Mega Man isn't a Nintendo franchise, btw.

GBC was more than turning the grey into color. It surpassed even the Super Game Boy in total color count (excluding the SGB OBJ mode which almost no games used). It also increased the CPU speed. It certainly wasn't a four-color system unless you were playing legacy GB games.

NES/SNES weren't really slower than their counterparts. Sure, the number of CPU cycles per second was lower. However, the 6502-based architecture had lower IPC than the Z80 and 68000, and if you analyze that you'll see that the NES/SNES were a lot more competitive in performance than you might think by CPU speed alone.

It's odd because the law doesn't say "Christianity is off limits but everything else is ok", it says "no establishment of religion". It's equally wrong for a public school to teach Islam, Judaism, or any other religion outside of a general historical and cultural sense. That's the scope of private school, of which many such schools legally exist, near most of the people posting here.

All athiests and anti-theists who specifically attack Christianity and not other religions are just as bad as the ones in Christianity that they oppose.

Probably the fact that the OP took the ink they recieved from Amazon and returned it to Staples, where it didn't come from.

Fuck you, racist.

That's funny because people do actually read Playboy for the articles.

It goes both ways. If they turn out to be actual customers, then Hadeed owes them. If they turn out to be competitors, or just random people shitting on Hadeed's company, then they owe him.

Shit just got real.

Very little in life is truly binary.

TIL you can buy something outright and resell it, and you're "cheating out" the previous owner.

Unless something has changed, the article is wrong. iOS 7-compatible devices will automaticaly download the update when connected to Wifi, the update will take around 3GB of space or so on the device, and worst of all it's the only way to recover that space on a jailed device is to install the update, but it doesn't actually install automatically from what I understand.

+4? Really, Slashdot? This AC obviously didn't read the article, and neither did anyone who modded them up.

I'm not shitting on streaming subscriptions. I actually like the idea of it, it's basically the modern-day video store, except instead of physically going to the video store (or having them mail you discs), you pay a subscription and can access anything you want. But it's up front with the fact that it's a subscription and you lose access to everything if you no longer pay.

The problem with digital downloads in a non-streaming fashion is that people treat them like purchases, both consumers and copyright holders. "Buy it today on the XStation Wii eShop!" If it's being sold as a purchase and not as a rental, there are supposed to be certain rights that digital downloads bypass.

The fact that it even happened should be a warning flag to stay the hell away from digital downloads as the primary means of acquiring entertainment.

It's not so bad when it's media that you can get physically in another form (like Nintendo's Virtual Console versus the original carts). However, when you start seeing media sold only as a digital download (which already happens sometimes), then you're at the mercy of the copyright holder. Do you really trust the copyright cartel, long-term, to let you have access to their stuff without paying and paying and paying?

You're not buying the goods, you're renting them. You're always at the whim of the copyright owner with regards to your continued access to the work you paid for.

Mark my words, when physical media is gone, they'll stop selling media to you indefinitely, but charge you for the same content on a recurring basis. Not like Netflix where you're paying for access to stream any number of works, but you'll pay per month (or per access) for a single work.

Plus, with everything so locked down and controlled by the copyright owners, much more media will be lost to time due to the inability to move it between systems freely. Almost 30 years later, you can still acquire and play the original Super Mario Bros on an authentic NES, without getting the okay from Nintendo to do so. When digital downloads are the only method to acquire media, then you can forget about buying used copies 30, 40, 50 years later. By the time copyright actually lapses and you can legally do something about it, it'll be too late as all the original hardware will likely be either destroyed or non-functional.