All the poetry in the world isn't going to make the phone calls from creditors stop.
True, but knowing all the poetry in the world means you will have something to say. I was working minimum wage and got a BFA in multimedia in the late 70s when that meant slide projectors, crappy video and xerox machines. Is there a job in that? Hell no. Was I in debt and eating Ramen for a long time? Yes.
Focusing only on money and payback will teach you the price of everything and the value of nothing.
A university course should be chosen for two reasons; Interest in the subject, and the prospect of a vocation.
I disagree. I think interest in the subject is what really matters. Otherwise there would be no reason to study poetry, art history (or history a all, really), continental philosophy, sociology, media theory, and a jillion other subjects of significance and value. How many poets make a living off of poetry?
Agreed. I found this one online a few days ago, and I think it applies too,
This douchebag is WORSE than a steaming sack of coon poo and fur ball retchings. He makes that rattling bag of stinky turds and cat spew look like the acme of human achievement. Fuck these people.
and I liked this one too:
His cranio-rectal inversion is so severe, he can lick his own pancreas
Look: If the society you live in decides for whatever reason that flower arranging is an art form of merit, and is willing to put resources into such behaviour, then guess what: Flower Arranging Is Art. And for some time, that was true in Japan.
Your *particular* aesthetics are of limited consequence. It doesn't matter what *you* think is "Art". What matters is what society as a collective whole deems is Art is then "Art".
It has nothing to do with Dadaism or Minimalism or any other particular method of Art making. Your very standards of Aesthetics are social products borne of the cultural, economic, and social contradictions of the time and place you live in.
ANY sense of "relative merit of art" is purely parochial in space and time, again, dependent on the contradictions of the culture, economy, and society in which you live. As a consequence, there are no absolute metrics of judgment. There are only the metrics of judgment available at a particular time and place: your notion of "aesthetic standards" simply goes out the window.
your "critiques" of music are useless. Music is completely culturally bound. Listen to classical Japanese court music or Noh Plays. To western ears, it's dissonant shriekery. To the Japanese ear, it is not.
I didn't say 4'33" was some great masterpiece of performance. What I said was "Cage gave us silence", which is the opposite of complexity. For that reason and its historical role as the refutation / logical conclusion to serialism, yes it is a masterpiece of composition.
You hold a typically parochial North American middle class sensibility of such things. Read some Adorno and get back to me.
Wrong. Art is whatever the market says it is. If the (or a) market says that a toilet is art, it's art. If market says a 4x6 index card listing all the women I've had sex with is art, then, it's art.
Cage provided us with Silence as music. Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music is about an hour's worth of shrieking feedback. Merzbow has made a career out of sheer noise. There is no metric for that. It is whatever people want it to be and are willing to pay for. Art and Music have nothing to do with metrics.
There's unlimited supply
And there is no reason why
I tell you it was all a frame
They only did it 'cos of fame
Who?
E.M.I.
E.M.I.
E.M.I.
Too many people had the suss
Too many people support us
An unlimited amount
Too many outlets in and out
Who?
E.M.I
E.M.I
E.M.I
And sir and friends are crucified
A day they wished that we had died
We are an addition
We are ruled by none
Never ever never
And you thought that we were faking
That we were all just money making
You do not believe we're for real
Or you would lose your cheap appeal?
Don't judge a book just by the cover
Unless you cover just another
And blind acceptance is a sign
Of stupid fools who stand in line
Like
E.M.I
E.M.I
E.M.I
Unlimted edition
With an unlimited supply
That was the only reason
We all had to say goodbye
Unlimited supply (E.M.I)
There is no reason why (E.M.I)
I tell you it was all a frame (E.M.I)
They only did it 'cos of fame (E.M.I)
I do not need the pressure (E.M.I)
I can't stand those useless fools (E.M.I)
Unlimited supply (E.M.I)
Hello E.M.I
Goodbye A & M
thanks! I'll check it out. There is also an IT stumbling block - the folks who implement Blackboard will be the ones to shuffle to Moodle, and given how entrenched Blackboard and all of its sucktasticness (sp?) in my school's IT managerial class, I don't know if I would even be allowed to use Moodle parallel to Blackboard, much less in place of...
You clearly have ZERO understanding of the history and evolution of electronic music.
