I have the Coltrane Impulse Years recordings and they're great. My Favorite Things is, of course, a must-have Coltrane album.
Most of the quality jazz music I can talk about intelligently is third-stream avant garde. Attaining the rank of "jazz geek" would have to include the following numbers. Milton Babbit has an interesting tune called All Set, Gunther Schuller makes some interesting use of the style in Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee along with others. And Stravinsky did excellent work in the Ebony Concerto written for Benny Goodman.
And of course, giving a shout to my alma mater, the North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band is the only college jazz band to recieve Grammy nods. (Hey, I played in the Nine O'Clock!:-) My favorite tune: Overture to the Royal Mongolian Suma Foosball Festival on Lab 75.
Ok, this is interesting, but nothing new. Composers hava been using math and science for centuries in their music. Guillame Dufay used the architectural proportions of Brunelleschi's dome in Florence in the mensural changes in his Nuper rosarum flores in the 15th century. Polish composer Yannis Xenakis saught to explain the music of J.S. Bach with geomentry. American composer and mathmetician Milton Babbitt focused on algorithmic composition decades ago. And John Cage used the I Ching to randomize his music. The last two are often seen as extreme ways of composing music more objectively, though from different ideological perspectives.
Granted, no one is writing about my music anywhere:-]
When I heard this announced I kept confusing these guys with UCSF's Dr. Cynthia Kenyon, who was on Scientific American Frontiers not long ago talking about her work with elegans and their age-resistant genes. Anyone know what's the difference between her research and these guy's?
An aquaintence told me about a caller he had while working tech support in Houston. The caller said that her monitor had stopped working. Like the good tech support guy he was, he asked if anything happened to the monitor before it stopped working. She said yes, it stopped working after it was cleaned. He asks how she cleaned it. She says in the dishwasher.
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A major problem with them is that they don't differentiate between slantedly pro-corporate initiatives (e.g. GATT/WTO) and general free-trade initiatives (e.g. NAFTA), which makes supporting them basically impossible for anyone who's spent time in a third-world nation and understands the fundamental importance of spurring economic growth to long-term human equality.
This is not how I read the platform. Greens disagree with the corporate control of these initiatives. They merely wish to renegotiate NAFTA, I gather to root out corporate oligarchy, for example: the platform indicates that these initiatives "effectively limit the participation of citizens in decisions. Instead, they create administrative bureaucracies which will be run by corporate interests unaccountable to public input or even legal challenge."
I don't think they're against helping 3rd world countries, they'd just prefer not to see corporations line their pockets on the backs of those citizens.
From what I know, these guys were a minor issue-party, but have evolved into a serious, well-rounded party fighting corporate control of the government and the political process. They even had a good candidate for president in 2000, who bothered to answer (some) questions from Slashdot.
It sounds like you're looking for a techy magic bullet, but...
Hearing and listening are skills which take many years to master. Since you are making a conscience effort at it, You'll probably be better tham most in a few years.
Take time to get used to hearing all sounds, not just speech. Music uses rhythm, articulation, pitch and tempo just as speech does. This should also break up the more tedious aspects of learning this new skill.
Work at it daily. Don't try too much and then get burned out. Pace yourself.
The best way to learn an idiom is to participate in it. It sounds like you're doing that already. Be patient and enjoy sounds. Maybe take a break from them every now and then (since you can). I know the omnipresence of sound can be burdonesome at first.
There are serious problems with this claim. First of which, Cage scorned the idea that 4'33" was a "silent piece." First, there are theatrical elements of David Tudor's premiere that I'm guessing are absent from this recording. Also, 4'33" is a piece in 3 movements of random length, provided that the sum their lengths equals 4'33".
Also keep in mind this piece was premiered in an open air theatre in the forest. There would likely have been much more than silence heard.
And this isn't even getting into the idea that it is impossible to actually hear silence.
The program I'm referring to is called Teach for Texas. You have to commit 5 years to teaching in a critical need area or subject, tech is one of them. I'm a college grad who's been teaching with no certification. Hopefully I will be attending UTSA this fall on this program to get my cert. The website says what colleges, subjects and areas are approved.
Many school districts in the US are at critical need for Tech Teachers. In fact, a program in texas will pay for your college + extras if you promise to teach in Tech (among other things).
If you find the right district (or private school gig) and you have the skills, they'll help you work around the certification thing while you work.
I'm forced to use win98 at work, and few weeks ago I installed geoshell. Very nice, multiple desktops and other toys. I cannot detect a difference in speed on the PIII-667 I use at work.
I see some comments about liteStep's installation. for one, I couldn't find anything on LiteStep, and geoshell's install was effortless. I'm very happy with it.
Perfect pitch is commonly used to describe absolute pitch:
an intriguing behavioral trait involved in music perception and is defined as the ability to recognize the pitch of a musical tone without an external reference pitch
For example, a professor at my beloved alma mater was able to identify a pitch by referring to its frequency in Hz! The phrase describes someone at a different end of the musical spectrum than the idiots at which this product is aimed.
that class that the The Art Center, College of Design in Pasadena had offered on the 'Films of Keanu Reeves'. Keep in mind that this gem was offered before The Matrix.
Check out various offerings from a
google search. No word on whether the class is still being offered.
The Happy Hacker has a cool account of a social engineering break-in on the website. I believe this is from Meinel's book Uberhacker in the chapter on
Social engineering, including an actual break in to a fortune 500 company.
