If you're trying to imply "still nothing uses Python 3", the version of Blender on my PC embeds Python 3. One big problem (doing the right thing with side-by-side Python 2 and 3 on Windows) was solved when Python 3.3 implemented PEP 397.

Why stick with VMS when you can get the same Dave Cutler design by rotating everything one letter forward, forming the WNT at the core of Windows Server?

So what, may I ask, are your superior points?

I'm aware of that. Say I were to back up my first-generation Nexus 7 tablet through Android Debug Bridge (ADB). How would I verify the completeness of this backup?

Which such appliance is a "GNU/Linux PC"? Video game consoles do not run Linux (except for those few remaining fat PlayStation 3 consoles that haven't been upgraded past system software 3.20). TiVo DVRs run Linux but not GNU/Linux. You keep bringing up "kiosks"; to which kiosks are you referring?

I don't understand what you mean by "break after".

What exactly makes a specification "open"? The specification for Win32 is published on MSDN. Is it solely the existence (or lack thereof) of a promise not to go Oracle v. Google on developers of reimplementations?

I'd imagine that more desktop software targets Windows (and implicitly Wine) than GNU/Linux.

How should I go about determining how a device will feel in my hands through the Internet?

True, I agree that HVAC, ERP, and SBU should have been expanded. But some terms, such as "Hypertext Markup Language", "Motion Picture Experts Group", "Universal Serial Bus", "chief executive officer", "Federal Bureau of Investigation", "Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte", and even "application programming interface" are probably more recognizable to Slashdot's audience in the abbreviated form.

What technical benefit does binary code have that a JIT engine lacks, other than perhaps the ability to run in obsessively locked down W^X environments that prohibit runtime generation of executable code?

What's the common way to transition an existing PHP app off PHP?

But there are more than enough political constraints on developers to force their language choice. For example, Windows Phone 7 and Xbox Live Indie Games platforms could run only verifiably type-safe, .NET CF-compatible CIL, which in practice meant C#. In the applet era, you needed a language that compiled to JVM bytecode. In the Flash era, you needed a language that compiled to AS3 bytecode. Nowadays, the client side of a web app needs to be in JavaScript. And for a long time, entry level web hosting with PHP was cheaper per year than hosting with other server-side languages.

Let's play Hegelian dialectic:

Thesis

The "fractal" rant

Antithesis

The "hardly" rebuttal

Synthesis

Six identifiable bullet points

Then perhaps a clean break is needed between the "old language" and the "new language". It can be done like Visual Basic from VB 6 to VB.NET or Python 2.6 to Python 3, where modules in the old language first need to be translated to the new. Or it can be done with two side-by-side parser frontends, allowing a module written in one language to be include_once'd in a module written in the other.

Misspelling or pun on "guild"?

Good luck forging a certificate to MITM not only https://en.wikipedia.org/ but also the notaries used by Perspectives and the cited documents in References, unless you own the computer on which the test is being taken.

Which is kind of hard if your alma mater is 180 miles away.

I know the difference, but how should I go about teaching this difference to the virtual keyboard of a mobile device? Or is there a key ACM paper on how to guess where "its" or "it's" should go in context?