"I can respect the pioneers of electronic music (Kraftwerk and Wendy Carlos)"
Wendy? A bit of a pioneer, but more of a "settler" really. The real pioneers? Leon Termin, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, John Cage, Daphne Oram, (and to a certain degree) Raymond Scott to name but a few.
Wendy was pioneering in her usage of keyboard based voltage controlled synths and her performance and compositional techniques in using them. But mostly, she is well regarded (And rightfully so) as a populariser of synthesis, more than an inventor of new electronic music tropes or systems.
Daft Punk played a significant role in that evolution. For starters, sampling didn't become a respected/legitimate technique until nearly 10 years after Daft Punk started doing it.
WTF? You're an idiot. Tell that to the Beatles who used tape decks (there were no digital samplers then) and used them to significant effect in both their compositions (viz: Benefit of Mister Kite, I am the Walrus) or AS compositions (viz Revolution #9) all of which happened YEARS before Daft Punk was even born.
And when the members of Daft Punk were in grade school, the Art of Noise, Colourbox, Brian Eno and David Byrne, and Grandmaster Flash and a variety of other rap artists were getting massive airplay using digitally sampled sounds.
So, frankly, you really have no idea what you're talking about.
elegance - don't have to deal with the freakin' wall wart from a larger drive. Also, WD says the WD TV is optimised to work with WD passport drives. I don't really know what they mean by that, but I guess it is safe to consider it a good thing.
The plan: Get one of these TB drives and stuff it full of FLAC rips from my massive CD collection. Then USB it to a WD TV box and my cheapy $80 15in flat panel monitor, routing the audio to my insane audio system.
They use the faces of people who are in my FRIENDS LIST, and the whole thing is a cellphone scam, where you take the dopey IQ test, then to get your results, you have to give them the number to your cellphone which then gets billed (x) dollars. So, FUCK facebook and their excuses as to how they don't give pictures to 3rd parties. they don't INSOFAR as other people should not be able to use images for billboards etc. HOWEVER: if your advert is specifically within the facebook universe, they've got you.
I turned off that option. the last thing I want are my baby pictures showing up as an advert for a swinging singles advert...
Cool - go for it - pay Virgin Atlantic to do that. We're talking NASA policy here, which needs to have the greatest information yield per dollar possible - not some rocket propelled rollercoaster ride for adrenaline junkies. That's what Virgin Galactic is for.
Slashdot Mirror
someone should have caught this LONG ago. Duh.
They tell us "we've detected the atmosphere" but don't tell us what the atmosphere is made of. Nice.
True, but knowing all the poetry in the world means you will have something to say. I was working minimum wage and got a BFA in multimedia in the late 70s when that meant slide projectors, crappy video and xerox machines. Is there a job in that? Hell no. Was I in debt and eating Ramen for a long time? Yes.
Focusing only on money and payback will teach you the price of everything and the value of nothing.
A university course should be chosen for two reasons; Interest in the subject, and the prospect of a vocation.
I disagree. I think interest in the subject is what really matters. Otherwise there would be no reason to study poetry, art history (or history a all, really), continental philosophy, sociology, media theory, and a jillion other subjects of significance and value. How many poets make a living off of poetry?
This douchebag is WORSE than a steaming sack of coon poo and fur ball retchings. He makes that rattling bag of stinky turds and cat spew look like the acme of human achievement. Fuck these people.
and I liked this one too:
His cranio-rectal inversion is so severe, he can lick his own pancreas
Look: If the society you live in decides for whatever reason that flower arranging is an art form of merit, and is willing to put resources into such behaviour, then guess what: Flower Arranging Is Art. And for some time, that was true in Japan.
Your *particular* aesthetics are of limited consequence. It doesn't matter what *you* think is "Art". What matters is what society as a collective whole deems is Art is then "Art".
It has nothing to do with Dadaism or Minimalism or any other particular method of Art making. Your very standards of Aesthetics are social products borne of the cultural, economic, and social contradictions of the time and place you live in.
ANY sense of "relative merit of art" is purely parochial in space and time, again, dependent on the contradictions of the culture, economy, and society in which you live. As a consequence, there are no absolute metrics of judgment. There are only the metrics of judgment available at a particular time and place: your notion of "aesthetic standards" simply goes out the window.
It's not even "wrong" - it's just irrelevant.
