For one thing, Space isn't a total vacuum, but explosions like this would send huge amounts of gas shooting out in every direction. When this gas hits something, you'd get the sound of the explosion through the vibrations.
You'd see the explosion, then, depending on the distance, a few minutes later when you get hit by the shockwave, you'd hear the sound. I've only ever seen one Scifi show/film which dealt with space explosions in this way; Starship Operators (they destroy a ship in a battle then get hit by the shockwave where they hear explosion and also the screams of all the people being killed in it).
From the first film they seemed to get progressively worse, both in terms of story and in terms of jokes. I know they had fewer writers working on them but the jokes weren't as snappy the plots didn't flow properly (Benders Game was the worst for that) and they relied too much on references to previous jokes and stories, one of the worst things about post season 10 Simpsons was how insular the humour became.
If it was because they struggled to fill the running time than a new series could be brilliant. If it's because the current writers aren't a patch on the original team, it could go the family guy route of being stale almost immediately after it returned to screens.
An individual may spend their money on something else. What exactly is the person who has lost their job and has no money going to be spending?
Even if they are able to quickly get a job in a different industry (a big ask for people with specialised jobs) they'll have still been unemployed for a while and not spending much during that time.
Or maybe, people who download are naturally people with an interest in music/movies/games and would spend more on these things anyway? Perhaps if they did a comparison between movie lovers who download movies and those who don't it would be a fair study.
Someone who downloads a lot of movies/games/music is someone with an active interest. You are comparing a randomised sample (general population of buyers) to the spending habbits of a relatively non random, selective population. If the study was carried out in that way, the results are relatively meaningless (or at least the conclusion is)
That's a horrible approach to economics and simply isn't true.
Imagine you've a city of 100,000 or so where 90% of people earn their money working at a massive copper or supplying that copper mine. Imagine demand for copper falls by half and they have to cut production (and jobs) by half to remain profitable.
In terms of GDP copper mining may be something like 0.1% and it wouldn't seem like that would have a huge effect if it went down to 0.05% of GDP.
In that town though, there are now 45,000 out of work, people who've only ever known mining or who the mine was their main customer. There isn't any other industry to support these people, they're untrained in other areas and they can't afford to move as their house values have plummeted.
Poverty increases, Crime increases, kids start performing worse at school and the town, without massive external investment, would very quickly become either a ghost town or a slum. The cost to the economy becomes huge either way.
For a stable economy, you not only need the money to be spent, you need to money to be spent in the right areas so you can maintain the various local economies. Look what's happened when people have gone "lets cut back on how much we spend on cars". Sudden, drastic shifts in buying behaviour can have massive consequences, even if people are seemingly spending the same amount of money and it's often not possible for businesses to react fast enough to head these changes off.
ATMs need an OS of some sort. More advanced OS' make it easier to have the software display videos and animations, have more complex functionality and better compatibility with modern software. So long as the firewalls are properly configured to sandbox the unit, vulnerabilities are irrelevant.
If no one wanted it, it wouldn't be pirated at all. Piracy happens 95% of the time because people don't want to pay for something. They then come up with excuses that let them feel justified (DRM, oh it's rubbish I hated spending 30 hours completing it, etc.) . For the vast majority of these cases there is zero stopping someone from getting a pirated/cracked version of something, then buying the product anyway to support the producers.
They're not entitled to success, They're entitled to compensation for services provided.
If I fix a boiler, I want to be paid to do it. If I write a book, and people read it, I would like for that book to have been bought, if I create a webpage, I want people to pay for it by viewing the ads.
The snide 'oh those greedy fatcats feel they deserve to make millions' type comment is belittling the fact that people do need money to get by in life. It's not greed to ask for people to pay for a service. If millions of people are enjoying someone you made you're entitled to get something out of that if you want to.
And content advisors are under no obligation to supply you content at their financial cost.
Maybe you look forward to a future of websites written entirely by amateurs that provide only articles written by a select few still profitable businesses with little to no real investigative journalism but I don't.
So... Tools that make it even easier to strip the content from people who've spent their free time running websites that are expensive, using their bandwidth to do so? How is this democratic? A democracy is about having a say in how a country (the web) is run, not having your say over individuals (websites). It's easy to spin it as "giving the user control back from the big bad corporations" but there are scores of good websites producing quality content that do struggle to even cover costs, let alone make a profit.
