He was wondering if you were trying to discredit him. Looks like you proved his point.

Here's what he's qualified to comment on. He's qualified to comment on the fact that his sound isn't working.

If Linux developers don't want users who aren't qualified to do more than that, then they need to stop making statements about how they want to take over the world, or how they want everyone who currently uses Windows, to use Linux instead.

Pulse's single main problem is rampant, uncontrolled featuritis. I got that from the linked article. You don't need to know anything about the minute crap involved with the design. There's too much emphasis on including a whole heap of features that most people don't care about or need, when the basic functionality of simply playing sound.

It is also true, as has been said elsewhere in this forum, that sound playback in FreeBSD just works; simply, quietly, without fuss.

You therefore have no excuses, no justification, and no escaping this issue. Pulse is a failure. It is not doing what its' users want it to do. End of story. Sounding as smug, elitist, and dismissive as you want is not going to change that fact.

I when I was in US Air Force as a officer, they sent me to many countries to work in the "Military Assistance Program". It was good to me to learn people, places and different cultures.
Also my parents with their limited income took us to several other countries that they came from and learn something about how they grew up, their schools and their culture.
I think going to other countries will teach you many things and understand yourself better in relation to the rest of the world.

Actually it isn't illegal. But you're right that people have had their cameras or phones taken away from them and pictures taken away. Also the police have told people that it is illegal.

Competition in the marketplace is required to have a true, capitalist economy. Healthcare does not have this due to government regulation.

Not government regulation, insurance companies' regulations. Take my insurance, for example: my co-pay is the same no matter where I buy a prescription drug, even though the price per pharmacy can vary by 50%. I have no incentive to find a cheap drug store, my incentive is to get the best price by saving gasoline and buying it at the closest pharmacy -- which happens to be the most expensive.

Can you give me an example of any government regulation that makes health care more expensive?

As a final note, I have a pre-existing condition, and I am extremely pleased with my insurance provider.

It's a good thing you're pleased with your current provider, because if you wanted to switch, your pre-existing condition wouldn't let you.

>>>I think it goes to show what being personally involved and affected can do to job performance at the [government]

Fixed.

You think it's coincidence that the roads leading into and out of D.C. are the smoothest in the whole nation? People in power fix what affects them directly, give a passing notice when constituents complain, and ignore all else. (Which is a good argument for why power & politicians should be concentrated *at home*, rather than 2000 miles away in some central capital.)

Bingo! Realism isn't always best for gaming.

I think ads detract from the real world. Ads in a game might suck in a realistic way, but they still suck.

Exactly. Burning oil is one of the most expensive ways to make electricity.

Also, I don't know if anyone else was irked by this, but nuclear batteries do not have "power densities a million times as high as standard batteries". They have *energy* densities a million times as high as standard batteries. It's shameful that someone posting articles on Slashdot doesn't know the difference.

Recharge? How do you recharge a battery that depends on the decay of radioisotopes?