You see, the acronym idiots needed an 'x' in there -- AJA! didn't sound cool enough.
Aja is my favorite Steely Dan album. The drums on the title track alone blow me away every time.
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There is a good article explaining this at http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/stable_api_nonsense.html?seemore=y
Summary: "You think you want a stable kernel interface, but you really do not, and you don't even know it. What you want is a stable running driver, and you get that only if your driver is in the main kernel tree. You also get lots of other good benefits if your driver is in the main kernel tree, all of which has made Linux into such a strong, stable, and mature operating system which is the reason you are using it in the first place. "
Soo...you make symbolic links from/etc/cron* to files in your ~/usr/etc/cron folder, then run unison to sync the dotfiles in your home directory with files in your ~/usr/etc/dot? Interesting.
My agreement with myself is that things can get messy in my home directory, but only below the first level of folders.
Desktop
usually clean
bin
personal programs, scripts
doc
many subfolders, sorted by purpose. This is my messiest folder.
img
all pictures
lib
personal libraries (mostly perl and octave)
mov
all movies
mp3
compressed music (ogg and flac included). Since these files are usually more song-oriented than album-oriented, I do not put them in subfolders, but just name them by Artist - Song.
sci
scientific calculations, for octave, gamess, mathematica, etc. They fall into the grey area between scripts and documents.
txt
a collection of text files, often used as notes to myself
wav
uncompressed music
wav/samples
samples for drum machines/trackers
wav/reCorder
longer exerpts from personally recorded tracks
www
public web directory
Sometimes I have scr, which acts like tmp, and etc for personal config files.
Yes! Ion is lovely - automatic tiling, convenient keystrokes for absolutely everything, and easy scripting with lua. The only thing I don't like to do in the window manager is run a panel, 'cause that looks totally stupid. For now, I just run an ncurses perl script as a substitute for a clock applet:
#!/usr/bin/perl use Curses; while (1) {
initscr();
addstr(1,1,' '.`date`);
addstr(2,1,`uptime`);
refresh();
sleep(1); } endwin();
Actually, if anybody had something for the weather, that'd be nice, too.
There is an album by Experimental Audio Research (Sonic Book in his post-Spacemen 3 days) that came out in 2000, called Data Rape - composed and performed entirely on circuit-bent Speak and Spells. I had the chance to see Mr. Boom on his tour in Pittsburgh that year, but didn't stay through too much of the performance, unfortunately. As I recall, the machines were modified by somebody else and not by Sonic Boom (anybody have that information?).
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Soderbergh didn't 'turn' Solaris into a love story, he merely emphasised the love story over other narrative elements, which is a perfectly reasonable thing for an adaptation to do IMO. In Lem's book, the love story is more of a backdrop, and the main theme is indeed the contact (or lack thereof) between humanity and the ocean (Solaris).
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But the mistake in highlighting the love story is that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Or, if it does, it's lackluster and uncomfortable. In the book, the dialogue between the characters is awkward...they don't really speak and behave in an immediately believable way. This happens in some other books where the characters are there not so much to exist and live as people, but to explore an abstract theme (see DeLillo's White Noise, although I know that there are people who will disagree with me here).
No, it's really not that sad that you won't be purchasing the next Perl Jam album.
However, for anyone experiencing such anti-RIAA sentiment, I would point out that some of the finest and most groundbreaking music today is released by labels who are not part of the RIAA. (99.9% of artists ARE involved with ASCAP and BMI, but as I understand it, these organizations are separate from and not quite as evil as the RIAA.)
For example, some of my favorite sources of music are Darla Records, Drag City Records, Teen Beat Records, Matador Records, Merge Records, Misra Records, etc., etc. Many of these record labels are actually NICE to their artists and fair to the consumer (the average cd price is maybe $11-14). Also, online stores like Other Music and Insound do a fairly good job of filtering new non-big-five-media-company music. This is, of course, a small slice of the available pie, focused around my particular listening habits. I know that it is daunting at first to try and find music outside the mainstream that suits you, but you really only need to find a few artists or labels to truly open the flood gates.
My point being, there IS music being made for you that does not diectly suport "the man." Find a record label you like and begin to branch out!
They're cooling the detector of the telescope to reduce the dark current, in other words to reduce noise.
I suspect that the important difference between SCUBA and Hubble in this case is not the temperature of the detectors, but the method in which light is collected and what regions of the spectrum they choose to collect. The "A" in SCUBA stands for array - This means that SCUBA is actually a collection of telescopes spread out to form the equivalent of a very large telescope.
Also, many molecules in space are really "hot" - they have a lot of energy, but there aren't many of them around. Space is cold, however, it's possible for molecules to remain in highly energetic states for long periods of time. Temperature begins to become ill-defined.
