Thatâ(TM)s hardly a representative sample of top professional work.

Blender has in no way surpassed its rivals in anything except price.

The ideal is to let the players on the field do anything they want, but prevent people from off the field with communicating with them during play. I want to see the players play, not some guy in a closest secreting telling them what to do. The problem is baseball isn't fast-paced enough to pull this off. It's too easy to communicate from off the field - every Little Leaguer knows this. There is no perfect solution here, it's always gonna be messy. That's ok.

And they had video cameras in CF feeding footage of the catcher back to the clubhouse and a crew of people who had studied enough to steal the signs. The only part not elaborate was the communication to the batter. And if that's legal, why not an earpiece for the batter?

DVDs? What decade do you think this is? There is no money in dvds anymore.

If your left with $1k/month after expenses and 401k/etc your good to go!

The Bay Area is a great place to live. Cost of living is high, but so are the salaries. Weather and culture are great, lots of wonderful people (both locals and people from all over who come here). Politics are politics - don't feel insane at all and are progressive. I've not had feces issues. Glad other cities are doing better too, it's good to have options.

While certainly for large teams it makes sense for people to specialize, and for you're hard core programmers to not also handle the visual design.

However, I think it's a cop out to claim them to be so totally different and "asking a coder to do artwork is silly".

I work with many people who are excellent coders and who are also excellent designers. In fact, some of the best programmers I know are also artists (painters, photographers or musicians) and can do excellent web and UI design.

So, if you're a coder who can't do art, that's fine. But if you are a coder who can't do art who wants to, don't let these guys discourage you.

And to Microsoft, the more tools the better. Maybe one will actually be good.