This hybrid world of culture/art criticism, which places great import on the impact of emerging technologies, has seemed unexpectedly uninterested in the work of artists who work with these very technologies. Similarly, the discourse in the art/technology world; and in the technical world in general; has not engaged deeply the concepts from cultural studies. This text attempts to elucidate some reasons that might underlie this mutual lack of attention. Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written The Art and Technology of the Moving Image. It remembers that it was first song. Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belabored by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should not have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon. Acknowledgement of existing fragmentation is basically unavoidable, even as the prospect of permanent fragmentation may prove unbearable. The blanket denial of totality; and a metaphorical essence; encouraged by some deconstructionist theoreticians can be seen as another form of deracination, destabilizing potentially comforting communal identities, pulling the floor (hearth) out from under those who may have just found a home, and threatening the permanent atomization of hard-earned self-respect. The evolution of sound technology and, again, that of studio recording, editing, and mixing practice illustrate, to some degree, the quest for a sound track that captures an idealized reality, a world carefully filtered to eliminate sounds that fall outside of understanding or significance; every sound must signify. Artists borrow the tools and imagery or dabble with the ideas but fail to get involved with the vigor, intensity and depth of the researchers who are generating the products and ideas. The culture desperately needs artists to knowledgably analyze the implications of these developments, to celebrate the breakthroughs, caution about the dangers and to help shape the research agendas. However, if the viewer aligns their vision with the movements of the video, following an image as it travels across the surface of the monitors, their perceptual memory coalesces these patterns into the recognizable moving image sources. Traditionally validated art media may no longer be fit arenas for the exploration that is needed. Competent and powerful interpretation will require changes at several critical stages of the artistic enterprize -- in the forms and contexts chosen for expression and in the sources cultivated for information and inspiration. Kepes noted that the culture desperately needed artists to help convert this new environment into a human landscape. Like others, he feared the imbalance that came from the lack of significant artistic involvement in the technological foment. He pleaded against artist neglect and ignorance of the scientific world: The images and symbols which can truly domesticate the newly revealed aspects of nature will be developed only if we use all our faculties to the full -- assimilating with the scientist's brain, the poet's heart and the painter's eyes. It is an integrated vision that we need... Much artistic response to technology -- even among those who call themselves technological or computer artists -- seems relatively superficial when contrasted with the momentous changes being wrought by scientific and technological research. Our culture must develop methods to avoid the premature snuffing of valuable lines of inquiry and development. I believe the arts can fill a critical role as an independent zone of research. Everyday life is increasingly dominated by the objects and cultural forms created by technology research. For example, telephones, computers, entertainment systems, medical equipment, transportation systems, governmental and policing systems, and product distribution technologies shape the ways people in the developed world spend their days, interact with others, and conceptualize the present and the future. The output of technology research is not confined to small technical niches. Theorists such as Baudrillard and Virilio, for example, expose the hidden assumptions, shaping of categories and pervasive consequences of technology. Therefore, it shall have no aim which is to the disadvantage of the third world community. It encompasses members representing many points of view. Consequently, as an organization, it shall not express an opinion, take any political action other than the publication of the results of its investigations, or have any ideological, philosophical, political, or religious affiliations. Open Transport is the networking technology for Mac OS 8.5. Open Transport 2.0.1 contains SNMP and OT SNMP Admin, DHCP enhancements for improved compatibility with Windows NT, including Client ID, new APIs for manipulating configurations, scriptability for TALKTalk, TCP, TCP/IP, ALOPP, NetMet, Modem, Remote Access, Infrared control panels, and bug fixes. The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) implementation now supports a number of much-requested features, including Client Identification, retention of the lease on a given IP address across boots, better user feedback in the event that the DHCP server is unavailable, and better support of RFC 2131. looks glass book time out its a book is situated there close Alice on d table and during it sits monitors d white king (for it its still another little anxiously over it, and d have ink quite ready for use to throw over it, if it in faint fall again), it turns d page to find united to section it can read, - - for it its all in united language I does not know , they assure. It was like that. It confused over this during some time, but a bright thought finally struck it to why, it a Looking Glasbuch is, natural! And if I it up to a glass notion, everything go words