[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] timberwolf671:
LOL "plenty of dicks" Been there, done that! I was writing assembly code while many were still in diapers. Had Peter Norton on speed dial for questions. In the early days of computers and very little memory (32kb's) space we did everything possible to keep code as small as possible. We would store a date 1/1/01 in one byte. Worked well until the turn of the century was approaching. Then that method started became a real problem. Was 1/1/01 a date of 01/01/1901 or 01/01/2001. Banks, Electric, Water companies with small eproms used in their equipment were at risk. Assembly had become a lost art, as everyone was using C, Pascal, Fortran, Mumps even Basic. Then came C+, C++, Delphi Pascal with it's inheritance, multi -incapsulated development environment. Then came the guys who still knew assembly. Charging outrageous hourly fees just to reprogram all those small devices many had simply forgot. Made a lot money at the start of 1999 and even more as the turn of the century was getting close. Programming has not been my day time job for 23 years.... Lol but I still got the skills and just like a bike. I might robble at the beginning but it would not take long to get back in the swing of things. No, I don't know Java but it's just another language. What is missing in this equation is the desire..... Plus there are kids around the world turning out some great code. Their bodies can stand the late night's or no sleep at all, living on coke and pizza... When I look at the source code for android, it is a mess compared what you would see 20-30 years ago. And HTC only does enough to get the system working. They leave images, code written for other much less capable phones. Since memory is cheap this days with 16gb's going for less than $150.00. Again LOL, as I paid over $400.00 for 8mb's in the mid 80's.. And because of memory being so cheap, coders have become very sloppy in their methods. And the XDA dickheads don't worry me. Their type existed since the beginning of time, nothing new. I enjoy what I am doing, if I didn't you would not be reading this.... The desire and time needs to be there for me. For without the desire, time and necessary high speed internet connection.... The last one is my biggest problem as I live in the sticks with only DSL as an option. A full themed rom would be around 650-675mb's and upload time 3-4 hours. If I did a rom, release dates would be no more than once a week or two. I would have to drive 6 miles from my home and use my phone on LTE to upload the rom.. I share the DSL bandwidth with my wife and other devices in our home.. During a theme upload my internet speed for even simple surfing is slow. The desire is turning into one of necessity.. In the past 3 months I have been nothing more than a wolf chasing his tail. Very little in the form of what I call progress on the theme.. A lot of great people here on XDA doing fantastic work. It's a shame just a few with either egos the size of a basketball have to spoil it. I need to stop before I say something that might offend someone. And that is not my intentions, we all live in the same house so don't take a crap were you live:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool: