While the company said that it will continue to provide free security fixes for XP until 2014,
So nothing has really changed then, it's still being supported with security fixes. No one really cares about features at this point. How exactly is this suppose to move people to update?
They look more favourable on China because they duh, trade and do business with them [us]. The way to peace is through business deals and relationships.
The US has 0 businesses trading between Cuba and N.Korea which is why no one is lobbying in Washington for good relations to be made.
What you propose is that it's useless to have nukes if you're going to get blown up anyway.
Your reasoning is flawed. By retaining Nuclear arms you're giving them [whoever that may be] a reason not to attack you with their own. Getting rid of that reason gives them more of an incentive to fire nukes and get away with it.
if a nation out there is crazy enough to use nuclear weapons against the US or its assets abroad, they're far too crazy to worry about MAD
Flawed and illogical. No one has used nuclear weapons against the US therefore no one is crazy enough.
You somehow have come to a different conclusion by using "if" on a hypothetical situation that hasn't happened and probably never will happen.
Even if North Korea fired a nuke at the US the US retaliation could genocide them. Since they know this they would never fire because out of all the crazy ideologies these countries have, the one thing they all fear is non-existence.
Not really - I'm pointing out that the US really has no business telling people they can't have nuclear weapons whilst they are continuing to arm themselves with these weapons.
Yes they can because they have more weapons and power then the other countries they're trying to enforce. However much you WANT that to be different doesn't matter, this is the reality of the world we live in and this is how stuff gets done.
The difference being that not everyone believed that and voice their opposition strongly. Your own post is testament to that. Voicing such an opinion is some other countries can land you in prison or dead.
I completely disagree that uncanny valley is a problem. It's simply not realistic enough and it's all down to the movement of said realistic character.
What are we? Meat bags. We're walking bags of water, yet when ultra realistic game characters are animated they're done so in a barbie dole fashion without taking into account the movement of mass on what they are simulating.
If game characters factored this in and did it right "uncanny valley" wouldn't exist, yet it does because game developers have failed to see why their game characters look unreal even though they're modelled perfectly and have given up.
Watch this to get a better idea of what I am talking about.
Ubuntu rarely deviates from upstream implementations
Unless they've deviated in Debian and they do. I've had to make my own packages for Ubuntu simply because Debian compiles lots of stuff with the wrong compiler options and then these get pulled into Ubuntu.
Just plug in your USB speaker and it will appear in your mixer (as long as you use pavucontrol, of course, PA's native mixer tool; the classic gnome-volume-control which we still ship is not hotplug-capable).
Interesting you mention that because my desktop with Pulse audio as default doesn't work with hot plugged usb headphones, however my laptop with ALSA does.
Oh, it appears in the PA mixer alright, now they just have to get to work on, you know, sending audio to the headphones..
Serious tools like what exactly, emacs? GCC? You can't seriously be talking about GIMP that's for sure.
In any case you're acting more of a child really as you make naive associations that "access to source code" some how equates better product. The source code can be either open or closed, but if it sucks, it sucks.
We, the open source community, need to do a better job at communicating the fact that free software is free in terms of freedom, not in terms of effort or technical skill.
Ironic that you say this after your long winded post based on assumptions.
Also, it's not free (as in freedom) if you lack the technical ability to compile and fix defects. Then you're forever reliant on programmers to fix your software. So go on and broadcast that message however they're not going to listen because you already shot them down when they were trying to get help in the first place.
Luckily I'm a programmer and have commit lots of fixes to OSS however I'm not deluded enough to convince myself that freedom for me means freedom for average users. Also before you or anyone else arrogantly mentions paying someone to fix your problems, that's not an option. A typical bug cost thousand of dollars to fix, that is not freedom in either libre or beer.
Either you take the criticism right or wrong and try to address the problems (professional) or you start whining whenever someone complains about your software (amateur).
Maybe you will loose some freedom, but things will go smoother.
What freedom is lost exactly? You can still compile and install any software you want. There's multiple desktop managers available in the repos so what "freedom" do you mean specifically?
What I do not understand is freeloaders who complain that things do not work
Because for years people like yourself have been going on and on and on about how amazing Linux is. Then when people try it out and find it doesn't work you've wasted their time.
That doesn't matter to you of course because your time is worthless, but for others it's not and you've wasted their time. If they installed it even more time is wasted having to reinstall windows.
After that they don't come back, and then you don't get bug reports, translations or patches.
Oh, and if my message is an example of what is wrong with the "Linux community," then good.
Too bad everyone disagrees with you. You should be using HURD or Minix. You'd be much happier with a community that has the same mindset as you. Of course then you'd become what you hate because none of your software works anymore because the maintainers chased away their users. Irony.
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This has been touted multiple times throughout the years, however do you have ANY evidence to suggest that compilers are inserting code into programs?