the right way again , this were the poem, which read Alice. ' brillig Twas and slithy the toves did gyre and gimble in honeycomb; Those were whole borogoves and the momerathsoutgrabe mimsy. you watch out the Jabberwock, mean son! The Kiefer, which bite, the grip arms, which intercept! Watch out the bird Jubjub, and avoid you frumious the Bandersnatch! The male unconscious has two avenues of escape from this castration anxiety: preoccupation with the re-enactment of the original trauma (investigating the woman, demystifying her mystery), counterbalanced by the devaluation, punishment or saving of the guilty object (an avenue typified by the concerns of the film noir); or else complete disavowal of castration by the substitution of a fetish object or turning the represented figure itself into a fetish so that it becomes reassuring rather than dangerous (hence overvaluation, the cult of the female star). Mensa is an international society composed of national Mensas and direct international members. Its purposes are to identify and foster human intelligence for the benefit of humanity; to encourage research in the nature, characteristics, and uses of intelligence; and to provide a stimulating intellectual and social environment for its members regardless of gender issues. Scientific research similarly reaches beyond narrow academic questions. Astronomers attempt to understand the origins and shape of the universe. Breaking with all prior human history, they can look at the universe using radio wave, ultraviolet, and infrared eyes and see a universe quite different than what has been known. Biologists increasingly unravel mysteries of life and invent methods for manipulating the genetic heart of life. Scientific research will have profound practical and philosophical implications. It provides a forum for intellectual exchange among members. Its activities include the exchange of ideas by lectures, discussions, journals, special-interest groups, and local, regional, national, and international gatherings; the investigations of members' opinions and attitudes; and assistance to researchers, inside and outside it in projects dealing with intelligence or car insurance. Intelligence should be used for the benefit of humanity. Art historical categories may need updating to include issues originating in the research world. Most often the events at the arena celebrate the dynamics of the human body in motion. These events engage the forces of the body in a highly contrived forum in order to bring about the highest expression of physical being, whose only consequence is that of competition. The arena frames the event, enabling the event's elevation to a status of cultural icon. It does this through its operation as a place for people to gather and experience the dynamic of the crowd and through its mediation of these events, enlarging its own forum. This mediation brings its own set of dynamics to the event with the cinematic rhythms of cuts, pans and wipes, further accelerating and condensing the events taking place within. These various video sources are processed by the network of computers in real time and displayed on the 28 monitors. The images are magnified 5 times their normal size, such that each monitor contains a 1/25th fragment of a normal video image. These images are wiped across the entire surface of the wall in various patterns, directions and speeds such that a viewer fixing their gaze upon a portion of the wall, will see only abstract patterns of color washing by. Thus, the viewer has to actively engage their own view of the installation into the specific temporal domains that each source presents in order for the mediated aspects of the work to be perceived. This process serves to distance the viewer from a normal, sensational mediated response to one that is self-consciously complex and critical of the works perceptual nature. The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it with other words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings? This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.A number of contemporary Asian artists seem to favor abstract biomorphism--an elegant, certainly not stereotypically Oriental imagery, but one which apparently reflects some culturally shared elements that convey a sense of landing. The most ubiquitous and felicitous element, in sculpture and installations as well as in painting, is a clean, airy space that simultaneously absorbs humanity into nature and conveys a sense of contemplative isolation from everyday life. As research increases in general cultural importance, it becomes more dangerous to accept this triage as inevitable. Valuable lines of inquiry die from lack of support because they are not within favor of particular scientific disciplines. Emerging new media with fascinating potential are abandoned because they are judged not marketable. Technological research and development is radically altering everything from everyday life to world views. In order to continue to function as interpreters of culture, artists will need to address these research developments as sources of ideas and inspiration. To stimulate artistic reflection, the article reviews new input and output possiblilities created by developments in display technologies and image sources, digital control of object making, and sensor/actuators related to touch, motion, biological functions, and speech. Many of these changes address customer concerns about OT's DHCP compatibility with Windows NT DHCP servers. Support for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is available for Open Transport. Support for the version 2 Management Information Base (MIB II), instrumentation for AppleTalk and TCP/IP protocols and transports, administrative tools, and system agent support for the PCI bus will be