Filabot is one simple way around that. The problem as I see it is the initial price of the printer. The current iteration of the Reprap project is the Mendal Max. This is the best deal out there. For $1500US you get a kit that you can put together yourself. I want one so badly it hurts.. but I don't have the money. I'm assuming I'm not the only one.

Ubuntu for phones.. hrm. I'm on the mailing list. It's a very empty mailing list. I'd love to see it. Hell I'd buy one.. but so far nothing.

Perhaps you can explain how googles high speed internet service will strip you of your privacy any more than any other internet service. Personally I don't see it. Comcast/Time Warner et. al. are already monitoring what you do on the web for their own purposes. If you want unmonitored bandwidth try the Post Office. It's slow but no one reads you mail.. most of the time.

Really though, this is just two sides of one coin, and I don't see how this changes anything, except my bandwidth speed.

Different camcorders use different types of AVCHD. For a complete list of supported AVCHD formats look here

I love Kdenlive, and hate it sometimes too. It is by far the best editor on Linux as of now.. however the Lightworks beta is coming very soon. http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=19&id=42353&Itemid=81#42353

This seems a strange question. Perhaps I don't understand. You can import clips and re-use the clips anywhere in the time line. You can import the same clip more than once. Or just use snippets in different places. Some modern compression schemas are not necessarily linear. That is why they cannot be concatenated. So the idea of clipping them into sections without re-encoding is unrealistic.

Yes but remember, politicians still control the IRS. Those are appointed positions. Don't think for a second that any politician is going to allow their funding sources to be harmed in any way.

Look.. the web is filled with dead projects. Most of which have never been forked. The fact that a project is forked is not statistically or empirically linked to failed projects. Whether or not a project survives or fails is mainly determined by the project lead's desire to make it happen. If anything has an influence on how a project get's on, I would say it is more about user base and the amount of people willing to help it/use it, that gives devs the drive to work on.

Stallman cracks me up.. I just love the paper hippie poster award that he is handing out. It's also funny because besides smiling the recipients look as if they barely want to touch it..

Though I love all of those programs, I do have one complaint about Inkscape in that it quickly becomes overwhelmed when using effects or blur in multiple layers, and becomes completely non responsive. I don't know what can be done to overcome this but it is a serious problem if you are trying to do large or complex projects as they are at this time out of reach for the product.

Here you go. http://wiki.cgsociety.org/index.php/Comparison_of_3d_tools
Blender compares extremely well with other sweets, especially now with it's new dynamic topology sculpting
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.66/Dynamic_Topology_Sculpting

Are you even talking about the same product? Or have you actually tried Blender in the last few years? The non overlapping window layout can be modified any way that you desire. Import is on the main file menu in the upper right hand corner at all times.. You can even change the key keymapping to that of Maya with one click in the preferences. I understand when people have valid complaints about products, but what you are saying neither makes any sense or is in any way even truthful.

10-15 mph is really slow. The reporter may not be that smart.. and may not have been able to notice the station. He also may have not been able to figure out what a gas gauge does and by extrapolation doesn't undersand when the car says it only has a few miles left in it. Sounds credible to me..

I own a colt 1911, and an actual armalite ar15.. I just don't go around threatening to shoot people..