LOL kinda ignoring there are these things called countermeasures that make your million and a half plus a pop missiles go poopy, what happens when they are deployed? You dogfight or you die, no different now than in Vietnam.
And allow me to LOL again as that number you cited also counts the boneyard, now you wanna maybe tell us how many are actually flightworthy this minute?
You got it half right, the problem on Linux is drivers or more precisely a driver stack that hasn't evolved since the days of Win9x. You can sit down and with basic math show that "let the devs handle it" just doesn't scale, even if you had ten times the amount of driver devs than Linux actually has they still wouldn't have enough hours in the day to fix all that gets pissed on when Torvalds and friends change a pointer.
I have taken XP drivers and ran them in Windows 7, taken XP X64 drivers and run them in 8.1 64bit, and until Linus fixes his mess of a driver stack so an OEM won't have to remake every driver when a new kernel comes out? Things are never gonna get any better which is why despite Windows 10 being nothing but spyware pretending to be an OS Linux will not gain even a single percentage point, not one.
The really sad part IMHO? I gave you a perfect test to rub in the dev's noses like rubbing a doggy nose in its poo, they say their driver model works? Show them the results of the Hairyfeet challenge and call 'em out on their bullshit. Instead I get called dirty names for actually expecting an OS to be able to update itself without destroying itself (gasp! shock!) and have FOSSies rush to defend them with classic memes like "its free you can't complain" or the ever hilarious "you should fix it" which is like saying you have a new car that can take on the new Mustang and when somebody asks to see it you hand 'em a pile of raw ore and say "here ya go, make it for me" LOL.
So take the challenge yourself, pick any of those "consumer friendly" distros and knock yourself out, then you will see why Linux doesn't gain any share and why I predict Valve will abandon SteamOS within 5 years, its because you can't build a strong house on a rotten foundation and the Linux driver model is rotten to the core.
You are stepping close to the "dirty little secret" of the USAF, that the F15 on up they have had to put limiters on the planes lower than its real abilities because the simple fact is the planes can pull off moves that will kill the pilot, the meatsack behind the stick just can't handle what the plane is actually capable of.
This is why building new planes (instead of simply building more of the teen series) is not only wasteful its pointless, the planes we have now can already do more than any human body can take. instead of pissing more money down a rathole for the F35 we should simply buy more of the teen series and if the fighter jocks still want their 1980s "stealth" tech? Just buy the F15 Silent Eagle which the last numbers I saw showed you could buy 3 of them for less than the cost of a single F35 and still have change left over.
And am I the only one who feels like we are taking pages from the playbook of the Axis in WWII and making the same dumb moves? Instead of building affordable planes we keep sinking billions into "wonder weapons" that have the exact same outcome as the 262 and Panther in that they 1.- Cost too much per unit, 2.- Are VERY prone to breakdown so 3.- They spend more time in the shop than they do in battle so 4.- The enemy will always outnumber them by dozens if not hundreds to one. We have gotten lucky that the only ones we have been fighting are goat herders, because if we fought somebody like Russia or China with an abundance of fourth gen fighters? Our new toys would be facing 20+ to 1 odds and probably get spanked right out of the sky.
That is what we found in the states when they started giving out insane terms for people with drugs, it quickly got to the point the criminal was better off just shooting the cop and having a chance to escape than getting arrested and taking the time. after all if they are gonna give you life regardless, why not just shoot the cop and take your chance with escape? Hell if the cop doesn't die and you get rid of the drugs before you are caught you'll get less time than just getting arrested with the drugs so why would you not shoot the cop?
That is all insane sentences for non violent crimes gets you, it quickly gets to the point you are better off just shooting the cop and using the time that buys you to get rid of the evidence.
Wow...WTF are you playing that the expensive as fuck Evo don't help? Because if you ever played War Thunder (and if you haven't you really should, plenty of great communities that aren't filled with "FU nigger faggots!" in chat, in fact we had a female player for several hours and nobody treated her any differently and none of that "ASL are you hot?" crap and its got great gameplay) you know its insane when it comes to detail and amount of fire on the screen per second and even on a $50 Crucial SSD the thing just flies. I also have 16Gb (I went with the Kingston Hyper-X Fury into an ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2) and between that, the 3GB on the R9 280 and the SSD? Its crazy how fast the thing boogies.
And you really don't need to do any research Drinkypoo as I have yet to run into any Android that can't be rooted using Super Root, it takes less than 3 minutes and works like a charm.
I'd say the problem with FF isn't privacy, which there are several excellent plugins like NoScript that can help with that, its the security which IMHO is still really piss poor.
Why is security in FF and pretty much every browser based on gecko bad? Its really very simple in FF and the other Gecko browsers everything you do in FF has the same permissions as the user which considering that the #1 attack vector by far is the browser? That's not just a dumb idea, its downright dangerous.The sad part is it should be a pretty easy fix for the devs, Windows has had support for browsers running in Low Rights Mode since Windows Vista. They can't even argue that LRM isn't cross platform as the changes to support LRM in Windows should translate to AppArmor in Linux thus helping improve security on both sides of the aisle, yet despite this Gecko is the only current browser that doesn't support LRM which I would argue makes it probably the most dangerous browser you can run. All the Chromiums, as well as IE and Edge? They all run by default in LRM and anybody who knows anything about security knows that you should always run software with the least permissions required to perform the task.
Considering how many Firefox exploits we have had of late its just mind boggling why they insist on running the browser with higher permissions than is required.
Hell BLU has a nice Windows phone for $54 now and it comes with a 5MP camera with flash and MicroSD support up to 32Gb. They also have an Android with JB and 5MP with flash for $58 and I seriously doubt they are losing money on each sale so I really don't see the big whoop.
If it works as well as my BLU $100 Studio Mini they are sweet phones as mine has been rock solid stable, takes great pics, gets good battery life, easy to root (took 3 minutes using SuperRoot), just really nice phones.
That is because Gore and pals are set to become carbon billionaires by selling indulgences, which of course means that things that might actually make a difference, like recycling tech, building a "people's car/truck" that gets 50 MPG+ for under $20K and then using a "cash for clunkers" style program to get all the poor folks out of older gas guzzlers? Well that is off the table because Gore and his friends at Goldman Sachs couldn't print money at the barrel of a gun while giving their rich pals free passes....err..."carbon offsets" and we can't have THAT now, can we?