I didn't say 4'33" was some great masterpiece of performance. What I said was "Cage gave us silence", which is the opposite of complexity. For that reason and its historical role as the refutation / logical conclusion to serialism, yes it is a masterpiece of composition.
You hold a typically parochial North American middle class sensibility of such things. Read some Adorno and get back to me.
Wrong. Art is whatever the market says it is. If the (or a) market says that a toilet is art, it's art. If market says a 4x6 index card listing all the women I've had sex with is art, then, it's art.
Cage provided us with Silence as music. Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music is about an hour's worth of shrieking feedback. Merzbow has made a career out of sheer noise. There is no metric for that. It is whatever people want it to be and are willing to pay for. Art and Music have nothing to do with metrics.
There's unlimited supply
And there is no reason why
I tell you it was all a frame
They only did it 'cos of fame
Who?
E.M.I.
E.M.I.
E.M.I.
Too many people had the suss
Too many people support us
An unlimited amount
Too many outlets in and out
Who?
E.M.I
E.M.I
E.M.I
And sir and friends are crucified
A day they wished that we had died
We are an addition
We are ruled by none
Never ever never
And you thought that we were faking
That we were all just money making
You do not believe we're for real
Or you would lose your cheap appeal?
Don't judge a book just by the cover
Unless you cover just another
And blind acceptance is a sign
Of stupid fools who stand in line
Like
E.M.I
E.M.I
E.M.I
Unlimted edition
With an unlimited supply
That was the only reason
We all had to say goodbye
Unlimited supply (E.M.I)
There is no reason why (E.M.I)
I tell you it was all a frame (E.M.I)
They only did it 'cos of fame (E.M.I)
I do not need the pressure (E.M.I)
I can't stand those useless fools (E.M.I)
Unlimited supply (E.M.I)
Hello E.M.I
Goodbye A & M
Depending on the intensity of fire, you should choose one:
( ) run like the dickens
( ) duck
( ) shoot back
( ) shit your pants
( ) hit the dirt and return fire
soldier chooses
Are you sure you want to do that?
soldier heaves device at enemy line. It is blown apart in mid-air like skeet.
Sigh.
Hopefully this will kill them, and force TPTB to get something that actually works.
"I can respect the pioneers of electronic music (Kraftwerk and Wendy Carlos)"
Wendy? A bit of a pioneer, but more of a "settler" really. The real pioneers? Leon Termin, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, John Cage, Daphne Oram, (and to a certain degree) Raymond Scott to name but a few.
Wendy was pioneering in her usage of keyboard based voltage controlled synths and her performance and compositional techniques in using them. But mostly, she is well regarded (And rightfully so) as a populariser of synthesis, more than an inventor of new electronic music tropes or systems.
Daft Punk played a significant role in that evolution. For starters, sampling didn't become a respected/legitimate technique until nearly 10 years after Daft Punk started doing it.
WTF? You're an idiot. Tell that to the Beatles who used tape decks (there were no digital samplers then) and used them to significant effect in both their compositions (viz: Benefit of Mister Kite, I am the Walrus) or AS compositions (viz Revolution #9) all of which happened YEARS before Daft Punk was even born.
And when the members of Daft Punk were in grade school, the Art of Noise, Colourbox, Brian Eno and David Byrne, and Grandmaster Flash and a variety of other rap artists were getting massive airplay using digitally sampled sounds.
So, frankly, you really have no idea what you're talking about.
elegance - don't have to deal with the freakin' wall wart from a larger drive. Also, WD says the WD TV is optimised to work with WD passport drives. I don't really know what they mean by that, but I guess it is safe to consider it a good thing.
Finally: Done.
I wonder if they'll hire her again.
RS
needs some vowels.
No idea how it works. All I know is that it is evil Evil EVIL!!!
if it gets out of line. It's not that hard.
I turned off that option. the last thing I want are my baby pictures showing up as an advert for a swinging singles advert...
RS
Then ,whoever has the "typo free" version gets blamed.
What a dumb way to do things.
Yay!!!
Happy Happy Joy Joy.
Black Servers won't go away, because they are impossible to find and stop.
RS
Cool - go for it - pay Virgin Atlantic to do that. We're talking NASA policy here, which needs to have the greatest information yield per dollar possible - not some rocket propelled rollercoaster ride for adrenaline junkies. That's what Virgin Galactic is for.