Even if you have the immobilizer on your new car, if a potential thief thinks your car is one of the stealable ones, you may still end up with a broken window.
Odyssey is closer to 64 than Galaxy. You don't repeatedly enter the level for different stars, you just enter the level once and there's different objectives that reward you with stars. Definitely not on rails at all.
Having Apache Spark as a dependency kept us locked into JDK 8 for ages. They've finally got things updated now, but I don't know what their hold up was.
I haven't dug into it myself, but Netflix makes something called Polynote that is supposed to add some awareness of the sequence of the cells to combat this
It might vary from field to field, but in genetics Excel is a complete nonstarter, and even numpy is not going to work on sufficiently large datasets. The project I work on, http://hail.is, was started to help deal with this.
I've never had this happen personally. What OS is this? I use Firefox on OSX installed through Homebrew, so I have to manually update it with brew. Firefox has never asked me to update.