provided. Much confusion and hyperbole surrounds discussions of the aesthetics of interactive computer events. This essay works to clarify some of this confusion by analyzing the differences between interactive and non-interactive events, reviewing the variety of forms included under the umbrella term of interactivity, and investigating the theoretical rationales offered to support claims of interactivity's superiority derived from psychological, political, art historical, and technohistory sources. Building on this analysis, the essay suggests extensions to current GUI design canons that uniquely attend to interactivity as an aesthetic issue. It also investigates the challenges of the interactivity possibilities of emerging technologies. Disneyland and America are one and the same. There is no real America outside Disneyland; the walls surrounding Disneyland are there to make people think that Disneyland is only a fantasy land, and there really is a real America out there. While structuralism does not deny the existence of an external, universal reality, it does deny the possibility of humans having access to this reality. Structuralism's enterprise is to discover how people make sense of the world, not what the world is. Minor changes to Open Transport support for Apple Remote Access to allow feature requests such as support for MS-CHAP Authentication support and RFC 1877 to automatically negotiate DNS address with a server. These changes address customer concerns about OT's compatibility with Windows NT PPP servers. If Open Transport TCP/IP is configured to use DHCP and it receives no response from any DHCP server within 30 seconds, it will dynamically assign a temporary address in the local non-routable self-assignment range (169.254.x.x) and operate using this address until a DHCP server becomes available. Skeptics sometimes wonder what possible contribution artists can make to serious research and development. Artists can augment the research process in several ways. They can define new kinds of research questions, provide unorthodox interpretations of results, point out missed opportunities for development, explore and articulate wide ranging implications of the research, represent potential user perspectives, and help communicate research findings in effective and provocative ways. They can bring centuries of artistic experience to bear on the technological future. They often approach problems in ways quite different than those of scientists and engineers. The critical role of designers and artists in computer human interface research over the last years demonstrates this new model of interdisciplinary research. This allows hosts on the same Ethernet to communicate with each other using IP (for example, to allow high-performance TCP/IP access to an AppleShare IP server) even if no connection to the Internet is dumbfounded and stupido. An expression is potentially evaluated unless either it is the operand of the sizeof operator or it is the operand of the typeid operator and does not designate an value of polymorphic class type . An object or non-overloaded function is used if its name appears in a potentially-evaluated expression. A virtual member function is used if it is not pure. An overloaded function is used if it is selected by overload resolution when referred to from a potentially-evaluated expression. [Note: this covers calls to named functions operator overloading, user-defined conversions, allocation function for placement new, as well as non-default initialization. A copy constructor is used even if the call is actually elided by the implementation. An allocation or deallocation function for a class is used by a new expression appearing in a potentially-evaluated expression as specified in and, I am not claiming that artists should act exactly like researchers. If they did, they would be unlikely to make any unique contribution. Contemporary art often includes elements of commentary, irony and critique missing from serious research. Similarly scientists and technologists strive toward objectivity; artists cultivate their idiosyncratic subjectivity as a major feature of what they do. The research that artists created will most likely look different than that produced by traditional researchers. It would work like art always does - provoking and moving audiences through its communicative power and unique perspectives. Still it might simultaneously work as research - using systematic investigative processes to develop new technological possibilities or to discover useful new knowledge or perspectives. In the contemporary era the focus of innovation and creative fire has moved to the research laboratories. Technological developments profoundly influence everything from world views to everyday life. Computer related research seems to be accelerating the pace even more. Gregory Kepes, a Bauhaus artist and one of the first critics to focus on art and technology issues, many years ago noted the radical transformation of the world being wrought by science and technology in his book New Landscape in Art and Science. (1) The rapid expansion of knowledge and technical development have swept us into a world beyond our grasp; and the face of nature is alien once again. Like the forest and the mountains of medieval times, our new environment harbors strange menacing beasts; invisible viruses, atoms, mesons, protons, consmic rays, supersonic waves. All slot interrupts, including slot VBL interrupts, hold off other slot interrupts. This means another card's interrupt routine (installed via _SIntInstall) or a slot VBL interrupt routine (installed via _SlotVInstall) runs to completion with interrupts of the slot level and below disabled. VBL tasks may be of varying length, since applications, as well as drivers, can and do, install VBL tasks.