Meh, you still certainly have one reasonably strong party which is essentially the Party with a facelift... (as is the case in my former Warsaw Pact state)
and the actual cost of developing Media are much higher now then they used too
That's not really correct / the means of expression are becoming more and more affordable over time (unless you insist on making something Big(tm), but why does it have to like that?)
BeOS did appear to handle multimedia fine; but in some ways it seemed to be quite archaic, 90's-era OS - specifically in its security & "single userness".
Almost a technicality as far as Catholic Church is concerned, it would seem - it's a common sight to witness their "blessings" of any new contruction, roads, cars (those two make me wonder what the priests really represent - I have one of the more pathetic road accident rates in the EU; in contrast, druids supposedly improved situation in Austria), food and, yes, farms.
OK, the theological and mythological reasons, sometimes recalled by someone in the background, might differ - but in both cases it's mostly just a social occasion at the acknowledgment of a new beginning and involves similar treatment of water (and vodka), so...
PS. Food might be more disturbing than goats TBH, it might be just prior to somebody else eating it...
I actually would like to see "make everything greyscale" button and keyboard shortcut in taskbar/etc.; too often colors screams at the eyes for no good reason.
Maybe that's just because of how I usually used C64 - on a small B&W Soviet TV. It actually made things better IMHO; 16 levels of grey looks quite a bit more refined than 16 colors. Hundreds levels of grey does tend to look that way too, when compared with poor choice of colors (there's one moment when Blue Luna looks fine - when it displays OS shutdown menu, which makes rest of the screen greyscale)
Once plain look of Workbench got good enough - from the setups I've seen it was almost "you could customize it too much" (yes, "in the eye of the beholder/owner/user, et al." - but I wonder how many people were put off by such creations during random demonstration)
otoh screenshots are relatively easy to come by (hitting Wiki is often enough); then there's also one thing which gives pretty good idea, for the curious.
Copyrights have become now "life of the author + nearly a century" - please explain how this isn't the most rampant and vivid infringement of the deal ("sure - we, the public, will protect your work even though we don't have to; but after a decade or two it must go into public domain in return").
OTOH their parent company offers for a long time, in its home market, large number of inexpensive and great older games (think anywhere between 3 and 10 USD for boxed game at retail - of course it's basically just a DVD box with thin manual inside, but that almost tends to be the norm for new releases too, anyway). Not precisely the bargain bin - it's a quite popular, continuing "series" of (re)releases; which I doubt they would do on such scale if it wasn't giving decent and stable profits. Distribution in many markets does add some costs certainly, but digital form of it makes some other things so much simpler and cheaper...
Oe it's an ill thought out stunt before ending beta phase (a rumor which circulates in quite a few places) - wouldn't surprise me too much, considering from where they come and how things can function here...
Point is, if some data (especially in the case of small amounts created in some short "missing" period) is worth several times more than a good laptop, and if the primary means of securing it is not making backups (basically continuos ones aren't much of a problem nowadays, even on the road) - you're doing it wrong.
Plus, relying on an SSD which looks undamaged, et al.
If you control such energy densities (to safely move one planet into totally different part of the system while avoiding destabilisation of the whole system by resonances/etc.) - not only you don't really need said planet to anything, also a star on a natural stellar evolution path becomes redundant.
And it might be just subtle enough to fall at least somewhere between those two. It seems the mess might have started with them looking for a funding for their research; well, so it was offered, but with a fictional situation of Venezuelan nuclear weapons program and "...but we want those few things in return"? I doubt it's hard to manipulate somebody desperate for funding (and of such importance to the world, at least as far its originators are concerned) to become such "traitor"/traitor/whatever. Especially if contacts didn't have to follow proper ethics of questioning (if only this one was in itself was reliably followed...), if current homeland was totally disregarding revolutionary ideas while some other offering helpful hand, etc.
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Meh, you still certainly have one reasonably strong party which is essentially the Party with a facelift... (as is the case in my former Warsaw Pact state)
But where are the Vikings?
and the actual cost of developing Media are much higher now then they used too
That's not really correct / the means of expression are becoming more and more affordable over time (unless you insist on making something Big(tm), but why does it have to like that?)
What "successful" / do you think that artists that make it big are (and should be more, somehow) the norm?
BeOS did appear to handle multimedia fine; but in some ways it seemed to be quite archaic, 90's-era OS - specifically in its security & "single userness".
