In particular, we discovered that it was fixed on May 21, 2013 (between the releases of glibc-2.17 and glibc-2.18).
Unfortunately, it was not recognized as a security threat; as a result, most stable and long-term-support distributions were left exposed (and still are): Debian 7 (wheezy), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & 7, CentOS 6 & 7, Ubuntu 12.04, for example.
I haven't installed either MS Office or Photoshop for a year or two now.
The files "in the cloud" are no longer compatible with previous versions. Adobe has stated that their cloud software can "export" to older version of Adobe products (at least for now) but newer features may not be included. This practically means that if you have the CC files and Adobe fails to exist and you haven't exported to older versions, you're SOL.
The same goes for most cloud-based apps including Office, Google Docs etc.
Presto may have been a quality engine, but so many sites didn't render properly on it (or simply refused, necessitating user-agent hacking) that it's hard for me to miss it.
Modern web is so broken that it doesn't render "properly" in any browser. There is no "proper" rendering. Not anymore.
Since I still use Fx 3.6 as the main workhorse browser, I use Fx Alpha (aka the rolling release shit #2) and Chrome (another rolling releases crap #1) for the occasional pages which do not render properly.
Funny thing. The sites which are most certainly broken on Fx 3.6 are often most certainly broken in the other browsers too.
Even some high-profile web sites are quite broken in many places.
The most infamous example is the imgur which causes every browser (I tried all: IE, Chrome, Fx, Opera and Gecko/WebKit clones) to go quickly above 1GB RAM consumption, eventually either crashing (typical for Fx) or going into heavy unsufferable swapping (typical for Chrome).
MS changed H/W requirements only ONCE and only for the Vista.
That was pretty much the only time ever MS changed the H/W requirements for a released product.
They have done it ONCE in the whole MS Windows history. And that was because they have set H/W requirement too low to satisfy demands of few large OEMs.
MS sucks on many fronts - but software release and support process they have nailed at least 1.5 decade ago.
Google really has to sit down and realize that they, as the Android platform supplier, have responsibility to their users. They can't just do whatever the hell they want and expect the whole world to follow them. When shit hits the fan, they can't just pretend that they have nothing to do with it.
Ah, but the thing is...they're trying to protect THEIR inequality instead of being eaten by the stacked deck turning on them.
and now it's all Google's fault?
They have changed API, degraded functionality, and changed H/W requirements - in a point release.
Point release for adding and fixing features, NOT changing and removing features.
But basically with 4.x, Google simply given up to have any release strategy. Because 4.x series (and 5.x onwards) are most definitively rolling releases.
Alpha and beta testing using the paying customers? As if Google lacked money to hire testers or simply outsource the testing...
It would make more sense to me if Ubisoft distributed a list of deactivated keys. Any genuinely legitimate business who has fielded and honored requests for replacement keys could then turn and sue Ubisoft for any moneies they were out as a result.
Strikes me as a whole lot more streamlined than trying to form a class action suit involving a completely unknown number of legitimate end users that might have been dinged by this.
Remember when news organizations didn't so blatantly try to push agendas?
I can't remember that far back. It must've been well before the sinking of the USS Maine.
It must have been before recorded history. We have documented examples of such behavior for as long as we have documents.
Precisely. The study asked a question that results in an expected answer 80% of the time. So why would such a study be conducted in the first place?
Well, duh, they did it to verify that the people did give the "expected" answer most of the time. There are lots of scientific studies showing that something the "everyone knows" isn't actually true, so such beliefs are often worth actually testing. In this case, a number for what fraction of the people haven't a clue about DNA is interesting and potentially useful. It does put a lot of other such surveys in an "interesting" light.
Clearly I was voicing _opinions_! You know, things people think may be right but do not claim as truth. Apparently you have problems with the concept. Attributes like "bullshit" or "nonsense" clearly mark opinions, not statements of fact.
You seem to have some rather serious problem interpreting what people say. I mean that not in the sense that I am trying to insult you, but in the sense that I detect an actual perception problem on your side. Maybe get that looked at, it could help you avoid serious misinterpretations of what people say on the future.
Indeed. Safe individual transportation would be a great boon. And it could revolutionize parts of public transportation in general. Example: Need to transport something heavier? Order a self-driving car of any size desired. Of course, the Taxi-industry will likely be a casualty of this, but no historical job-setting lasts forever.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
