Errr, yes... they are very useful! Are you aware how many games are based on Id game engines?

It's possible that your CPU probably doesn't support hardware virtualisation. Many don't. Here is a list:

http://ark.intel.com/Products/VirtualizationTechnology

What gift cards? I'm pretty sure Google has the same complete billing information as Apple; the only difference is the price ($100/year vs $25 once).

This is so obvious I'm surprised it has to be stated. It is no different from the situation in iOS either. Everyone always knew there were dozens of methods one can use to bypass these gatekeepers.

Well indeed. VNC is a hassle. But so is remote X! Have you ever tried to connect to an existing X session remotely (VNC-style)? I'm fairly sure it is not possible.

That is one of the many reasons why a replacement for X11 is needed.

Haha, seriously? That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard all week!

Ok, so basically there's three Gods, and they're all God. And each one is also God. Jesus is God, Jesus's Father, God, is also God. Oh and there's the Holy Spirit - that's God too.

At least that's what it says in the bible. It makes no sense, but the bible is Truth (tm) so Christians spend an inordinate amount of trying to understand how Jesus went back in time and became his own father.

Did they have really high quality phones in the 1940s or something? Because anyone who isn't completely deaf could distinguish current phone call quality from "HD audio".

No he means how short it can be and still be a viable religion (as in it can reproduce in the minds of followers).

You'd *at least* have to include all the stuff about heaven, hell, God-still-likes-you-even-if-you-have-no-real-friends, etc.
You could exclude all of Numbers, Deuteronomy, Revelations, probably most of the traditional Bible stories (Noah's ark, etc).

It's an interesting question, and your answer is idiotic (I thought you were against that?).

Yeah I know, but apparently LLVM "bytecode" is really compiler IR, and not really suitable as a language and machine neutral bytecode. (It has specific x86 instructions and so on. There was a widely-linked mailing list message a while ago about LLVM not being suitable for use as a low level virtual machine.)

I've looked at Dart. It seems like javascript but with all the "hey, that's actually fairly neat" features removed, and their stupid counterfeight-typing system added on. Yeah... counterfeight typing. You heard it here first. Looks and sounds like static typing, but it isn't.

They probably *wanted* it to be static typing but supporting compile-to-javascript meant it was easier for them just to say "sod it, let's make it dynamically typed and call them 'annotations'". That's the only sane explanation for the insanity I can come up with anyway.

I still don't see why they couldn't have come up with a proper mostly-language-agnostic bytecode for the web. Like what LLVM sounds like it should be (but isn't).

Not sure about that one...

Not all languages are the same. Maybe your criticism is valid for C# / Java, but the other languages you list are all pretty different. Rust has some features, and certainly a unique combination of features (e.g. modern, and not garbage collected).

Well you don't actively need teachers to learn a language (tutorials, books, etc), nor do you have to learn every language in existence.

Maybe so interested people can follow its development, make suggestions, help write the compiler and so on?

Jesus Christ who spat in your face this morning? Why are you such a pessimistic parade-pisser?

There's only so much you can do with a "solid class library". And there already *are* solid class libraries -- or do you think you could do a better job the your predecessors?

ARM is no more complicated than Atmel... To be honest I think it is easier...