I've been in the industry about 25 years. I've interviewed countless candidates. The truth is, in 25 years, I have personally encountered zero Latino candidates and only one black job applicants - in comparison two hundreds of white, Asian and Indian a applicants. So let's talk about education or whatever - but the issue has nothing to do with companies or hiring practices - in my own experience.

(BTW - we did make the black candidate and offer - he accepted, then shot us down after getting a counteroffer from his employer to stay. )

I'd have a real hard time buying into, or putting any investment into a currency that could run into these types of problems - or even potentially vaporize overnight - due to some intricate techical problem that I didn't understand - and maybe STILL wouldn't even long after it was explained to me ...

I think it's good - but on the rare occasion I can actually get Java to install and work, it's slow as a pig.

MakerBot's software can use .STL files as their standard input. Pretty much any additive process can use STL. MakerBot's software is more to run the machine - your asking about capabilities of the software to design the part in the first place.

Also, I know people that use actual objects created on MakerBot specifically to use mold-making for metal casting - so that would be an option for you too.

AND (I forgot to mention)

I bought a Dell laser printer a few years back. I think it's made by Brother, or Lexmark, or some other second-rate manufacturer. BIG MISTAKE. It sucks, and the drivers suck. Will never do that agin. Buy a printer from a real printer company, not "a PC" company that decides to go into the printer game.

Not looking forward to their future 3D offerings.

I can understand their desire to get I to this business - but as it stands now, this is sort of a "specialized" market and customer. It's not just like an IT department is going to throw one in on an order because "their vendor" (Dell) sells them.

Much more likely to be purchased by an artistic, engineering, manufacturing-type of group - under greater control and scrutiny than "I need a [standard] PC" like a lot of boilerplate Dell IT purchases.

Maybe these consumers would go with Makerbot, maybe not - but their gonna need the machine with the right specs - not just whoever is on the approved vendor list.

So - don't know if this will be good for MakerBot and Dell. But then again, maybe I'm just short sighted - and a few years 3D printers will be as ubiquitous as 2d ones - and that's the game they want to be in.

HP learned back in the 70's with all their touchscreens that people cant't/won't/don't want to work (for any length of time) with their arms/hands up in the air.

Why he (or anyone else) couldn't have come to the same conclusion WRT Leap Motion dumbfoundes me.

Cool Korea, or Crazy Korea?

I think I just answered my own question. It would be much cooler on Cool Korea, but probably funny as hell in Krazy Korea!!!

So what's a CLA. Why is there a "controversy" around it. Why does everyone hate Cononical.

As a techy and Linux geek - I think if I have to do research to understand a Slashdot article, it's either bad, or I've been reading Slashdot for too long.

I thought I heard this EXACT story *years* ago?! Verbatim. Or is my browser doing some weird caching ;-)

How about more like Bejing or Herzelia. I'm really sorry (and a bit ashamed) to say/admit it - but they Valley was all-it back in the 90's - but we're livin' in different and scary times...

Adobe will not make more nor less off the "cloud" model vs. the "boxed" model. They will make as much as their software is worth via the laws of supply and demand. I'd their software is great, and the is little alternative, they'll extort a high price. If they try to go too high - people will seek alternatives, even if it is painful. It doesn't matter if they do this via the higher cloud pricing model, or merely by jacking-up their boxed rate.

Stop telling people what their tablet should be used for, and listen to them

I'veI seen people bumbling around with smartphones, tablets and PDAs trying to take them to meetings and conferences, and use them to take notes. They all suck. The iPad keyboard is not "like a dream" to type on no matter what Steve Jobs said.

I know one guy who has a surface pro - I asked him (as a joke) how he liked it. He said "it's great - I grab it on a way to a meeting - I can type - take notes, write docs, do spreadsheets."

It's not about replacing the desktop - but being able to do some work while your not at it.

I hate MS just as much as the next guy (I'm actually a Linux and iOS zealot) - but I believe microsoft's biggest mistake was showing those commercials with stupid people dancing around clicking their covers on-and-off and not showing what the product could actually do for you.

Neither very funy not interesting.

Nope. Not involved in Hollywood at all. Everything your are arguing about ALREADY exists TODAY - just in a completely ad-hoc, non standard way. No content provider is going to cease to protect their content whether or not there is protection built into HTML5. It's just a matter of how they are going to go about it. Its not a question of DRM or no-DRM. There is DRM and will be DRM whether you or I like it it not. I personally would LOVE no DRM. So it's a matter of if there is a STnDARDiZED way to do it or not. I believe a standardized way exceeded a non-standardized way.

If we removed the ability to put DRM plug-ins into web browsers - there would probably be no browser-based way of playing much of any "big media" content. Should we do that?