Large companies fund Blender because Blender, being free, gives everyone with a bit of gumption the ability to create and animate with even a fairly modest computer - it levels the 2D/3D creation playing field globally, even to the edges in developing nations with recycled computers and no internet.

Who are the top Blender patrons? Unity, Epic, AMD, nVidia, all companies that game creators need to get their product out, and all of whom stand to gain from both the creators and their customers, the players. And now those creators can come from anywhere. It's good market building for the hardware, tool, and distribution companies.

Mmmm, yes, basically. Yes, I did RTFS. I have to live with Microsoft code every day at work. It's pretty stable, and yet for reasons apparently chosen by marketing departments, I'm constantly having to second-guess what Windows 10 will do next. Then I come home to peace and calm. I like peace and calm, and I don't want Microsoft stomping around in my playground. They have grand ambitions to maintain a permanent hold on their market share, and they will totally sweep Linux along in their floodwaters to get there.

And how could adding Microsoft-written code to the kernel aid us in solving this problem?

would sign an exclusive with Apple when only 10% of devices are Apple branded?

>>If we take consulting, services, and support off the table as an option for high-growth revenue generation (the only thing VCs care about)

As if high growth, and the concentration of wealth to those that drive it, were worthwhile goals for all human endeavours.

That was a long-standing bug in Google Drive which finally got fixed. I downloaded a newer version a few months ago for a client whose drawings, like yours, were remaining locked while they were being edited.

A full year before his election I was reading a fresh new screed against Trump on boingboing every day and realized... "He's going to win isn't he?" Because he's captured mindshare. His name is out there like a drumbeat, every day. The media are utterly obsessed with him, and he is unavoidable and unforgettable. And why is that? Because he's great entertainment for the masses.

That is precisely the point. This is for HR to be able to click boxes for what they want and have a list of people with the desired skills and traits fall out the bottom. It will work as simply as making a query against the census.

Just like statistics, it will never tell the whole story. The fact that real-life human experience has very little to do with the resume is irrelevant. This is one step in the silent march toward the goal of having every aspect of every citizen quantified or modeled in some way. Every economic aspect, that is; the ways they are most likely to generate financial benefit or most likely to be persuaded to consume goods.

Efficient. Soulless. Dehumanizing.

We're all free to ignore the gibbering angry rages which are out of proportion to the injury caused by excessive line spacing, bloated text boxes, trendy Metro-esque lead article presentation, and a dozen other changes, none of which I like either.

I'll still throw my lot in with the mob and say that if I can't comfortably read the site including comments on any device, with or without Javascript enabled, then it may be thrown off my multiple-visits-daily list (5-10x). I'm a longtime and loyal reader who values what Slashdot is and what it isn't. It's management's decision whether they want the existing crowd, the bread-and-butter, the daily eyeballs of a generation, or if they want to spiff the place up and go after a new market. I hope they try to make it palatable for both.

BTW, Dice, even those of us who rarely post hate being called an "audience." These folks, even the rabble, are my crowd.

Your watchers want to know whether you are watching them, to twist a phrase.

"Microsoft believes the key differentiator between Xbox as a TV platform and the sea of failed competitors will be its voice and motion search tool. Utilizing the Kinect attachment, users will be able to be identified by number and state of activity, providing valuable feedback to the content providers and their customers, the advertisers." Fixed that for you.

Bonus if they build profiles of individuals and estimate ages by correlating with easily available databases and public records. Extra bonus if Microsoft listens to all other programming being played in the room and identifies it audibly.

Already been done.

Spot on.

Last year I visited a large corporation to see a demo of their latest web-enabled product. Their field engineers had to have Windows and IE6 on their laptops to tap into the company servers, but to demo their standards-compliant web app they all had to have Firefox as well. Open Source gets the work done, it's future-proof, and hopefully this is only the first shocking example of this bureaucracy-laden company's shift away from proprietary to open. (Wouldn't count on it... their market-capturing strategies are a lot like Microsoft's in some respects. You never know, though...)