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Comment Re:Just like the music industry (Score 1) 569

I don't think that's entirely fair. Design went from way overpriced to below cost-of-living rates. Any experienced professional designer not only takes time to explore options, allowing for failures and new creative directions. And a big part of their job is explaining each idea to the client, why one logo or palette might better serve one demographic or work better for flexography, wide-format, etc. That's what's really been taken away and it absolutely costs more down the line. Instead of a designer being paid fair value, they're fully out of work. And to be really clear designers are far closer to musicians than the music industry. It's the freelance creatives being hurt by this practice, not the big agencies.
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Japan Plans Moon Base Built By Robots For Robots 253

An anonymous reader writes "The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has plans to build a base on the Moon by 2020. Not for humans, but for robots — and built by robots, too. A panel authorized by Japan's prime minister has drawn up preliminary plans for how humanoid and rover robots will begin surveying the moon by 2015, and then begin construction of a base near the south pole of the moon. The robots and the base will run on solar power, with total costs about $2.2 billion USD, according to the panel chaired by Waseda University President Katsuhiko Shirai. 'As currently envisioned, the robots that will land on the lunar surface in 2015 will be 660-pound behemoths equipped with rolling tank-like treads, solar panels, seismographs, high-def cameras, and a smattering of scientific instruments. They'll also have human-like arms for collecting rock samples that will be returned to Earth via rocket.'"
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Iron Baby 139

When Iron Baby wants O's, Iron Baby gets O's.

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