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I live in Mexico (Mexico City) and I give it a 3The good:The weather.You can buy anything here, like high-tech, Ferraris, etc. (if you've got the money though ).Cultural places.The bad:Rude peopleA lot of corruption - cops, politicians...An awful lot of crime and violence (kidnapping, robbery, etc.)Expensive place to liveHigh taxes on everythingBad public servicesLow wagesOvercrowded - traffic jams all the time, no place to parkThe ugly:The bad seems to get bigger every day?

In fact no monitor is born with a touch screen. You have a monitor and you put a touch sensor on top of the screen (and a controller card and drivers inside), and you get a touch screen monitor. Maybe you are talking about the difference between the monitors that are sold already with a touch sensor inside their case and the "touch screens" you can buy for a few dollars and put on top of your monitor -externally, which, I agree are not of high quality and tend to get broken soon. Now, there are several touch technologies too, for example infrared, capacitive (electric draw on the surface), resistive and acoustic waves. Today the most common (and cheapest I believe) is resistive. Whatever... In the end, as I said before (too), this table is way too expensive

That's a good question. I love cars and planes, so most probably I'll start with that but I'd also like to make cartoonish characters for a project I've got. The best would be to have a program that is great for both organic and non-organic models. ? BTW, I wrote "Bender" and it's "Blender". I must have been thinking about Futurama XD Sorry for that!

I had read about Bender but I didn't know it was free! I'll give it a try! BTW, I used 3DSMax at work and it was quite good, very fast and easy to use. This new version is much better than ver 2.5, the one I tried years ago. I found it very good indeed. It makes me think that that's the reason why it's so expensive. They really put a lot of work into optimizing it. The only bad thing about it is the enormous price tag! If price wasn't an issue which one would you pick?

I think "strategic planning" would have helped you a lot with your idea. One of its main tools is the SWOT (strenghts, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) matrix. Making one helps you see all the factors involved in your business viewed from inside your company and from outside of it. If you don't know it yet, go Google it. It's a quite good tool and if it's correctly made, it is the basis for generating strategies forfulfilling your objectives.

I just watched a video about that table on YouTube some days ago and I wondered if it was a hoax. It looked just to good ?Now, about the food, that's just a simple software app. If it's not somehow bound to the table's hardware it could be used with any kind of device, including any old computer with internet access and no touch screen. Frankly speaking I think that thing will be just too expensive at the beginning -like most new technologies- and will not be very successfull in sales terms. Maybe in 2010 it will be more popular when we get cheaper displays, have you heard about electronic ink? Now that sounds interesting.?

Well, I sometimes go to McD just because my kids ask me to - and I guess many others do the same. It's all about advertising and tricking kids to come just to get a nice -unique- toy. In marketing, that's a "promotion". And we have to go to McD after hours of hearing them beg and in the end we have to get some micro-hamburgers and over-salty fries. I prefer Burger King too! But, that's their modus-operandi many times- attracting weaker preys XD . Curious fact: In Mexico you have ketchup and also hot chili sauce for your hamburger - talk about a tropicalized franchise! ??

Hi there, guys! ?I recently posted that I use the Chrome browser and that I find it very good, however a thing bugs me: when I try to open a PDF file that is online the browser doesn't seem to have a plug-in to do it and I have to save the file to my harddisk. BTW I'm not using Adobe Acrobat's plug-in with my other browsers, but I have the Foxit Reader which is much lighter and faster than Adobe's software -I recommend you to try it ( Foxit SW site). Anyway, I can't believe the Google guys didn't include that very common functionality in their browser. Do you have the same problem? Did you solve it somehow? Thanks in advance!

It's incredible just how far technology has got, but it's also incredible that when you use Google maps trying to see many places in Mexico City you don't have enough detail. Just no information available. Could it be -again- that big international companies just aren't interested in the poor little Latin America? How come they make this kind of stuff for Mars - a place none of us has ever visited and most probably never will- and not for one of the most crowded cities in the World!

If you try to convince him he'll feel forced and won't change. The best way would be to let him see how good religion is for you or other people but without preaching him or telling him to do something. They say (in a non Christian book by the way, but of another religion) that when the apprentice is ready then the master will show up, this is, sometimes people teaches us things and we just don't understand them or are not ready to do so, but later, just like magic, we understand things (they call it a satori I think). Maybe your friend isn't ready for converting but one day he will without anybody forcing him.On the other hand, if in spite of all his problems he's a good person and does good he will not go to hell anyway! I think that it doesn't matter if he prays or not, the important thing is to act according to God's rules, which are very alike to the moral rules everybody -Christian or not- knows.

When I dated girls (now I'm married, I don't mean I changed my orientation ) I actually gained weight because I took them out after work and we had ice creams, cakes, sodas, milk shakes, etc., and I didn't have so much time to exercise, so I think you're not completely wrong. You can get heavier when dating

As far as I know eBay offers an automated system that could be useful for you. You can automate your sales of products that can be downloaded. Their site works with PayPal and when you get paid they manage giving your customer the download link. You'd need to check if it's available in your country and exactly how it works. On the other hand, using eBay gives people the sensation of more security than buying through a non famous website (in my experience with eBay's Mexican equivalent).

