Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Read it.

The right to travel does not give you express rights to get wherever you want but any means you want. It gives you express rights not to be locked in one place. Of note is that this declaration was written before commercial air travel became anything remotely possible for average people. So are you going to pretend that at the time people weren't willing to spend months on end getting somewhere by boat?

So my answer is no, if the USA banned ALL airplanes then your right to travel still hasn't been prohibited.

Horseshit, Try running XP with SP3 on a computer which had the minimum hardware requirements for XP 6 years earlier. I won't even describe it for you. It is something that needs to be experienced and you will be met with plenty of personal reflection time as you do.

Oh you mean like they already did by pulling these core components out of Android and into the Play Store so they could update them on the run as they went? You know the thing they have been doing progressively since version 2.3 and which they have announced effectively completed in version 5.0? That little thing? The thing which people then COMPLAIN about because evil Google is now putting core open source components into the Play Store and "removing openness" or some shit like that?

Yeah all these Google complains are getting stale.

Well that may be true for your small bubble, but there are plenty of countries which outlaw laser pointers and chemistry sets, and by your own admission in your country chemistry sets now only include a subset of the chemicals they did previously due to liability. So how much of that was really a "lie"?

Not at all. They'll move to a rapid release schedule. There will be discrete episodes.
Episode 1 will be the removal of previous measures.
Episode 2 will be an announcement that the end of all problems is coming soon.
Then they'll spend 6 years promising episode 3 is coming soon.

Dear duke_cheetah2003,

Thankyou for your kind feedback, but we are having difficulty understanding what you mean with "You've just entered". I can assure you our business practices have remained unchanged for years.

Kind Regards
Ubisoft support teams.

I'm in China at the moment. I'm buying cloths for $10. We just spent $40 on a dinner. We fed 4 people and have leftovers for 3 tomorrow. The cab ride home was about 5km and cost $3.

A lot of that sounds too good to be true, but this is the cost of living here. The people have little money and goods are priced accordingly. If I go into a store and buy a chinese version of an ubisoft game legitimately do you really think I'm paying American prices?

Or another example since I'm from Australia, we get screwed with all digital goods prices to the point where the government initiated a royal commission and summoned executives from Microsoft, Adobe, etc to front the hearing on why everything is twice as expensive here (no the bits aren't upside down and it doesn't cost much to put the "u" back into all the words where you omit it.)

For me if I see a digital copy at half the price I definitely do not think it's "too good to be true". I just think it's the normal price someone else pays for it.

Are you kidding? Have you played the latest Assassins Creed?

Ok I joke, I never found the series appealing, but people do. They will go out of their way to buy the next game in the franchise despite the bugs, the problems, the poor performance, and will excuse even the crap gameplay and really pushing the friendship storyline because OMG Assassins Creed is so cool.

The same can be said for most other games. If every slashdot user decided to boycot Ubisoft (and many already have) then it won't make an ounce of difference in the longrun.

Oh right.

Never mind then, situation normal. :-)

So just like in a windows service pack? Oh but you didn't complain then because ....?

I'm not, and even if I was the current state of computer charging makes it incredibly slow. I go out of my way to look for wall chargers to plug my phone into. The only exception being overnight where I use a simple wireless charger, because screw messing with USB plugs in the dark.

My point was to the GP that there are plenty of devices on the market which receive more than zero updates.

As said I have received 4 updates (that I have noticed I assume 4.4.3 may have been on my phone at some point), and that a 5th one is in the works.

My point has nothing to do with length of support, only that many devices actually have a length greater than zero.

I haven't had malware or keyloggers as a result of a crack or keygen in about 6 years. Believe it or not even in the dirty piracy industry there are reputations to uphold. People who provide torrents etc love to put their name on it and will rather aggressively fight those who use their name incorrectly, especially if they are bundling malware with their otherwise clean installers.

There have also been plenty of cases of pirates calling each other out on their shit. Again its a reputation game.

In generally any savvy pirate would not need to worry about malware any more than they would downloading anything else online. There certainly has been more attempts to push malware down my throat by legit companies than pirates in the past few years. (No Adobe I'm not installing anything from McAfee, no Oracle the AskToolbar can go die in a fire).

Spoken like someone who's never used a computer with a touch screen let alone a convertible tablet.
No job would not be done there. Windows 7 is borderline unusable in that scenario, a scenario that is becoming increasingly popular as schools and workplaces are rolling out tablet based devices.

Your entire point revolves around the idea that the UI has reached the pinnacle of usefulness. I disagree, but I understand why you may not. I assume you use your computer sitting down with a mouse and keyboard?

I use mine like that as well. I also fold my keyboard away and then touch the screen. Sometimes I write on it with a pen. Windows 7 was unusable in this scenario. Windows 8 was woeful. Windows 8.1 was a significant improvement.

Your car analogy assumes that the user will keep using the car the same way and that the vendor is changing the rules. That is not the case. How many motorcycles have you seen with a steering wheel and 3 pedals for control?

The idea of the computer is changing. That change is largely driven by touch screens. For touch screens the UI needs to change. A lot of elements of windows 7 make the UI difficult to use including small touch targets, no gestures, no ability to use it without a keyboard, the inability to detect if the screen was being touched with a tip of a pen or the hand holding the pen etc.

Have we reached some pinnacle now? Heck no, it's a major work in progress. But not everything is a case of change for change sake. This is Microsoft responding to users replacing PCs with tablets, not Microsoft driving (because lets face it they are pretty damn bad at that too).

The update HAS come from the OS vendor in the form of a point release. This isn't a case of not supporting windows XP. It's a case of complaining that you want a specific patch without installing a service pack.

The OS vendor has done their bit.