If anyone is into 3d graphics, like Gahd, you should be happy to find out that blender has finally released a new version. With a little help from google's summer projects, blender is now crazified, and i will put it up to 3DSMAX now... i know it's been slashdotted, of course it has, but visit
http://www.blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.html
there's release notes and all new really cool features they have added, animation system got rewritten, all in all, its like jumping from OOffice1 to 2... worth it... and installers for any OS: Linux, Windows, OS X and Solaris, are available, ofcourse for free and source is available, if you wanna port

(a try nonetheless)
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Microsoft, the leader in using innovative tactics to promote irksome experience, coupled with antiquated technology that's held together by a pyramid of makeshift afterthoughts.
Apple, the leader in using irksome tactics to promote innovative experience, coupled with an antiquated core that's enhanced by state-of-the-art afterthoughts.
Linux, the leader in not using any tactics to promote user-defined experience, coupled with state-of-the-art core enhanced by innovative afterthoughts.