Just because there aren't many around, doesn't mean it isn't trivial, it just means there are few malware developers who think it's worth their time.
Not entirely sure why. It may only be a 10% user base but you've more exploits being found for OSX than Linux and windows, fewer mechanisms to make it harder to infect a system through an exploit and a userbase that, is mostly connected to the internet with no anti-virus software
Ah but you see, you're free to put it in the robots.txt if you don't want information pulled straight out of your site without people visiting. Of course that will remove it from the Google index and result in a massive descrease in traffic as the vast majority of people only use google for searching...
Google, abuse a dominant market position? But their moto is "do no evil"! They would never do something like that!
Good thing they didn't release a new version of Chrono trigger on the DS with added extras... Right?
Oh, yeah, they did.
I think it's almost certain there will be more Chrono in the future. If you don't believe this, you're completely blind to the way the company treats all of its major franchises. They're even doing a full on remake of Final Fantasy Legend 2! They're not a studio with infinite resources and people can only play so many games at once, they have to carefully manage what games they create when.
Imagine this mod really sucks. People would likely have to play it for a few hours before they'd confirm it (given the nature of RPGs). That would seriously dampen their enthusiam for a new official game.
Even if it was passable, there'd still be the prospect of over-saturation, where you've played so much CT that you lose interest.
Yes... Square Enix should listen to their fans and release sequel with a crono x Magus love story! Heck there's plenty of relationships in the fanfics they could choose from. Frog x robo!
Just because fans want something doesn't mean you should do it . Yes Square could easily show off a cheaply made Chrono Trigger 2 for the DS and it would sell a ton of copies. However it would cheapen the brand unless it's a stellar game and they'd lose most goodwill to it.
Likewise giving fan made games like this a nod cheapens the brand.
It's not easy handling cult classics. You try to cash in on them and you just end up killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
Look at Lucas Art's reputation for making games in the 90's. Look at their reputation now.
Unless he personally ripped the rom of chrono trigger he owned. Yes they can. You only have a right to backup copies of stuff you personally own, even if it's identical to something someone else owns. SNES carts also contain protection measures that would be covered by the DMCA (region locking is one universal example)
You would never get away with the "but hackers..." defence. The onus would be on you to show you were hacked as the fact a file only you owned has appeared on the net already tips the scales way against you. Even if you successfully argued you were hacked, they would counter with the argument that as you were already engaged in a criminal act, and you were not thorough enough with your security, you are liable for the effects of the distribution.
'Barebones' laptops are massively overpriced, the range isn't great and don't offer much over a regular laptop.
Buy the cheapest model of a laptop with a decent board, swap out the (likely) celeron cpu, replace it with the best core2 it'll take and boost the ram to 4gigs, it can save you a fair of money, provided you can source OEM laptop cpus at non-insane prices.
People running computers infected with malware can cause problems for everyone. It's better for them to fix pirated software than to increase the size of botnets.
People will use adblock so sites can't get advertising revenue.
Donations are only effective for big, high profile sites and even then are only an option if most of your writers don't want a good wage. If someone donates, they donate once and that tends to be it for life.
People don't want subscription models.
People aren't going to walk around in Fox News T-shirts or visit Fox news land theme parks.
I get a 'TV Licence' form of government funding would go down like a lead balloon in the US.
I read lots of people blaming content providers for using 'outdated' models but isn't it the case that, there are no financial models where users can visit websites at no cost to them (in any form) whilst still paying for the running of the site and the staff. The smartest people in media throughout the world haven't come up with a model that would satisfy the average slashdot poster.
The fact is, if you want quality investigative reporting and editorial content, it has to be paid for in some form. You cannot and should not demand charity.
Maybe doing something with the header that lets PHP return a "block/percentage" done message. You then have it so that php outputs a series of characters after writing out a tag and having javascript use that to count the characters as they're being outputted to create a progress bar.
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For one thing, Space isn't a total vacuum, but explosions like this would send huge amounts of gas shooting out in every direction. When this gas hits something, you'd get the sound of the explosion through the vibrations.
You'd see the explosion, then, depending on the distance, a few minutes later when you get hit by the shockwave, you'd hear the sound. I've only ever seen one Scifi show/film which dealt with space explosions in this way; Starship Operators (they destroy a ship in a battle then get hit by the shockwave where they hear explosion and also the screams of all the people being killed in it).
