Runs on an interpreter = raw speed? You have lost your mind. You really ought to look into how computers work. At least C++ is compiled. Java sucks. Java promised code reuse - not only is there no code reuse but changes to Java mean that 30% of Java programmer time is spent maintaining legacy code. Infrastructure, how many different infrastructure components have you gone through? Is it more than 10? Bjarne Stroustrup said "C lets you shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder but if you do it blows your whole leg off." There is a clue in there. C++, Java and OOP in general were created to keep mediocre programmers from screwing up too much. Carnegie Mellon has dropped OOP as a requirement for Comp Sci saying that it's outdated and will no longer be useful with modern hardware. Done any heterogeneous parallel programming? Are you comfortable with non-deterministic code? I'm 63 and you young turks remind me of the COBOL programmers at the home for ossifying techies. Gotta keep movin' son.

"C++ is a horrible language." - Linus Torvalds

Snake pits, punji stakes, tar traps....no need to go high tech after millennia of innovative approaches.

I say that first we give him a fair trial and then we hang him. Gives 'em time to build a solid scaffold too.

It's as quaint as a sextant.

A safe, clean, reliable, inexpensive source of energy many orders of magnitude greater than anything we have is (or could be) a solution to many of our problems, economic and environmental. Lowering costs of everything means, well, a lot. Better world standard of living, health care, food supply....it goes on. The future of manned space exploration depends on this. Without a new, very powerful source of energy, we aren't going anywhere. Is fusion the answer? Is it the answer? Is it at least a step in the right direction?

Read about how a quantum computer works in the literature and then look at what this machine does. Two totally different things. Interesting, promising, a worthy endeavor - yes. Maybe a new use for the word, a new type of quantum computer. But not what you probably think.

Me being chased by a rabid Wolverine.

Bjorne Stroustrup: "A single-threaded, nonvectorized, non-GPU-utilizing application has access to roughly 0.4% of the compute power available on the device."

Disable cloaking device too.

A 10% vig will cover the stockpiling of books and party materials: single malt scotch, caviar, oysters, fireworks. Newt, you bring the naughty girls. Gladiator fighting for the women. Fidel you're bringing cigars, Party runs until world ends. Anyone leaving early concedes their bet. No guns, knives, poison or explosives. Bets paid after the end of world must paid be in gold or diamonds,

It sounds perfect for a small variation on an ARM device. A very simple sensor could continuously detect the vortexes and their centers, a simple circuit programmed into an FPGA could adjust fins to keep it on course. An easily constructed device would fly straight down the concentric rings and at target radiate spherical pattern of jagged shrapnel, eliminating the device and killing or otherwise neutralizing anyone within about 10 meters. One could acquire the components off the shelf in a city of any size. If you spend a great deal of money developing this you would need to tell the operator to be sure there was no one with an engineering degree at the other end.

In the 30-year (or so) old film "Three Days of the Condor", Robert Redford works for a little CIA branch that reads books and magazines looking for ideas. They strike a nerve somewhere and the shooting starts. There's "fantasy" science fiction which is wonderfully imaginative and there is "science" science fiction a la Arthur C. Clarke who described telecommunications and global positioning satellites in the 1950s, Star Trek's "Warp Drive" prompted the idea of the Alcubierre drive which is theoretically but not technologically possible. Of course flying was known to be theoretically possible but not technologically possible until the last century.

Saturn moved out of Taurus.

By this definition, a good bout of healthy sex qualifies. Get your woman and have at with vigor a few times a week and you should be in good shape. Of course this being for the sake of your health, there can be no slacking! Whether you you feel like it or not you have to get to it! And no cutting the workout short either. You have to put forward that extra effort that made America great.