Max RegerConcerto all'insegna della morbidezza del suono, per la quale Bashmet non ha rivali al mondo. Per la scelta dei brani, senz'altro il meglio è stato Shostakovich, lugubre e dal finale molto emozionante. Il resto: se pur brillante, virtuosistico, cantabilissimo e generalmente molto godibile, un poco superficiale.
Concerto in sol minore per viola
Dimitri Shostakovich
Sinfonia per viola e archi "La Tredicesima"
Niccolò Paganini
Concerto in la minore per viola e archi
Paul Hindemith
Trauermusik per viola e orchestra d'archi
Carl Maria Von Weber
Andante e Rondò all'ungherese in do minore per viola e orchestra
"The current crisis in the telecom industry is the clash of two 18th century ideas - Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, and George Boole's two-state system of logic, which became the foundation of digital networks. For most of the last century, if you'd asked anyone which of those two men's inventions was most important, the answer would have been Bell by a mile. The phone was on the short list of absolutely critical inventions, while Boolean logic was on a much longer list of interesting mathematical curiosities.Noto ancora come i mezzi di informazione di massa ignorino totalmente questi argomenti non adatti al grosso pubblico.
Over the last 3 decades, however, that situation has been reversed. Like the telegraph before it, the telephone turns out to have been only a short-term patch, and digital logic is the invention of long-term importance for telecommunications.
Almost every choice critical to the operation of the telephone network turns out to have been a bad choice, and a hundred and fifty years after Boole's work, the digital alternatives turn out to be the better ones. Telephone networks assume that conversations must be given an entire circuit for the duration of the call. Digital networks can break up data into packets and share infrastructure much more efficiently. Telephone networks are optimized for voice at every part of the system. Digital networks treat voice as one of many possible data applications. Telephone networks are optimized for synchronous and one-to-one communications. Digital networks can support those patterns of communication, but also asynchronous, one-to-many and many-to-many patterns as well.
In addition to being philosophically superior, voice as a digital application is now good enough for the early adopters of Voice over IP to disconnect from telephone networks, relegating voice to just another item of a large and growing list of broadband applications.
This is the transition from sail to steam, in other words, and the owners of the sailboat cartel aren't very happy. The incumbent telecoms are fighting against the change harder than the beneficiaries of digital networks are fighting for it, because for the telecoms, their existence is at stake. Their current strategy is simple: they want the FCC to outlaw competition, or, if that proves to be impossible, then they want to use the lever of Government regulation to slow and weaken their competitors in order to be able to milk their outdated network architectures and fee structures for as long as possible.
New formatDavvero stupefacente! Campioni del mondo nello spararsi nel piede! Non passa settimana che non vengano beccati con le mani nella marmellata.
Beginning today, we are sending our newsletter in text-only format. In previous mailings, on September 18 and October 3, you likely received an HTML version of this newsletter (unless your email is configured to receive plain text only).
HTML format is standard for many email newsletters as it allows for a more visually pleasing format and a means of allowing the sender to track the reach of the newsletter. Measuring this reach involves placing a tag embedded in the HTML that is not readily visible to the recipient (see technical details below), but tells the sender if and when the newsletter is opened.
As a matter of policy, Microsoft is committed to notifying individuals about all collection of personally-identifiable information, and in this case, no PII was collected. However, since HTML mail tags have been abused by many in the past, we have decided to move to a text-only newsletter format for all our future communications, and apologize for any misunderstanding this instance might have caused.
We do want to assure you that no personally identifiable information was ever sent to or collected by Microsoft, and no unique identifier was sent to Microsoft or our email newsletter agency. In the end, we believe this change will allow you to still get full use out of our correspondence while also knowing that Microsoft is committed to protecting your privacy.
Technical details of the HTML newsletter behavior
- Each HTML version of the e-mail contained one HTML tag -
"img src=3D"http://pens.tm500.com/track.php/74D0265C6D/icon.gif" height=3D1=width=3D1"- The image tag was from the same domain as the domain from which the e-mail message originated (e.g., pens.tm500.com).
- The tag URL contained a serial number (e.g., 74D0265C6D) which was tied to the specific e-mailing.
- On the network, one HTTP GET could be seen going to pens.tm500.com when the message was viewed. The GET request contained only standard HTTP GET information (e.g., browser type, version, language, OS).
- One HTTP response was sent back containing the GIF (a blank, transparent icon).
- The number of times that the GIF was requested was used in reporting (the IP address was not used in reporting).
- On the management server, we could view how many requests had been made for the GIF associated with the e-mail. No other information was provided. (This is the same way that common web page counters work.)
- The tag was visible at the end of the e-mail if you used a text mail client or you viewed the original message source.