Isn't the guy who wrote
sendmail an open source code soldier from way back? I've always heard that it's growth was due in large part to that fact that it was freely available to work on/add to.
Perhaps this was a poor comparison, especially since the majority of email sends this way.
Ah, yes. I work as a band director and music teacher, so all of my backbreaking, dehumanizing work was done in college. Now I just run rehearsals and give lessons for about 6-7 hours a day, and then play Unreal during planning periods. And of course cruise/.
Grand total of about 45 hours a week at the "office."
Then again, I do come in on weekends to do "real work"...and to practice coding;)
This is a completely redundant article rendered nearly impossible to read because of miserable grammar. Plenty other websites have more detailed articles about far more effective and inexpensive ways to tweak your system. And they take the time to edit their work, do benchmarks and such.
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I have the Coltrane Impulse Years recordings and they're great. My Favorite Things is, of course, a must-have Coltrane album.
Most of the quality jazz music I can talk about intelligently is third-stream avant garde. Attaining the rank of "jazz geek" would have to include the following numbers. Milton Babbit has an interesting tune called All Set, Gunther Schuller makes some interesting use of the style in Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee along with others. And Stravinsky did excellent work in the Ebony Concerto written for Benny Goodman.
And of course, giving a shout to my alma mater, the North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band is the only college jazz band to recieve Grammy nods. (Hey, I played in the Nine O'Clock! :-) My favorite tune: Overture to the Royal Mongolian Suma Foosball Festival on Lab 75.
...everything I learned about being a supervillain I learned from this book.
Yup, I'm thinking they just need two of those IBM-type eraser-like pointing devices at the top of each and you'd really have something!
Granted, no one is writing about my music anywhere :-]
When I heard this announced I kept confusing these guys with UCSF's Dr. Cynthia Kenyon, who was on Scientific American Frontiers not long ago talking about her work with elegans and their age-resistant genes. Anyone know what's the difference between her research and these guy's?
nice.
Yeah, wow, look how hard it is to find.
This is not how I read the platform. Greens disagree with the corporate control of these initiatives. They merely wish to renegotiate NAFTA, I gather to root out corporate oligarchy, for example: the platform indicates that these initiatives "effectively limit the participation of citizens in decisions. Instead, they create administrative bureaucracies which will be run by corporate interests unaccountable to public input or even legal challenge."
I don't think they're against helping 3rd world countries, they'd just prefer not to see corporations line their pockets on the backs of those citizens.
From what I know, these guys were a minor issue-party, but have evolved into a serious, well-rounded party fighting corporate control of the government and the political process. They even had a good candidate for president in 2000, who bothered to answer (some) questions from Slashdot.
Hearing and listening are skills which take many years to master. Since you are making a conscience effort at it, You'll probably be better tham most in a few years.
Take time to get used to hearing all sounds, not just speech. Music uses rhythm, articulation, pitch and tempo just as speech does. This should also break up the more tedious aspects of learning this new skill.
Work at it daily. Don't try too much and then get burned out. Pace yourself.
The best way to learn an idiom is to participate in it. It sounds like you're doing that already. Be patient and enjoy sounds. Maybe take a break from them every now and then (since you can). I know the omnipresence of sound can be burdonesome at first.
that's great. link please?
Also keep in mind this piece was premiered in an open air theatre in the forest. There would likely have been much more than silence heard.
And this isn't even getting into the idea that it is impossible to actually hear silence.
The program I'm referring to is called Teach for Texas. You have to commit 5 years to teaching in a critical need area or subject, tech is one of them. I'm a college grad who's been teaching with no certification. Hopefully I will be attending UTSA this fall on this program to get my cert. The website says what colleges, subjects and areas are approved.
If you find the right district (or private school gig) and you have the skills, they'll help you work around the certification thing while you work.
it might also help to be flexible about location.
sometimes it is
I see some comments about liteStep's installation. for one, I couldn't find anything on LiteStep, and geoshell's install was effortless. I'm very happy with it.
an intriguing behavioral trait involved in music perception and is defined as the ability to recognize the pitch of a musical tone without an external reference pitch
For example, a professor at my beloved alma mater was able to identify a pitch by referring to its frequency in Hz! The phrase describes someone at a different end of the musical spectrum than the idiots at which this product is aimed.
-jason
Trojans and trapdoors and bugs, Oh My!
Trojans and trapdoors and bugs, Oh My!
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SHOW ME THE BUGGIES!!!!!!!!!!!
Check out various offerings from a google search. No word on whether the class is still being offered.
These guys say that their v.92 modem is linux "compatible."
It also seems Zoom supports v.92 under linux. Here's a news release, I guess they've supported linux v.92 since January this year.
as if i'm not paranoid enough!
Perhaps this was a poor comparison, especially since the majority of email sends this way.
Ah, yes. I work as a band director and music teacher, so all of my backbreaking, dehumanizing work was done in college. Now I just run rehearsals and give lessons for about 6-7 hours a day, and then play Unreal during planning periods. And of course cruise /.
Grand total of about 45 hours a week at the "office."
Then again, I do come in on weekends to do "real work"...and to practice coding ;)
This is a completely redundant article rendered nearly impossible to read because of miserable grammar. Plenty other websites have more detailed articles about far more effective and inexpensive ways to tweak your system. And they take the time to edit their work, do benchmarks and such.