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> So Windows Phone is updated at the will of the carriers as well?

You can register for the Preview for Developers program [1] and get timely OS updates regardless of the carrier.

With the 8x the lack of updates is an HTC issue tho as far as I know. They look to roll out 8.1 on some of the 8Xs in October [2].

[1]: http://www.wpcentral.com/preview-for-developers

[2]: https://twitter.com/htc/status/509409362100879361

> No, when you have the website you don't need to "google" it.

You have the company name, not necessarily the website. It could be .com, .net and probably reasonably well a few other ones.

> Really?

I did not dig up the changelog of the make homepage but the linked post is fairly old (2010) and the make manual gets updated somewhat frequently[1].

Why this was posted and upvoted tho I don't quite understand. It's not some kind of arcane concept barely anybody knew/knows about. The accepted answer doesn't seem to be better than the part in the current manual about it either.

[1]: > This is Edition 0.72, last updated 9 October 2013, of The GNU Make Manual, for GNU make version 4.0.

Aren't games on Steam pretty much "rent-only"? Considering your don't own them in a sense that you are not able to use them without your Steam account.

I can't really comment on other countries, but at least in Germany you have a (pretty) difficult time trying to fire somebody for 'under-performing' as long as the person doesn't mess up unrelated things (like repeated misbehavior, e.g. feigning illness, theft, sexual harassment, ..) or your company isn't doing all that well from an economic point of view.