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Re:I Continue to No Longer Attend Vintage Computer Festivals on Saturday April 13, 2024 @01:20PM (#40024535)
Scan and share!
Re:I Continue to No Longer Attend Vintage Computer Festivals on Saturday April 13, 2024 @12:02AM (#40020388)
Also a question of how long stuff will really stay around on the internet.
Re:I Continue to No Longer Attend Vintage Computer Festivals on Saturday April 13, 2024 @12:01AM (#40020384)
I believe the person quit the organization, wasn't pushed out.

At one point in time there was problems with the storage space that VCF has. I believe it was fixed. VCF is not a wealthy organization, and is hosted by another underfunded organization. Needs capital to renovate for expansion but it's slow going.

For many people there is a cost associated to storing items, be it old furniture or paperwork.
The origin of OneWeb was that the founder approached Elon Musk with the OneWeb idea and an agreement was signed. Not sure what role SpaceX was supposed to take, but at some later point Elon bailed and started a competing service called Starlink.

The OneWeb founder posted a photo of the signed agreement on Twitter some years ago, dumping on Elon Musk.

The original OneWeb founder is no longer involved and has some other space startup now.

Originally Blue Origin and Virgin were supposed to be the launch capability but neither can put anything in space.

Here is the tweet. OneWeb was originally called WorldVu

https://twitter.com/greg_wyler/status/1116101020675977218?la...

One would think the "untitled.txt" at the bottom would have given it away...
Plus the genius driver had a number of issues with autopilot in the same spot. He had complaints in with the Tesla dealership that his car tried to steer him into the barrier in that location, prior I believe. Something like 7 complaints filed?

Maybe he was trying to get out of his loan but didn't know the impact absorption barrier had been removed.

The human was a human with a bicycle in another lane. It probably was large enough being sideways to look like a car, and that car was in a different lane.

Not sure if the human with bicycle was sprinting across the road either.

Let's be fair, they steal a ton of IP from the USA.

Isn't there large issues in USA colleges with students from China cheating left and right?

It's much easier to copy.

Re:Spotify Form F-1 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:09AM (#16491349)
Eh, still the #1 streaming service in the USA. Record labels + licensing held them back a good bit and has kept them limited to the USA.

Spotify has some huge lawsuits underway for not clearing proper rights for music as well, I believe one is for 1.8 billion. They do have huge investment (ownership chunk) from at least one major label though I believe?

I don't get all the hoopla about Spotify's bad discovery stations. I notice this similar reality distortion field on reddit, feels like marketing.

And I will be keeping my hard drives full of media and cds.

Companies like Image Engineering out of Baltimore have 50 watt solid state laser projectors that can run on fairly nimble power sources without water cooling like the Sabres and other large frame ion lasers.

Laser projectors are good for beam effects and vector art but won't be able to touch Christie and Barco projectors if one managed to scan a raster image with them. (Yes, some Christie and other projectors use lasers an an illumination source but it's much different.)

Were you able to figure out the states?
Eh, recognizing state versus state has to be difficult. Can't rely on color.
Re:Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers on Friday May 24, 2013 @11:30AM (#5763429)
Dealing with the politics, aspy personalities, and payment issues with a small space is hard enough... I can't imagine it magnified to shopping mall proportions!
Re:Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers on Friday May 24, 2013 @11:23AM (#5763364)
Time/date/UPC. That should fit over a 9600 modem line, and that's before you add compression.
Re:Whatever Happened to the Phone Phreaks? on Thursday February 21, 2013 @12:35AM (#5255638)
I still have full scans of local exchanges done with ToneLoc. The US Courier HST Dual Standard would detect "voice" and hang up which would boost it to around 240 numbers per hour. Ah the good old days.

Oh, and for a while there was soundblaster support that said, "Yo we found a carrier" whenever it hit a modem. Good times.