Comment Exploit (Score 2) 175
There's an exploit for it already: stickers.
Comment Re:Qt ecosystem... (Score 1) 212
No I don't. :)
Comment Re:Qt ecosystem... (Score 1) 212
Yes. Google loves Java and guess who got in bed? Oracle.
Comment Re:Qt ecosystem... (Score 0) 212
No. It will take years to deprecate. Said Qt as primary, all the rest something else.
Comment Qt ecosystem... (Score 2, Interesting) 212
So, how long will take google to trash the java stuff and absorb Qt as the primary toolkit/sdk ecosystem?
With or without it how will they fight the Nokia patent pool brought in court by their puppet master?
Comment Re:You can't just count packages and draw conclusi (Score 1) 345
Sure, I'm one of that five.
Comment Re:it's a figure of speech (Score 1) 102
Like the red phone at White House.
Comment Social networking is not their business. (Score 1) 470
With all that data they're getting everyday, the real loss will be at who had it given. That data will be very useful for the next 50 years and if they go under radar they will have more freedom to work and sell it.
Comment Re:I had the same problem, but with Sony. (Score 1) 292
No. The cause of "dead" pixels was dust as it didn't let them to be back-lighten. These LCD metal frames aren't sealed or tighten.
Comment I had the same problem, but with Sony. (Score 4, Interesting) 292
After 20 pixels went out I took my Sony Vaio to repair, as it was under warranty terms. After 40 days they call me back and said that it didn't qualify under warranty because it was dirt between LCD and backlight, and yes, they would repair if I pay 800 euros for a 16.4 inch panel. I must say that at that time a new one laptop cost exactly the same price. We have a law in Portugal that any repair can't exceed the original equipment price.. it's funny.
So I didn't accept it and after 200 or 300 pixels, I just disassembled my Sony Vaio 16.4 inch panel made in North Korea (yeah..) by Sharp and cleaned it, it took about 4 hours of my time but its perfect now.
Don't ask me how the hell the dust got between those two layers.
Replacing Traditional Storage, Databases With In-Memory Analytics 124
storagedude writes "Traditional databases and storage networks, even those sporting high-speed solid state drives, don't offer enough performance for the real-time analytics craze sweeping corporations, giving rise to in-memory analytics, or data mining performed in memory without the limitations of the traditional data path. The end result could be that storage and databases get pushed to the periphery of data centers and in-memory analytics becomes the new critical IT infrastructure. From the article: 'With big vendors like Microsoft and SAP buying into in-memory analytics to solve Big Data challenges, the big question for IT is what this trend will mean for the traditional data center infrastructure. Will storage, even flash drives, be needed in the future, given the requirement for real-time data analysis and current trends in design for real-time data analytics? Or will storage move from the heart of data centers and become merely a means of backup and recovery for critical real-time apps?'"
Comment Re:US (Score 2) 302
Yeah... right, for extra functionality like faster charge or something else better we have this extra special model specific cable.
Micro-USB Cellphone Charger Becomes EU Standard 302
An anonymous reader writes "The European Commission has put into effect a June 2009 agreement stating that major cellphone manufacturers should standardize their charging/data connection ports to the popular Micro-USB format. CEN-CENELEC and ETSI provided the standards by which these 14 companies will abide to make cell phone recharging and data transfer easy." Apple may even bring the next-gen iPad along for the ride.
Submission + - Facebook Disabled Wikileaks Whistle Blower Account (bradleymanning.org)
Nuno Sa writes: Facebook disabled access to Bradley Manning's Support Network facebook page. After many protests access was restored. Private First Class Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst with the US Army in Baghdad, was arrested in May 2010, suspected of providing the Collateral Murder video to WikiLeaks. Manning is currently imprisoned in the brig at US Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Virginia, awaiting trial.
Another coincidence in this Wikileaks saga or just "business as usual" for Person of the Year's site Facebook? You can read the original article here.
Another coincidence in this Wikileaks saga or just "business as usual" for Person of the Year's site Facebook? You can read the original article here.
Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed 1352
A survey of American voters by World Public Opinion shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. One of the most interesting questions was about President Obama's birthplace. 63 percent of Fox viewers believe Obama was not born in the US (or that it is unclear). In 2003 a similar study about the Iraq war showed that Fox viewers were once again less knowledgeable on the subject than average. Let the flame war begin!
