norm!