8-channel sound versus 6 Actually the Genesis/MegaDrive had higher polyphony with its dual sound chips (one 6 channel FM, one 4 channel pulse wave/noise). The SNES's audio hardware was more powerful overall however.
Also the MegaDrive came out '88 in Japan while the SNES wasn't around until '90 so it would have been pretty bad for Nintendo to not come up with something technologically superior by then.
Seeing as it's relatively easy to secure an access point I fail to see why that is. How else would you communicate your consent? Talk face-to-face with every passer by on a nearby street who wants to check his e-mail on his wi-fi capable PDA? Chances are you wouldn't be paying more for an extra user anyway so the "service I pay for" point only makes any sense if you would be saturating the link by yourself, which isn't the typical scenario.
I have never had 50 tabs open at once. I think my limit has been around 20, but I usually do not average more than 5. 50, for real? Does not sound like a real world test to me. 200+ tabs in all windows combined is nothing unseen for me. I hate interrupting the flow of reading a page that has tons of links for example, so I open them all in new tabs (or windows) and check them out afterwards. Shoot, a gallery of images, waiting for each pic to load is going to take a couple of minutes total! Open them all up in new tabs, faster to switch between tabs than to wait for each of them to load in front of my eyes. 50 tabs is "light" usage to many users, such as myself.
A larger point however is that the iPhone doesn't do any of those things without jailbreaking. With the exception of the iAno (which I admit sounds cool), pretty much any ol' symbian phone should be capable of everything else you mentioned.
Of course the iPhone's tech specs are better than the 6600's, it's not 5 years old! Other manufacturers have come up with new models since then too. But your initial argument that the iPhone is special in that it lets you do computer-y things was just plain wrong.
>it can also browse the web, take notes, watch videos, listen to music, check your stocks, check the weather, take pictures, and email.
How is this functionally different from, say, the 5 year old Nokia 6600? The iPhone is just a phone with a nice screen.
There aren't 900 genuine CP sites, out of all the hundreds of known blocked sites only a few contain anything that the censorship list was actually supposed to block.
To those who are less culturally advanced, the clear successes of FOSS must seem to be magic. Apache, Blender, Firefox, and the others must all seem to have been created out of empty aether, and to be without any solid foundations Blender and Firefox are both based on previously commercial non-FOSS products.
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I'm not hugely surprised that making people addicted is more profitable than genuinely entertaining them.
Seeing as it's relatively easy to secure an access point I fail to see why that is. How else would you communicate your consent? Talk face-to-face with every passer by on a nearby street who wants to check his e-mail on his wi-fi capable PDA? Chances are you wouldn't be paying more for an extra user anyway so the "service I pay for" point only makes any sense if you would be saturating the link by yourself, which isn't the typical scenario.
Why should you have to close the browser when going to sleep?
I'm not content until it's beer 4 free.
A larger point however is that the iPhone doesn't do any of those things without jailbreaking. With the exception of the iAno (which I admit sounds cool), pretty much any ol' symbian phone should be capable of everything else you mentioned.
Of course the iPhone's tech specs are better than the 6600's, it's not 5 years old! Other manufacturers have come up with new models since then too. But your initial argument that the iPhone is special in that it lets you do computer-y things was just plain wrong.
>it can also browse the web, take notes, watch videos, listen to music, check your stocks, check the weather, take pictures, and email. How is this functionally different from, say, the 5 year old Nokia 6600? The iPhone is just a phone with a nice screen.
It's pretty trivial to stop gaming. It's frickin' hard to stop using an operating system.
There aren't 900 genuine CP sites, out of all the hundreds of known blocked sites only a few contain anything that the censorship list was actually supposed to block.