There's no real reason for them to discontinue it. The small amount of work it takes to manage it is likely made up for by the number of people (small though it may be, it's likely in the thousands, if not hundreds of thousands) who buy it.

I'm fairly certain that the "odd/even" remark was referring to the old Linux kernel practice summarized by Torvalds himself as follows:

Of course there isn't much now. Heck, some of the games that have native Linux ports through their software houses weren't available for Linux on Steam the last time I checked. But I think that's part of why Valve are promoting their Steam beta. If they can say "well, 5000 of our users are using Steam on Linux," they can get a few games ported. If they can say "well, 5 million of our users have Steam on Linux," developers are far more likely to port their games. Given that Valve will be releasing what appears to be a Linux-based console soon, I imagine they're quite interested in getting as many games as possible ported to Linux, and in having them well-tested before the console gets released.

I don't see why we'd need 128-bit time if we're counting seconds, considering that 64-bit time gets us up to 20 times the current age of the universe (meaning that 95% of the possible negative timestamps aren't just unused, but unusable if our current understanding of the laws of physics is correct).

Several HR-related systems (including the one I unfortunately have to support at work) use java applets.

They have.

Wouldn't that be the contrapositive? The inverse would be that if you don't tell someone to Google "hentai", you're automatically their friend.

Regarding number 3: Amazon could also make a big statement to the community by officially sponsoring an open source forked SDK (such as the one linked above).

AIDE can also be used to develop on a tablet, which may be the only way a certain segment of the market can develop Android apps. For example, these kids

Here's a list of devices that either have or will get Jelly Bean.

Also, this page shows a (fairly complete, though I hesitate to say "complete" for the fact that there's almost certainly at least one Android phone/tablet not mentioned on it that exists somewhere...) list of Android devices, including what version they run. It contains 41 mentions of 4.1 and 11 mentions of 4.2.

Most people don't know what Qt is, though. They don't realise how much of the software they use uses it.

Or for those already familiar with the Matlab language (or who know they'll need to become familiar with it): Octave.

Since 112 takes place in Europe, we should be remembering the 11th of February. As a South African, I do so with pride (11-2-1990: The day Nelson Mandela was released from prison).

Just in case anyone is wondering: the NANP has area codes and exchanges starting with 2-9, which means that 112 would be globally unique on NANP (in fact, 11 would allow the phone system to register that you must be dialing 112, since the only time you'd start with a 1 is when dialing the NANP country code followed by an area code, or when dialing the emergency services.

The difference here is that Windows has roughly 90% of the desktop marketshare (what is generally considered a monopoly market share), whereas iOS has an estimated 20%-50% (depending on who you ask) (30%-50% for Android).

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