What I can't believe is how many on the left is willing to buy his bullshit, can you name ONE THING, just one, that he is proposing that he hasn't already set himself up to become insanely rich if it comes to pass, just one? Well if everybody in the west gives me just 1 dollar a year why I'll cure climate change within a century using my magical AGW wands! Of course it won't work, but neither will Gore's plans but it'll make me rich and that IS the real goal of this, to make a few a lot richer with a reverse robin hood...right?
If you guys want to listen to somebody about AGW? Ed Begley Jr, and wadda ya know, nearly all his ideas are sensible. But then again he drives an electric car, lives in a modest home and takes coach instead of a personal fleet of SUVs to a personal Lear Jet to his McMansion with an indoor basketball court that uses more AC in a month than a half a dozen families of five do in a year like Gore...but its all good, right? After all Gore pays himself carbon indulgences from his own shell corp thus getting credit for moving money from his left to right pocket...that saves the world too,right?
And the difference between this and the MS Java case is...what exactly? Because the only difference I can see is Google pulled a name out of their ass, which means all MSFT had to do was call it "MS Coffee" and it would have all been golden.
And what if somebody was to do this to Linux? After all they have access to the code, should be easy enough to just rip it off and take it proprietary by following the Google model, what would the difference be? None at all.
You can solve the "gotta wait for loads" problem by getting a cheap SSD and slapping the games on there, if you are on Windows look up "Steam Mover" which will let you just move the games you are currently playing over to the SSD. I've moved my War thunder onto my SSD and it fricking flies, whereas before it would take a good 30-50 seconds just for the levels to load at the start of the match now myself and the other SSD users are already under way by the time the first HDD users are spawning. Oh and the minimum frame issue will be fixed by DX12, just wait for the pirate version which strips out all the spying
As for the tablets? The majority don't have rooted Android tablets so the adblock is moot as rooting is beyond the skillset of the majority, they will just consider the device "broken" and move on. I talked to the Gonzalez brothers (the Mexican bros that run the phone shop down the street, nice guys) and they said they haven't run into anything rooted that came into their shop and since they handle more phones and tablets in a day than I've handled in a year? I think their experience is a good sampling of how much rooting goes on in the wild. Glad that you were able to root yours but if even 5% of the tablets out there are rooted I'd be amazed.
And the people DO care when it comes to the programs because I HAVE been dealing with those "transformer style" hybrids, they have those for $150-$200 at the local Walmart and so are quite popular, #1 complaint? ":I can't get this to do (X)" where X is some feature the PC program has the Android version doesn't. Users simply do not understand that just because it LOOKS like a laptop does not mean it will ACT like a laptop and they get quite pissed when they find out they simply will never be able to do what they want it to. I have had quite a few go take theirs back and spend the money to get the Windows 8.1 version and promptly bring it back so I can "Make it work" and behave like their home system does. A little ClassicStart, a little loading their programs and voila! They are happy.
To think a user that is happy with X/Y/Z will be happy with just X is the classic Linux advocate mistake, the "as long as you have a browser its enough" but people today are VERY picky and they like what they like, especially when it comes to their programs. If the mobile version doesn't do 100% of what they are used to getting on the desktop? Then its shit as far as they are concerned. And last I checked the asus transformer? yeah that's a $300+ device, that AIN'T what the majority are buying, they are buying those "Walmart specials" and those keyboards simply aren't as good as a first gen chiclet on a netbook, they really suck. To say "tablets have great keyboards" and bring up the Transformer is like saying "ChromeOS is the best laptop" and bringing up the Pixel as the example, when in both cases they aren't the majority, hell they aren't even the minority when it comes to sales, probably more in the 3%-4% range. If you have a local Walmart Supercenter? Go in and try their sub $200 convertibles as THAT is what folks are getting. They are limited to just 1Gb of RAM (and all the OEM crap you can't uninstall is sucking a good half of that) with 8Gb of storage which for some damned reason the OEMs partition REALLY badly and by default the larger of the two can't have apps installed to it, and the keyboards? Fucking terrible. Remember it wasn't the IDEA of a netbook that killed the netbook, it was rising prices with lousy build quality that killed the things. When I could get the AMD E350s for $300, the C50/C60s for $240 and the Intel Atom for $200? I couldn't keep enough of the things, folks gobbled 'em up like candy, it was when the OEMs added a good $100-$120 to the price so that a more powerful laptop was cheaper that everybody bailed.
Do I think tablets are gonna die? Of course not, I can still buy new netbooks, I have no doub
"But by the same token, what does Joe or Jane average do on a PC that a quad-core tablet with 2GB RAM can't do?"
Uhhh...block ads, run full programs instead of a stripped down app version, have multiple programs running without felling like you are on a P2 running Win98, have a decent battery life (my 2011 netbook with the original battery gets better battery life than most brand new tablets), be able to type quickly (I have yet to see a tablet keyboard that didn't feel worse than a first gen chiclet netbook or didn't make the unit more unwieldy than a netbook) I could go on but I think you get the point.
I think tablets with the exception of a few specialist jobs (warehouse inventory for example or healthcare) will end up "a device you use on the couch when you watch TV and want to do a quick check of your FB".
As for your AMD chip? Congrats, it just blows through tasks don't it? As far as the GPU goes, I tend to stay one or two gen behind, best bang for the buck IMHO. If you want a great card for cheap money? Look at the R9 280, if you keep an eye on the sales you can get one for about $120 and the thing just makes games look incredible, smooth as butter in 1080P and with 3GB of GDDR 5? I've played games in War Thunder with 120mm shells blowing dirt into the sky and 30mm AAA rounds flying over a mile across the map and even with all that going on? I'm still getting above 30 FPS with all the pretty except grass running. Oh I COULD get the same with grass but it tends to block your vision and since everybody else runs without it, in the interest of fairness (and getting double digits in my T34-42 and P-IV F2) I run with it off;-)
Actually talking to folks at the shop tablets are either sitting in a sock drawer or given to the kids to watch vids and play Angry Birds, the adults found them far too limiting compared to their laptops.
And the reason why the PC numbers are the way they are is even more simple, its the fact that hardware has been so overpowered for so many years that users just don't feel the need to upgrade, that is all. What does Joe and Jane Average do on a PC that a C2D laptop or C2Q desktop can't do? Nothing, just as most gamers are quite happy with their Phenom IIs and first gen i5s because even games simply have not kept up with speed of the hardware.
