User: alcarinque

Re:Jingoism and Nativism

On: Apple Not Allowed To Open Stores In India (reuters.com)

This is highly inaccurate and media biased. Protectionism was helping to develop an industry, specially in places like Tierra del Fuego and outer zones of Buenos Aires. Liberal lobbyists deceived the people using corporate media and won the elections. Production is expected to be reduced 70% this year, at least in electronics industry. Source? I'm an electronic engineer, worked setting up several plants. Currently in plans of leaving the country.

Re:Methane emissions not tied to modern warming

On: Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes

Wasn't something like this that caused one of the biggest extinctions ever? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event#Methane_hydrate_gasification

Re:Not only be screwed by local problems!

On: Windows 8 Roundup

I find linux to be a lot better at multitasking, specially with IO

Re:Cue more irrational nuclear panic in 3...2...

On: Explosion At French Nuclear Site Kills One

And yet, nobody cares because they were poor people of a poor country...

Re:As a Linux user

On: Fukushima and Chernobyl Side-by-Side

When I read your comment I thought I would find a silverlight plugin thing in that page. Instead I find the same message, but with a google logo. Things do change fast.

Re:Yeah, This Time It's Different

On: How the Social Tech Bubble Is Different

We should switch to a resource based economy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2xVey00nMI

Not just a gui

On: Blender 2.57 Released — and It's Easy To Use!

It was not only a re-design of the gui, that's just a sub product. They have redone all the underlying api to improve animation capabilities and facilitate extensions and adding of new features. Check the release log http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-257/