From the first film they seemed to get progressively worse, both in terms of story and in terms of jokes. I know they had fewer writers working on them but the jokes weren't as snappy the plots didn't flow properly (Benders Game was the worst for that) and they relied too much on references to previous jokes and stories, one of the worst things about post season 10 Simpsons was how insular the humour became.
If it was because they struggled to fill the running time than a new series could be brilliant. If it's because the current writers aren't a patch on the original team, it could go the family guy route of being stale almost immediately after it returned to screens.
An individual may spend their money on something else. What exactly is the person who has lost their job and has no money going to be spending?
Even if they are able to quickly get a job in a different industry (a big ask for people with specialised jobs) they'll have still been unemployed for a while and not spending much during that time.
Or maybe, people who download are naturally people with an interest in music/movies/games and would spend more on these things anyway? Perhaps if they did a comparison between movie lovers who download movies and those who don't it would be a fair study.
Someone who downloads a lot of movies/games/music is someone with an active interest. You are comparing a randomised sample (general population of buyers) to the spending habbits of a relatively non random, selective population. If the study was carried out in that way, the results are relatively meaningless (or at least the conclusion is)
That's a horrible approach to economics and simply isn't true.
Imagine you've a city of 100,000 or so where 90% of people earn their money working at a massive copper or supplying that copper mine. Imagine demand for copper falls by half and they have to cut production (and jobs) by half to remain profitable.
In terms of GDP copper mining may be something like 0.1% and it wouldn't seem like that would have a huge effect if it went down to 0.05% of GDP.
In that town though, there are now 45,000 out of work, people who've only ever known mining or who the mine was their main customer. There isn't any other industry to support these people, they're untrained in other areas and they can't afford to move as their house values have plummeted.
Poverty increases, Crime increases, kids start performing worse at school and the town, without massive external investment, would very quickly become either a ghost town or a slum. The cost to the economy becomes huge either way.
For a stable economy, you not only need the money to be spent, you need to money to be spent in the right areas so you can maintain the various local economies. Look what's happened when people have gone "lets cut back on how much we spend on cars". Sudden, drastic shifts in buying behaviour can have massive consequences, even if people are seemingly spending the same amount of money and it's often not possible for businesses to react fast enough to head these changes off.
Yeah, clearly they should keep using Operating systems that no one has used on desktops since the late 80's.
I'm sure that would make general maintenance and updating the software easier.
Why run Windows? Linux? DOS? etc.
ATMs need an OS of some sort. More advanced OS' make it easier to have the software display videos and animations, have more complex functionality and better compatibility with modern software. So long as the firewalls are properly configured to sandbox the unit, vulnerabilities are irrelevant.
There's also a weird bug in quite a few browsers where it cuts of the end o
If no one wanted it, it wouldn't be pirated at all. Piracy happens 95% of the time because people don't want to pay for something. They then come up with excuses that let them feel justified (DRM, oh it's rubbish I hated spending 30 hours completing it, etc.) . For the vast majority of these cases there is zero stopping someone from getting a pirated/cracked version of something, then buying the product anyway to support the producers.
They're not entitled to success, They're entitled to compensation for services provided.
If I fix a boiler, I want to be paid to do it. If I write a book, and people read it, I would like for that book to have been bought, if I create a webpage, I want people to pay for it by viewing the ads.
The snide 'oh those greedy fatcats feel they deserve to make millions' type comment is belittling the fact that people do need money to get by in life. It's not greed to ask for people to pay for a service. If millions of people are enjoying someone you made you're entitled to get something out of that if you want to.
And content advisors are under no obligation to supply you content at their financial cost.
Maybe you look forward to a future of websites written entirely by amateurs that provide only articles written by a select few still profitable businesses with little to no real investigative journalism but I don't.
So... Tools that make it even easier to strip the content from people who've spent their free time running websites that are expensive, using their bandwidth to do so? How is this democratic? A democracy is about having a say in how a country (the web) is run, not having your say over individuals (websites). It's easy to spin it as "giving the user control back from the big bad corporations" but there are scores of good websites producing quality content that do struggle to even cover costs, let alone make a profit.
