Comments (0) Konfabulator has bought by Yahoo! And they released it for free! Cross platform, at least mac and ms.
Looks interesting. Just not sure yet. Will give it a fair shake-down and decide. So far nothing that came with it interests me enough to keep it turned on but that’s on a quick look-see and I am not that impressed with flash and glitter and it has a lot of that. Eye-candy is the term I was looking for there.
Microsoft’s Earth deletes Apple HQ | The Register
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This kind of thing is a problem with any big company with lots of departments that is too big for any one person or group to monitor all of. But this is just plain stupid on any of MicroSloths employees parts. They keep acting kinda like a dying dinosaur, flopping around and breaking even more things while dying. And lets not even think about the latest patents they are trying to get. Someone should open source breathing while they still can!
I have been reading Scoble for a view of from the inside because I just couldn’t see that the entire company could be as bad as I thought they were. I stuck with his blog for quite a while but he has been on a “tablet pc’s are SO great” rant for so long now that it’s gotten more than a little old.
I didn’t when they first came out and today still don’t see the value in “me” owning one. For me, typing is a lot faster than writing (not to mention a lot less painful) and a touchpad or mouse is a lot cheaper to replace than a screen. All I use anymore is a laptop and yes they can be a bit clumsy to work with out on the road but most places I need a computer it works, and I don’t have to clean the skin oil off screen or try to see around my hand when trying to do something.
Anyway, back to Scoble “The Microsoft Evangelist”. So when the only retort he had yesterday about Apple pundits making fun of the “new” name for Longhorn was yea but yall don’t have tablet pc’s yet, I removed him from my feed. Sorry, I’ve tried time and again, but I see nothing about the company that is of any redeeming value.
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Vista – n.
1 – A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through an opening, as between rows of buildings or trees.
An avenue or other passage affording such a view.
2 – An awareness of a range of time, events, or subjects; a broad mental view: “the deep and sweeping vistas these pioneering critics opened up†(Arthur C. Danto).
A distant view of something never to be seen up close?
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Butterfly unlocks evolution secret
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Interesting article.
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I broke one of my own rules today…or almost did, the fact that I even considered it jolted me back to reality.
I came extremely close to helping a friend with a “Windows Problem.†I believe the operative and pivotal term here is “closeâ€.
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I know that one only too well. I have 3 people I will work on a windows machine for now and try not to even for them.
Helios makes some good points here. I’d like the hear/read the answers too…
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$43,000.00 dollar land walkers for sale. Really. 1.5 kmph. Controlled with 4 peddles in cockpit.
Wonder when the military is going to get a version that’s armored and has real guns?
Or that’s what I keep telling myself.
Keep finding things I want or need to do. Got most of it done though. Only gonna use 2 themes for now though as I don’t think the theme switcher plays right with some of the ones I’ve tried. Gonna look at it more later.
Added a bit over at Murder They Wrote my new Mystery blog.
Been adding some more cover scans over at Nero Wolfe too.
Slow but getting there.
Treehugger: Escalante bamboo speakers
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These look NICE! I’d love to hear them. I bet the bamboo does some interesting things to the sound quality. Nice interesting that is…
Hazy Cloud of Saharan Dust Nearing U.S. – Yahoo! News
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The assorted colds and respiratory crap that usually follows one isn’t a really problem and I’m sure it’s all in my head (and chest or will be soon). And there isn’t any global warming either…
I really do hope it stays south of here, these hot summer days have limited my mobility to nill already.
Treehugger: Case Study for Flushless Urinals
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Good general overview on the current art and cost savings of switching to a waterless system.
I’ve been looking for something that would streamline the links and the dropdowns at the right do that just fine. Now to modify the layout with the addons the way I had the old one and add a theme switcher so you can make your choice instead of putting up with what I want to look at. 😉
Anyway, feedback is appreciated either in comments or email…
Got tired of looking at the refrigerator ice so threw this one together out of some pix I took while making some hammers and mallets in the barn last month. Old machine tools work great with wood and allow for fair precision to boot. 😉 I’ll try to put a post up about them and the shovels that I have been making too.
Fisherman in Virginia charged with killing alligator – Wikinews
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So remember folks, next time you’re in Virginia fishing and you hook an alligator and kill it, just don’t tell anybody.
TimesDispatch.com | Roanoke Wal-Mart halts ‘Singles Shopping’
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Bet they got tired of the “Cleanup on aisle 5, 7 &19″…
Mysterious disease kills nine in China: report
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Not good. No contact between the folks. Scary…
Print Story: White House threatens veto on detainee policies on Yahoo! News
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And more evidence that the current administration is totally out of control and has no regard for human rights or the will of the people.
