Getting a job in the video game industry is one of those tasks that is easier said than done. While a quick search shows there are certainly a number of open positions at different companies around the world, the San Francisco Chronicle reveals that employers are becoming increasingly picky about who they hire thanks to the fact that there is an ever-increasing number of applicants looking to enter the field.

Even though a plethora of students are graduating from gaming-oriented college programs, Matthew Jeffery's warning about focusing only on that field during one's educational career still seems to be holding true; developers are considering applicants who have more general degrees (such as in computer science or fine art), even though these programs don't always give their students industry-specific training.

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JDSU Unveils All-In-One Solution for Optical Transport

MILPITAS, Calif. and SAN DIEGO, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- JDSU NASDAQ: JDSU TSX: JDU today announced that it is creating a single-slot blade solution for delivering all major functions required for optical network transport, called the Agile Optical Network (AON) Superblade. The new platform will integrate major transport functions that used to require multiple blades onto a single blade, dramatically reducing size, cost and power requirements for network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) and service providers.

The AON Superblade will include very small blocks of wavelength selective switch (WSS) technology that JDSU has invented called the Nano WSS, erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) technology, and an optical channel monitor technology into a single-slot device.

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Major League Baseball blogger Derek Savage recently wrote: “They were the only team in MLB history to be named for a neighborhood rather than a city or state. It was all about community. The Dodgers were family; a metaphor for life in America. In the 1950s, the Brooklyn Dodgers were America."

The magic of uncertainty has returned

In an age of rampant diversity and flux in rugby, the South African Jake White has every right to covet one of the game's oldest jewels, stewardship of the Lions team, the old-fashioned collection that is supposed to transcend the hunger for carpetbagging success. After all, in the opening round, there were foreign coaches in charge of Wales and Italy and a big Tongan-born unit of frightening potential making his debut on the England wing.

This is one reason for the uncertainty about the future. It is not just styles and methods that are changing, but allegiances and loyalties.

The rugby marketplace is irreversibly global. If White can tout for not only the Lions job, as he did in an interview with the BBC, as well as the England and Wales positions earlier in the season, it is no more than a raft of mobile players and coaches would consider acceptable in the modern game.

The IMS Voice-to-Animation Solution Selected to Power Online Christmas ...

Automated voice-to-animation software allows MakeBeliever Productions to automatically create personalized composite digital video greetings from real human characters.

Research Triangle Park Area Interactive Multimedia Solutions, Inc. (www.IMS3D.com), a leading provider of voice-to-animation solutions for the multimedia market, is pleased to announce that MakeBeliever Productions, LLC (www.MakeBeliever.com), has selected the IMS V2A MDKTM (Voice-to-Animation Multimedia Developers Kit) product for the development of the companys innovative online personalized video greeting solution. MakeBeliever is an Arkansas-based company that was recently founded to revolutionize and transform the online greeting card market with an unprecedented level of personalization in online video greetings. For the first time ever, consumers can create their own videos and have a real human character say virtually anything you want to anyone you want with an automated process.

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Until last night, when I watched the Republican debate, I had no idea how much John McCain dislikes me and just about everybody else but Rudy Giuliani, who if you believe The New York Times is a pretty good hater himself.

As I watched McCain and Governor Romney go at it during the debate at the Reagan Library I was struck by the huge gap that separates McCain -- whose contempt for his fellow humans is patently obvious -- and my dad, Ronald Reagan, who had nothing but the deepest affection and respect for the American people.

The feeling is mutual between McCain and me. I don't like the way he treats people. You get the impression that he thinks everybody is beneath him. He seems to be saying, “I was a war hero, and you had damn well better treat me as your superior."

He has contempt for conservatives who he thinks can be duped into thinking he's one of them, despite such blatantly anti-conservative actions as his support for amnesty for illegal immigrants, his opposition to the Bush tax cuts which got the economy rolling again, and his campaign finance bill which skewed the political process and attacked free speech.