Monday, June 08, 2015

Evil Mouse Screws Americans

Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements. - NYTimes.com:

...Instead, about 250 Disney employees were told in late October that they would be laid off. Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India. Over the next three months, some Disney employees were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost...

Revolutionary Software?

Gee, guys. I recall doing this on an Apple II.

Licensees sought for revolutionary 3D modelling software | Business Weekly | Technology News | Business news | Cambridge and the East of England:

Researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) filled the gap in existing CAD/CAM systems by creating a software tool that flattens 3D developable freeform surfaces into 2D patterns....