This is shameless self-promotion, but you should read my book!
Technomanifestos discusses the truly thought-provoking, inspirational, seminal computer papers of the 20th century, from Turing's "On Computable Numbers" and "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", to Alan Kay's "Personal Dynamic Media" to Larry Wall's States of the Perl Onion.
The book delves into the historical, biographical, and scientific context of works such as these and follows the thread of inspiration to today's world. If you want to know where the Internet germinated, or how Marshall McLuhan and Pierre de Chardin influenced the World Wide Web (or even who McLuhan and de Chardin are!) you should pick up my book. And then read it.
Technomanifestos tracks the evolution of the MIT hacker, from the dapper Boston Brahmin Vannevar Bush to the famously unkempt Richard Stallman, and introduces the cast of lesser-known (to the non-Slashdot world) but crucially inventive individuals such as Ivan Sutherland and Seymour Papert.
Moreover, it discusses how the truly great computing ideas come from people who recognize that technology, especially information technology, has the power to transform people and society--these are (in the words of similarly great books) tools for thought and dream machines.
Or if you have no interest in helping me pay my DSL bill, you can go straight to the sources, many of which are available online.
I couldn't find any claim of "seamless" integration by Apple. It certainly wasn't on the link. Considering that the title, which put "seamless" in quotes, the department, and the front-page message text, all mentioned the seam-word, it sure looks like Apple claimed seamless integration.
And judging from the posters who attacked Apple's supposed "seamless" claim, that's how it would be reasonably interpreted.
The best that Apple claimed was "peaceful". That may be a marketing weasel-word with no meaning, but it's hardly the same as "seamless". After all, the U.S. and North Korea are living peacefully together right now.
Sad, really. You'd think that these companies would realize that their only defense, in the long term, from the giant established corporations that would love to see them disappear, is public good will.
So being sneaky and nasty is really not in their best interest.
It's truly strange to think that the age of Napster was not a portent of the future, but an aberrant burp; that we might be going toward K. W. Jeter's Noir, in which copyright "pirates" are tracked down by bounty hunters who suck out their brains, which are then embedded into radios or toasters for an existence of infinite torment and given to the artist whose works were infringed, instead of Distraction, in which infotech-based gift and reputation societies rise to pre-eminence in a United States, its copyright-dependent economy reduced to rubble when China flooded the world with copyright-free copies of the U.S.'s bounty.
Okay, either future would be strange, but they're excellent books.
Wonder who will get the commission on these links?
But NYC will always kick's Vegas sorry butt where music is concerned. On the H2K2 weekend, Drowning Pool, The Samples, Gillian Welch, Loud Az F*ck, Bobby Previte's Voodoo Orchestra, Patty Larkin, Hayseed Dixies, Susan McKeown, Etta James, Link Wray, Silkworm, Viento de Agua, Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks, Coco Merenson, and about a thousand other bands will be peforming in venues all across the city. And the Verdi Requiem too. And the next week is the near-perfect Siren Music Festival next to the 75-year-old (yesterday!) Cyclone.
And NYC is funnier; it's home to The Onion and Upright Citizens Brigade, for just two bleeding-edge examples. They're both Midwest transplants, but that's the whole point of NYC. This is where you make it.
True, gambling and dancing are mostly illegal in NYC. But notentirely.
I've been to the last two HOPEs (Beyond HOPE and H2K) and let me tell you that they're a blast.
Beyond HOPE was held in the beautiful Puck Building, was much larger than HOPE, and left 2600's finances in utter disarray. The intended hookup with HIP didn't get past the one guy who had a blinkenlight that people in Holland could control. Which was still pretty cool. We got to go for free to a show at the lost-but-not-forgotten Coney Island High on St. Mark's Place in the East Village, and to the Hell's Kitchen club the Octagon. I still have vivid memories of Cap'n Crunch working the dance floor. Much too vivid. Red Balaclava's discussion of the Metrocard made the front page of the New York Times. The social engineering panel was a great success, including a brilliant hack of the Astor Place K-Mart. The Beyond HOPE bumper sticker was a brilliant parody of the NYNEX logo, cut and colored to fit exactly over telephone booth signs...if one so desired.
