I challenge anyone to listen to the first three Maiden albums, then to Somewhere in Time, then to Brave New World, then to Final Frontier and come back with a straight face telling that it's the same. Maiden had always followed a slow but changing path. Ditching the punkish sounds in NOTB to introducing synths in SIT and SSOASS to more orchestration in BNW to a more prog approach in AMOLAD and FF.

I know it's anecdotal evidence, having seen Iron Maiden at least 15+ times live since the late 80s, one thing you notice today that on their live shows there are a huge number of young teenagers. Their shows are not filled with old fans like myself. So there is this new wave of Maiden fans that probably don't even know what it is like to buy a CD. They did establish a strong reputation, sure, but their fans are not only the old ones form the 80s.

Also, unlike other big 80s bands, they don't sue their fans for downloading. They also didn't hop on every possible trend in music, they kept true to their origins. They also didn't became born again christians who refuse to play at festivals because some 'satanic' band plays. They also didn't create drama. When members left or where fired, it wasn't publicized and criticized by other members.

Despite making some of the most memorable heavy metal music, Iron Maiden was always ran as a business, since their early days. And this focus allowed them to go through the download era without issues. They never had major video exposure on MTV (yes, back when there was music on that channel) so music downloading didn't really impact them.

Up the Irons!

If you want to gain traction, 'distribute in other ways' won't fly because it's far simpler to install an app from Google Play than to download from a site into sd card, tick a box in some settings, get a file manager to navigate to app and tap click to install it.

Not the Xbox One, it will render 720p and 900p and upscale it to 1080p. PS4 can render 1080p without upscaling.

Technically it's not zero day because they collaborate with NSA and give them the exploit before they warn the public.

They also replaced the 34nm Vertex 2 drives with 25nm drives, lowering speed and space without changing the model number. They are scum.

And spying on Brazilian companies in the name of fighting terrorism is all good?

Doesn't 'Lumia' means prostitute in spanish slang? In that case, Sirius is light years ahead of Lumia as product name!

Maybe it's a way for Google not to compete with their partners, especially Samsung.

My SGH-T999 works great on CM 10.2 nightlies, before I was on 10.1.2+ nightlies, never had any issue with BT, WiFi nor camera.

They are also one of the hacker friendliest devices with most having unlocked bootloaders and they publish kernel sources. Oh and SD card slot ... and removable battery.

I don't care if I don't root my phone until I can write to the hosts file.

Vastly superior? If by that you mean pixelated screen and lower battery life then yes, you are right. Try reading books on Galaxy Tab vs iPad and tell us with a straight face that there is no difference or that the Galaxy Tab is superior.

Custom ROM users on Android no longer have those issues. They can pry CM 10.1 and Privacy Guard out of my cold dead hands.

If you got a solid non Windows firewall AND user common sense (don't open anything you get in emails) AND encrypt your stuff, you should be safe.