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  1. Re:Make America Great on Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Err, no. That's a very shallow look at what's going on. He seems to be doing his best to squash any continuation or indeed improvement in the rights and access of females to reproductive assistance. That's a very regressive attitude, from a person who seems (by act and expression) to view them as lesser members of the human race. If he was as capable as his boasts, he'd be able to face down the wingnuts in his party demanding this. In general, he has shown himself to be extremely reluctant to advance society on any level (race, sex, you name it).

  2. Re: poorly on How Tim Cook Is Filling Steve Jobs's Shoes · · Score: 2

    Not true. Try and restore an iDevice - it will require you to update to the last/latest supported OS on that device because they decline to sign older OS updates.

  3. Re:there is some evil in this on Pixar To Give Away 3D RenderMan Software · · Score: 1

    Not really. Arnold works out at 1k per node; Maxwell is too damn slow for most things. Maintenance is 200 USD per node annually which is not unreasonable, either.

  4. Re:there is some evil in this on Pixar To Give Away 3D RenderMan Software · · Score: 1

    No. It's per node pricing.

  5. Re:Since when does Qt "work" with OS X? on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 2

    Autodesk Maya

  6. Re:How Softimage blew it on Autodesk Says It's Killing Softimage Development, Support · · Score: 1

    Say what? Autodesk have never had anything to do with LightWave. It's still owned by NewTek.

  7. Re:FYI on Jim Weirich, Creator of Rake, Has Passed Away · · Score: 3, Funny

    2000 strong, but that seems to be the limit based on the 500 error I saw.

  8. Re:broken metaphor on Crysis 3 Review: Amazing Graphics, Still a Benchmark Buster, Boring Gameplay · · Score: 1

    I tried that once. The road rash took longer than expected to heal.

  9. Re:I have a better idea... on Richard Stallman's Solution To 'Too Big To Fail' · · Score: 1

    I don't know how you guys did it but in the UK we bought the banks. We own them now. When we sell them off we will get back what we paid for them, perhaps even a bit of profit.

    Right..... That explains : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15769886 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9681545/UK-may-never-recover-66bn-spent-to-rescue-banks-MPs.html Your faith in the government is touching, but probably unfounded (see PFI, HMRC failures, FSA failures). Heck, pick up a copy of Private Eye to see just how often government utterly fails when working with commercial entities.

  10. Re:In fact..... on US Chamber of Commerce Infiltrated By Chinese Hackers · · Score: 1

    NPR? Why? As a non-American, it seems like NPR is somewhat akin to the BBC, despite the lack of significant financial support from the state. Given that it is propped up by funding drives, and seems to attract criticism from both sides of the US political spectrum, it seems to be doing a good job of justifying its existence and avoiding partisanship. Like the BBC, it seems NPR is also being cowed by those who are too easily offended.

  11. Re:Well... on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 1

    Use VNC, LogMeIn, TeamViewer or similar and run it on a dedicated Windows session remotely? That's worked very nicely for me here on an iPad 2.

  12. See-through flash still a problem? on Google Adds Speech To Newly Stable Chrome 11, Pays Big Bounty · · Score: 1

    Wonder if they have fixed their flash implementation so that it stops randomly turning that part of a web page into a window through to applications/windows behind Chrome.... This is my biggest problem with the browser on OS X, and I wish I could find a way to reproduce it reliably.

  13. Re:The Whole Premise is Flawed on Reform the PhD System or Close It Down · · Score: 2

    I've not yet RTFA, but your statement seems like a sweeping generalisation and overlooks other possibilities. In various industries, a doctorate is a pre-requisite for most roles (e.g. semiconductor engineering). You might just squeeze in with a Masters degree, but more often a Ph.D. is required to even get your foot in the door. Given the erosion of standards for 'regular' degrees (B.Sc., B.Eng., etc.), the demand for a higher degree is easier to understand. You'll get more applicants as a result. What I find interesting is the ability to study a highly technical field, get a Ph.D. and then find next to no employers in that field within the country. That's what I ran into in the UK - by the time I was out of the Ph.D. grind, the relevant employers had all left for greener shores. I had to follow them. As a result, the UK has benefited very little from the expenditure on my education. Even before undertaking my Ph.D., it was very clear that working in academia was not going to be my thing. The lack of resources and funds stood in stark contrast to the facilities available for similar R&D within companies. Having to fight for funding every n years was far from appealing. This is from a UK-perspective, but I hear similar concerns from those in the US.

  14. Re:It depends on High Performance Gaming Mice Don't Perform · · Score: 1

    Possibly to be considered NSFW

  15. Re:For some reason on A Game Played In the URL Bar · · Score: 1
  16. Re:microsoft bob chat on Microsoft Rumored To Buy Second Life · · Score: 2, Funny

    Guess they didn't catch them all yet.

  17. Re:Too little... on Microsoft to Offer Free Online Storage · · Score: 1

    From their privacy policy :

    Please note that any video, audio, image, or other content file you choose to share on HUMYO becomes published content and is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

    That's the catch

  18. Re:Shell replacements? on Pimp Your XP · · Score: 1

    LDE(X) was an attempt to eliminate that config editing, and provide a decent technical underpinning for LiteStep themes. I retired from the project recently, after many years, when it became clear that the technical hurdles remaining couldn't be eliminated. http://ldex.terica.net/

  19. Re:no alternative on Alternatives To Adobe's Creative Suite? · · Score: 1

    Really? The pricing of the CS3 upgrades says otherwise. The prices in Europe are severely inflated compared to those in the USA - way beyond what could be excused by taxation or shipping. Almost every comment I have read has been very critical of the pricing and there have been more people waking up to the fact that alternatives are very thin on the ground. I get the impression that Adobe really has taken their market position for granted this time around.