Does it run Linux?

Not mentioned in TFA, and I haven't seen anyone talk about it yet in the comments here. Or maybe the answer is so obviously 'yes' that nobody even talks about it anymore.

Quick!! Let's buy some extra licenses now before it's too late!

Oh wait...
Never mind, we switched to Linux a long time ago already :-/

That was exactly my point. The 'negative thinkers/pessimists' worked very hard to solve all Y2K problems, then January 1st, 2000 passed by and all the 'positive thinkers' said "see, there was nothing to worry about" without taking into account all the work that had been done to fix the problems.

See also: Y2K

This reminds me of a John Connor quote from the movie Terminator 2:

"Easy money!"

The whole point of Java is that it is supposed to be platform independent. So you shouldn't need to get the OS version at all.

I know, I know, reality is different. But that might explain the apparent lack of such an API.

Who cares about "success"? Happiness is much more important. It's the simple things in life that matter. The best things in life are free. You don't need a high IQ to be happy.

And this is what is wrong with the world.

Let's turn the situation around: suppose you and your children are walking on the street. Will you still prefer the autonomous car to protect it's single driver at all costs and kill you and your children instead? And then imagine how many autonomous cars will be on the road in the future, all with that same logic built-in...

I wonder if they wrote it more or less from scratch, or if they managed to reuse a lot of code from some other platform (e.g. Office for Mac OS X)?

But less military spending is bad for the economy, right?

Right?

They only think about the children when it fits their agenda.