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You rich folk with your "installed Word" 
TTFN - Kent
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Word 2013 is still doing a good job. Comparing the upgrade cost from Word 2003 (if my memory is correct, there was an upgrade offer in those days), distributed over 10 years of active use, is epsilon compared to the amount of money I have spent on beer during those 10 years  (and you wouldn't believe the price of beer in Norway!)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Office 2010 still alive and kicking.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet. I'm still waiting for my interrobang key?!
Or ‽ if your codepage and font allows
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As long as they allow you to remap it to "Don't give a sh*t"
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The "Windows" key drives me nuts; I fat-finger it more than deliberately use it.
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The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don't physically exist. Is he right? It's actually pudding?
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Kerr's looking at just the relativistic effects to disprove the existence of singularities. From a quantum perspective they can't exist either.
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My theory on emergent spacetime and gravity had the same conclusion,
see here[^]. It unifies gravity with the standard model of physics at quantum level!
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I thought that article might get your attention
So, you agree he might be on the right track? (The math was way beyond me, as well as most of the concepts)
TTFN - Kent
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I agree with the statement that "Singularities don’t exist" but perhaps for different physical reasons. Therefore I can't comment on whether or not Roy Kerr's approach is "on the right track" at present because there is a Penrose-Hawking theorem that he needs to get around which is quite technical in nature. But it is not necessary in my approach .
There are two kinds of approach to the attempts of realizing a consistent marriage between gravity and quantum mechanics: 1) treating spacetime as a fundamental physical entity as it is done in classical general relativity and main stream approach to its "quantization" including Roy Kerr's work; and 2) treating spacetime as an emergent entity from more fundamental concepts, which is what my theory had eventually accomplished in which Einstein's equation for curved spacetime was derived or emerged, together with Newton's gravitation constant G and cosmological constant Lambda, as an approximate one in which the very concept of emergent spacetime, which is a statistical entity here, inside or near a black hole becomes less clear due to larger quantum fluctuations there. There is no infinitesimally accurate spacetime entities like a classical singularity in my emergent spacetime since relativistic quantum mechanics takes over there.
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When I first heard about Semantic Versioning, or SemVer, I thought it was one of those ideas that’s so obviously right that we were all going to benefit from someone having just codified it and written it down. So it's a breaking change?
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Quote: Here’s the problem: people interpret SemVer [numbering releases using the a.b.c convention] as permission to make breaking changes.
What's a breaking change? If, for example, it modifies a function's arguments but is well documented so that users can easily change their code, big deal. The other end of the spectrum is something that forces non-trivial rework in some applications.
Quote: If you need to make a breaking change to your API, it means you screwed up.
Bzzt. At the trivial end, it means that the surface-to-volume ratio is being properly managed. No one can predict all future requirements. At the nasty end, it means consulting with users and giving them advance notice if a framework requires significant evolution in some area to better support new requirements.
This article strikes me as 🐘ing entitled whining. People can stay on the current release if they don't want to put in the effort to evolve their software. Either that, or they chose the wrong vendor.
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On the other hand, if I use a library A that depends on library B and library B makes a breaking change, I need to wait for library A to update its code before I can update to library B.
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Even worse if you depend on libraries A and B, which both depend on C, but each depends on a different and incompatible version of C. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Now known as Microsoft Edge: AI Browser the change of name does not appear to have been accompanied by any significant changes. "It's got electrolytes!"
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The "Everything that's hip and cool browser"
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "It's got electrolytes!"
What about dihydrogen oxynate, or whatever that stuff is called? That goes well in a web browser, right?
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Almost 11 million internet-exposed SSH servers are vulnerable to the Terrapin attack that threatens the integrity of some SSH connections. Oh, SSH...!
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Oracle recently announced that the MySQL database server now supports JavaScript functions and procedures. Who needs Structured Query Language when you could use a Silly Query Language?
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These malicious packages - deploying cyberespionage backdoors and targeting Windows and Linux systems - were found circulating via the PyPI repository. Security experts expect the problem to continue. Was it spelled P-Y-T-H-O-N?
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So this is how all those password manager (and other) security breaches occur? Someone is running Python code behind the firewalls, DMZ's moats graffitied walls? 
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A pernicious potpourri of Python packages in PyPI
I liked that, sounds like an Adam West Batman villain talking.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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While parked ahead of a pause in duties for the Mars solar conjunction, Curiosity put its Hazcams to another use. "That's my fun day. My I-don't-have-to-run day."
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