Oh you're right :) I was thinking it was something along the lines of "Battleship". For some reason I never got around to playing the reboot to the end, started it a few times already. Perhaps it's time I take it all the way.

From Clarke, but that was quoted at the beginning of some really brain-cancer-inducing movie somewhat recently. Perhaps this is why I cannot recall which movie.

...or maybe, just maybe, I have better things to do than argue with schizophrenic ACs?

Even if I were to run Windows, which I don't, and would be inclined to run random programs from the net with admin privileges, which I certainly am not, and even if admittedly there are some situations where modifying the... file that shall not be named is beneficial, you have to admit the guy is desperately in need of medication. And many of those points are redundant.

I have to agree. I mean, seriously, abortion? Mostly a non-issue in Europe. Yes, there is Ireland and Spain, but even there one can't say the majority oppose abortion. As for the minority in those countries, fuck 'em (them being Catholic, chances are somebody already is).

Shhhh, quiet, you'll summon APK. I've heard if you say "HOSTS file" in front of a mirror three times he'll appear in person.

I really have no experience with ChromeOS, but I'm guessing you can't (isn't that HTML5 only as well?). I suppose you could replace the webkit/blink libraries in Android with something else, with the risk of breaking some applications; the point was that your application can use another rendering engine in the first place. As for your last question, absolutely yes. My S3 came with the usual assortment of Google apps and Play Store, but sans Chrome.

From my very cursory understanding of Firefox OS I'm guessing that's a no - there are no native apps at all. But my point was, you can run Gecko on Android. You can't on iOS. Chrome on iOS is really just a wrapper around UIWebView, you don't get to use the V8 Javascript engine. Whether this is reasonable due to security issues or just plain anticompetitive is debatable.

This point I've never quite fully understood - people keep complaining about how insecure Android is (which is a debate for another thread). Yet when discussing shortcomings of iOS, the answer is always "jailbreak" (which might or might not be available, tethered or perhaps not). As it is, at work I've been developing an app for iPad that is HTML5-based. And the performance is worse than what Mobile Safari would offer. If you want your HTML5 app available on the App store, this is a fact you'll just have to accept. This is also the reason you shouldn't expect Firefox on iOS anytime soon.

Meant to type FTW. Oh well, the point stands.

Reading comprehension WTF - he was talking about Mobile Safari/iOS. While it is true that you can have alternativish-browsers on iOS, they must use the underlying Webkit component and a markedly inferior JS engine. So there's an element of truth in the statement.

If we're talking about more interactive fiction indie titles like Gone Home (don't get me wrong, I really liked it), I'd like to add To the Moon. Brilliant writing and soundtrack, if you don't mind the classic JRPG look.

Oh yes, looking at the rain outside here in Finland, where it actually has warmer than in Florida last month, I couldn't help but to think how exceptionally cold winter we're having.

Or you're a Finn. We don't have separate words for "he" or "she", there's only "hän". But in spoken Finnish it is always "se" ("it"), and there's nothing offensive about it. "Hän" would be overly formal.

If you're referring to asm.js, shouldn't that be static-ish typing? ;) (see "intish" and "doublish")