It's called maturation and it has little to do with anything. Java is still used extensively and yet the news stream for it is pretty dead these days. The reason is that the massive flow of new libraries and tutorials and blog posts, etc. aren't there anymore. There's no point since everything you need already exists and new stuff is usually a modest improvement at best over the old stuff.

Just about every major website on the internet uses Java. I'm talking Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Netflix, Amazon, Best Buy, Target, etc. So, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

Also, the "webolution" existed long before Node.js. Java and C# are responsible for the vast majority of it. JavaScript has largely been icing on the cake.

Oh, and there's lots of other dynamic languages and most of them are better than JavaScript. Some are even suitable for large scale development. On the other hand, JavaScript is great for what it was defined for but it sucks balls for what it is used for today. Not surprising since the whole fucking thing was written in ten days.

You're probably one of those people who thinks async I/O was invented by Joyent even though it's existed for decades.

I've written many Ruby scripts and not a single one of them defines a class. Regardless, even if I had to, that hardly makes it OO. Actually most code that people call OO isn't even remotely close to OO. It's just code that has classes with the standard 3-tier separation.

Sorry but I cannot find any reference to that anywhere on the internet. Your post was hyperbolic and sloppy. Don't be surprised if you get called on it.

I stopped reading after "creates crazy number of threads". Java only creates the threads it's told to create. In short, you don't know what you're talking about.

Price out all of the parts and then come back and tell me how overpriced it is. I have yet to see anyone do it.

Because the people who buy these things won't be using Apple mice and keyboards anyway.

It has nothing to do with the iPhone. It has to do with the fact that it's a limited market so it's really not worth their time to make it a priority project.

If you'd bothered to do some research, you would know the new Mac Pro vents heat out of the top. So unless you plan on laying your legs over the top of it, you should be fine.

It's sponsored. Historically, they shit on Apple.

Apparently you have no idea what a banana republic is because this story has no relation to the concept.

I'm an independent and have been for many years and I'm almost never asked to work overtime. It's funny how companies suddenly care about your time when they have to pay for it. Exempt employee status should be renamed to "exploited employee who doesn't get paid for his work".

The NSA never said they don't have the ability, they just said that they don't do it. The leave it to the requesting agency to look into.

Your statement makes no sense whatsoever.

It was openly discussed and even demo'd on 60 minutes. Do you still want to stick with that "keep thing squiet and away from the masses" statement?

In any event, the NSA merely collects the data. Other agencies like the FBI will request information about the connections. So a phone number is provided to the NSA and the NSA gives them a set of phone numbers associated with the target number. It's up to the requesting agency to track down names and other details.