My feelings about slashdot in the past ten years have varied quite a bit, but I keep finding myself coming back. I most remember first finding out about 9/11 on slashdot, just in time to turn on the TV in my dorm room and see the second plane hit. Hopefully the place will only change for the better in the future (which I don't mean to be a jab at cmdrtaco).

That is a really large amount of money for either of those. The National Science Foundation, for example, gives small businesses grants of $500k for up to 2 years to get started with much more complicated products. Maybe they just had a lot of excited investors and so instead of turning them away they took it all?

Yeah, frankly, there are much better kits out there from one- and two-person operations, that are supporting themselves full-time on shipping kits and hardware and doing a great job. They're also innovating, producing new, better designs for both components and bots. Again, without all this seed money. Maybe they'll do great things with $10M, who knows, but I'm not anywhere near convinced it's necessary for what they're doing.

I am a fan of the whole RepRap thing -- built one myself (not a MakerBot model) -- but I can't see what they need $10M for. With the prices they are charging, compared to the costs of other kits out there and what you get for them, they should be rolling in dough given their current sales.

If you think Apple is bad in court, wait until the Borg get on your case for a box-shaped ship.

So is this the Santa Cruz Operation?

There are plenty of bacterial STDs.

There are quite a few bitcoin sites. The main one is bitcoin.org, but the software is also hosted on github, for example. It's an open-source software project, and the original creator has disappeared into the ether.

Mod parent up. Leprosy is no longer an issue. Antibiotics FTW.

Nice, thanks!

I think this is the root of my problems with it. I had just wanted to install and use it, not use it as a basis for development.

Trying to answer my own question, I also found this interesting take: http://drupal.org/node/34421

I am not just referring to Wordpress, however, and I find some other systems like Joomla equally disastrous. Yet plenty of smart people are choosing these systems every day. I'm not trying to start a war, I genuinely think I am missing something. What makes Drupal perfect for those other jobs?