Nerds Amalgamated
Fixing Voyager 1, The battle for Videogame Libraries, and Rotten Tomatoes Resumes
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The Australian Stop Killing Games Petition is now active. Sign it here: e-petitions – Parliament of Australia
How does NASA repair a spacecraft nearly a light day from Earth? NASA engineers have spent the last few months working on a solution to a faulty RAM chip, and we'll discuss the changes they had to make to save the stricken craft.
The Entertainment Software Association are vehemently against video game libraries. This makes some sense from a copyright perspective, but absolutely none from a preservation perspective. Professor has his own strong opinions on this topic.
Crowdsourcing references for your resume seems to be the next big thing in Hollywood. Directors are having their careers made or broken by the reviews they get on Rotten Tomatoes. DJ and BPM have some thoughts on how this might be inappropriate.
Voyager data fix from a galaxy far far away
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-24/voyager-1/103761504
- https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth
ESA’s take on game preservation
- https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/esa-org-won-t-cooperate-game-preservation
Using Rotten Tomatoes on Directors
- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/directors-jail-1235879871/
- https://screenrant.com/rotten-tomatoes-scores-directors-influence-hiring-report/
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