Maybe they are talking about Vista ?
Ho wait vista (the microsoft total failure OS) is still more used to surf the web that all mobile devices together, which supposed to be our future....

In France it's not mandatory but most of the companies give you some money for food, or give money to the company's restaurant where employee can eat
The current rule is no taxes for noone if company give you up to 5.29€ knowing that the company can't pay more than 60% of your meal ( to ensure that they give you coupon that most of the time 50% paid by employee and 50% company )
If the company wants to pay full meals they can. But the company have to pay some extra taxes and declare to the that the employee receive some advantage. So the employee will have to declare it too ( like everything your company give you free for your personal usage car, gas, tickets, phone... everything is converted to some value not necessarily the full value )
Of course for some work where you have to be on the workplace, or volunteer work the company can pay everything without problems.

When developing for different browser you have some "strange" issues which are not from the webkit engine, but from de javascript engine or from the underlining implementation. For exemple Chrome decide not to check outside of his local cache sometimes, it's not webkit problem, it's not javascript it's only chrome implementation which is different ( to be polite ) and sometimes a nightmare for web developers.
Even if we had IE, Opera, Firefox and Chrome using webkit there will be some big differences.

Even if you don't try to do time prediction. Compare to classic errand to buy groceries.
make the list
watch the weather
dress accordingly
find your car keys
take the car and go to the store
find all items on your list
choose the good line
pay the cashier
go back to your car
drive back
unpack your items
How to do an accurate progess bar ? what is 30% done? How to not stop a long time on a percentage then go really fast on others ?
If you count percentages of tasks some are fast some are very slow, if you count time it's may work on your test but it may not on someone else who leave farther from the store or drive faster, or find the store closed etc
Yes it's pretty difficult to choose good metrics for some complicated tasks.

Apple was so good with daylight saving and news years alarms calculation that a apple watch is certainly a good idea.

"fair use" is only an American copyright extension there is no international law/agreement for "fair use"

CC-BY-ND looks little counter productive in research because it means "unchanged and in whole" so for citations it's not usable.

There is more and more patents every year, so there should be many new inventions no ?
j/k

Unfortunately COBOL is not dead, it's a language I personally dislike but I'm sure there still will be COBOL programs and jobs in 50 years.
In 2000 many programs were updated to support y2k and they are still here
Fortran gain some popularity in the recent years because of the multicores CPU. Intel's Fortran Compiler is maintained and really up to date.
If I could choose everyone will be doing mainly C++ as C++11 is really classy.

Unfortunately Without third party/manual edit Visual 2010 won't let you customised completely colors

It's pretty difficult to have at the same time
-black background
-bright text
-selected text readable.

In visual 2010 you could select only font color for language and only background color for selection. If you have bright text you should select dark color for selection, but with dark color for selection it's less readable as background is dark too.

On all previous versions (maybe even visual 1.0 with widows 3 theme ) you can have selected text with bright background and dark text but since VS2010 it's over.

Flash EULA is in PDF.
On windows if you can install flash before any PDF reader.