Slightly more to that story - while probably hardly anybody even cares about those Objective-C patches...FSF has GNUstep, so they might, a bit.
Might be just one of the whole lot of many other gods...
Almost a technicality as far as Catholic Church is concerned, it would seem - it's a common sight to witness their "blessings" of any new contruction, roads, cars (those two make me wonder what the priests really represent - I have one of the more pathetic road accident rates in the EU; in contrast, druids supposedly improved situation in Austria), food and, yes, farms.
OK, the theological and mythological reasons, sometimes recalled by someone in the background, might differ - but in both cases it's mostly just a social occasion at the acknowledgment of a new beginning and involves similar treatment of water (and vodka), so...
PS. Food might be more disturbing than goats TBH, it might be just prior to somebody else eating it...
Well...
So we at least won't run out of dolhins? (it's a good time to save them while trying to launch the probe apparently, as in "The Devil's Window")
Also, it might help unciver lost treasures Black Beard the pirate... ("Greed For a Pirate's Dream")
I guess people only bother emulating platforms that have lots of games.
Is there something about IBM mainframes the greybeards aren't telling us? ;)
I actually would like to see "make everything greyscale" button and keyboard shortcut in taskbar/etc.; too often colors screams at the eyes for no good reason.
Maybe that's just because of how I usually used C64 - on a small B&W Soviet TV. It actually made things better IMHO; 16 levels of grey looks quite a bit more refined than 16 colors. Hundreds levels of grey does tend to look that way too, when compared with poor choice of colors (there's one moment when Blue Luna looks fine - when it displays OS shutdown menu, which makes rest of the screen greyscale)
Once plain look of Workbench got good enough - from the setups I've seen it was almost "you could customize it too much" (yes, "in the eye of the beholder/owner/user, et al." - but I wonder how many people were put off by such creations during random demonstration)
otoh screenshots are relatively easy to come by (hitting Wiki is often enough); then there's also one thing which gives pretty good idea, for the curious.
Copyrights have become now "life of the author + nearly a century" - please explain how this isn't the most rampant and vivid infringement of the deal ("sure - we, the public, will protect your work even though we don't have to; but after a decade or two it must go into public domain in return").
Keyboard shortcut for pasting.
Well, fulfillment of that need could explain the disappearance of GOG ;) (run by a publisher, after all)
OTOH their parent company offers for a long time, in its home market, large number of inexpensive and great older games (think anywhere between 3 and 10 USD for boxed game at retail - of course it's basically just a DVD box with thin manual inside, but that almost tends to be the norm for new releases too, anyway). Not precisely the bargain bin - it's a quite popular, continuing "series" of (re)releases; which I doubt they would do on such scale if it wasn't giving decent and stable profits. Distribution in many markets does add some costs certainly, but digital form of it makes some other things so much simpler and cheaper...
Oe it's an ill thought out stunt before ending beta phase (a rumor which circulates in quite a few places) - wouldn't surprise me too much, considering from where they come and how things can function here...
Point is, if some data (especially in the case of small amounts created in some short "missing" period) is worth several times more than a good laptop, and if the primary means of securing it is not making backups (basically continuos ones aren't much of a problem nowadays, even on the road) - you're doing it wrong.
Plus, relying on an SSD which looks undamaged, et al.
If you control such energy densities (to safely move one planet into totally different part of the system while avoiding destabilisation of the whole system by resonances/etc.) - not only you don't really need said planet to anything, also a star on a natural stellar evolution path becomes redundant.
Backups are cheap, too.
Not by those on which it is apparently working? (it wouldn't really be done otherwise)
Can't wait for a version with two swiveling turbines at the tips of small wing, eh?
And perhaps most of that infrastructure is even in Quebec?
And it might be just subtle enough to fall at least somewhere between those two. It seems the mess might have started with them looking for a funding for their research; well, so it was offered, but with a fictional situation of Venezuelan nuclear weapons program and "...but we want those few things in return"? I doubt it's hard to manipulate somebody desperate for funding (and of such importance to the world, at least as far its originators are concerned) to become such "traitor"/traitor/whatever. Especially if contacts didn't have to follow proper ethics of questioning (if only this one was in itself was reliably followed...), if current homeland was totally disregarding revolutionary ideas while some other offering helpful hand, etc.