Questões de Inglês do ENEM

GOOGLE TV: BOOM OR BUST

By: Tim Bajarin (10.18.2010)

The industry has been trying to bring IPTV to your TV since 1997. What makes Google and its partners think they'll be successful?

I have a question for you. Do you want to view the Internet on your TV? With all of the activity in IPTV these days, this is one of the key questions that is at the heart of whether IPTV eventually succeeds or fails. Since TVs were invented, we have been trained to sit in front of them and consume not interact with them. And only recently have we had to multitask with our TV. Even though we've had picture in picture for years, it took news scrolls at the bottom of our TV screens to train our brains. So, how will consumers integrate the new and even more complex IPTV features into their TV viewing experience?

One of the traits of consumers that has emboldened the IPTV crowd to push forward is the fact that many people sit on their couch and use their laptops or tablets while watching TV. They reason that if they multi-task in this fashion, they may be willing do it on the bigger screen. While I accept the fact that people may want Internet content, such as movies, TV shows, YouTube, etc. on their TV screens, it is quite a leap to assume that people also want to read their newspapers and magazines or view Web sites on a big-screen TV.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370894,00.asp, accessed on November 4, 2010.

GOOGLE TV: BOOM OR BUST

By: Tim Bajarin (10.18.2010)

The industry has been trying to bring IPTV to your TV since 1997. What makes Google and its partners think they'll be successful?

I have a question for you. Do you want to view the Internet on your TV? With all of the activity in IPTV these days, this is one of the key questions that is at the heart of whether IPTV eventually succeeds or fails. Since TVs were invented, we have been trained to sit in front of them and consume not interact with them. And only recently have we had to multitask with our TV. Even though we've had picture in picture for years, it took news scrolls at the bottom of our TV screens to train our brains. So, how will consumers integrate the new and even more complex IPTV features into their TV viewing experience?

One of the traits of consumers that has emboldened the IPTV crowd to push forward is the fact that many people sit on their couch and use their laptops or tablets while watching TV. They reason that if they multi-task in this fashion, they may be willing do it on the bigger screen. While I accept the fact that people may want Internet content, such as movies, TV shows, YouTube, etc. on their TV screens, it is quite a leap to assume that people also want to read their newspapers and magazines or view Web sites on a big-screen TV.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370894,00.asp, accessed on November 4, 2010.

THE NEW ‘OS’ WARS: WINNERS AND LOSERS

By: Tim Bajarin (10.29.2010)

The new OS war will be between operating systems that can work on all types of digital screens.

For decades, when people talked about OS wars, they were mostly referring to the Windows vs. Mac battle. These two operating systems have dominated the PC landscape with Windows owning about 90 percent of the market. This OS war has been great for the PC industry, because as Apple continues to innovate on its OS platform, it forces Microsoft to innovate as well, and in turn, consumers constantly receive new and more powerful OS platforms for their PCs.

Now there is a another OS war developing around smartphones, and if you think the PC OS wars were nasty, just wait for this OS war to heat up. We've already seen charged rhetoric from Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the iPhone, Andy Rubin at Google defending Android against the competition, and RIM's CEO Jim Balsillie ranting about Jobs and company during the iPhone antenna dilemma. All of these folks realize that the stakes are very high and that they need to do whatever is necessary to keep the market looking at them and pushing their platforms forward. To put these OS stakes into perspective, market researchers say that 1.2 billion cell phones will be sold worldwide this year. And while smartphones represent only 22 percent of the cell phone market for 2010, they will make up 60 percent of the market in the U.S. by 2012 and 65 percent of all cell phones sold worldwide will be smartphones by 2015. That means that by 2015 we could see as many as 750 million smartphones sold around the world, which is a massive market and will create amazing market opportunities.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371776,00.asp, accessed on November 4, 2010. 

THE NEW ‘OS’ WARS: WINNERS AND LOSERS

By: Tim Bajarin (10.29.2010)

The new OS war will be between operating systems that can work on all types of digital screens.

For decades, when people talked about OS wars, they were mostly referring to the Windows vs. Mac battle. These two operating systems have dominated the PC landscape with Windows owning about 90 percent of the market. This OS war has been great for the PC industry, because as Apple continues to innovate on its OS platform, it forces Microsoft to innovate as well, and in turn, consumers constantly receive new and more powerful OS platforms for their PCs.

Now there is a another OS war developing around smartphones, and if you think the PC OS wars were nasty, just wait for this OS war to heat up. We've already seen charged rhetoric from Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the iPhone, Andy Rubin at Google defending Android against the competition, and RIM's CEO Jim Balsillie ranting about Jobs and company during the iPhone antenna dilemma. All of these folks realize that the stakes are very high and that they need to do whatever is necessary to keep the market looking at them and pushing their platforms forward. To put these OS stakes into perspective, market researchers say that 1.2 billion cell phones will be sold worldwide this year. And while smartphones represent only 22 percent of the cell phone market for 2010, they will make up 60 percent of the market in the U.S. by 2012 and 65 percent of all cell phones sold worldwide will be smartphones by 2015. That means that by 2015 we could see as many as 750 million smartphones sold around the world, which is a massive market and will create amazing market opportunities.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371776,00.asp, accessed on November 4, 2010. 

