Rob Myers
Since 2003
Works in United States of America

ARTBASE (3)
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BIO
Rob Myers is an artist and hacker based in the UK.

I have been creating images of the contemporary social and cultural environment through programming, design software and visual remixing since the early 1990s. My work is influenced by popular culture and high art in equal measures. My interest in remixing and sampling has led to my involvement in the Free Culture movement. I have been involved in the public consultation regarding the Creative Commons 2.0 and CC-UK licenses. All my visual art is available under a Creative Commons license.

My interest in programming has led to my involvement with the Free Software movement. I developed the Macintosh version of the Gwydion Dylan programming language compiler. All my software is available under the GNU GPL.
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DISCUSSION

Re: XP service pack 2


On Monday, October 04, 2004, at 02:58PM, Pall Thayer <palli@pallit.lhi.is> wrote:

>I think the best solution here would be to just tell people to hit F11.

Or to offer a Projector download as well. I offered a full-screen application download version of my Flash project "The Cybernetic Artwork Nobody Wrote" as well as the web-browser window version. I'd like to do a screensaver as well, but I can't afford the wrapper software...

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: XP service pack 2


Well my partner tends to use IE, so it's installed. Which means that if I want an emergency I can indeed use IE. ;-)

- Rob.

On Monday, October 04, 2004, at 01:58PM, Pall Thayer <palli@pallit.lhi.is> wrote:

>but that means you're a mac user and you have, at least, the ability to
>keep a copy of IE around for emergencies.
>
>Rob Myers wrote:
>> I'm a Safari user [ducks and heads for cover].
>>
>> - Rob.
>>
>> On Monday, October 04, 2004, at 01:40PM, Pall Thayer <palli@pallit.lhi.is> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>So bear in mind that unless you find a
>>>way to make this work in all browsers, I, along with a growing number of
>>>Linux users, am not going to have the pleasure of seeing your work.
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DISCUSSION

Re: XP service pack 2


I'm a Safari user [ducks and heads for cover].

- Rob.

On Monday, October 04, 2004, at 01:40PM, Pall Thayer <palli@pallit.lhi.is> wrote:

>So bear in mind that unless you find a
>way to make this work in all browsers, I, along with a growing number of
>Linux users, am not going to have the pleasure of seeing your work.

DISCUSSION

Re: speaking of microsoft...


On Monday, October 04, 2004, at 12:54PM, twhid <twhid@twhid.com> wrote:

>...they suck:
>
>Speaking to members of the press in London recently, Microsoft's Chief
>Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said that "iPod users are music
>thieves," reports Silicon.com. "Billing Microsoft as the good guys and
>Apple the villains of the piece - at least as far as corporate America,
>rather than users, is concerned, Ballmer said: 'We?ve had DRM in
>Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is
>?stolen'.

Nope, not familiar with the 'stolen' codec. If he means 'stolen' as in 'taken illegally from somewhere', where is it now missing from?

On a related note (via slashdot):

"The Inquirer is reporting that a claim by Gartner that Linux desktops are used for pirated copies of windows has been dismissed by the Open Source Industry Association (OSIA). OSIA told The Sydney Morning Herald that 'if Gartner's conclusion that pre-installing Linux encouraged people to steal copies of Windows were correct.... It would be possible to state that pre-installing Windows encourages people to pirate application software.'"

Heh.

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Art Keywords


On Monday, September 27, 2004, at 01:27PM, Pau Waelder <pau@sicplacitum.com> wrote:

>Art Keywords

From the submission page:

"The submission of an item implies a permission for its publication under the terms of Creative Commons license"

Which license? They're very different from each other (eg commercial/noncommercial share-alike/no-derivation).

Thanks.

- Rob.