So at the end of the day I believe that tablets will be like netbooks, which are still being sold but aren't the "hip thing" and are just another niche, and until they fix the battery life I figure most of those smart watches? Gonna end up in a drawer somewhere. Of course the reason they are selling now is because there are many that will buy anything Apple as a status thing, just like the girls that go out of their way to show everybody they are using the latest iStuff. Once they come out with a new iToy? They will go into a dumpster and they will start the cycle anew.
This is pure unadulterated TRUTH! When many of us got online in the late 80s/early 90s nobody was bothered by ads...why? Because they were a simple hyperlink or at most a tiny.jpg or.gif showing a product for sale...so what. in fact i bet many of us even bought products from those ads because they were 1.- Almost all first party and thus relevant to the site you were viewing and 2.- The one who wrote the site would often have a nice polite "Here is the stuff I like, they have good deals on it, if you like the site maybe you could have a look?" and many of us did that.
Then here came the third party ad companies to take a big fat Cleveland Steamer on everything! First came the obnoxious pop ups, I bet many here first started hating ads in the mid 90s when that shit started really blowing up. First came pop up, then pop under, then pop all over the fucking screen. Then came the Java ads, followed by flash. Remember when Java was the hot thing, they were even showing desktops running entirely in java and it was Java this and Java that? I personally believe all the fucking Java ads slamming the hell out of those P3s is what turned the masses off of Java...but then came Flash, and boy was that name ever apropos when it comes to ads as the first ones were an epileptic nightmare as they flashed images worse than a Japanese cartoon trying to get your attention. Was that enough for the ad corp assholes? Nope because "hey we can blow their ears off and make 'em listen to our pitches, brilliant!" until it got to the point you couldn't have speakers in an office PC because you never knew when it would blow your ears out!
But of course the rotting elephant in the room is none of these ad corps or websites take responsibility for the malware they spread thus driving the final nail in the ad driven web coffin, because now its a severe security risk to allow ads to be loaded. I can tell everybody that once I switched all my users to browsers running ABP in low rights mode? Malware just dried up, in fact I can't remember the last nasty I saw on a PC that was running adblocking. And all those that scream about ABP and "acceptable ads" really need to look at the policy to become an acceptable ad, its the best practices I've been pushing for years, NO flash or java, NO sound, NO pop up/under/over, NO hidden redirects or misleading images like faking a security dialog box, in other words it is the kind of ads we used to not have to worry about, simple hyperlinks or non moving images.
So I'm sorry websites but you brought it upon yourselves, you had a good thing going and in the name of greed you shat all over it and made ads the plague blankets of the net. Switch to the ABP acceptable ad model and most of us will happily let your ads run, but of course that means not letting third parties throw any shit on your page they want and risking your viewers PCs but instead they will just whine and moan. I'm proud to say I got banned from The Escapist for calling them out on their BS, they had Jim Sterling whine about how evil ABP was and I posted a link showing how many times The Escapist had shown malware infected ads and simply asked "So are you gonna take responsibility and pay for the damages to those you infect with your ads?". Wow you should have seen how quickly they started burying the thread and throwing the banhammer, didn't work as the whole narrative got switched to ads and malware. So if any claim its about "saving websites" simply ask that little question, are they gonna take responsibility and pay for the damages if they infect their viewers? If not they can fuck right off!
The whole point is they can just say "we got a tip" and sidestep the whole issue. They even have a legal term for this, its called Parallel construction which shows that the rule of law is completely worthless in the case of warrants as multiple agents admitted doing this yet they received no jail time, hell I doubt the ones they used it on even got a new trial!
So we have to use encryption to protect us from a government that has repeatedly shown it doesn't respect its own laws. You cannot count on them to follow the rules so your only choice is to protect yourself with tools like encryption, it really is that simple.
Well if you can find us a link please share with the class, because using Google and Bing all I ran into other than Men's Health was a shitload of paywalls. Its fucking insane how basic medical info is now locked behind nothing but paywalls, you get the PR spin or ya pay up is the gist of my searching.
Then YOU find one that isn't behind a fucking paywall, because every medical article on the subject I found had a lovely "Pay X for access to this article" so unless you want to cough up for the class? Its the best I can do.
You didn't hear this from me, mmkay? Get a copy of "Windows 7 Tiny" off of TPB or the P2P of your choice. Frankly Win 7 vanilla would run fine on what you got but Win 7 Tiny? Will run like a scalded dog! We're talking just 145Mb on the desktop and around 2.6Gb installed, and since i doubt you have a DVD burner you'll be happy to note it comes on a single CD.
The problem you are gonna have with Linux is....its shit. I'm sorry but it is, my hairyfeet challenge has stood for 8 years despite the test only consisting of a single task, "update yourself without falling apart" yet not a single consumer Linux distro can accomplish a feat MSFT was able to pull off with Windows 2K 15 fricking years ago! The simple fact is as long as Linus Torvalds has a pulse its NEVER gonna get any better, because the driver model has remained unchanged since he came up with his Minix clone in 1993! You remember what a PITA and how fragile Windows was with its.INI files and.VXD drivers back in the early days? Well that is Linux in 2015 with config files standing in for.INI and a driver model no more stable or robust than the VXDs were back in the day.
So if you want to keep that old hardware being able to run modern browser and software? Windows 7, either vanilla or tiny, but if you try running one of these "consumer friendly" Linux distros you better have near infinite patience (and a spare box, because things will often break that will require you to have a second WORKING box, probably running Windows, to fix the first broken one..) then you are gonna be filled with frustration and anger. if you can use XP? You can use Win 7, its really not much different at all GUI wise.
Nope, its actually worse than that which is why Coke is trying to get ahead of the media by funding these "studies" that I put about as much faith in as RJ Reynolds studies of ecigs.
You see the diet colas kill the good bacteria while helping bad bacteria to flourish in your gut which means that if you put two otherwise healthy people side by side, have one only drink regular and the other diet? Then the one drinking diet will gain more weight and be more unhealthy overall. So you can understand why they want to get ahead of the media, I've seen more and more stories trickling out about this and I'm sure their PR dept has been keeping an eye on it and seeing its starting to catch the public eye.
So in this case the company really has no more cards to play, regular cokes are empty calories and diet cokes make you fatter, so what else can they do but spin like a top? After all the flavored water biz is already saturated and they will never make a tenth what they have selling cokes, and now that its coming out that diet is even worse? if I worked for their PR I'd do the same move, they really don't have any other moves to play.
Sigh...you don't REALLY believe the shit you are shoveling, yes? Because if you were to stop 10 random Windows users on the street none of them have ever seen regedit much less know what that even is! hell for over a year at the shop I kept coming across HP PCs that didn't even HAVE a "run" command, somebody at HP must have flipped the wrong switch on their image and it didn't have it by default in the start menu...know how many users I had ask me to stick it back? NONE, not a single one even knew it was gone!
