Frankly, C64 didn't have anything special to offer compared to other 8-bit computers. In many aspects it was even worse than some other architectures, and had nothing really special to offer. (Well, expect the SID sound processor, which was better than most others.)
C-64 basically got popular because it was a natural continuation to the popular VIC-20. Amiga got popular later for the same reason. It was like the C-64 v2.0. Or VIC-20 v3.0. (Or PET v4.0?)
I believe that many arctitectures like MSX, Atari 800XL, Amstrad etc. were technically better than C-64, but eventually lost the battle because they didn't gain the "critical mass" (enough people to share illegal copies of software with their friends. Yes, much of the success of the C-64 was because of PIRACY!). That being said, the mentioned computers were still pretty popular compared to some other failures.
My S60 3rd edition Nokia smartphone has a pretty decent web browser that has no problems with normal webpages and also has a basic flash support. It is very intuitive to use and I do use it a lot.
The more high-end Nokia "communicator" -devices have even better surfing capabilities, but they are of course even less "phones" and more "computers" than the S60 phones.
Also plenty of 3rd party software available for S60, even alternative web browsers like Opera mobile (which in my opinion is not as good as the standard Nokia browser).
There is no state church in Finland per se, and citizens are not born into Lutherian church by default. Their parents can also choose otherwise, ie. not to became members of ANY church.
There is no "state church" in Finland per se... The Lutherian church has a right to collect taxes, but it is not a government institution, although they are linked to each other in some respects.
Other religions do not have a right to collect taxes, but I am not 100% sure about the orthodox church.
So you are saying that most militaries in Europe train soldiers mostly to keep peace? Right........
The troops they send to abroad are special trained units, not regular soldiers. Regular soldiers are tought regular skills, ie. how to fight in wars and kill enemies. Of course this is not necessarily very relevant in this time and age, especially as here in Finland we still have compulsory military service, but that's the way it is.
What do you need wires for? Except maybe the electrical cord(s).
Setting up audio/video equipment COULD be totally automatic, without the need to do anything but plug-in to the electrical outlet.
We don't have HDTV here in Finland yet, but widescreen TVs are common, and 95% of the time people are watching 4:3 content streched to the 16:9 screen (some content is 4:3, some 16:9)... Maybe it's good for their self-esteem, because celebrities look fatter than they really are.:)
Actually many countries in Europe are censoring the Internet.
For example, Norway, Sweden and soon Finland are blocking "child pornography" sites. At least in Finland this is basically against the constitution and wouldn't probably stand the light of the day in court, so the cencorship isn't based on any law, it is basically a voluntary agreement between the government and ISP's. The problem is that the "black list" isn't public, and the contents of the list aren't based on court decision or even laws. The blocked sites are picked by some individual police officers, and the blocking criteria may vary.
That's not true at all what you are saying about Europe. PC and Amiga/ST had a little different markets, and obviously Amiga/ST never really hit it as a corporate computer. Anyway, PC became popular as a home computer about at the beginning of the 1990's and became dominant about at the middle of the decade. I bought my first PC in 1990.
Of course I am talking about Europe in general here, and Scandinavia in particular, but in Britain Amiga/ST held on for a little bit longer I guess.
In my opinion the F-key communications system in BF1942 and BFV was far superior and convenient to this mouse controlled system of BF2. Yeah, you don't have to move your left hand a few inches to the function keys now, but that advantage is quickly diminished by the fact that ALL ACTION STOPS while you are sending a message. You can't move, you can't shoot, you can't do anything. Also there are less message options and a greater chance of sending a wrong message.
In BFV, it virtually took no time at all to send a message and it really didn't affect gameplay in any way. Not so in BF2.
In my opinion, this system was clearly created because of the console markets. I really hope they enable the function keys again in a patch.
Well, the optical resolution of 35 mm film is more than 1080 lines, so there is still much room for improvement. And if I remember correctly, there has already been some "super HDTV" experiments done in Japan (with megaresolution camera as a source, not film)...
Trust me, they WILL sell us all their old movies once again in about 20+ years..:)
Yeah, morse might be faster in very specific conditions, but is it practical or probable means of sending SMS in the future? No way!
Typing SMS through the keypad IS fast, after you get accustomed to it. Most European kids (and adults!) send many messages per day, and typing becames very natural.
Anyway, a working voice-recognition might provide an alternative input method in the future... But it really has to work properly.
People of some countries just do not want individual freedom. Take for example Iraq and Afganistan. People in those countries are used to live by the guidelines of a 1500-year-old book, and they just like it that way.
There is nothing to be surprised of here, the TV-licencing system is in use throughout the Europe. The irony is that mostly only the former socialistic, eastern-block states do not have such a system.:)
100 euros per year is actually one of the cheapest rates, I am sure.
Communism isn't as bad as it used to be, because there is no realistic threat of it spreading widely any more. (And there is no unfriendly superpower behind the process.)
