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A very quick glance suggests to me that the only thing C++ specific there is the filename extension (although a C compiler would do a more thorough check than I do; and faster, even!)
Vertical centering has been relatively easy since CSS 2.1 (Table model); flexbox of course offers much more than that. Flexbox may be finalized and unchangeable, if only because so many browsers already support it unprefixed (as support for such properties is almost never removed) – however, like much of the CSS3, flexible box model is not yet a W3C Recommendation, and is, in theory at least, subject to change. With proper tools, a prefix here and there is not a huge burden.
The reason why many browsers rush to unprefix CSS3 is not that it's perfect, but because of the lazy web developers who only prefix stuff for WebKit. This may or may not bite the community in the future.
Note that Google provides newer versions of Flash player for Linux with alongside Chrome. That version works on any browser that supports the Pepper plug-in interface (currently Chrome/Chromium (+forks)/Opera/? – and not Firefox).
It isn't actually very old – not much older than current releases on other supported platforms, because quite often security bugs affect it as well, and Adobe updates it as well.
Adobe has promised to support the NPAPI Linux plug-in for a few more years (IIRC till 2017). It doesn't get any new features, but security issues will be fixed, usually at the same time as on other platforms.
I didn't see anyone broadcasting their porn habits. OP only mentioned searching for porn; not which kind of porn, or whether he had downloaded it in the past.
I don't think any of the founding members (some, or all of which have served time in jail) are involved in running the site (or have been in years) – at least not officially.
Really? Hardly any? I would consider it rude not to offer free restroom in a shopping centre, although it's far too common in a fast-food joint (they aren't really any better than the ones that are truly public.)
The Apple reference sound less like a business plan, and more like typical hype of Apple exceptionalism. Apple makes the top dollar by selling devices with a nice profit margin. Would they really want to add several hundred dollars to their price, thus cannibalizing their sales – just to donate most of that to record labels? (No!) Yes, they would get their cut, but most of it would be away from iTunes revenue. (Not all Apple buyers use Spotify or similar services – and if Apple could raise their retail price without diminishing their sales, they would.)
And if they made the inclusion (of music) optional, why would record labels settle for much less than what Spotify pays? For no reason, and they wouldn't.
The Nokia platform would be that which we used to call Maemo in the past (currently Mer, behind Sailfish OS). Nokia no longer uses it.
To be precise, Microsoft didn't buy Nokia's brand for use in phones, they licenced it, for about a year for smartphones and a decade for the so-called feature phones.
They just use contract manufacturers just like Apple does.
They do more than that; they have outsourced also the business execution (i.e. including selling, warranties, etc.) of the device to Foxconn. They just share in the revenue by licencing the use of their brand and design (and software).
Certainly you cannot. However, even the connector receptacle resembles Lightning ports.
There's a perfectly reasonable reason for that, though. The design seems to have avoided most (or any) angles, which makes the receptacle rounded, too.
I doubt that, considering it's lacking the Apple home key.
Anyway, apart from specs, to me it really looks more like a bigger iPhone 6(+) than an iPad mini. I'm not saying it's not influenced by Apple's design, but TBH there's only so many ways you can build a unibody-device from aluminium if you wish not to introduce angles (which annoy me when trying to hold a Surface device, for example).
Yes, a great deal. Nokia is still an independent company, even though it sold a division of theirs to Microsoft a while back.
Microsoft also bought a license to the Nokia brand on select products for a set period.
So is GCC. Perhaps it's still one less compiler to deal with, if they don't need GCC on any platform any more.
Browsers have scrolled less than 100% since forever, but there are differences. Most noticeably, Firefox scrolls (or used to scroll) more than Chromium, and has problems with content hiding more often.
I happen to like many of the New York Times articles that "mess" with your scrolling (that is, use the position changes to trigger events). To me, they somewhat resemble magazine articles with full page images in them, and I don't see a problem in there.
In Linux, I get a varying, incomplete image with Firefox (33) and nothing with Chrome (38).
Are you sure of that? Certainly you can bring with yourself (for personal use) as much alcohol as you want across any EU border, and I'd be surprised if it became a fraud at some point just because it's shipped for you.
This kind of airline price discrimination, however, is not legal within the EU.
That's a good point in a way. At that size (especially with the 4:3 screen ratio) it's certainly uncomfortable to hold it like a phone, even with huge hands. Ergo, screen size doesn't really matter that much (of course it matters somewhat; think of the forces and you realize what affects torque) – you hold it like an iPad Air, and the more interesting spec would be weight which I couldn't find by glancing the product page.
Correction: a piss poor 27 inch display. "Quad HD" is way too little for that size; you need to at least quadruple the amount of pixels to get anything resembling print quality.
And I don't understand why we shouldn't strive for that. After all, (for me at least), much what I do on a computer is reading, and that benefits from a higher-resolution display up to a point much more than images.