While Win 10 may be nothing but spyware in OS clothing even the worst Windows can be run 100% with nothing but the GUI, and as I've pointed out a million times you can't even start Linux without the shell as like Win98 with DOS Linux simply cannot function without it. I can remove all access to CMD, completely disable it, windows runs just fine and the users never will notice...can you use chmod to disable the shell and even get Linux to boot? No? I rest my case.
Windows 10 had more users as a fricking BETA than Linux has had in 22 years so...yeah I'd say the users have decided long ago that Linux is a "do not want". Remember that for most of its life Linux has been $0 while its cheapest competition was $100 a pop and you couldn't give it away so what does that say about YOU, when you can't even get anybody to take your product for free?
While I think Windows 10 is the equivalent of the spyware that comes with a "free"program on Sourceforge the simple fact of the matter is Linux is broken. its been broken for the past 22 years, it'll probably be broken 22 years from now. this is why the hairyfeet challenge, which asks Linux to do such "hard" tasks as "update yourself without dying", has lasted for 8 years without a single consumer distro passing, its because Linux is broken and its driver model is frankly worse than Windows 98s VXD driver model.
Does Linux look nice OOTB? Sure it does, but once the user finds that none of their programs run and the OS breaks on update what you see is people return it in droves because if an OS can't run the programs you want, or requires you to learn pages of CLI (on another PC, you DO have a spare, right?) just to deal with the broken WiFi and shitted on GPU drivers when you update it? Then it might as well be a paperweight.
Stick with Win 7 until the pirate version comes out. Its the same thing we saw with games overflowing with DRM, the pirates end up releasing a better version with all that shit stripped out.
Just as we had "WinXP Micro" and "Win 7 Tiny" there will be a "Gamer Edition" or "Tiny edition" released by the hackers that will have all that shit ripped out so its just an OS that can play games. You of course won't be able to use the updates because they require all that phone home bullshit, but a good AV and a sandboxed browser fixes that problem pretty well.
But the only way we can get rid of Win 10 is if we all shit all over it just as we did with windows 8 and 8.1. If all the regular users hear is how much of a POS it is? They will stay away. If we tell them they are broadcasting their porn habits to a company that is gonna share it with anybody that offers them a buck? they will treat the "free" upgrade like plague blankets. We already have a HUGE head start as all I've been hearing is how "slow and jerky" Windows 10 is thanks to MSFT's bineheaded P2Ping Windows Updates, so if we all spread the word, get the bloggers writing about it (which we are seeing already) that Windows 10 is no different than the spyware that comes with some "free" program? Then we CAN change the narrative.
But until we get Win 10 thrown in the same shit bucket as 8 and 8.1 just avoid it and wait for a pirate version if there is some DX12 game you want to play.
Sorry mods but this is NOT insightful as the poster does not understand how the Koran works.
The Koran is NOT the bible, it does not have any conflicting passages, why? Because Muhammad had the benefit of seeing how the other religions worked and came up with a frankly brilliant little fix for all the conflicts. Its really very simple...if a rule comes later that conflicts with a rule that comes earlier then the latter one supersedes the earlier one which takes care of conflicting passages.
Of course this also blows the whole "religion of peace" BS as the Hadiths that have come for the last 200 years have been "jihad jihad jihad" and since they came later they supersede the earlier peaceful passages and since Muslims are allowed to lie to unbelievers to help spread the reach of Sharia this works to their advantage, simply quote the old passages and never mention they were replaced centuries ago by the jihad Hadiths.
Have you not wondered why these Islam apology groups can say they "condemn terrorism " or a specific terrorist but never come out and say this terrorism has broken the laws of Islam and should treat those that commit terrorism as not a follower of Islam? Its simple, its because they can lie to unbelievers but NOT about fellow Muslims and since they know the little rule about latter superseding they would be bearing false witness against groups that was in reality doing exactly what the faith tells them to, waging jihad.
I would urge everybody who has any doubts read up a little on Wahhabism, a good place to start would be this this frontline article and then read up about the Sunni and Shia, they all do the same thing and all follow the supersedes rule which means you can really only look at the last 200 years worth of hadiths as everything else is treated as history, and what are all the new hadiths? Jihad jihad jihad.
So that is just a hair below double the price...your arguments? Half of $309 is $154, the FX8350 is a grand $14 more than that on Amazon. And for the record I tell folks to get the FX8320 as there really is no point in the FX8350, you can get the same speed in less than 2 minutes with the 8320 (they ARE the same chip after all, just binned differently) and that $30 can go on your GPU or SSD. I personally took the FX8320E as I can also hit nearly the same as the FX8350 but I can drop lower when I don't need the extra power, thus saving me a few bucks on AC bills.
So its being a "fanboy" to not support corruption? Because the links I gave show beyond a shadow of a doubt, even Intel admitted it when they agreed to give every P4 owner $15 for rigging benches. Hell look up "Intel investigated" and see how many places are investigating them for their corrupt shit, or read for yourself what the CEOs of companies like Dell and Toshiba said during the deposition for the Intel VS AMD suit (which the DoJ allowed Intel to pay less than 6 months revenue at the time to buy their way out of 10+ years worth of dirty dealing. Wish I could get a deal like that) or again look at the results of benches compiled with ICC versus GCC, ICC does NOT speed up in any way, shape, or form Intel CPUs, its only result is to cripple any non Intel CPUs.
So if you wanna support corruption? That is your choice, I will not.
LOL you didn't say a God damned thing that did not in some way contain free or open. Which part of DO NOT GIVE A SHIT is so damned hard for you to understand?
Your competition is iOS, Android, and WinPhone...Name ONE feature, just one, that does not involve the words free or open in which your chosen OS is better. And don't waste our time with html v5 bullshit, because guess what? they COULD run HTML V5 bullshit apps but they DON'T, because native runs better, surprise surprise..
So you have had multiple posters tell ya put up or shut up, what are you waiting for? is it because you can't? Your posts didn't say a fucking thing other than "blah blah devs (nobody cares, not a developer), blah blah blah HTML V5 (shown to be a bloated pig, nobody cares) blah blah free and open (nobody cares about your politics)" so lets hear it, name a single feature that FXOS beats the competition, if you can't? Thanks yet again for proving my point.
