[Thunderbolt General] loonatik78:
To you and the previous poster:

You're idiots.

Nobody is controlling the flow of wisdom or information around here. I started a thread that's now including 12 major sections that clearly lays out a variety of basics to get your average noob up to speed and provides a number of useful resources that explain a LOT of things. I already have people saying "Damn! That's a LOT of stuff! How long did that take you???", and people PM me with questions and requests for help or a walk-through all the time. I do everything I can to help those folks out. I learned a long time ago the best way to push yourself to learn more is to offer to help others learn. That's what I've done. A number of those folks have been lurking for a long time and just want some clarity on something. Some are rank amateurs that hardly ever heard of Linux, much less rooting, and don't really have any desire to learn that stuff either. That doesn't bother me because I don't think rooting your device should require vast knowledge if all you want to do is flash a ROM once every 5 or 6 months and run some apps needing root.

I get sick and damn tired of listening to punks blowing hot air out of that hole in their face in my direction, accusing me and many others I'm familiar with here of being rude, bitter, arrogant keyboard bullies when nothing could be further from the truth, in most cases. Most of us who've been on this forum for any decent period of time have read the SAME thread written by different people a dozen times on a large number of subjects. It gets OLD. And when some posts the same question twice, or posts the same question that shows up twice on the same forum page, THAT'S when it get's ugly. That's why there's a search function and Google. Nobody is stopping anyone from reading as many web pages, xda threads, visiting IRC and chatting with the guys, or PM'ing people to get the information the want. Go ask DroidTh3ory. He's living proof.

If your solution to acquiring knowledge is to impulsively belt out questions, I strongly suggest you rethink that strategy. It seems like that's how a lot of people think learning gets done, and it's NOT. I didn't learn how to build computers, drive a truck, program CNC machine, race and build bikes, or become knowledgeable in congnative psychology, theology, mechanics, physics, and neurochemistry because I asked a lot of questions. I learned skills in finding answers. I think that's what a lot of people here did. It's frustrating to those of us who operate like that to encounter those who don't. Knowledge is sought out and earned, not an entitlement.

I'm not being rude. I'm being blunt. As for what I know? I couldn't possibly care less about programming and software except on the lowest possible levels. I know hardware. I know hardware better than most veteran programmers I've met, including my dad, a programmer of Unix systems most of my life. Software is great to know, but I've come across some software geeks that THINK they're software is kick ass ****, but they don't realize the hardware isn't doing what they think it is, and their "optimizations" are more of a disaster than solution. That's fine with me. They don't care about what I know, and I don't care about what they know. But, we CAN work together!