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The giver (for Berdis) by James Baldwin

1 If the hope of giving

2 is to love the living,

3 the giver risks madness

4 in the act of giving.

5 Some such lesson I seemed to see

6 in the faces that surrounded me.

7 Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted,

8 what gift would give them the gift to be gifted?

9 The giver is no less adrift

10 than those who are clamouring for the gift.

11 If they cannot claim it, if it is not there,

12 if their empty fingers beat the empty air

13 and the giver goes down on his knees in prayer

14 knows that all of his giving has been for naught

15 and that nothing was ever what he thought

16 and turns in his guilty bed to stare

17 at the starving multitudes standing there

18 and rises from bed to curse at heaven,

19 he must yet understand that to whom much is given

20 much will be taken, and justly so:

21 I cannot tell how much I owe.

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The giver (for Berdis) by James Baldwin

1 If the hope of giving

2 is to love the living,

3 the giver risks madness

4 in the act of giving.

5 Some such lesson I seemed to see

6 in the faces that surrounded me.

7 Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted,

8 what gift would give them the gift to be gifted?

9 The giver is no less adrift

10 than those who are clamouring for the gift.

11 If they cannot claim it, if it is not there,

12 if their empty fingers beat the empty air

13 and the giver goes down on his knees in prayer

14 knows that all of his giving has been for naught

15 and that nothing was ever what he thought

16 and turns in his guilty bed to stare

17 at the starving multitudes standing there

18 and rises from bed to curse at heaven,

19 he must yet understand that to whom much is given

20 much will be taken, and justly so:

21 I cannot tell how much I owe.

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Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

A powerful and gripping memoir depicting the harsh realities of life in the favelas of Brazil in the 1950s, and one woman's resilience in the face of poverty, racism, and social inequality.

Living in poverty in a Brazilian favela, or "slum," Carolina tried to scrape together a living by collecting recyclables. Among the trash, she found notebooks and papers that she salvaged to write on, and she used these found papers to craft novels, poetry, plays, letters to authorities--as well as her own journal.

In this stunning diary of perseverance in the face of adversity, violence, and starvation, Carolina Maria de Jesus offers a firsthand account of life in the streets of São Paulo that, upon its first publication over 50 years ago, drew international attention to the plight of the poor.

A unique historical account and a critical work in the canon of Afro-Brazilian literature, Child of the Dark offers an essential perspective on the realities and cruelties of life in a favela at the beginning of the "modernization" of the city of São Paulo. Its themes of struggles against marginalization, classism, and racism continue to resonate today.

Includes eight pages of photographs and an afterword by Robert M. Levine

Translated from the Portuguese by David S. Clair 

Disponível em: https://www.amazon.com/ Child-Dark-Diary-Carolina-Maria/dp/0451529103. Acesso em: 08 mar. 2024.

Disponível em: https://www.gocomics.com/aunty-acid/2024/03/08. Acesso em: 08 mar. 2024. 

The conjunction “because” in the comic expresses

Backpacs” (title) - a large bag carried on the back.

“strap” (l. 2) - a strip of leather, cloth or other flexible material.

“lugging” (l. 5) - carrying something with great effort. “prof” (l. 8) - professor.

“sprains” (l. 18) - injuries.

“strains” (l. 18) - severe demands on physical strengh.

Backpacs” (title) - a large bag carried on the back.

“strap” (l. 2) - a strip of leather, cloth or other flexible material.

“lugging” (l. 5) - carrying something with great effort. “prof” (l. 8) - professor.

“sprains” (l. 18) - injuries.

“strains” (l. 18) - severe demands on physical strengh.

Backpacs” (title) - a large bag carried on the back.

“strap” (l. 2) - a strip of leather, cloth or other flexible material.

“lugging” (l. 5) - carrying something with great effort. “prof” (l. 8) - professor.

“sprains” (l. 18) - injuries.

“strains” (l. 18) - severe demands on physical strengh.

Backpacs” (title) - a large bag carried on the back.

“strap” (l. 2) - a strip of leather, cloth or other flexible material.

“lugging” (l. 5) - carrying something with great effort. “prof” (l. 8) - professor.

“sprains” (l. 18) - injuries.

“strains” (l. 18) - severe demands on physical strengh.

Backpacs” (title) - a large bag carried on the back.

“strap” (l. 2) - a strip of leather, cloth or other flexible material.

“lugging” (l. 5) - carrying something with great effort. “prof” (l. 8) - professor.

“sprains” (l. 18) - injuries.

“strains” (l. 18) - severe demands on physical strengh.

Backpacs” (title) - a large bag carried on the back.

“strap” (l. 2) - a strip of leather, cloth or other flexible material.

“lugging” (l. 5) - carrying something with great effort. “prof” (l. 8) - professor.

“sprains” (l. 18) - injuries.

“strains” (l. 18) - severe demands on physical strengh.