You should come on over and have another look.

Kazehakase is always an option :P

From your own link, dipshit: "The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization"

Ah, the mantra of the U.S. Border Patrol!

I wasn't aware that this particular USA agency had any jurisdiction in Canada.

My sister an administrator, herself. I'd hardly say performing a job function that actually matters while taking home over $50,000/y qualifies as "failing in life."

Why should Google be doing RDNS queries on every request?

Those are primitive HUD optics, and have nothing to do with armor or birdstrikes.

h.264 1080p with a quality factor of 20 or 18? I'd be quite impressed if that were true.

Perhaps at a lower framerate, but I don't know if the encoder needs a certain amount of video to process (eg it may need a few frames ahead)

If you're careful you can open the unit to replace the battery, they have a connector on them. You have to get your hands on a replacement, though - it's not exactly a AAA battery. When my first (I'm still on the second) kindle "died" (i had an oopsie) I salvaged to 4-way stick switch, battery, and SIM - each easily replaceable if you have the part handy.

Because it took 2 hours to encode that 1080p video, and that's an awful lot of latency.

How is that the answer?

Which planes might those be?

There's a big difference: Microsoft provides what Windows 8(.1) comes with and that only - any and all of the linux distributions I often work with supply Gnome, KDE, and more - they are not third-party interface overhauls you run off and download but tested components of a distribution.

The end result is good (you ditching Windows) but this is incorrect. Safe mode, delete the profile directory in C:\Users, then reboot and log in. The user profile will rebuild. Of course, all your shit is gone unless you backed it up first, but even then you still have to put things back and fix your settings again.