Far too often I use the phrase "sick burn" with an overly ironic intonation. This may be the first time I have ever felt the need to use it completely unironically.
That, my friend, is indeed a sick burn.
Despite being a private company, BT and Openreach have a functional monopoly on telecoms in this country, so probably not (thanks Thatcher)
Well, Windows does detect common 16 bit installer stubs and automatically invokes the 32 bit installer, even if it can't natively execute the 16 bit code.
It was a curious choice to not emulate 16 bit code on 64 bit Windows though. Remember all of the RISC versions included software emulation of 16 bit Intel code.
In 2001, it was feasible (but herculean) to build a new alternative browser core.
Today, I really wonder how this could be done. A Chromium fork is possible in theory, but the community size needed to maintain it just doesn't seem to exist. Any fork driven commercially is going to have the same incentives as the current one.
So they're doing fire and rehire to cut their wage bills. It's not a bust because it's just capitalists doing capitalism
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.