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You see, the acronym idiots needed an 'x' in there -- AJA! didn't sound cool enough.
Aja is my favorite Steely Dan album. The drums on the title track alone blow me away every time.
Summary: "You think you want a stable kernel interface, but you really do not, and you don't even know it. What you want is a stable running driver, and you get that only if your driver is in the main kernel tree. You also get lots of other good benefits if your driver is in the main kernel tree, all of which has made Linux into such a strong, stable, and mature operating system which is the reason you are using it in the first place. "
Soo...you make symbolic links from /etc/cron* to files in your ~/usr/etc/cron folder, then run unison to sync the dotfiles in your home directory with files in your ~/usr/etc/dot? Interesting.
My agreement with myself is that things can get messy in my home directory, but only below the first level of folders.
Desktop usually clean bin personal programs, scripts doc many subfolders, sorted by purpose. This is my messiest folder. img all pictures lib personal libraries (mostly perl and octave) mov all movies mp3 compressed music (ogg and flac included). Since these files are usually more song-oriented than album-oriented, I do not put them in subfolders, but just name them by Artist - Song. sci scientific calculations, for octave, gamess, mathematica, etc. They fall into the grey area between scripts and documents. txt a collection of text files, often used as notes to myself wav uncompressed music wav/samples samples for drum machines/trackers wav/reCorder longer exerpts from personally recorded tracks www public web directorySometimes I have scr, which acts like tmp, and etc for personal config files.
Yes! Ion is lovely - automatic tiling, convenient keystrokes for absolutely everything, and easy scripting with lua. The only thing I don't like to do in the window manager is run a panel, 'cause that looks totally stupid. For now, I just run an ncurses perl script as a substitute for a clock applet:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Curses;
while (1) {
initscr();
addstr(1,1,' '.`date`);
addstr(2,1,`uptime`);
refresh();
sleep(1);
}
endwin();
Actually, if anybody had something for the weather, that'd be nice, too.
There is an album by Experimental Audio Research (Sonic Book in his post-Spacemen 3 days) that came out in 2000, called Data Rape - composed and performed entirely on circuit-bent Speak and Spells. I had the chance to see Mr. Boom on his tour in Pittsburgh that year, but didn't stay through too much of the performance, unfortunately. As I recall, the machines were modified by somebody else and not by Sonic Boom (anybody have that information?).
Soderbergh didn't 'turn' Solaris into a love story, he merely emphasised the love story over other narrative elements, which is a perfectly reasonable thing for an adaptation to do IMO. In Lem's book, the love story is more of a backdrop, and the main theme is indeed the contact (or lack thereof) between humanity and the ocean (Solaris).
"
But the mistake in highlighting the love story is that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Or, if it does, it's lackluster and uncomfortable. In the book, the dialogue between the characters is awkward...they don't really speak and behave in an immediately believable way. This happens in some other books where the characters are there not so much to exist and live as people, but to explore an abstract theme (see DeLillo's White Noise, although I know that there are people who will disagree with me here).
Maybe part of it is lost in the translation.
However, for anyone experiencing such anti-RIAA sentiment, I would point out that some of the finest and most groundbreaking music today is released by labels who are not part of the RIAA. (99.9% of artists ARE involved with ASCAP and BMI, but as I understand it, these organizations are separate from and not quite as evil as the RIAA.)
For example, some of my favorite sources of music are Darla Records, Drag City Records, Teen Beat Records, Matador Records, Merge Records, Misra Records, etc., etc. Many of these record labels are actually NICE to their artists and fair to the consumer (the average cd price is maybe $11-14). Also, online stores like Other Music and Insound do a fairly good job of filtering new non-big-five-media-company music. This is, of course, a small slice of the available pie, focused around my particular listening habits. I know that it is daunting at first to try and find music outside the mainstream that suits you, but you really only need to find a few artists or labels to truly open the flood gates.
My point being, there IS music being made for you that does not diectly suport "the man." Find a record label you like and begin to branch out!
They're cooling the detector of the telescope to reduce the dark current, in other words to reduce noise.
I suspect that the important difference between SCUBA and Hubble in this case is not the temperature of the detectors, but the method in which light is collected and what regions of the spectrum they choose to collect. The "A" in SCUBA stands for array - This means that SCUBA is actually a collection of telescopes spread out to form the equivalent of a very large telescope.
Also, many molecules in space are really "hot" - they have a lot of energy, but there aren't many of them around. Space is cold, however, it's possible for molecules to remain in highly energetic states for long periods of time. Temperature begins to become ill-defined.