Wow that '===!' must be a new PHP operator

So we get sometimes unreadable mails because the encoding of the content is unknown. Then some mails will be rejected because of an encoding problem in the address itself. At least in the first case the mail was received and we had enough time to fix the problem.

For most jobs, an initial scale is used to calculate earnings based on how much time you spent doing that work. The scale itself depends a lot on what you could get somewhere else for the same job. Main actors, like traders and many salesmen earn something more or less directly linked to the expected/realized profit. It happens that for such a show, the profit is huge. Hence the high salary.

2^33 x 2^17 = 2^50 ... And if winning the lottery is 1 / 2^24 then 1 / 2^49 is much closer to winning the lottery (only) twice in a row, not 2^25 times in a row!

I'm only using Windows to test web applications on older browsers. And it's Windows XP (in VirtualBox). I agree with you that newer does not always mean better. Windows 8 is an example. But I'm on a Mac (latest OS) and my feeling is that Apple is also ( since a couple of years ago ) on a slippery slope. Annoying bugs not fixed, lack of innovation...

Back to XP, the reason I'm glad it disappears - and that explains my parent post - is that I'm writing web applications, and supporting IE < 8 is and has always been a pain. At least from Windows 7, users smoothly upgrade to an earlier version.

Also, please see jbolden post above.

Not only. At least we'll have less and less outdated browsers and insecure machines.

According to the number of posts, the "Museums" ain't reading /. much...

I used CodeWarrior at the time, for some time, and then switched to prc-tools. CW was pretty buggy.

Well you must have no much management experience, or at least not the management of a team you never meet in person, you don't choose, and which basically has no working obligation. The Linux kernel is one of the best (the best?) thing that happened for the OS community.

On /.? Oh you mean age-wise...

So, 4.9 is bad

Gosh! I'm using 4.6!

What they didn't say is that Neymar shows only 10% brain activity compared to another "common" person for whatever he's doing...

Indeed. And this is unlikely to change unless many more people migrate to LibreOffice, then the compatibility issue will be reversed.

The problem is not using US products, the problem is having to use the expensive MS Office suite specifically.