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LOL kinda ignoring there are these things called counter measures that make your million and a half plus a pop missiles go poopy, what happens when they are deployed? You dogfight or you die, no different now than in Vietnam.
And allow me to LOL again as that number you cited also counts the boneyard, now you wanna maybe tell us how many are actually flightworthy this minute?
You got it half right, the problem on Linux is drivers or more precisely a driver stack that hasn't evolved since the days of Win9x. You can sit down and with basic math show that "let the devs handle it" just doesn't scale, even if you had ten times the amount of driver devs than Linux actually has they still wouldn't have enough hours in the day to fix all that gets pissed on when Torvalds and friends change a pointer.
I have taken XP drivers and ran them in Windows 7, taken XP X64 drivers and run them in 8.1 64bit, and until Linus fixes his mess of a driver stack so an OEM won't have to remake every driver when a new kernel comes out? Things are never gonna get any better which is why despite Windows 10 being nothing but spyware pretending to be an OS Linux will not gain even a single percentage point, not one.
The really sad part IMHO? I gave you a perfect test to rub in the dev's noses like rubbing a doggy nose in its poo, they say their driver model works? Show them the results of the Hairyfeet challenge and call 'em out on their bullshit. Instead I get called dirty names for actually expecting an OS to be able to update itself without destroying itself (gasp! shock!) and have FOSSies rush to defend them with classic memes like "its free you can't complain" or the ever hilarious "you should fix it" which is like saying you have a new car that can take on the new Mustang and when somebody asks to see it you hand 'em a pile of raw ore and say "here ya go, make it for me" LOL.
So take the challenge yourself, pick any of those "consumer friendly" distros and knock yourself out, then you will see why Linux doesn't gain any share and why I predict Valve will abandon SteamOS within 5 years, its because you can't build a strong house on a rotten foundation and the Linux driver model is rotten to the core.
You are stepping close to the "dirty little secret" of the USAF, that the F15 on up they have had to put limiters on the planes lower than its real abilities because the simple fact is the planes can pull off moves that will kill the pilot, the meatsack behind the stick just can't handle what the plane is actually capable of.
This is why building new planes (instead of simply building more of the teen series) is not only wasteful its pointless, the planes we have now can already do more than any human body can take. instead of pissing more money down a rathole for the F35 we should simply buy more of the teen series and if the fighter jocks still want their 1980s "stealth" tech? Just buy the F15 Silent Eagle which the last numbers I saw showed you could buy 3 of them for less than the cost of a single F35 and still have change left over.
And am I the only one who feels like we are taking pages from the playbook of the Axis in WWII and making the same dumb moves? Instead of building affordable planes we keep sinking billions into "wonder weapons" that have the exact same outcome as the 262 and Panther in that they 1.- Cost too much per unit, 2.- Are VERY prone to breakdown so 3.- They spend more time in the shop than they do in battle so 4.- The enemy will always outnumber them by dozens if not hundreds to one. We have gotten lucky that the only ones we have been fighting are goat herders, because if we fought somebody like Russia or China with an abundance of fourth gen fighters? Our new toys would be facing 20+ to 1 odds and probably get spanked right out of the sky.
Not if you want a lot of dead cops.
That is what we found in the states when they started giving out insane terms for people with drugs, it quickly got to the point the criminal was better off just shooting the cop and having a chance to escape than getting arrested and taking the time. after all if they are gonna give you life regardless, why not just shoot the cop and take your chance with escape? Hell if the cop doesn't die and you get rid of the drugs before you are caught you'll get less time than just getting arrested with the drugs so why would you not shoot the cop?
That is all insane sentences for non violent crimes gets you, it quickly gets to the point you are better off just shooting the cop and using the time that buys you to get rid of the evidence.
Wow...WTF are you playing that the expensive as fuck Evo don't help? Because if you ever played War Thunder (and if you haven't you really should, plenty of great communities that aren't filled with "FU nigger faggots!" in chat, in fact we had a female player for several hours and nobody treated her any differently and none of that "ASL are you hot?" crap and its got great gameplay) you know its insane when it comes to detail and amount of fire on the screen per second and even on a $50 Crucial SSD the thing just flies. I also have 16Gb (I went with the Kingston Hyper-X Fury into an ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2) and between that, the 3GB on the R9 280 and the SSD? Its crazy how fast the thing boogies.
And you really don't need to do any research Drinkypoo as I have yet to run into any Android that can't be rooted using Super Root, it takes less than 3 minutes and works like a charm.
I'd say the problem with FF isn't privacy, which there are several excellent plugins like NoScript that can help with that, its the security which IMHO is still really piss poor.
Why is security in FF and pretty much every browser based on gecko bad? Its really very simple in FF and the other Gecko browsers everything you do in FF has the same permissions as the user which considering that the #1 attack vector by far is the browser? That's not just a dumb idea, its downright dangerous.The sad part is it should be a pretty easy fix for the devs, Windows has had support for browsers running in Low Rights Mode since Windows Vista. They can't even argue that LRM isn't cross platform as the changes to support LRM in Windows should translate to AppArmor in Linux thus helping improve security on both sides of the aisle, yet despite this Gecko is the only current browser that doesn't support LRM which I would argue makes it probably the most dangerous browser you can run. All the Chromiums, as well as IE and Edge? They all run by default in LRM and anybody who knows anything about security knows that you should always run software with the least permissions required to perform the task.
Considering how many Firefox exploits we have had of late its just mind boggling why they insist on running the browser with higher permissions than is required.
Hell BLU has a nice Windows phone for $54 now and it comes with a 5MP camera with flash and MicroSD support up to 32Gb. They also have an Android with JB and 5MP with flash for $58 and I seriously doubt they are losing money on each sale so I really don't see the big whoop.
If it works as well as my BLU $100 Studio Mini they are sweet phones as mine has been rock solid stable, takes great pics, gets good battery life, easy to root (took 3 minutes using SuperRoot), just really nice phones.
That is because Gore and pals are set to become carbon billionaires by selling indulgences, which of course means that things that might actually make a difference, like recycling tech, building a "people's car/truck" that gets 50 MPG+ for under $20K and then using a "cash for clunkers" style program to get all the poor folks out of older gas guzzlers? Well that is off the table because Gore and his friends at Goldman Sachs couldn't print money at the barrel of a gun while giving their rich pals free passes....err..."carbon offsets" and we can't have THAT now, can we?
