"We get it, you're an idiot stuck in the past"

I get it, you're an idiot that can't be bothered to think critically, let alone even try refuting my points (all of which I can record video evidence of and shove right in your ignorant face) so all you can do is try to insult.

Well, while you think I'm stuck in the past - I own four of these.

I know what technology is worth purchasing and using. Smartphones are not one of those technologies. They've been nothing much more than a marketing gimmick, a dangerous distraction for those on the road, and a means for ever-increasing privacy invasion. Base fucking line price for a phone now days without contract runs you almost $500. I can get portable computer hardware ten times as powerful for the same price that actually performs multitasking.

Let's put down an example, starting with iOs. I used to do some side courier stuff for a university. I log into a webpage on an iPhone, find my order, load it up, then I tell Apple Maps to direct me to the address. Okay, now that I'm there, I go back to the webpage, only to find out that fucking Safari INSISTS on reloading the page. Except now I'm in an area where there's NO CELLULAR SIGNAL and thus I obviously can't refresh the page, which has gone blank because Apple is too fucking stupid to have any sort of intelligent swapfile. Now I can't get my order back up on the fucking screen and I have to step outside to get a signal and bring the order page back up.

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING USELESS. Meanwhile, I can do the same thing with a laptop, and I NEVER have to worry about losing the webpage when I go look at another program. And I haven't SINCE THE DAYS OF THE PENTIUM 2.

Smartphones are poorly-designed, loaded with gimmicks, and for the price you pay, you get absolutely shit performance and usability in comparison to any other piece of real computer hardware near the same price.

The batteries themselves are DC. You could drop an entire array in a pool full of people and you wouldn't do much damage as they'd all discharge at their individual cell voltage levels as they short. It's not that dangerous unless the individual cells are going past 24VDC in that particular type of environment and someone's within a couple of feet of that pack and acting as a ground path to somewhere else. The inverter equipment hooked up to the batteries, on the other hand, and the charging equipment, should be kept well off the floor. AC-charged water is much more dangerous.

Charging batteries generate hydrogen and oxygen, Hydrogen rises to the top, Oxygen can mix pretty well with a primarily-nitrogen atmosphere. Not a problem for a battery bank, single-level, on the floor. Cooling is about as simple as a large fan blowing across the array/pack, as that's where a majority of the cooling-capable metal (terminals) is located, anyways.

Almost every Win Mobile phone refuses to work with my WiFi point (thought it sees it.)

Droid phones aren't fully featured. They're feature-creep.

iOs is so much more of a horrible piece of crap now than it was before. It has drastically dropped the performance of my fiance's 4S with the latest revision.

My old Nokia does everything I need. Still works. I can turn on and dial 911 faster than you can get past your splash screen.

I guess you didn't bother looking at the system I built.

But okay, you go ahead and laugh. You come tell me when you ability to slam 12 PCI-E x16 GPUs into one system.

I know how this works a LOT better than you. I do this globally for a living.

Yes. They play fine for me with both Gabest's MP4 Splitter and ffdshow installed.

"need to be installed at least a foot and a half off the ground"

For what purpose? That old wives' tale of putting a battery on the ground causing it to discharge or drain is absolute bullshit.

"Which means no software will be capable of ripping it from screen like you can do it now. Because none of decoding takes place in software, which means you do not have access to decoded stream in OS."

Framebuffer rippers are absolutely nothing new and are software implemented. It's like the most trivial way to capture exactly what is being displayed on your screen. Cuz guess what? It' Microsoft - it's going to pass through DirectX FIRST. BAM the 'weak point' that most any game streaming service uses.

Can't wait for the vulnerabilities I found and gave to some nice hacker friends to hit systemd right as it's hitting 'prime time' and beats it back into obscurity.

I do have a battery in that box. 8,000kWh, and that's AFTER redundant PSU installation.

Maybe if you added a third w to the URL and actually CALLED THEIR SALES PEOPLE instead of waiting for outdated website info, you'd have half a fucking clue, now wouldn't you?

If you're too technically inept to build a system that can do it all including acting as a managed switch and firewall, you probably should drop out because you've been left behind.

" typically the database doesn't run on the same system as the web server."

Maybe if you use shit hardware, yes you'd keep them on separate systems.

Or you can catch up with reality and realize that now days, I could do the entirety of DICE Holding's website portfolio with THAT ONE MACHINE, INCLUDING DATABASES AND WEBSERVERS, oh and for fun one of those nodes could go to just acting as a hardware firewall and router/switch.

Sager, OH AND YOU CAN GET SLI GPUS TOO. Oh, and since Samsung just announced 5.5" 4K, Hey! Sager's going to be able to offer 8k in very short fucking order.

"I write this on a gorgeous Dell Precision M3800 that has it all: powerful i7 processor, space for lots of RAM (16 GB), dual SSD bays"

Yea. No. That's not having it all.

http://i.imgur.com/uJ8GOrm.png

Come back when you've got 8 Xeons, 1TB ECC DDR3, 24 SSDs, and 12 GPUs in one box. Then you can say you've got it all.

Because apple fan-mods are out in force with points.