We are dependent on good graphics software for certain aspects of our online presence so that we are interested in new program developments in this field.
The open source desktop graphics software program Krita
for Microsoft Windows -- an eyeopener as a free digital painting program targeted for artistic use -- came out in a new version in December of 2016 and is available under the GNU General Public License.
It can be downloaded at krita.org/en/
. Once downloaded, the English-language user interface can be changed to any of the numerous other languages in the main menu under Settings / Switch Application Languages
.
The Krita menus can be customized via the main menu at Settings / Configure Toolbars
. For example, we added a "back" icon to the menu, which we use when drawing.
The standard graphic interface may be too dark for some users and can be changed at the main menu under Settings / Themes
. The available themes are Breeze Dark, Breeze High Contrast, Breeze Light, Krita Blender, Krita Bright, Krita Dark (the default theme) and Krita Neutral. We prefer dark print on a lighter background so we chose Krita Bright, but it is a personal decision.
The "canvas" background can be changed at Settings / Configure Krita / General / Window / Window Background
. We changed from black to the hex color code #ababab
. That is the practical background color for Paint Shop Pro 7 which we have used for years. There is also a separate color setting for the canvas border at Settings / Configure Krita / Display / Canvas Border
.
A program for picking any colors from the screen that one may want to use in a program like Krita is something like the color picker Instant Eyedropper
.
Caveat Emptor:
Our above review of Krita is made solely for providing information about Krita and is not a recommendation, nor do we make any guarantees about the program, with which we are not affiliated in any way.
Monday, January 09, 2017
Patents, Copyrights, Net Neutrality, Innovation and the Law are Featured at Stanford Lawyer Magazine
Lawyering, IP, Net Neutrality, Innovation and the Law
are featured at the current Stanford Lawyer Magazine
, Issue 95, Fall, 2016, which we receive quarterly as a Stanford Law School alumnus, and which is found online at https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer-magazine/
.
The cover article by Stanford Lawyer Editor Sharon Driscoll is about
Innovation and the Law : IP and Net Neutrality Fuel Creativity and the Economy . Inter alia, Driscoll writes:
Lawyering at the Edge of Innovation: A Conversation with Kent Walker [Stanford JD '87], Google's General Counsel and Senior Vice President , a question-and-answer interview of Walker , a Stanford Law School graduate, by Lisa Larrimore Ouellette , Assistant Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. A sample statement by Walker out of that interview:
Take a look .
The cover article by Stanford Lawyer Editor Sharon Driscoll is about
Innovation and the Law : IP and Net Neutrality Fuel Creativity and the Economy . Inter alia, Driscoll writes:
" While network neutrality is about the architecture of innovation, intellectual property rules like patent law, trademark, and copyright are about the innovations themselves. "Stanford Lawyer Legal Matters follows with
Lawyering at the Edge of Innovation: A Conversation with Kent Walker [Stanford JD '87], Google's General Counsel and Senior Vice President , a question-and-answer interview of Walker , a Stanford Law School graduate, by Lisa Larrimore Ouellette , Assistant Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. A sample statement by Walker out of that interview:
" The Supreme Court’s decision in Alice ... was useful in analyzing the question of patentable subject matter and setting out a framework for how to assess whether or not a patent has made a unique and non-obvious contribution to the art. "Stanford Lawyer Perspectives has an essay by Kevin Patrick Gibson [JD '17] on Empirical Study of Patent Troll Litigation Practicum , where Gibson writes:
" Our general findings so far indicate that litigation growth in the past 15 years is due largely to the rise of PAE-initiated lawsuits. These lawsuits tend to involve software patents and they resolve much more quickly than other lawsuits, lending credence to the theory that PAEs often assert with the goal of extracting quick money from defendants .Stanford Lawyer Online Features focuses on Stanford Law School's Copyright Licensing Practicum :
"[Paul Goldstein, the Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law at Stanford Law School ("SLS"] " has overseen a partnership between SLS and the United States Copyright Office to protect copyright owners while allowing the flow of information to remain relatively unfettered ". [The result has been creation of] " a prototype for licensing photographs ".This is obviously an interesting issue for intellectual property questions but there are also addtional Stanford Lawyer articles on privacy, veterans treatment, criminal investigations, virtual law practice, class action litigation, public research and leadership in education, and peer review in government.
Take a look .
Friday, January 06, 2017
Happy New Year ! -- Another 1/230,000,000th of Our Galactic Orbit -- Caleb A. Scharf Comments 2017 in Life, Unbounded at the Scientific American Blog Network
Happy New Year 2017 !
To keep things on our planet in perspective for the New Year 2017, a terrestrial "Earth" year can be compared to a "Galactic" year -- as Caleb A. Scharf has done in his Life, Unbounded posting at the Scientific American Blog Network in
Another 1/230,000,000th of a Galactic Orbit .
Scharf suggests there:
" As the solar year ends, let's try to stop being so parochial ".
Our comment is, " hear, hear !! "
As written at the Wikipedia for the entry " Galactic Year ":
The word "scharf" in German means "sharp" and a sharp intelligence indeed is at work in writing perspicaciously about the present New Year as
Another 1/230,000,000th of a Galactic Orbit .
Take a look there for some outstanding insights about life on our planet.
In the meantime, Scharf might consider applying his own wisdom further, perhaps depart from the blindered parochial focus that marks the mainstream, and look at our "galactic" (if archaeological-anthropological-historical) decipherments of Stonehenge and Avebury in our previous postings -- from a broad historical-astronomical point of view, of course....
To keep things on our planet in perspective for the New Year 2017, a terrestrial "Earth" year can be compared to a "Galactic" year -- as Caleb A. Scharf has done in his Life, Unbounded posting at the Scientific American Blog Network in
Another 1/230,000,000th of a Galactic Orbit .
Scharf suggests there:
" As the solar year ends, let's try to stop being so parochial ".
Our comment is, " hear, hear !! "
As written at the Wikipedia for the entry " Galactic Year ":
"The galactic year , also known as a cosmic year , is the duration of time required for the Solar System to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Estimates of the length of one orbit range from 225 to 250 million terrestrial years. The Solar System is traveling at an average speed of 828,000 km/h (230 km/s) or 514,000 mph (143 mi/s) within its trajectory around the galactic center, a speed at which an object could circumnavigate the Earth's equator in 2 minutes and 54 seconds; that speed corresponds to approximately one 1300th of the speed of light."We are, galactically seen, part of a much larger "picture", so to speak.
The word "scharf" in German means "sharp" and a sharp intelligence indeed is at work in writing perspicaciously about the present New Year as
Another 1/230,000,000th of a Galactic Orbit .
Take a look there for some outstanding insights about life on our planet.
In the meantime, Scharf might consider applying his own wisdom further, perhaps depart from the blindered parochial focus that marks the mainstream, and look at our "galactic" (if archaeological-anthropological-historical) decipherments of Stonehenge and Avebury in our previous postings -- from a broad historical-astronomical point of view, of course....
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