It's true that a few years ago you had to stay close to the cutting edge and now you don't; but I'm pretty sure it's not because graphics cards had outpaced games, but because game developers slowed their pace because they wanted good performance on consoles.

I'm sure game developers could easily overwhelm graphics cards if they wanted to, but that doesn't only block PCs without high-end cards, but also all the consoles. I have to say that as a PC-only gamer, I find the situation very positive. I like not having to upgrade constantly.

I think it's the other way around. I've worked at Intel, and the mindset was more towards "what can we do FOR our customers" (Dell, Apple etc.).
It's true they're leading the market now, but a good method to make sure it stays that way is to keep the customers happy.

First of all, I don't think kids' introduction to programming should be by studying any specific algorithm. I personally taught myself the feeling of programming by playing around in Pascal, trying to just make things happen. In retrospect my code must be horrible, inefficient, non-modular, etc. but it was fun and it really gave me the "hanging" of programming. I'm sure many others around here started much the same. Sure, in high-school we were taught proper CS which we sometimes practiced on paper in pseudo-code, but that came later. Secondly, I don't think this is about "relying on any specific language concept". From my experience switching programming language is not that difficult of a thing to do. Having started my way on Pascal might have made ML, Prolog and Befunge more difficult for me to learn, but I have successfully written code in them. A teenager needs a simple, intuitive environment, in which she can play around. I think something like Basic or Pascal fits that role perfectly.

Dunno man... it worked for me, once I changed the settings it behaves just like in 3.0 except it doesn't display the x button (but I can close it just fine with either middle-click or File->Close Tab).

They changed the default behavior, but you change it back from about:config (type about:config in your url bar):
set browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false.

I RTFA and found one paragraph to really show everything in a new way:

"Show BioShock to a non-gamer -- someone who hasn't been desensitized to killing virtual people -- and watch their reaction. Show them how you bludgeon people to death with a pipe wrench. If they don't wince and express some form of shock at what's taking place on the screen, they're either seriously disturbed or they're a seasoned gamer."

According to Babylon,

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adj. not according to chronology, anachronistic, obsolete, out of date; not properly dated, not assigned to the correct time period (of a person, object or event)

I don't know any place in which the freedom of expression is absolute. There are always restrictions - to prevent libel, because of national security, to avoid incitement to violence, etc. Yet I'd still say freedom of expression exists with those limitations.

Because the websites in question might not fall under German jurisdiction.

Although, since most countries have anti-child-pornography laws, it might be possible after all through cooperation - and that trying to close the sites down is probably a better alternative.

There are cycle-detection algorithms that do not require a full mark-and-sweep; they run a limited, local scan which can be immediately performed any time a reference is decreased to 1.

I disagree about the "boring" part. I took a university course on garbage collection (and a bit more, but that was the main topic) and it was absolutely fascinating. It was filled with a lot of interesting challenges - like how to handle multithreaded systems, how to avoid dirtying the cache, how to write incremental garbage collectors to prevent pauses, etc.

That's informative, but are you sure it will still be considered "private e-mail" if it was sent from a company address and signed (explicitly) as a company employee?

Prolog?