What I can't believe is how many on the left is willing to buy his bullshit, can you name ONE THING, just one, that he is proposing that he hasn't already set himself up to become insanely rich if it comes to pass, just one? Well if everybody in the west gives me just 1 dollar a year why I'll cure climate change within a century using my magical AGW wands! Of course it won't work, but neither will Gore's plans but it'll make me rich and that IS the real goal of this, to make a few a lot richer with a reverse robin hood...right?
If you guys want to listen to somebody about AGW? Ed Begley Jr, and wadda ya know, nearly all his ideas are sensible. But then again he drives an electric car, lives in a modest home and takes coach instead of a personal fleet of SUVs to a personal Lear Jet to his McMansion with an indoor basketball court that uses more AC in a month than a half a dozen families of five do in a year like Gore...but its all good, right? After all Gore pays himself carbon indulgences from his own shell corp thus getting credit for moving money from his left to right pocket...that saves the world too,right?
And the difference between this and the MS Java case is...what exactly? Because the only difference I can see is Google pulled a name out of their ass, which means all MSFT had to do was call it "MS Coffee" and it would have all been golden.
And what if somebody was to do this to Linux? After all they have access to the code, should be easy enough to just rip it off and take it proprietary by following the Google model, what would the difference be? None at all.
You can solve the "gotta wait for loads" problem by getting a cheap SSD and slapping the games on there, if you are on Windows look up "Steam Mover" which will let you just move the games you are currently playing over to the SSD. I've moved my War thunder onto my SSD and it fricking flies, whereas before it would take a good 30-50 seconds just for the levels to load at the start of the match now myself and the other SSD users are already under way by the time the first HDD users are spawning. Oh and the minimum frame issue will be fixed by DX12, just wait for the pirate version which strips out all the spying
As for the tablets? The majority don't have rooted Android tablets so the adblock is moot as rooting is beyond the skillset of the majority, they will just consider the device "broken" and move on. I talked to the Gonzalez brothers (the Mexican bros that run the phone shop down the street, nice guys) and they said they haven't run into anything rooted that came into their shop and since they handle more phones and tablets in a day than I've handled in a year? I think their experience is a good sampling of how much rooting goes on in the wild. Glad that you were able to root yours but if even 5% of the tablets out there are rooted I'd be amazed.
And the people DO care when it comes to the programs because I HAVE been dealing with those "transformer style" hybrids, they have those for $150-$200 at the local Walmart and so are quite popular, #1 complaint? ":I can't get this to do (X)" where X is some feature the PC program has the Android version doesn't. Users simply do not understand that just because it LOOKS like a laptop does not mean it will ACT like a laptop and they get quite pissed when they find out they simply will never be able to do what they want it to. I have had quite a few go take theirs back and spend the money to get the Windows 8.1 version and promptly bring it back so I can "Make it work" and behave like their home system does. A little ClassicStart, a little loading their programs and voila! They are happy.
To think a user that is happy with X/Y/Z will be happy with just X is the classic Linux advocate mistake, the "as long as you have a browser its enough" but people today are VERY picky and they like what they like, especially when it comes to their programs. If the mobile version doesn't do 100% of what they are used to getting on the desktop? Then its shit as far as they are concerned. And last I checked the asus transformer? yeah that's a $300+ device, that AIN'T what the majority are buying, they are buying those "Walmart specials" and those keyboards simply aren't as good as a first gen chiclet on a netbook, they really suck. To say "tablets have great keyboards" and bring up the Transformer is like saying "ChromeOS is the best laptop" and bringing up the Pixel as the example, when in both cases they aren't the majority, hell they aren't even the minority when it comes to sales, probably more in the 3%-4% range. If you have a local Walmart Supercenter? Go in and try their sub $200 convertibles as THAT is what folks are getting. They are limited to just 1Gb of RAM (and all the OEM crap you can't uninstall is sucking a good half of that) with 8Gb of storage which for some damned reason the OEMs partition REALLY badly and by default the larger of the two can't have apps installed to it, and the keyboards? Fucking terrible. Remember it wasn't the IDEA of a netbook that killed the netbook, it was rising prices with lousy build quality that killed the things. When I could get the AMD E350s for $300, the C50/C60s for $240 and the Intel Atom for $200? I couldn't keep enough of the things, folks gobbled 'em up like candy, it was when the OEMs added a good $100-$120 to the price so that a more powerful laptop was cheaper that everybody bailed.
Do I think tablets are gonna die? Of course not, I can still buy new netbooks, I have no doub
"But by the same token, what does Joe or Jane average do on a PC that a quad-core tablet with 2GB RAM can't do?"
Uhhh...block ads, run full programs instead of a stripped down app version, have multiple programs running without felling like you are on a P2 running Win98, have a decent battery life (my 2011 netbook with the original battery gets better battery life than most brand new tablets), be able to type quickly (I have yet to see a tablet keyboard that didn't feel worse than a first gen chiclet netbook or didn't make the unit more unwieldy than a netbook) I could go on but I think you get the point.
I think tablets with the exception of a few specialist jobs (warehouse inventory for example or healthcare) will end up "a device you use on the couch when you watch TV and want to do a quick check of your FB".
As for your AMD chip? Congrats, it just blows through tasks don't it? As far as the GPU goes, I tend to stay one or two gen behind, best bang for the buck IMHO. If you want a great card for cheap money? Look at the R9 280, if you keep an eye on the sales you can get one for about $120 and the thing just makes games look incredible, smooth as butter in 1080P and with 3GB of GDDR 5? I've played games in War Thunder with 120mm shells blowing dirt into the sky and 30mm AAA rounds flying over a mile across the map and even with all that going on? I'm still getting above 30 FPS with all the pretty except grass running. Oh I COULD get the same with grass but it tends to block your vision and since everybody else runs without it, in the interest of fairness (and getting double digits in my T34-42 and P-IV F2) I run with it off ;-)
Actually talking to folks at the shop tablets are either sitting in a sock drawer or given to the kids to watch vids and play Angry Birds, the adults found them far too limiting compared to their laptops.
And the reason why the PC numbers are the way they are is even more simple, its the fact that hardware has been so overpowered for so many years that users just don't feel the need to upgrade, that is all. What does Joe and Jane Average do on a PC that a C2D laptop or C2Q desktop can't do? Nothing, just as most gamers are quite happy with their Phenom IIs and first gen i5s because even games simply have not kept up with speed of the hardware.
