from Daily Kos: State of the Nation
There has been an understandable public outcry against the RIAA’s attempts to more than triple the sound recording copyright royalties on Internet radio. (See Save Internet Radio from Corporate Money Grab) One solution proposed by Webcasters is to just not play RIAA-member songs under the assumption that then they [...]
Buddy Rich vs. Gene Krupa isn’t as fun as Buddy Rich vs. Animal, but it sure it is scary impressive.
It’s bad enough that this horrible administration is rolling back all the liberal victories of the last few decades: a woman’s right to choose, civil rights, protection of endangered creatures, worker safety, and much more. Now it is even looking to destroy some of the conservative ones as well.
It turns out now that our nation’s [...]
I have railed against the abuse of the H1-B program in the past, having seen it up close in a previous company.
The program was cut back seriously after the bust, but several key tech heavyweights have been arguing for its return to old levels even though there are still 800,000 fewer people employed in the [...]
Flex:Open Source - Adobe Labs
this is freaky awesome news. I work at Adobe and I didn’t even know about it. This will totally open up the tool chain and allow lots of cool authoring apps addressing the different needs of Flex developers. I won’t jump the gun and declare Expression or WPF/e dead, but in [...]
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Great post on explaining the benefits and problems with both Microsoft and Adobe’s approaches to rich internet apps.
The how and when of Adobe and Microsoft’s Rich Internet Application technologies
[via Mary Jo Foley]
David Bennet, a dev on the Vista Parental Controls team is leaving Microsoft and he decided to take some pot shots on the way out.
“I just accepted a position to work at Google up in Kirkland, so still in Seattle. I will be starting there on the 30th of April, so [...]
not much to add here
“The U.S. is not the only country in which random acts of gun violence have erupted in seemingly everyday circumstances to destroy lives, families and communities,” Britain’s Guardian newspaper said. “But the U.S. is one of the few countries that seems collectively unwilling and politically incapable of doing anything serious to [...]
Hot market woes:
Tactics in place to deter buyers from flipping (Seattle Times)
Finding an apartment is harder — and pricier (Seattle Times)
If flippers can still flip then people must be willing to pay for flipped properties and if it is getting harder to find rentals, then it is still paying off for those apartment-to-condo conversions.
Or is [...]