H2K, in Hotel Pennsylvania, bumped up the price from $20 to $40 (so the $50 raise is quite reasonable, though I agree it's depressing). It was a madhouse. There was an entire room of dumb terminals glowing orange in the dark, kiddies poking and prodding through everything, some launching genetic algorithms to fork-spawn-kill the network. The best panel, by far, was from the Dutch lockpickers, who will be returning to H2K2. The CDC's presentation was beyond silly. Highly entertaining but genuinely incomprehensible. RMS even made a stealth appearance.
I'm going to be helping set up H2K2 and will be shilling my new book Technomanifestos shamelessly, with a nice 57" LED display I picked up recently and will probably try to raffle off.
The other event that weekend which is a must is the art-happening/rave-to-end-all-raves out in Long Island City in Queens, in 90,000! sq.ft. of an abandoned power plant...two thousand two--note it's damn cheap for that kind of event.
All in all, it promises to be an excellent weekend. New York City is just about all it's cracked up to be...I mean hacked up.
This is further explained at X is for Xchange, which relates that the original setup was three-letter/four digit; that is, PENnsylvania-five-thousand.
Glenn Miller (who got on a stamp) finally found continuous success after years of struggle when he formed the Glenn Miller Orchestra to play at the Cafe Rouge[realaudio] in the Hotel Pennsylvania in 1938. I believe this year H2K2 will be using the Cafe Rouge space.
The Glenn Miller song PEnnsylvania-6-5000 (in which the only lyrics were the band shouting "Pennsylvania Six Five-Oh-Oh-Oh"--the Brian Setzer orchestra later recorded the song with fuller lyrics) was one of his band's first major hits. He disbanded the orchestra in 1942 to form a band for the US Air Force troops for World War II. His plane was lost at sea on December 14, 1944.
As The Telephone EXchange Name Project explains, both PEnnsylvania-6-5000 and the John O'Hara novel/Liz Taylor movie BUtterfield 8 (which garnered her a Best Actress Oscar) are named after telephone exchanges. In Butterfield 8, Taylor plays a call girl reachable at that number (the movie poster is especially evocative).
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This is shameless self-promotion, but you should read my book!
Technomanifestos discusses the truly thought-provoking, inspirational, seminal computer papers of the 20th century, from Turing's "On Computable Numbers" and "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", to Alan Kay's "Personal Dynamic Media" to Larry Wall's States of the Perl Onion.
The book delves into the historical, biographical, and scientific context of works such as these and follows the thread of inspiration to today's world. If you want to know where the Internet germinated, or how Marshall McLuhan and Pierre de Chardin influenced the World Wide Web (or even who McLuhan and de Chardin are!) you should pick up my book. And then read it.
Technomanifestos tracks the evolution of the MIT hacker, from the dapper Boston Brahmin Vannevar Bush to the famously unkempt Richard Stallman, and introduces the cast of lesser-known (to the non-Slashdot world) but crucially inventive individuals such as Ivan Sutherland and Seymour Papert.
Moreover, it discusses how the truly great computing ideas come from people who recognize that technology, especially information technology, has the power to transform people and society--these are (in the words of similarly great books) tools for thought and dream machines.
Or if you have no interest in helping me pay my DSL bill, you can go straight to the sources, many of which are available online.
And judging from the posters who attacked Apple's supposed "seamless" claim, that's how it would be reasonably interpreted.
The best that Apple claimed was "peaceful". That may be a marketing weasel-word with no meaning, but it's hardly the same as "seamless". After all, the U.S. and North Korea are living peacefully together right now.
Adam Brate
So being sneaky and nasty is really not in their best interest.
It's truly strange to think that the age of Napster was not a portent of the future, but an aberrant burp; that we might be going toward K. W. Jeter's Noir , in which copyright "pirates" are tracked down by bounty hunters who suck out their brains, which are then embedded into radios or toasters for an existence of infinite torment and given to the artist whose works were infringed, instead of Distraction , in which infotech-based gift and reputation societies rise to pre-eminence in a United States, its copyright-dependent economy reduced to rubble when China flooded the world with copyright-free copies of the U.S.'s bounty.
Okay, either future would be strange, but they're excellent books.