So at the end of the day I believe that tablets will be like netbooks, which are still being sold but aren't the "hip thing" and are just another niche, and until they fix the battery life I figure most of those smart watches? Gonna end up in a drawer somewhere. Of course the reason they are selling now is because there are many that will buy anything Apple as a status thing, just like the girls that go out of their way to show everybody they are using the latest iStuff. Once they come out with a new iToy? They will go into a dumpster and they will start the cycle anew.
This is pure unadulterated TRUTH! When many of us got online in the late 80s/early 90s nobody was bothered by ads...why? Because they were a simple hyperlink or at most a tiny .jpg or .gif showing a product for sale...so what. in fact i bet many of us even bought products from those ads because they were 1.- Almost all first party and thus relevant to the site you were viewing and 2.- The one who wrote the site would often have a nice polite "Here is the stuff I like, they have good deals on it, if you like the site maybe you could have a look?" and many of us did that.
Then here came the third party ad companies to take a big fat Cleveland Steamer on everything! First came the obnoxious pop ups, I bet many here first started hating ads in the mid 90s when that shit started really blowing up. First came pop up, then pop under, then pop all over the fucking screen. Then came the Java ads, followed by flash. Remember when Java was the hot thing, they were even showing desktops running entirely in java and it was Java this and Java that? I personally believe all the fucking Java ads slamming the hell out of those P3s is what turned the masses off of Java...but then came Flash, and boy was that name ever apropos when it comes to ads as the first ones were an epileptic nightmare as they flashed images worse than a Japanese cartoon trying to get your attention. Was that enough for the ad corp assholes? Nope because "hey we can blow their ears off and make 'em listen to our pitches, brilliant!" until it got to the point you couldn't have speakers in an office PC because you never knew when it would blow your ears out!
But of course the rotting elephant in the room is none of these ad corps or websites take responsibility for the malware they spread thus driving the final nail in the ad driven web coffin, because now its a severe security risk to allow ads to be loaded. I can tell everybody that once I switched all my users to browsers running ABP in low rights mode? Malware just dried up, in fact I can't remember the last nasty I saw on a PC that was running adblocking. And all those that scream about ABP and "acceptable ads" really need to look at the policy to become an acceptable ad, its the best practices I've been pushing for years, NO flash or java, NO sound, NO pop up/under/over, NO hidden redirects or misleading images like faking a security dialog box, in other words it is the kind of ads we used to not have to worry about, simple hyperlinks or non moving images.
So I'm sorry websites but you brought it upon yourselves, you had a good thing going and in the name of greed you shat all over it and made ads the plague blankets of the net. Switch to the ABP acceptable ad model and most of us will happily let your ads run, but of course that means not letting third parties throw any shit on your page they want and risking your viewers PCs but instead they will just whine and moan. I'm proud to say I got banned from The Escapist for calling them out on their BS, they had Jim Sterling whine about how evil ABP was and I posted a link showing how many times The Escapist had shown malware infected ads and simply asked "So are you gonna take responsibility and pay for the damages to those you infect with your ads?". Wow you should have seen how quickly they started burying the thread and throwing the banhammer, didn't work as the whole narrative got switched to ads and malware. So if any claim its about "saving websites" simply ask that little question, are they gonna take responsibility and pay for the damages if they infect their viewers? If not they can fuck right off!
The whole point is they can just say "we got a tip" and sidestep the whole issue. They even have a legal term for this, its called Parallel construction which shows that the rule of law is completely worthless in the case of warrants as multiple agents admitted doing this yet they received no jail time, hell I doubt the ones they used it on even got a new trial!
So we have to use encryption to protect us from a government that has repeatedly shown it doesn't respect its own laws. You cannot count on them to follow the rules so your only choice is to protect yourself with tools like encryption, it really is that simple.
Well if you can find us a link please share with the class, because using Google and Bing all I ran into other than Men's Health was a shitload of paywalls. Its fucking insane how basic medical info is now locked behind nothing but paywalls, you get the PR spin or ya pay up is the gist of my searching.
Then YOU find one that isn't behind a fucking paywall, because every medical article on the subject I found had a lovely "Pay X for access to this article" so unless you want to cough up for the class? Its the best I can do.
It was Scorpions "Virgin Killer" IIRC.
You didn't hear this from me, mmkay? Get a copy of "Windows 7 Tiny" off of TPB or the P2P of your choice. Frankly Win 7 vanilla would run fine on what you got but Win 7 Tiny? Will run like a scalded dog! We're talking just 145Mb on the desktop and around 2.6Gb installed, and since i doubt you have a DVD burner you'll be happy to note it comes on a single CD.
The problem you are gonna have with Linux is....its shit. I'm sorry but it is, my hairyfeet challenge has stood for 8 years despite the test only consisting of a single task, "update yourself without falling apart" yet not a single consumer Linux distro can accomplish a feat MSFT was able to pull off with Windows 2K 15 fricking years ago! The simple fact is as long as Linus Torvalds has a pulse its NEVER gonna get any better, because the driver model has remained unchanged since he came up with his Minix clone in 1993! You remember what a PITA and how fragile Windows was with its .INI files and .VXD drivers back in the early days? Well that is Linux in 2015 with config files standing in for .INI and a driver model no more stable or robust than the VXDs were back in the day.
So if you want to keep that old hardware being able to run modern browser and software? Windows 7, either vanilla or tiny, but if you try running one of these "consumer friendly" Linux distros you better have near infinite patience (and a spare box, because things will often break that will require you to have a second WORKING box, probably running Windows, to fix the first broken one..) then you are gonna be filled with frustration and anger. if you can use XP? You can use Win 7, its really not much different at all GUI wise.
Nope, its actually worse than that which is why Coke is trying to get ahead of the media by funding these "studies" that I put about as much faith in as RJ Reynolds studies of ecigs.
You see the diet colas kill the good bacteria while helping bad bacteria to flourish in your gut which means that if you put two otherwise healthy people side by side, have one only drink regular and the other diet? Then the one drinking diet will gain more weight and be more unhealthy overall. So you can understand why they want to get ahead of the media, I've seen more and more stories trickling out about this and I'm sure their PR dept has been keeping an eye on it and seeing its starting to catch the public eye.
So in this case the company really has no more cards to play, regular cokes are empty calories and diet cokes make you fatter, so what else can they do but spin like a top? After all the flavored water biz is already saturated and they will never make a tenth what they have selling cokes, and now that its coming out that diet is even worse? if I worked for their PR I'd do the same move, they really don't have any other moves to play.
