Ecuadorian embassy. Colombia has a right wing govnt. Ecuador a left wing one.

Mexican newspapers confirm the figures:

http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/5118e8f851051aafbb05375db4b342f6

http://codeazur.com.br/stuff/fc64_final/

The same way a project offers perks, KS should give the option (not an obligation) for a project to show how they are commited to your donation and offer to get the money in several instalments, according to their financial plan. If people feel the project isn't delivering at specific points they can stop the financing and get something as a refund.

I'm a tv producer. When producing a short, feature, tv series, etc. and you're looking for money you need to have very clear your budget. Maybe you can count with donations like this project, but any contribution should count as part of the budget.

It's very common when you're producing that your investors and partners don't want to pay for the whole development or pre-production, they think the same as you do that some work doesn't has a cost. But everything has a cost, from the original story (are they paying something to Mr. Pratchett or the editors?), to the guy doing the screen writing (hey, adapting a short story to a movie film takes time and talent, most of the time only the former), and all the rest of the stuff to finish a project.

What you do when the investors don't want to pay for the development? you include these figures in the production budget. But wait! the investor don't want to pay for the post-production, what you do? you include the cost in the development or start looking for more investors. They think your movie costs X, but in rality costs more, a lot more.

It's a trap to think you don't need to count donations as part of the budget, it's a trap investors use in their favor.

A diplomatic bag is a bag of any size. Having work at the UN, they send huge bags of mail in a daily basis, protected by diplomatic inmunity.

"As I've said elsewhere, I find it very unlikely that there's any serious conspiracy to send Assange to the US (extradition from the UK would be easier, and in any case, what is Obama more likely to want? A high profile Whistleblower's trial in the US, or Assange convicted of sex crimes in Sweden?) But I don't have any problem believing the FM's statement on this, and I'm surprised you do."

Having Assange convicted of sex crimes before will make him weaker. While I doubt the US government doesn't have any problem to ask a direct extradition and send him to Gitmo, a conviction makes easier the rethoric of a "traitor".

>Can anyone else here weigh in on the technology itself?

Pixar's subidivision surfaces are very efficient in terms of graphic visualization, parametrization, deformation and texturing. Other implementations are significant slower. The Pixar video presentation at SIGGRAPH shows they work great in realtime, something important when you're doing animation. As an example, NewTek Lightwave Catmull-Clarck subdivs have serious implementation problems, something that can be solved with opensubdivs. Luxology Modo had to license this technology a year ago to become competitive.

"Could cloud service providers help the U.S. become a destination for tech outsourcing instead of an exporter of tech jobs?"

My comment is aiming this part. Grupo Posadas hasn't show they can make good business decisions lately, and their move shouldn't mark as a trend for foreign companies moving operation to the US.

"Furthermore, it would not outsource it, say, to India or the Philippines because of language barriers."

I aknowledge only 10% of the Mexico population speaks English, but it's exactly that percentile (IT, management, etc) who is in charge to make decisions to move services abroad. Basicaly I higly doubt a second language is a barrier.

First, He led Mexicana (one of the national airlines) to bankrupcy:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/04/business/la-fi-mexicana-bankruptcy-20100804

Then he suggested that the word "Mexico" to be dropped as a brand for tourism. And finally, Grupo Posas is in serious financial problems.

I say don't take anything from this guy as an example of good business practice.

Everybody has a computer nowadays, but no everyone writes a Linux. Not everyone will be creating stuff in 30 years with a printer.

Back in that time, Gates et al discovered the internet and its potential. At that time almost the only way to use the internet was via a web browser inside a PC (remember the AOL disks, trumpet winsock, etc?) Nowadays we have access to the web in many other ways. Now, if you tell me that xbox live usage is going down, then this is something to worry about.

If the game is based on the graphic novel and not the tv series, the story will develop very fast.

As a physics dropout, my life will go on.

so it's both combustion and electric