justin66

> Knowing nothing about it this particular movement

It's a pity this disclaimer cannot be made to serve as a header for about 99% of the comments here today, because, holy shit...

The cringey thing about boards of directors in general, and about the discussion surrounding Biden and his scandal specifically, is that board members being picked for superficial reasons and being paid to vote mindlessly with the majority when the board votes is regrettably very common and normal. Perhaps most people don't understand that, and think that "board member" is usually a real job.

> he was paid $65,000 per month, which is pretty high.

I doubt it's high for a petrochemical conglomerate.

Being extradited to Arkansas for a crime one didn't commit, one which is impossible to refute because there is no evidence to begin with, seems like a weirdly American spin on Kafka.

What I'm getting from this is that fascists are also to blame for Wayland. I always suspected.

Those Matrox cards were remarkable for having strong, clear analog output in an era before we managed to rid ourselves of a reliance on analog video signals. (have we rid ourselves of the reliance on analog video signals? I don't do professional A/V work so I could be missing something there)

It's daunting to think about about how hard it must be bringing that equipment together with the few people (retro enthusiasts, legacy businesses, etc.) who could benefit from it, rather than sending it to the landfill.

All credit to Ton for being able to joke about it in the moment. :D

Of course it was illegal.

Who do you expect to charge the woman with a crime: the local prosecutors who are basically cop-adjacent, Georgia's attorney general who supports the lawless ICE, or a federal prosecutor working under the Trump administration?

I mean, maybe you'd like to do something about it via a civil lawsuit, at which point you ought to acquaint yourself with something called "qualified immunity."

Living in a police state is fun, right?

The application for the trademark was apparently abandoned when the project failed. There's a link to the details in one of the other comments here.

The legal side of Gibson's protest certainly did not go beyond sending a cease and desist letter. People tend to overestimate how much money even successful science fiction authors make (unless one of their works hits big in Hollywood).

The OP's actions and remorselessly douchey recounting of them ought to be read in that light: Autodesk cost Gibson time and money and then the OP wrote a letter to taunt him about it. All credit to William Gibson for his amused tolerance of the situation, assuming that part of the story is accurate.

Unless the products that are real are Cybertrucks. No way in hell you're selling more of those.

> Wild that they devoted so much effort to an economically completely infeasible model.

You could say the same thing about the Cybertruck.