I guess "communism" is bad to the people living in such system, but it doesn't prevent doing business with them.
Actually it doesn't often work even in small communes... I once saw a document of a central European commune with "free" sex. Eventually what happened was that a class society formed in the commune, there was a strong leader and basically the closer person you where to him, the better things would be to you (more stuff, more sex opportunities).
I think this is basically what happens in all communist systems regardless of size.
People are selfish, and that's why communism will never work. People want more and better things for them and people they care for. That is a human nature.
But isn't it nice that we have AMD? At one point in time it seemed that Intel might become the "Microsoft" of CPUs, but fortunately that didn't happen. OK, so Intel might have a 80% marketshare, but AMD is more than big enough to make a great deal of difference.
(By the way, many, many years ago even companies like Siemens and NEC produced 8086 compatible CPUs.)
I am pretty sure many Americans agree that there are much better uses for their tax dollars than developing some scifi-weapons for which there doesn't seem to be any realistic use in the foreseable future.
This isn't only about foreign politics, it's also about domestic politics. USA will pretty soon be bankcrupt, if it doesn't cut the spendings.
As if the military and all of its wars don't suck enough money already...
You are simplifying things way too far here. Actually, you are a troll.
Anyway, people don't generally hate USA or Americans. But the more this one CONservative idiot fools around, the more people have negative vibes about the USA. And it really doesn't PROMOTE liking the USA.
As a Finn, I like many things about the USA. But there are some things I don't like. This applies to most people, as the world is not black and white.
It benefits all parties to have good relations with other nations. Initiating the armament of space will not promote good relations.
As far as I remember, nobody actually invited the US troops to come sit in the middle of Iraqi desert at the first place.
In my opionion, US troops should withraw from Iraq ASAP. They have an impossible task at hand.. Iraq won't stabilize in the near future, there are too much tension between the different ethnic groups.
Saddam Hussein once said that Iraqi people need a strong leader. I think he was right. Dictatorship is probably the best way to go in that part of the world. Bush can "crusade" all he wants, but he will fail.
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Frankly, C64 didn't have anything special to offer compared to other 8-bit computers. In many aspects it was even worse than some other architectures, and had nothing really special to offer. (Well, expect the SID sound processor, which was better than most others.)
C-64 basically got popular because it was a natural continuation to the popular VIC-20. Amiga got popular later for the same reason. It was like the C-64 v2.0. Or VIC-20 v3.0. (Or PET v4.0?)
I believe that many arctitectures like MSX, Atari 800XL, Amstrad etc. were technically better than C-64, but eventually lost the battle because they didn't gain the "critical mass" (enough people to share illegal copies of software with their friends. Yes, much of the success of the C-64 was because of PIRACY!). That being said, the mentioned computers were still pretty popular compared to some other failures.
My S60 3rd edition Nokia smartphone has a pretty decent web browser that has no problems with normal webpages and also has a basic flash support. It is very intuitive to use and I do use it a lot.
The more high-end Nokia "communicator" -devices have even better surfing capabilities, but they are of course even less "phones" and more "computers" than the S60 phones.
Also plenty of 3rd party software available for S60, even alternative web browsers like Opera mobile (which in my opinion is not as good as the standard Nokia browser).
No no no. Everyone is NOT a member of Luthetarian church at birth. Their parents can also choose otherwise.
There is no state church in Finland per se, and citizens are not born into Lutherian church by default. Their parents can also choose otherwise, ie. not to became members of ANY church.
There is no "state church" in Finland per se... The Lutherian church has a right to collect taxes, but it is not a government institution, although they are linked to each other in some respects.
Other religions do not have a right to collect taxes, but I am not 100% sure about the orthodox church.
Haven't you seen Die Another Day (007 movie)? :)
Actually there has been experimentations in this field, and the concept of a "cloaking device" is not at all infeasible.
So you are saying that most militaries in Europe train soldiers mostly to keep peace? Right........
The troops they send to abroad are special trained units, not regular soldiers. Regular soldiers are tought regular skills, ie. how to fight in wars and kill enemies. Of course this is not necessarily very relevant in this time and age, especially as here in Finland we still have compulsory military service, but that's the way it is.
OK, you need the antenna cable also..
And I'm not totally sure if WLAN is sufficient for HDTV...
What do you need wires for? Except maybe the electrical cord(s).
:)
Setting up audio/video equipment COULD be totally automatic, without the need to do anything but plug-in to the electrical outlet.
We don't have HDTV here in Finland yet, but widescreen TVs are common, and 95% of the time people are watching 4:3 content streched to the 16:9 screen (some content is 4:3, some 16:9)... Maybe it's good for their self-esteem, because celebrities look fatter than they really are.
Actually many countries in Europe are censoring the Internet.