- Opening the message multiple times would not generate multiple requests if the mail client caches HTTP objects.
- Many spammers will often include your e-mail address, or a unique identifier, to track specifically what e-mail addresses are valid. Thus, opening a piece of spam in an HTML capable e-mail client will ensure you get more spam from them. This was not the case with this tracking tag.
- There is an option in Outlook Express to "Read all messages in plain text." If the user had this option checked they would not have requested the tag.
What we have going for us here in the blog world is a different kind of familiarity with the people we read. We also have the opportunity to fact-check the crap out each other, and watch Google put it all on its public record.E per un esempio di "opportunity to fact-check the crap out each other", vedi l'Arianna senza filo qui sotto.
There is also a very different sense of the first person plural, of we. It's a social place, this blogging world. More like a public market, full of gossip and noise and the sounds of vendors selling and customers arguing.
And, like an old fashioned public market, nobody owns or dominates the conversation. Not even Microsoft. Maybe not even Google.
«Tra le affermazioni di un uomo-eroe, come Gesù, e alcune caratteristiche della Rete esistono sorprendenti assonanze. Frasi come “Di fronte a me siete tutti uguali” o “Quello che è mio è tuo” sintetizzano perfettamente l'uguaglianza e la condivisione che contraddistinguono Internet»E ancora, il 25 luglio 2000, su Internet e dintorni del Corriere della Sera Arianna con una potente intuizione preconizzava il futuro della rete:
Arianna Dagnino, autrice del libro “Jesus Christ Cyberstar”
E IL PC DIVENTA UN UFFICIO VIRTUALE IN 3 DIMENSIONIDice il saggio: "Never prophesize, especially about the future!"
-e' un software rivoluzionario che si scarica dalla rete in 10 minuti.
Lo ha creato Clockwise, una nuova azienda israeliana.
-una scrivania, una lavagna, spaziosi cassetti.
-tutto sembra vero, perfino il cielo che cambia colore dall'alba al tramonto.
"La vita non e' stata concepita per essere a due dimensioni" spiega il ventottenne Nir Ronen, fondatore di Clockwise, la startup israeliana che ha creato il primo ambiente tridimensionale per pc (in seguito sara' anche per Mac)
In pratica, grazie a questa rivoluzionaria applicazione il pc si trasforma in un mondo virtuale personalizzabile secondo i propri gusti...
..."La piattaforma e' talmente realistica - aggiunge Natalie Lo - che chiunque la vede, soprattutto se si parla di portali e siti specializzati in commercio elettronico, e' subito intenzionato ad utilizzarla, perche' si rende conto che la fidelizzazione dell'utente qui puo' essere altissima"
Arianna Dagnino
Alban Berg:Che ti posso dire dei primi tre pezzi? Sono accomunati dal fatto che evitano sistematicamente di offrire il seppur minimo appiglio all'ascoltatore: niente ritmo, niente tonalità, niente melodia; dalle note precedenti non potrai mai prevedere la nota seguente, nè la sua durata, nè la sua intensità. Insomma non c'è "tensione", mi è sembrato che la questa musica, nell'ansia di andare contro a tutto, non voglia andare da nessuna parte, ti scaraventi in mezzo al nulla e sia sostanzialmente indifferente allo spettatore, anzi forse direttamente ostile.
4 Pezzi per clarinetto e pianoforte op 5
Arnold Shoemberg:
Fantasia per violino e pianoforte op. 47
Arnold Webern:
4 pezzi per violino e pianoforte op. 7
Igor Stravinski:
L'Histoire du Soldat - Piccola Suite per violino, clarinetto e pianoforte
Claude Debussy:
Prima Rapsodia per clarinetto e pianoforte
Maurice Ravel:
Sonata per violino e pianoforte
Bela Bartok:
Kontraste SZ 111
BEIJING - (AP) - China has imposed strict new limits on Internet cafes, banning minors and demanding that operators keep records of customers and the information they access.Interessante e rivelatore che l'Internet Cafe debba stare lontano dalle scuole e sia vietato ai minori...
The regulations, which take effect Nov. 15, also impose tougher safety standards for the popular cafes that provide Internet access to users who pay by the session. Smoking is banned, no cafe can operated within 124 feet of a school, and the businesses must close by midnight, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
Customers are also prohibited from viewing Internet sites offering gambling, pornography or prostitution.
The new rules reflect the fear of China's communist leaders that the Internet could nurture subversion.
The regulations ban Internet cafe patrons from accessing a broad array of politically sensitive Internet sites, including ones that discuss independence movements in Tibet and the western region of Xinjiang or the sovereignty of Taiwan, which China claims as its territory.