Well, as a kid, I first liked it because it was an unusual subject and kind of gory, but after a while it was really boring, grafx were bad and was soon forgotten. What makes me worry now is how kids see the "heroes" of this kind of games. They are bad people, crooks, and they seem to become kind of "idols". I'm afraid of the bad influence they could have on kids. For example the GTA series. I liked it, but I was in my 20's when I played it.

Hi, photographers and designers! I discovered micro stock sites last year and I saw that in one of them artists were making quite a lot of money with their photographs and vector drawings, but later I found it was not so easy... or so fair... What's your experience? Do you know them? Have you had success there? Thanks in advance for your help!

And what about very old games. Like Atari 2600 games? Some of those games really sucked. And they were worse if they were "licensed" games. the E.T. game is well known for being a fiasco, and there were some other quite nasty like Final Approach, Haunted House, etc. I hated them!

Are you talking about the original The Need for Speed? It's quite old now, but it was very cool indeed (at its time) it contained videos, technical data and history of each car available in the game, including the awesome Lambo Diablo. It was that good because the info was from the Road & Track magazine. I loved the game. But... later, when the Gran Turismo series appeared I dropped my TNFS for the GT experience. It's much more realistic and it's great to customize your car purchasing parts, tires, etc. and fine tuning it for each track. Also, graphics were better that the ones of TNFS. In the end... I never could beat TNFS! It was too hard and I could win almost everything in GT and GT II.

Well, I must say that you can be right too. There are a lot of cases, a lot of different softwares and companies and you have to ponder everything. You can come across a SW as good as you say or across one as bad as I mentioned. It's important to know whom you're dealing with, that's why I posted that way. I think it's important to know what problems you can find ahead. In my case we decided to use a Microsoft ERP because it was supposed to be more of a "sure bet", but it has some bugs that MS hasn't solved, as you say. Also, now I'm trying the VTiger opensource CRM and find it has some bad bugs (altough it's version 5) and it's a bit difficult to find good help, but I'm just starting.On the other hand, companies like Red Hat have had very good finances last years, which makes you think. As I said, we have to analyze each case.

It's great to get open source software 'cos it's free, but if it's for an important operation you have to evaluate:1. The support you can get for deploying it in your company and daily operation - maybe there's none or you have to pay anyway. Sometimes there are no manuals and sometimes they're sold and they're not very complete. In the end the cost of deploying the SW could be even higher than the cost of using commercial SW.2. When you upgrade your SW, if you made changes to the version you had installed, you'll have to check if the new version is compatible with your modifications, and maybe you'll have to re-write them with no 3rd party support.3. If something goes wrong with the info you get, there's no one to blame but you!!! You can't demand from anybody a solution for a bug or errors. 4. Commercial SW has more money behind for development and "could" be better.Just my experience

Hi there! I wish you can help me to know what's the best 3D modeling and rendering software(s). I used Bryce first. It renders great but it's mainly for landscapes. It's very hard to model something with only basic shapes and complicated booleans (you can't make a boolean operation on a group of objects that already had a previous boolean operation), you can't export most things (only rocks I think), etc. Then I tried 3D Studio Max 2.5. Way too complicated for me then! Huge program but not easy to learn. I just D/L a trial of version 9 but haven't used it yet.I used Hexagon too, quite flexible for modelling but too buggy sometimes. It crashes frequently and it's got no rendering capabilities.I tried Carrara 6 but I think it was cumbersome for modelling - and actually quite good at rendering, that's why many use it to render Hexagon models.So... What's your experience? What do you recommend?

Obviously this is a scam. It's a very common one now. I think it's called the Congo scam. They ask people for money to withdraw a big amount from a bank account and later ask them to pay inexistent taxes, etc. Or they really make a wire transfer to your account, but you are doing money laundering -it's dirty money from illicit operations- and the IRS or the authority in your country will finally track it through your bank account and send you to jail. Be very careful!!!

Opera used to be my favourite because of its tabs and speed, but since I got a laptop with Windows Vista it crashes all the time, so do IE8 and FireFox, so the best for me now is Chrome which is by far more stable. It's also fast and I like its simplicity. I only wish it could be customizable a bit more.

I once heard: "Sports cars are cars made for young guys that only old folks can buy" and it seems to be true! Unless you are one of those teen super stars or you have a rich old folk as a father

The infamous "Chupacabras" or "goat-sucker" as you point, first "appeared" in Mexico around 1996. Strangely, serious news TV shows starting spreading news about animals oddly murdered and found drained and with one or two fangs marks. The buzz lasted only a few months since there were no clear images of such being, people who claimed having seeing it contradicted each other and finally everything was found to be just a hoax. The animals in the TV shows were killed by cougars and people declaring seeing these monsters were only looking for a bit of fame. The sad thing about all this is that, as I said, serious media was involved in something so vague and with no strong evidence whatsoever. In the end, as many other buzzes, this only helped to distract the attention of people from more important political and economical affairs.

Hi! I changed to Chrome because it's faster and way more stable in Windows Vista - IE and Firefox crash frequently and Opera crashes all the time, but Chrome is much better and its architecture lets you close a single -crashed- tab and go on working. It's very fast too. What I hate about it are the Most Visited and Recent bookmarks sections when you open a new tab. They may show confidential information you don't want your workmates to see and they can't be configured. The option is to open an incognito window and nothing you do there is recorded or stored in your history.