I suppose I could be wrong but from what I've seen around me I'm not. Most people, including myself, do not fire up our android tablets to do "real work." We tend to use the best tool for the job. When I'm in a meeting taking notes, reading emails, and doing power point presentations, I tend to use my surface pro or my dell laptop. I suppose I could do it on the android if I had too, but it would be painful to carry out.

My nexis 7 has a 1.5 ghz quad core, a 1920x1200 screen, and a rather impressive gpu for what it does. I've ran asphalt 7 on it and was pleased by it. I don't know how powerful the gpu is in it but I'm not for a moment going to believe its more powerful than my playstation 3, 4, or the nvidia 770 that I have in my main desktop. When I want to game I land in front of one of those.

With that being said I still tend to use my android tablet more than those other devices. I use it what is best for, a display device for news, websites, and looking up cheats on grand theft auto.

You deserve to be modded up just for that obscure '70 reference. I deserve to be modded up because I recognized it.

Hey, everyone has to get their kicks some how, even if its with virtual farm animals.

Baaaa, means noooo!

Because all sites should be secure. All the way from your bank to that page you tossed up on some old slackware box where to post pictures of your dog. Just as all email should be sent private key/public key now.

Think of it like this. If only the important shit is encrypted then that data steam stands out as important on the internet. If all the shit is encrypted then nothing stands out as "decrypt me, I'm important." Its the herd principal.

I would imagine that you are correct. While they are technically computers I classify tablets as data display devices. You use them to display web pages, read ebooks, and pay bills with online banking. You really don't use them for general purpose computers.

While they have different processor speeds, screen sizes and run different OS, basically they all do the same thing. And its hard to improve on what they do. Once you find one that you are happy with, it should serve for years doing its job.

Well, you know Sony. Shit in one hand and wish in the other and see what fills up first. The press will crawl through these documents looking for juicy tidbits are in there. Now that you have issued demands like this, they will crawl through with even more zest. It makes you look like you have something to hide.

Does that explain why when I go to yahoo the home page is full of horse shit like flying saucers, sightings of bigfoot on mars, and other nonsense from the examiner?

I'm not up to date on which religion has actually killed more people. Christianity ran up a pretty impressive body count during the middle ages. Then there was the witch burnings and inquisitions, as well as was happened in the new world with the church there.

Muslims seem to have a more blood thirsty run lately though.

One would think that by the 21 century we would have at least stopped killing each other because we all don't want to believe in the same fairy tales.

The RAID-5 is not set in stone. RAID-6 is an option that has not been ruled out, odds are I will go that route.

I know about the drive failures in batchs like that. I've been bitten by it before. I usually buy drives from different sources weeks apart. That increases the odds that the drives will come from different batchs. I don't if that affects the reliability of the drives themselves but makes me feel better.

I completely agree. I'm about to retire a rack of 1 TB drives in my NAS and replace them with three 4TB drives in a raid 5 array. The 4TB drives will had to be out a year before I started to trust them.

Live on the bleeding edge with shit your not afraid to lose. Trust your important shit with well tested 2nd or 3rd generation technology.

Agreed. Pretty much the only thing steam on linux is good for is to browse the games you could be playing if you had steam on windows.

That was close to what I was going to suggest. Go into business for yourself. Start your own company. There are plenty of options out there if your just clever enough to figure them out.

Sometimes your greatest accomplishment in life is to inspire others to greatness. Watson seems to have other talents but inspiring others to not be like him seems to be his greatest.

I don't use it, and I don't recommend anyone else using it ether. Linux has lost its way, and I'm not the only one that thinks that. Corporations have gotten way to much say so in what happens in Linux now that the Open Source community do. Systemd is just one of those things. Being anti-corporation is one of the things that linux was founded on. But now its not really much better than microsoft or apple.

You berate me for wanting to ram my option down your throat but you let corporations like Redhat do the same thing? At least when I'm ramming my option down your throat I'll stop and listen to you scream about it. So far Redhat and the other corporation distros have ignored the community.