Yes, that's not surprising that there's nuance that does beyond the headline. There always is.

Ironically, it's is more of an argument for them. They were not saying there would be no more updates, be them major or minor to windows, but rather than they wouldn't have "numbers" and transition into more of an OS as a service model.

The market doesn't like the sound of that. That's fine, but it's not like if Microsoft stopped numbering their releases they wouldn't be doing the exact same thing: sunsetting older versions of windows and pushing users towards newer supported versions.

I know some people think they should be able to "buy" an OS and stay on it forever, but the internet has rendered that largely impossible. If you want to air-gap your PC and stay on whatever version of Windows you want, go for it, but as soon as you're connected to the internet, they're doing the right thing trying to push people off of codebases that no longer support an economic case for security updates.

I'm an anglophone. I lived in Quebec for 8 years. I work for a company that is headquartered there. I go there all the time.

This is nothing like what Quebec is doing. Don't be a fucking moron.

if you drop 1000$ on the ground you watch who picks it up and the person who takes it knows it belongs to you and doesn't belong to them, then you're not out of luck .. it's not really a different set of rules. It's unreasonable to expect people to be able to locate a person who left 1000 sitting in the middle of the street who is nowhere to be found, and it's nearly impossible to prove the 1000 another person has is yours after the fact. On the other side, ATMs have multiple layers of logging, computer and paper trails and cameras. It's relatively easy to prove a) who has it now b) that they shouldn't c) that they know they shouldn't d) to whom it belongs

More tinfoil, clearly.

Moronic. There are to many reasons to list why doctors should not be able to give a patient anything they ask for, but I'll start with the most fucking obvious: if that was how things should be, why have prescriptions at all? It's fascinating watching the contempt for specialized competence eat the United States from within.

I'm a 25+ years of experience C++ programmer, and Rust is great. Entrenchment will mean C++ will be around in meaningful amounts for awhile, but I have no qualms about Rust increasingly eating its lunch.

what a dystopia

Post something Ron DeSantis doesn't like online?

Yeah, nobody has every done that before under their public name. *rolls eyes*

I don't think you fully appreciate the difference between marketing and "being made aware of". You'd hope the billions of dollars companies spend on both improving their ability to influence decision making, and analyzing the performance of their marketing mandates would clue people in to the fact that the vast majority of advertising is not designed to "make you aware" of a product, let a lone a whole class of products as per your analogy.

actually, people being too lazy to take an hour out of their day to recycle their waste is about the same as people being too lazy to take 10 minutes to look into the most basic facts of an issue before they voice an opinion is to blame

people are lazy and problems shared among all people means nobody or anything specific is "at fault"

Yes, a metric fuckload of information when condensed down to smaller amounts of information could mean something else if you were obstinate about misinterpreting it. Give yourself a pat on the back for bringing this all to our attention.

so you believe that there would be the same number of murders if there was no legal consequence to committing it?

that's ... quite stupid

Yes, because the means to achieving a end and the intent in the committing of an act are both factors very much taken into account in classifying a criminal act, the severity thereof, and punishments suitable if found guilty of committing them.

"I can't imagine"

Yes, I know, that's basically your personal slogan. We've already determined you're incapable of seeing anything from outside of your own perspective, cayenne8.

Although if you don't understand how this might affect how much $$ it will make you, congratulations, you're a lousy investor (which is independent of how much success you've had in investing to date, to be clear)