No, you don't so why continue this nonsensical line of reasoning?
Please don't post pretending to be someone else, it makes you look stupid. Both you and the GP make perfectly good points.
Why? Did you invade Kuwait?
There's only one thing I can say about that picture...
"Go, team fart!"
So nothing has really changed then, it's still being supported with security fixes. No one really cares about features at this point. How exactly is this suppose to move people to update?
Sounds like Johnny Mnemonic.
It also burned a lot of companies with the high rate of return on Linux laptops. Don't assume they'll be so quick to stock Linux a second time around.
Or launching a "communication satellite" in a non orbital trajectory over japan?
They look more favourable on China because they duh, trade and do business with them [us]. The way to peace is through business deals and relationships.
The US has 0 businesses trading between Cuba and N.Korea which is why no one is lobbying in Washington for good relations to be made.
and how do you know this being as I'm pretty sure you haven't lived in either:
1) The United States
2) North Korea
What you propose is that it's useless to have nukes if you're going to get blown up anyway.
Your reasoning is flawed. By retaining Nuclear arms you're giving them [whoever that may be] a reason not to attack you with their own. Getting rid of that reason gives them more of an incentive to fire nukes and get away with it.
Flawed and illogical. No one has used nuclear weapons against the US therefore no one is crazy enough.
You somehow have come to a different conclusion by using "if" on a hypothetical situation that hasn't happened and probably never will happen.
Even if North Korea fired a nuke at the US the US retaliation could genocide them. Since they know this they would never fire because out of all the crazy ideologies these countries have, the one thing they all fear is non-existence.
Yet you posted AC which proves you do care. Fail.
Yes they can because they have more weapons and power then the other countries they're trying to enforce. However much you WANT that to be different doesn't matter, this is the reality of the world we live in and this is how stuff gets done.
The difference being that not everyone believed that and voice their opposition strongly. Your own post is testament to that. Voicing such an opinion is some other countries can land you in prison or dead.
Indeed you never see books of fiction written by more then one author.
I completely disagree that uncanny valley is a problem. It's simply not realistic enough and it's all down to the movement of said realistic character.
What are we? Meat bags. We're walking bags of water, yet when ultra realistic game characters are animated they're done so in a barbie dole fashion without taking into account the movement of mass on what they are simulating.
If game characters factored this in and did it right "uncanny valley" wouldn't exist, yet it does because game developers have failed to see why their game characters look unreal even though they're modelled perfectly and have given up.
Watch this to get a better idea of what I am talking about.
The parent didn't say "which linux is it?".
Did you even read the post in the first place?
Unless they've deviated in Debian and they do. I've had to make my own packages for Ubuntu simply because Debian compiles lots of stuff with the wrong compiler options and then these get pulled into Ubuntu.
Interesting you mention that because my desktop with Pulse audio as default doesn't work with hot plugged usb headphones, however my laptop with ALSA does.
Oh, it appears in the PA mixer alright, now they just have to get to work on, you know, sending audio to the headphones..
If you don't know the difference between a distribution and the Linux kernel it is you that doesn't belong here.
Serious tools like what exactly, emacs? GCC? You can't seriously be talking about GIMP that's for sure.
In any case you're acting more of a child really as you make naive associations that "access to source code" some how equates better product. The source code can be either open or closed, but if it sucks, it sucks.
Ironic that you say this after your long winded post based on assumptions.
Also, it's not free (as in freedom) if you lack the technical ability to compile and fix defects. Then you're forever reliant on programmers to fix your software. So go on and broadcast that message however they're not going to listen because you already shot them down when they were trying to get help in the first place.
Luckily I'm a programmer and have commit lots of fixes to OSS however I'm not deluded enough to convince myself that freedom for me means freedom for average users. Also before you or anyone else arrogantly mentions paying someone to fix your problems, that's not an option. A typical bug cost thousand of dollars to fix, that is not freedom in either libre or beer.
Either you take the criticism right or wrong and try to address the problems (professional) or you start whining whenever someone complains about your software (amateur).
Two problems with this..
1) You have no proof and just assume it's windows
2) You said "windows" without mentioning a specific version.
What freedom is lost exactly? You can still compile and install any software you want. There's multiple desktop managers available in the repos so what "freedom" do you mean specifically?
Because for years people like yourself have been going on and on and on about how amazing Linux is. Then when people try it out and find it doesn't work you've wasted their time.
That doesn't matter to you of course because your time is worthless, but for others it's not and you've wasted their time. If they installed it even more time is wasted having to reinstall windows.
After that they don't come back, and then you don't get bug reports, translations or patches.
Too bad everyone disagrees with you. You should be using HURD or Minix. You'd be much happier with a community that has the same mindset as you. Of course then you'd become what you hate because none of your software works anymore because the maintainers chased away their users. Irony.