A cultural element of both China and Japan is that nothing is really bad, wrong, or immoral, unless you get publicly caught. That's not to say everyone embraces such ideology but it is pervasive in their cultures.

Actually, its well known the primary reason its slow is that its written in Ruby - or at least it used to be.

+1 Insightful

You forgot quotes around the word, "information." And "information" is not the same thing as data. We have a lot of "information" about climate change; we just have little concrete data in so far as what the hell it actually means and/or how should we properly interpret it.

Don't forget your towel. Thanks for all the fish.

Sadly, yet another nail in the coffin for /.

The main problem is, we honestly have no clue what's going on. Anyone who says we have this all figured out is either an idiot or someone pandering for funding.

There is lots of contradictory data and that's ignoring the fact that some of the data is extremely suspect from the start. Hell, some of the data has several multiples more noise the then signal they hope to detect. When questioned, literally the official response is, "Shhhh....noise doesn't effect our signal." Which is, of course, a major WTF??!?

Seriously, should we learn more about it? Absolutely! Should we be wary of absolute claims? Absolutely! Again, we honestly have no idea what's going on. Some 20% of climatologists admit this. Some 80% of meteorologists admit this. Please note, meteorologists don't get their funding from "Climate change grants."

Says a lot. There are still plenty of platforms where assembler is REQUIRED. Furthermore, on others, even where higher level languages, such as C, are available, to access certain hardware features are still only available via direct assemble and/or machine code.

Bit of a red herring there. Capable of learning? Probably they are capable of learning. Do they have a desire to learn it? Probably not. Are they capable of learning it well? Maybe. Are they capable of understand the overall implications of some of the code they may generate at this level? Its iffy if we're talking about the average Java coder.

Reading a dictionary is easy. Remembering the words and knowing how to put them together properly and concisely is an entirely different animal.

When I first started doing Java, I was shocked and amazed at how very shitty the entire IO model and APIs were for IO and Data/Time. Literally, doing it in C++ and especially Python would have been leaps about bounds faster, easier, and better. I quickly found my self wonderful why so many claim Java development is faster than C++ when in these areas, clearly it is not.

Its funny that Python has had this licked for some time now. In fact, they have an entire interface to allow for clean resource acquisition and release of any object and even added a statement to compliment.

Python's combination of, "with/as", context management, and, "try/except/else/finally", make error handling and recovery for even complex use cases fairly easy and extremely powerful.

Glad to know you're here to fix the entire world's education system. Sorry, but YOUR logic is deeply flawed. With your logic, none of the "good schools" are actually any good. So yes, clearly those capable of mastering difficult tasks show they are better in any way.

I'm going to take a wild stab here and say, perhaps you are a Java programmer? And even if you are not, YOUR logic is dubious at best and in no way invalidates the line of thinking which spurred your initial response.

Not only that, but reporting the spam there requires full headers which are not available on a forum posting.

We don't. Its not.

Android's use of Java and UI's have absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand. Your reference is neither applicable or relevant.

Those mandatory locks are not POSIX. Thus number of cases where they actually add value are small. Traditionally, Linux advocates POSIX interfaces and defacto standards. In this vein, for the vast majority of use cases, alternative co-operative locking is by far preferred and as an advantage, you entirely avoid the cluster fuck that is file locking under Windows.

You're conflating NASA with Congress. There is a difference. The vast, vast majority of everything negative about NASA today, and why its in such a shape, is specifically because of Congress.

The shuttle that flies today, aside from being a lifting body, has nothing to do with what NASA originally designed and fought to build. Congress, and by extension lobbying from NSA and the Air Force, is what made the shuttle a cluster fuck. Sorry, but any blame for the cluster fuck that is the space shuttle does not belong with NASA, but rather the NSA, the USAF, and most definitely, the US Congress.

The combination is frequently what was call sociopaths. Or more commonly referred to as titans of industry.