You are conflating two separate issues. If and probably when China does surpase the US economy, that won't mean individual Chinese citizens are better off than US citizens. It will simply mean the country as a whole is outcompeting the US, mostly because of its size.

And when it comes to engineering, the PPP salaries of US and Chinese engineers isn't that different. Chinese engineers make around $100k annually in comparable purchasing power, which is only about 25% less than a US engineer and about the same as a European engineer.

Where did you get this idea? Median Chinese income is ~$5k in nominal USD, but that only equates to ~$10k after factoring in purchasing power parity (PPP). That is still about 15% of the purchasing power of a US worker.

Your argument basically defends any propaganda as a good thing. And you seem to believe that emotion-based fear mongering can be successfully countered with rational fact based counter arguments. I strongly disagree will all of that.

I would imagine they decay into something else in like 10e-15 seconds.

Can we finally know whether or not there is beer on the sun?!

I have such fond memories of EA from the '80s, but as far as I'm concerned, that's a completely different and unrelated entity.

That mentality never left Microsoft. They just to have work harder to maintain plausible deniability. Plausible, that is, to the anti-trust courts and politicians, none of whom know anything about technology.

I don't think that's likely. GOG has been around for almost 20 years. If they were to renege on providing offline installers, what could that possibly gain them? That only makes sense if they are planning to reimplement DRM, and that would immediately kill the company.

I'm sticking with stone knives and bear skins.

We can bust on Microsoft all day and all night, and they deserve it, but the fact that their ability to find and fix these problems has greatly increased is a good thing. Software is incredibly complex, and no software more complicated than "10 GOTO 10" is free from the potential of security problems. Microsoft's QA has gone downhill in recent years, but now it's getting better apparently (even if it's after the fact). They are not going away, so this makes all our lives better.

I wrote a file searching utility in C++ about 30 years ago. About 15 years ago I ported it to Python and found it to be faster than using the Windows directory enumeration APIs, and I've been using that ever since. It just searches filenames, but that's all I need.

"NOTE: Experiences vary by region." says to me that Microsoft doesn't even know what their changes will do.

Can they factor a number larger than 21 with QC yet?

Perhaps they could take a clue from software from 40+ years ago and make top-posting a configurable option.

But Microsoft has pretty much completely given up on making their software configurable for user preferences.

Hey, I resemble that remark.