For example, Norway, Sweden and soon Finland are blocking "child pornography" sites. At least in Finland this is basically against the constitution and wouldn't probably stand the light of the day in court, so the cencorship isn't based on any law, it is basically a voluntary agreement between the government and ISP's. The problem is that the "black list" isn't public, and the contents of the list aren't based on court decision or even laws. The blocked sites are picked by some individual police officers, and the blocking criteria may vary.
That's not true at all what you are saying about Europe. PC and Amiga/ST had a little different markets, and obviously Amiga/ST never really hit it as a corporate computer. Anyway, PC became popular as a home computer about at the beginning of the 1990's and became dominant about at the middle of the decade. I bought my first PC in 1990.
Of course I am talking about Europe in general here, and Scandinavia in particular, but in Britain Amiga/ST held on for a little bit longer I guess.
In my opinion the F-key communications system in BF1942 and BFV was far superior and convenient to this mouse controlled system of BF2. Yeah, you don't have to move your left hand a few inches to the function keys now, but that advantage is quickly diminished by the fact that ALL ACTION STOPS while you are sending a message. You can't move, you can't shoot, you can't do anything. Also there are less message options and a greater chance of sending a wrong message.
In BFV, it virtually took no time at all to send a message and it really didn't affect gameplay in any way. Not so in BF2.
In my opinion, this system was clearly created because of the console markets. I really hope they enable the function keys again in a patch.
Well, the optical resolution of 35 mm film is more than 1080 lines, so there is still much room for improvement. And if I remember correctly, there has already been some "super HDTV" experiments done in Japan (with megaresolution camera as a source, not film)...
:)
Trust me, they WILL sell us all their old movies once again in about 20+ years..
No, I meant hyperlink jumps between two random sites/pages on the net.
Someone once said, that any website on the Internet can be reached within 18(?) hops from any other site...
:)
So basically everyone is guilty, so let's just put everyone in jail and close the Internet for good..
Care for a cup of tea? Oh, dear. Indeed.
Yeah, morse might be faster in very specific conditions, but is it practical or probable means of sending SMS in the future? No way!
Typing SMS through the keypad IS fast, after you get accustomed to it. Most European kids (and adults!) send many messages per day, and typing becames very natural.
Anyway, a working voice-recognition might provide an alternative input method in the future... But it really has to work properly.
People of some countries just do not want individual freedom. Take for example Iraq and Afganistan. People in those countries are used to live by the guidelines of a 1500-year-old book, and they just like it that way.
Westeners just don't seem to get it.
There is nothing to be surprised of here, the TV-licencing system is in use throughout the Europe. The irony is that mostly only the former socialistic, eastern-block states do not have such a system. :)
100 euros per year is actually one of the cheapest rates, I am sure.
Communism isn't as bad as it used to be, because there is no realistic threat of it spreading widely any more. (And there is no unfriendly superpower behind the process.)
I guess "communism" is bad to the people living in such system, but it doesn't prevent doing business with them.
Actually it doesn't often work even in small communes... I once saw a document of a central European commune with "free" sex. Eventually what happened was that a class society formed in the commune, there was a strong leader and basically the closer person you where to him, the better things would be to you (more stuff, more sex opportunities).
I think this is basically what happens in all communist systems regardless of size.
People are selfish, and that's why communism will never work. People want more and better things for them and people they care for. That is a human nature.
But isn't it nice that we have AMD? At one point in time it seemed that Intel might become the "Microsoft" of CPUs, but fortunately that didn't happen. OK, so Intel might have a 80% marketshare, but AMD is more than big enough to make a great deal of difference.
(By the way, many, many years ago even companies like Siemens and NEC produced 8086 compatible CPUs.)
I am pretty sure many Americans agree that there are much better uses for their tax dollars than developing some scifi-weapons for which there doesn't seem to be any realistic use in the foreseable future.
This isn't only about foreign politics, it's also about domestic politics. USA will pretty soon be bankcrupt, if it doesn't cut the spendings.
As if the military and all of its wars don't suck enough money already...
You are simplifying things way too far here. Actually, you are a troll.
Anyway, people don't generally hate USA or Americans. But the more this one CONservative idiot fools around, the more people have negative vibes about the USA. And it really doesn't PROMOTE liking the USA.
As a Finn, I like many things about the USA. But there are some things I don't like. This applies to most people, as the world is not black and white.
It benefits all parties to have good relations with other nations. Initiating the armament of space will not promote good relations.
As far as I remember, nobody actually invited the US troops to come sit in the middle of Iraqi desert at the first place.
In my opionion, US troops should withraw from Iraq ASAP. They have an impossible task at hand.. Iraq won't stabilize in the near future, there are too much tension between the different ethnic groups.
Saddam Hussein once said that Iraqi people need a strong leader. I think he was right. Dictatorship is probably the best way to go in that part of the world. Bush can "crusade" all he wants, but he will fail.