Wonder who will get the commission on these links?
Adam Brate (ab at adambrate dot com)
Sure, it has more than its share of strip shows, but how many burlesque game shows with sword swallowing and fire-eating? Admittedly, Vegas may have plenty. But not next to a beach.
But NYC will always kick's Vegas sorry butt where music is concerned. On the H2K2 weekend, Drowning Pool, The Samples, Gillian Welch, Loud Az F*ck, Bobby Previte's Voodoo Orchestra, Patty Larkin, Hayseed Dixies, Susan McKeown, Etta James, Link Wray, Silkworm, Viento de Agua, Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks, Coco Merenson, and about a thousand other bands will be peforming in venues all across the city. And the Verdi Requiem too. And the next week is the near-perfect Siren Music Festival next to the 75-year-old (yesterday!) Cyclone.
And H2K2 is concurrent with the Big Apple Convention comic book show.
And NYC is funnier; it's home to The Onion and Upright Citizens Brigade, for just two bleeding-edge examples. They're both Midwest transplants, but that's the whole point of NYC. This is where you make it.
True, gambling and dancing are mostly illegal in NYC. But not entirely.
--Adam Brate
Beyond HOPE was held in the beautiful Puck Building, was much larger than HOPE, and left 2600's finances in utter disarray. The intended hookup with HIP didn't get past the one guy who had a blinkenlight that people in Holland could control. Which was still pretty cool. We got to go for free to a show at the lost-but-not-forgotten Coney Island High on St. Mark's Place in the East Village, and to the Hell's Kitchen club the Octagon. I still have vivid memories of Cap'n Crunch working the dance floor. Much too vivid. Red Balaclava's discussion of the Metrocard made the front page of the New York Times. The social engineering panel was a great success, including a brilliant hack of the Astor Place K-Mart. The Beyond HOPE bumper sticker was a brilliant parody of the NYNEX logo, cut and colored to fit exactly over telephone booth signs...if one so desired.
H2K, in Hotel Pennsylvania, bumped up the price from $20 to $40 (so the $50 raise is quite reasonable, though I agree it's depressing). It was a madhouse. There was an entire room of dumb terminals glowing orange in the dark, kiddies poking and prodding through everything, some launching genetic algorithms to fork-spawn-kill the network. The best panel, by far, was from the Dutch lockpickers, who will be returning to H2K2. The CDC's presentation was beyond silly. Highly entertaining but genuinely incomprehensible. RMS even made a stealth appearance.
I'm going to be helping set up H2K2 and will be shilling my new book Technomanifestos shamelessly, with a nice 57" LED display I picked up recently and will probably try to raffle off.
The other event that weekend which is a must is the art-happening/rave-to-end-all-raves out in Long Island City in Queens, in 90,000! sq.ft. of an abandoned power plant...two thousand two--note it's damn cheap for that kind of event.
All in all, it promises to be an excellent weekend. New York City is just about all it's cracked up to be...I mean hacked up.
--Adam Brate (ab@adambrate.com)
Or PEnnsylvania-six-five-thousand.
This is further explained at X is for Xchange, which relates that the original setup was three-letter/four digit; that is, PENnsylvania-five-thousand.
Glenn Miller (who got on a stamp) finally found continuous success after years of struggle when he formed the Glenn Miller Orchestra to play at the Cafe Rouge [realaudio] in the Hotel Pennsylvania in 1938. I believe this year H2K2 will be using the Cafe Rouge space.
The Glenn Miller song PEnnsylvania-6-5000 (in which the only lyrics were the band shouting "Pennsylvania Six Five-Oh-Oh-Oh"--the Brian Setzer orchestra later recorded the song with fuller lyrics) was one of his band's first major hits. He disbanded the orchestra in 1942 to form a band for the US Air Force troops for World War II. His plane was lost at sea on December 14, 1944.
As The Telephone EXchange Name Project explains, both PEnnsylvania-6-5000 and the John O'Hara novel/Liz Taylor movie BUtterfield 8 (which garnered her a Best Actress Oscar) are named after telephone exchanges. In Butterfield 8, Taylor plays a call girl reachable at that number (the movie poster is especially evocative).
--Adam Brate