You're confusing it with snake oil.

In Soviet Russia, you can just go away!

Tomato is not sweet?

You mean, just like slaves? They were given all that, most of the time.

I'd say a lawyer could be a doctor, too. And probably most are. Here in Germany, many politicians have a doctorate in some academic field, though most not medical. I'm not sure about this in the U.S., Wikipedia says Woodrow Wilson was the only president with one.

In theory, reality should be about consistent with theory.
In reality, though...

+1 Funny

I don't use Java3D but if you look at the jnlp file at http://download.java.net/media/java3d/webstart/release/java3d-latest.jnlp you can see how native libraries are included depending on os:

I don't like oracle either. But if you are writing a webstartable application, you probably have the infrastructure to sign your own jars. So you could sign the Java3D-jars yourself and distribute them together with your application. Depending on availability of something like http://download.java.net/media/java3d/webstart/release/j3d/1.5.2/windows-i586/j3dcore-d3d_dll.jar - signed or not - isn't really advisable anyway.

In a strange reversion of normal slashdot operating procedure, I read the summary, but not the title.

The summary is talking about optimization for "smartphones and other mobile devices using Intel chips". Totally not what you read into it.

This may be debatable, but shops close when you have free time because the people who work there would like to have free time, too.

I totally agree. Also, it's not about the noobs. I suspect most experienced java programmers cant' code the correct try/catch/finally/try/catch for a resource access without looking it up. Check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4092914/java-try-catch-finally-best-practices-while-acquiring-closing-resources

To be honest, the small ones are not that uncommon in Europe either, probably because they need less space and are less expensive.