Sigh...you don't REALLY believe the shit you are shoveling, yes? Because if you were to stop 10 random Windows users on the street none of them have ever seen regedit much less know what that even is! hell for over a year at the shop I kept coming across HP PCs that didn't even HAVE a "run" command, somebody at HP must have flipped the wrong switch on their image and it didn't have it by default in the start menu...know how many users I had ask me to stick it back? NONE, not a single one even knew it was gone!
While Win 10 may be nothing but spyware in OS clothing even the worst Windows can be run 100% with nothing but the GUI, and as I've pointed out a million times you can't even start Linux without the shell as like Win98 with DOS Linux simply cannot function without it. I can remove all access to CMD, completely disable it, windows runs just fine and the users never will notice...can you use chmod to disable the shell and even get Linux to boot? No? I rest my case.
Windows 10 had more users as a fricking BETA than Linux has had in 22 years so...yeah I'd say the users have decided long ago that Linux is a "do not want". Remember that for most of its life Linux has been $0 while its cheapest competition was $100 a pop and you couldn't give it away so what does that say about YOU, when you can't even get anybody to take your product for free?
While I think Windows 10 is the equivalent of the spyware that comes with a "free"program on Sourceforge the simple fact of the matter is Linux is broken. its been broken for the past 22 years, it'll probably be broken 22 years from now. this is why the hairyfeet challenge, which asks Linux to do such "hard" tasks as "update yourself without dying", has lasted for 8 years without a single consumer distro passing, its because Linux is broken and its driver model is frankly worse than Windows 98s VXD driver model.
Does Linux look nice OOTB? Sure it does, but once the user finds that none of their programs run and the OS breaks on update what you see is people return it in droves because if an OS can't run the programs you want, or requires you to learn pages of CLI (on another PC, you DO have a spare, right?) just to deal with the broken WiFi and shitted on GPU drivers when you update it? Then it might as well be a paperweight.
Stick with Win 7 until the pirate version comes out. Its the same thing we saw with games overflowing with DRM, the pirates end up releasing a better version with all that shit stripped out.
Just as we had "WinXP Micro" and "Win 7 Tiny" there will be a "Gamer Edition" or "Tiny edition" released by the hackers that will have all that shit ripped out so its just an OS that can play games. You of course won't be able to use the updates because they require all that phone home bullshit, but a good AV and a sandboxed browser fixes that problem pretty well.
But the only way we can get rid of Win 10 is if we all shit all over it just as we did with windows 8 and 8.1. If all the regular users hear is how much of a POS it is? They will stay away. If we tell them they are broadcasting their porn habits to a company that is gonna share it with anybody that offers them a buck? they will treat the "free" upgrade like plague blankets. We already have a HUGE head start as all I've been hearing is how "slow and jerky" Windows 10 is thanks to MSFT's bineheaded P2Ping Windows Updates, so if we all spread the word, get the bloggers writing about it (which we are seeing already) that Windows 10 is no different than the spyware that comes with some "free" program? Then we CAN change the narrative.
But until we get Win 10 thrown in the same shit bucket as 8 and 8.1 just avoid it and wait for a pirate version if there is some DX12 game you want to play.
Sorry mods but this is NOT insightful as the poster does not understand how the Koran works.
The Koran is NOT the bible, it does not have any conflicting passages, why? Because Muhammad had the benefit of seeing how the other religions worked and came up with a frankly brilliant little fix for all the conflicts. Its really very simple...if a rule comes later that conflicts with a rule that comes earlier then the latter one supersedes the earlier one which takes care of conflicting passages.
Of course this also blows the whole "religion of peace" BS as the Hadiths that have come for the last 200 years have been "jihad jihad jihad" and since they came later they supersede the earlier peaceful passages and since Muslims are allowed to lie to unbelievers to help spread the reach of Sharia this works to their advantage, simply quote the old passages and never mention they were replaced centuries ago by the jihad Hadiths.
Have you not wondered why these Islam apology groups can say they "condemn terrorism " or a specific terrorist but never come out and say this terrorism has broken the laws of Islam and should treat those that commit terrorism as not a follower of Islam? Its simple, its because they can lie to unbelievers but NOT about fellow Muslims and since they know the little rule about latter superseding they would be bearing false witness against groups that was in reality doing exactly what the faith tells them to, waging jihad.
I would urge everybody who has any doubts read up a little on Wahhabism, a good place to start would be this this frontline article and then read up about the Sunni and Shia, they all do the same thing and all follow the supersedes rule which means you can really only look at the last 200 years worth of hadiths as everything else is treated as history, and what are all the new hadiths? Jihad jihad jihad.
So that is just a hair below double the price...your arguments? Half of $309 is $154, the FX8350 is a grand $14 more than that on Amazon. And for the record I tell folks to get the FX8320 as there really is no point in the FX8350, you can get the same speed in less than 2 minutes with the 8320 (they ARE the same chip after all, just binned differently) and that $30 can go on your GPU or SSD. I personally took the FX8320E as I can also hit nearly the same as the FX8350 but I can drop lower when I don't need the extra power, thus saving me a few bucks on AC bills.
So its being a "fanboy" to not support corruption? Because the links I gave show beyond a shadow of a doubt, even Intel admitted it when they agreed to give every P4 owner $15 for rigging benches. Hell look up "Intel investigated" and see how many places are investigating them for their corrupt shit, or read for yourself what the CEOs of companies like Dell and Toshiba said during the deposition for the Intel VS AMD suit (which the DoJ allowed Intel to pay less than 6 months revenue at the time to buy their way out of 10+ years worth of dirty dealing. Wish I could get a deal like that) or again look at the results of benches compiled with ICC versus GCC, ICC does NOT speed up in any way, shape, or form Intel CPUs, its only result is to cripple any non Intel CPUs.
So if you wanna support corruption? That is your choice, I will not.
LOL you didn't say a God damned thing that did not in some way contain free or open. Which part of DO NOT GIVE A SHIT is so damned hard for you to understand?
Your competition is iOS, Android, and WinPhone...Name ONE feature, just one, that does not involve the words free or open in which your chosen OS is better. And don't waste our time with html v5 bullshit, because guess what? they COULD run HTML V5 bullshit apps but they DON'T, because native runs better, surprise surprise..
So you have had multiple posters tell ya put up or shut up, what are you waiting for? is it because you can't? Your posts didn't say a fucking thing other than "blah blah devs (nobody cares, not a developer), blah blah blah HTML V5 (shown to be a bloated pig, nobody cares) blah blah free and open (nobody cares about your politics)" so lets hear it, name a single feature that FXOS beats the competition, if you can't? Thanks yet again for proving my point.