I thought you weren't allowed to quote, and you must provide a link to the article?Anyway, it seems suspicious, and I would have to view the original interview to provide a basis for any opinion.
I think it is mostly the general population's reluctancy to not only purchase gym membership, but also to take the time to go to the gym and work. I do not know if this is to do with the amount of time people now get, but I'm sure finance has something to do with it.
They have nothing to lose, although if they can put those resources towards XP and other now mainstream operating systems, and make their applications for those better, then why designate money towards an operating system that even Microsoft has now withdrawn support for?
He may simply have the same personality as you, and your being with him may grow into a platonic friendship. On the other hand, I think you need to dig deeper before making assumptions, and hopefully it will work in your favour. Best of luck.
If you have MySQL, and phpMyAdmin you can manually create a database and then create tables. Click 'Structure' and add fields, in which case you can make the relevant fields depending on your game.You can use php to connect to it and edit the data, but thats a different matter.Hope this helps somewhat.
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