Rob Myers
Since 2003
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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: Fwd: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein responding to your message (broadcast flag)


Boing Boing have picked this up:

"Dianne Feinstein on the Broadcast Flag: Idiot or liar? "

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/24/dianne_feinstein_on_.html

- Rob.

On 24 Jun 2005, at 20:30, ryan griffis wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
>
>> Dear Mr. Griffis:
>>
>> Thank you for writing to me about the digital broadcast
>> flag. I appreciate hearing from you.
>>
>> I feel strongly that we must prevent the theft of copyrighted
>> works, and that includes digital television (DTV) programming.
>> As we move forward in the digital age, it is increasingly easy for
>> unauthorized copies of copyrighted works to be made and illegally
>> distributed. Over-the-air digital content is the easiest to pirate.
>>
>> As we contemplate the use of new technologies to protect
>> copyrighted works, we must pay careful attention to ensure that a
>> balance is struck between competitive protections and individual
>> consumer interests. It is important to allow for the continued fair
>> use of copyrighted material, even while we seek to stop
>> unauthorized reproductions from being illegally distributed outside
>> the home and over the Internet.
>>
>> Again, thank you for writing. Please know that as the
>> Senate considers legislation of the broadcast flag, I will be sure to
>> keep your views in mind. If you should have any questions, please
>> feel free to contact my Washington, DC staff at (202) 224-3841.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely yours,
>>
>> Dianne Feinstein
>> United States Senator
>>
>> http://feinstein.senate.gov
>>
>> Further information about my position on issues of concern to
>> California and the Nation are available at my website
>> http://feinstein.senate.gov. You can also receive electronic e-
>> mail updates by subscribing to my e-mail list at
>> http://feinstein.senate.gov/issue.html.
>>
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DISCUSSION

Re: "search" on google


You googled for google?

What happens if you google for google for google?

Or if you google for google for google for google?

- Rob.

On 23 Jun 2005, at 00:57, Kevin McGarry wrote:

> Nothing to stop the presses about, but it's interesting that
> Google.com has
> a #3 PageRank for "search"
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Art In Space


I can't remember if this has already been mentioned, but there's a new article on it in the Guardian:

http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/ISS.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1500839,00.html

- Rob.

DISCUSSION

Re: Mac + Intel??


On 6 Jun 2005, at 19:33, Francis Hwang wrote:

> Holy shit.

Satan just uploaded a picture of the condensation on his thermometers
to flickr.

> "Mac OS X has been leading secret double life. Every Mac project
> build for Intel and PowerPC and Intel. Every release of Mac OS X
> has been built for both Intel and PowerPC-based Macs. For the last
> 5 years."
>
> The amount of secrecy and NDAs that it must have taken to keep this
> secret for literally 5 years is mind-boggling.

It's an open secret. NeXT ran on x86, and developers were *not* happy
when Yellow Box (the old codename for Cocoa, which is just the
updated NeXT APIs) for x86 was cancelled. Darwin has an x86 version,
and everyone knew Apple were compiling MacOS X on x86 "just in case".

What is amazing is that they kept the Intel deal quiet until last
week and the Mathematica port quiet until today.

> Then:
>
> "Rosetta is a dymanic binary translator. Runs PowerPC code on Intel-
> baesd Macs. Transparent to users. Pretty fast. Jobs demos Rosetta
> used to run PowerPC macs on Intel-based Macs. Jobs shows Microsoft
> Excel/Word running on Intel-based Mac (without any porting and/or
> recompiling). Jobs also shows Photoshop CS2 with all plugins that
> are translated and run on Intel-based Mac without significant speed
> decrease."

We've been there before with the 68k -> PowerPC transition. This
looks like it will be much smoother.

> And:
>
> "News Xcode generates a single "universal binary" that supports
> both processors."
>
> So the idea is to emulate away the chip itself with Rosetta as a
> layer between OS X and the chip itself. This seems a step better
> than their transition from 68K chips to PowerPC chips; if I
> remember correctly, then they compiled the OS separately for each
> chip, and programmers had the option of shipping "fat binaries"
> that contained both a 68K version and a PowerPC version of the same
> program.

Don't forget the 68k emulator on Power Macs, and the Classic
environment on X. MacWrite 1.0 from 1984
will run on X (in classic on the 68k VM)...

> This might make Java folks sweat a bit more; this is the sort of
> emulation that Java was supposed to take care of, only its claims
> of universality never really took.

Java's more a platform. The cross-platform thing has passed to QT and
increasingly WxPython.

> I wonder if one of the main reasons for this is to move Apple
> consistently into lower price ranges, to offer products from super-
> elite-expensive and high-school-kid cheap.

I've seen some analysis of this. IBM may have been cheaper for chips
than Intel!

> Both the iPod and the Macs have steadily moved into low-end
> markets, now you can get an iPod (Shuffle) for $99. Moving into
> Intel territory puts more commodity pressure on chipmakers
> everywhere: If you can emulate away dependency on the chip itself,
> there's no lock-in to keep you from switching.
>
> As to whether or how they'll stop people from running dual-boot OS
> X and Windows, that remains to be seen.

Since the hardware will be Apple-specific, just a Mac with an x86
rather than a PPC, outside of the 1337 hacker krew dual boot will be
rare.

But this does show that Apple should have bough Be rather than NeXT.
Joke, joke. :-)

- Rob.