The rules also forbid information that "threatens national security or harms national dignity and national interests."
Operators must keep records of users and the sites they access for two months and provide the information on request to police and regulators. Violators face fines equal to $1,800.
Xinhua said the rules aim to bring order to an industry that has expanded rapidly with little regulation.
China has more than 45 million Internet users, most of whom gain access from connections at home or in the office.
Already, China operates a special force to police the Internet for content deemed subversive. Scores of Web sites are blocked due to their content and the search engines Google and AltaVista have been blocked because they permit access to information on the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement and other sensitive topics.
2. Ignore the Internet: If you can't imagine any way of making money on-line, then no one else can, either. Act surprised when the Internet starts to carry multimedia. Cry, "Who knew?" and insist the whole multimedia thing was invented only to ruin your business.Insomma, la situazione è chiara per tutti, tranne che per i discografici. Come andrà a finire? Così come spera Antonio, oppure così come teme Doc Searls?
4. Misunderstand your market: When you count the songs being swapped on peer-to-peer networks, do not notice that most are mouldy oldies. It's still theft, you argue, even if you stopped paying royalties for those songs in 1961. Blame piracy, not taste, for your inability to sell new songs that no radio station will play.
"the notion of copyright depends for its cogency on an obsolescent industrial model. We need the next idea, not complicated ways of perpetuating the old idea—especially when the ways of perpetuating the old idea end up forcing constraints onto the tremendous capacities of emerging technologies
L'unica ricompensa possibile è quella di far parte della conversazione. O forse scrivere un libro sui weblog...
This destruction of value is what makes weblogs so important. We want a world where global publishing is effortless. We want a world where you don't have to ask for help or permission to write out loud. However, when we get that world we face the paradox of oxygen and gold. Oxygen is more vital to human life than gold, but because air is abundant, oxygen is free. Weblogs make writing as abundant as air, with the same effect on price. Prior to the web, people paid for most of the words they read. Now, for a large and growing number of us, most of the words we read cost us nothing.
Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows on my PC, I told him how happy I was with this operating system and showed him the Windows CD. To my astonishment and distress he threw it into my micro-wave oven and turned it on. I was upset because the CD had become precious to me, but he said 'Do not worry, it is unharmed.'
After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said 'Take a close look at it.' To my surprise the CD was quite cold and it seemed to have become thicker and heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription, in lines finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:
4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C652074
68656D20616C6C2C204F6E65204F53
20746F2066696E64207468656D2C0D0A
4F6E65204F5320746F206272696E67
207468656D20616C6C20616E6420696E
20746865206461726B6E6573732062
696E64207468656D
'I cannot read the fiery letters,' I said.
'No,' he said, 'but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says"
'One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them...."
"As I write this, the year is 2000, and the Internet is a battleground of intellectual property disputes. Some people would like you to believe that, without proper financial incentives, music, literature, and computer software would disappear. After all, who would make music if they can’t make money on it? Who would write? Who would program? I know the answer. The answer is that musicians will make music, not because they can make money, but because musicians are the people who can’t not make music. Writers will write because they can’t not write. I’ve been programming for 16 years, writing free software for 8. I can’t imagine not doing this. If you can imagine yourself not doing what you’re doing, do something else. Do whatever it is that you can’t not do."
Gevorg Dabaghyan, dudukIl programma:
Joel Fan, pianoforte
Jaime gonzalez, oboe
Joseph Gramley, percussione
He Cui, sheng
Colin Jacobsen, violino
Jihun Kim, Kayagum e voce
Shane Shanahan, percussione
Wu Man, pipa
J. del Enzina: Levanta Pascual, Levanta (1492)Insomma, hai capito che non si trattava di un concerto qualsiasi, anche solo per l'ensemble di strumenti e per i brani proposti.
Jia da Qun: The Prospect of Colored Desert (2000)
Vache Sharafyan: The sun, the Wine and the Wind of Time (1998)
Jee-Young Kim: Tryst (2001)
M. Ravel: Trio per violino, violoncello e pianoforte in la minore (1914)
Don Giovanni:Lorenzo Da Ponte (Ceneda 1749, New York 1838) doveva essere un uomo ben interessante.
Lasciar le donne! Pazzo!
Lasciar le donne? Sai ch'elle per me
Son necessarie più del pan che mangio,
Più dell'aria che spiro!
Leporello:
E avete core
D'ingannarle poi tutte?
Don Giovanni:
E' tutto amore.
Chi a una sola è fedele
Verso l'altre è crudele;
Io, che in me sento
Sì esteso sentimento,
Vo' bene a tutte quante:
Le donne, poi che calcolar non sanno,
Il mio buon natural chiamano inganno.