Just because there aren't many around, doesn't mean it isn't trivial, it just means there are few malware developers who think it's worth their time.
Not entirely sure why. It may only be a 10% user base but you've more exploits being found for OSX than Linux and windows, fewer mechanisms to make it harder to infect a system through an exploit and a userbase that, is mostly connected to the internet with no anti-virus software
Ah but you see, you're free to put it in the robots.txt if you don't want information pulled straight out of your site without people visiting. Of course that will remove it from the Google index and result in a massive descrease in traffic as the vast majority of people only use google for searching...
Google, abuse a dominant market position? But their moto is "do no evil"! They would never do something like that!
You missed out The World Ends With You, one of the most creative RPGs released in a long time.
For all the bad press, they consistantly produce great games and are always trying new things.
Good thing they didn't release a new version of Chrono trigger on the DS with added extras... Right?
Oh, yeah, they did.
I think it's almost certain there will be more Chrono in the future. If you don't believe this, you're completely blind to the way the company treats all of its major franchises. They're even doing a full on remake of Final Fantasy Legend 2! They're not a studio with infinite resources and people can only play so many games at once, they have to carefully manage what games they create when.
Imagine this mod really sucks. People would likely have to play it for a few hours before they'd confirm it (given the nature of RPGs). That would seriously dampen their enthusiam for a new official game.
Even if it was passable, there'd still be the prospect of over-saturation, where you've played so much CT that you lose interest.
It's not even been a year since they last released a version of Chrono Trigger (which had new content)...
It's hardly abandonware.
They're also required to actively protect their trademarks or they risk losing them.
Yes... Square Enix should listen to their fans and release sequel with a crono x Magus love story! Heck there's plenty of relationships in the fanfics they could choose from. Frog x robo!
Just because fans want something doesn't mean you should do it . Yes Square could easily show off a cheaply made Chrono Trigger 2 for the DS and it would sell a ton of copies. However it would cheapen the brand unless it's a stellar game and they'd lose most goodwill to it.
Likewise giving fan made games like this a nod cheapens the brand.
It's not easy handling cult classics. You try to cash in on them and you just end up killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
Look at Lucas Art's reputation for making games in the 90's. Look at their reputation now.
The difference in that is that Valve officially released dev tools and gave people permission to develop mods.
Most console games expressly forbid modification.
Unless he personally ripped the rom of chrono trigger he owned. Yes they can. You only have a right to backup copies of stuff you personally own, even if it's identical to something someone else owns. SNES carts also contain protection measures that would be covered by the DMCA (region locking is one universal example)
You would never get away with the "but hackers..." defence. The onus would be on you to show you were hacked as the fact a file only you owned has appeared on the net already tips the scales way against you. Even if you successfully argued you were hacked, they would counter with the argument that as you were already engaged in a criminal act, and you were not thorough enough with your security, you are liable for the effects of the distribution.
'Barebones' laptops are massively overpriced, the range isn't great and don't offer much over a regular laptop.
Buy the cheapest model of a laptop with a decent board, swap out the (likely) celeron cpu, replace it with the best core2 it'll take and boost the ram to 4gigs, it can save you a fair of money, provided you can source OEM laptop cpus at non-insane prices.
People running computers infected with malware can cause problems for everyone. It's better for them to fix pirated software than to increase the size of botnets.
People will use adblock so sites can't get advertising revenue.
Donations are only effective for big, high profile sites and even then are only an option if most of your writers don't want a good wage. If someone donates, they donate once and that tends to be it for life.
People don't want subscription models.
People aren't going to walk around in Fox News T-shirts or visit Fox news land theme parks.
I get a 'TV Licence' form of government funding would go down like a lead balloon in the US.
I read lots of people blaming content providers for using 'outdated' models but isn't it the case that, there are no financial models where users can visit websites at no cost to them (in any form) whilst still paying for the running of the site and the staff. The smartest people in media throughout the world haven't come up with a model that would satisfy the average slashdot poster.
The fact is, if you want quality investigative reporting and editorial content, it has to be paid for in some form. You cannot and should not demand charity.
I'm trying to think how it could be done.
Maybe doing something with the header that lets PHP return a "block/percentage" done message. You then have it so that php outputs a series of characters after writing out a tag and having javascript use that to count the characters as they're being outputted to create a progress bar.