By choosing an extreme counterexample, you made sure that no one gave a flip about your response.

My point was that bashing it on Slashdot and ignoring the law does not help a damn thing.

Wow, that's a perfect example, too, equating a crappy copyright law with massacre, bloodshed, and war. Excellent work, I'm glad you're modded insightful.

Is it on the books? Legitimate.
Has it won court cases? Legitimate.

If you don't agree with a law, it doesn't make it not legitimate. Have you fought it personally yet, beyond making grandiose posts and starting web petitions?

Actual Translation: F you, we don't need proprietary drivers. We're totally okay with being a niche player forever.

That's a Galaxy S2. I'm talking about the older HTC model with the flip out keyboard. I sold off my hacked Galaxy Note and am back on that device until I find something worth upgrading to.

And, yeah, preaching to the choir. I was a N900 owner, and looked forward to a MeeGo world.

G2 does not have official ICS. Updates stopped at 2.3.6. Current iteration of ICS for G2 is limited to the 2.6.x Linux kernel, which leads to other issues. JB lacks a camera and a reasonable experience on the G2, but those will sort themselves out.

EDGE is a poor experience. :)

I understand the points you're trying to make, and I'm merely checking out the competition. It's nice to see WP8 become a player, because it just means the other OS options will continue getting better.

International version won't get LTE on AT&T, won't get T-Mobile US at all.

My G2 is running ICS as well, but as I said, hack after hack. It sucks that no W7 devices will get W8, but they're offering some level of compatibility, and the first devices made it through 3-4 versions before going away. Even the Nexus One didn't achieve that.

Note, I'm in the US, so the S3 and One X are both crippled here, so by comparison, the Lumia looks great. I'm not seeing that the Lumia 920 has AMOLED -- it has the "PureMotion HD+" IPS display. The 820 stays with the AMOLED display, which is notably darker and grainier than the 920's display.

I'm completely uninterested in an iOS device, but this new Lumia 920 is pretty impressive, hardware-wise. The Galaxy Nexus isn't bad, but not necessarily what I want to pick up now to last a year or two. I'm also not a huge fan of Super AMOLED.

Yes, but only the Nexus devices get reasonable update cadence, so much like the iPhone, if you don't like that one form factor, you're boned. I admit that some of my frustration is based on the fact that HTC and Samsung currently have devices with much better specs than the current top of the line Nexus device, and lips have been sealed on what's next from the Nexus line. I'm hoping these announcements make something appear, and hopefully, they aren't like the middling device that's been rumored as the upcoming refresh of the Galaxy Nexus.

Actually, as an Android power user who was completely uninterested in WP7, this phone and the OS actually have me itching to try it out and see if it's worth it. I've become bored and annoyed with an ecosystem that relies on hack upon hack just to keep your phone useful after a year. I love that part of it, but it'd sure be an interesting trick to start seeing reasonable OS updates.

So an article lacking knowledge of the technologies, any sort of testing, anything beyond "make install" or "apt-get install", will make it to the Slashdot homepage? This person openly admits that they didn't test ZFS beyond creating a zpool, and they don't know enough about DTrace to try... anything.

As an aside, why was Linux capitalized, but Solaris was not?

Except for the fact that USB displays suck for speed, drivers, and usability across platforms, while Thunderbolt can go right to HDMI without issue?

I agree, it'll be hard to pry the CLI from my cold, dead fingers.

But I'm always game to try out something that rethinks what I'm doing. Gnome 3 became a permanent fixture that way.. :)

I think it's neat, and I don't own any Apple machines anymore. It's a neat perspective, and something I'd like to try out, though I wouldn't necessarily see it usable for day to day activities.

Then again, trollin' is fun, I suppose.