BOFH: Chuck it and leg it | The Register
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New and innovative ideas for equipment disposal…
cancel that last post… I have heard from the host and they have found and corrected (I hope) the problem. We’ll see. I bought the new master domain name bluespringsbazaar.net earlier after the latest outage but had been thinking about it buying that one anyway just to keep anyone else from getting it. I’ll point it to the bluespringsbazaar.com site for now.
GROKLAW
Now, some artists don’t want to share, viewing intellectual property, as they like to call it, as property, just like a dog with a bone. Those who think like that view creative works as their meal ticket, and they want to extract every last dime, not only for themselves, but for their grandchildren as well.
They are free to squirrel their works away in a hole in a tree, if they wish. And they can erect as many gates and pitchforks around it as they like.
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The meal ticket part is what screws with my head.
A hard or paperback book costs what it does mostly due to the labor involved, not in writing it but in printing and then shipping, warehousing, advertising, and then sitting in a store taking up shelf space.
Same with music, and video.
The creative part that is the reason for all of this massive infrastructure is actually about the least part of its personal whole as far as effort and cost.
Lets step back 5 hundred years.
None of this exists. The books that do exist are produced by and mostly owned by the church. The average person and in fact most people cannot read or write. Story tellers were their writers and radio and musicians were regarded as thieves and whores.
Fast forward 4 hundred years.
In cities a fair number of folks could read and newspapers and penny dreadfuls were sold on the streets by urchins.
And then comes radio.
Then TV.
Then the internet.
Today an artist can take a picture and upload it to the internet at a cost of only what the connection and online storage cost. Then the world has access.
If I look at that picture as MY property and MY meal ticket then I need to restrict access to it. But I don’t. Unless you want to make money off of it. If you want to look at it, fine. Use it on your web page not a problem. Collect my pictures and print a book and sell it – Problem.
My writing is the same. Use it as you wish. Unless you make coin I care not. You make a profit on it, I want a piece.
But here again is a rub that I wonder about. In my life I have mostly done work for hire. I fix stuff. Someone pays me for that work. I don’t fix something once and folks keep paying me for it.
And this is were I have a problem with IP. If you are following me that is. Not sure I am at this point.
I go out and fix a car. I get paid. I go and buy a song and download it. And 10,000 more do the same thing. But the song still costs the same thing. Now the guy that wrote the song deserves something… But how much?
The one that wrote the book that just sold millions of copies on it’s first day out. Now she (no names) worked a few months or maybe a year to write that book. Okay, in that time it cost her a few thousand or a few 10 thousand to live. But she made so much more. But had she published on the web it would have cost almost nothing. And she could have gotten it to ALL her fans. And she would have been able to get ALL the money instead of just a few pennies on the dollar. But the HUGE retail sales infrastructure wouldn’t get their piece of the pie. And all those [thousands, tens of thousands, millions?] of gallons of fuel, used in making and shipping the paper, printing and shipping the books, customers going out at midnight to buy the book, wouldn’t have been consumed. And all the trees wouldn’t have had to die to print it on.
But she (read her lawyers and accountants) was scared that the business that she has become would miss out on a few pennies due to pirated copys.
So her fans buy the book and scan, proofread, convert to and ebook and have it available for free within 24 hours. Less time than it took to typeset the original. Now the courts get involved.
I don’t understand. I need enough for me to live on. I haven’t worked at a regular job in years nor do I ever expect to.
If I sell a used book I eat. If not I garden. Or write. Or work on sculpture. Which when sold is sold. No copies and the pictures are free.
Now tell me why I should pay for something that was originally paid for in hourly wages, again and again and again, just because it’s your Intellectual Property.
Folks, here is where I draw the line. I ain’t gonna do it. This whole Farking society is out of control and I will not assist in stopping its demise. In fact if, in any small way I can hasten the fall of big everything I will give my all in doing so.
Not gonna say I will steal from it. Not interested in anyones IP in any way. Not your movies, not your books (I buy them used, and sell them used, and no one but me gets any of it), and certainly not the RIAA’s farking music. I will not pay one red cent that goes into the RIAA’s coffers to allow them to sue more of the musicans fan base.
This has grown too big to be a comment but that’s what it started as and I guess that’s what it will end up as. Warts and all. I’m gonna spell check it and see if it reads somewhat coherent and post…
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