Web design? Nerd stuff. Icon design? Nerd stuff. Computer art, graphics, illustration? Nerd stuff. If it weren't SIGGRAPH would be a LOT more boring.

If the design isn't picked, the designer still owns all rights to it and can submit it again. It's also part of his or her portfolio. "Real" designers work the same way, often developing several candidates for consideration or being pitted against other designers.

So, do you believe Apple will create/buy a new ad delivery platform to deliver "Advertisement in Operating System" instead of using iAds?

I third it. Excellent book for getting started, and interesting to read.

The title of this article is an absolute embarrassment. This is beyond inaccurate, it's inflammatory. Photography is not banned. A reasonable safety margin has been set around the response equipment and boats - and it's about fucking time. Scuba divers and other special activities are routinely given a 75 foot (more or less) safety margin, and it seems absolutely reasonable to make everyone stay clear while these people are trying to work. Frankly, 300 feet would have been completely reasonable. It's bad enough this "news" is already ancient (par for the course on /. lately), but now we have to deal with mind-boggling bias... is this /. or Greenpeace?

Nothing to see here. Move along.

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Even the word loan is in both the title and in the URL.

In the second article, not the /. title or text, which says something quite different. Yes, we should all rtfa, but perhaps the /. posting should be a bit more accurate and a bit less biased and misleading. Frankly, now that I think about it, the entire submission is way too political for /. Why aren't we focusing on the technology here?

Agreed - I'd be far more upset if this deal were with China instead of Spain (after all, I'm willing to buy a European sports car, so why not European solar power?). Right now, any money leaving the country is a bad thing in my opinion (ianae). Keeping the profits here (i.e. with domestic companies) is likely to have the greatest positive economic impact for the U.S. From what I can tell from glancing at their website, they'll build and operate the plant and sell the power to the local power company. The long term profits from power sales bothers me even more than the short term profit from building the plant. Actually, I'm probably bothered the most by the embarrassment of having to depend on another country to build the technology for us, like we're a bunch of third-worlders who need to be taught how to use a plow.

If I understand how this works (this is similar to federally backed student loans and small business loans I'm assuming), I'm okay with offering a company loan backing (though I'm not okay with the misleading title). But, aren't there U.S. companies that can do this kind of work? Using Abengoa as a consultant would be fine--you know, teach a man to fish and all that--but to build the plants? Are they required to use Abound as the panel provider? And when the plants are built, who owns and runs those plants? 85 new jobs are nice... but more importantly, where do the profits go?

But think of the jobs we've created in Spain!!!

The real question is: Is Plone even still relevant?

There's a couple links in the Pubs section that are recent (May and June 2010), but I'm not really certain those pubs add anything new to the content. I'm now beyond disappointed in Slashdot: breaking news posted hours after it stop being relevant; other news stories sometimes showing up a week later after the furor has passed, and everyone's forgotten about it and moved on; and now, news that is 3+ years old. Wow. Why am I here?

I'll add my vote to Nuts and Volts - fun and fantastic mag.

What the unholy fuck is this?

I think /. has officially jumped the shark. It's bad enough the "News" gets posted hours and days after it stopped being relevant, but now I'm required to wade through this gibberish? I thought I was having an acid flashback. The suspense was killing me, so I succumbed to the temptation and actually RTMFA (well, skimmed TFA because it was long and rambling and I stopped caring after the first paragraph, especially when I realized, with great disappointment, I was not having an acid flashback). I'm sure Malamud is a very lovely man (and apparently at least a borderline kook), but really? Why the fuck do I care? Did this really "Matter" enough to get promoted to a front page article? And what thesaurus lists "biographical drivel" as a synonym for "News?"

On the plus side, the discussion thus far has been quite entertaining.