A single pixel, bit or char with an advertisement is IMMENSELY obtrusive to me.
Ads in an OS? Really? Why not spam also? Probably they would make a partnership with YouPorn, why not?

Fixed it for ya!

I was one of these kids. But the learning curve of BASIC, despite smooth, is quite short also. In short time I reached a dead-end. There was nothing more and what was there was slow beyond usefulness. All knowledge I gathered was insufficient to do something serious, and useless as Pascal, C or assembly I learned later had nothing to do in syntax or style of BASIC.

Even Pascal, which was relatively easy it was a pain in the ass with its annoying pedantic-ness and over-protectionism.
C, while steeper, did what I wanted to do, without questioning it all the time (like Pascal did) and it was worth every millisecond I spent learning it. After I passed over the learning curve I could code efficiently and get things done.

There is no need to permanently lock it. An hour would be enough.

They can keep their virginity after sex? How? Oral?

That story reminds me our story in Greece. "Buy more weapons or Turks will invade you" arms dealers told us. And we bought tanks, airplanes, submarines, until we reached half a trillion dollars debt, we practically bankrupt and we became slaves of our lenders. Life became so unbearable that I had to emigrate.

Solution would be mutual agreements between the US, Russia and China for controlling weapons - both to cut down costs and to enable such great technology as nuclear fusion to be used in production for the good of the people.

They did use steam engines to open large temple doors. It was a matter of priorities, and gods were given precedence.
That is the same with fusion. The first fusion bomb was made I think in late 40's or early 50's. They all said we'll be capable to have energy for civilian purposes in some 40 years. It didn't happen. Just because gov't (both American and Soviet, the latter produced a 200Mt bomb!!) preferred allocate funds for making bigger and bigger bombs (as if fission bombs were not strong enough) rather than producing clean energy.

I'm not pacifist, ok? But I'm pissed off when great discoveries are first given priority to the military rather to the well being of the people.

King's Quest I and II were made that way at the '80s, not on DVD of course, but on 5.25 floppy. It was a immensely stupid idea, thankfully KQ3 run on plain DOS. What an evil mind could think such a thing!

I think single-tasking and rebooting to play a game is not the way forward.

Idk for computer processors, but Texas Instruments had some older DSP that could load, store, add, multiply and add-and-multiply in single cycle (TMS320C30 for example). Modern models ('C67xx, 'DM642) may not compute in single cycle but do not block execution - flow continues, and when data is ready it appears at the registers. Even conditional jump is single-cycle as it continues to flow, and 4 clocks later executes the jump (you can fill with NOPs if you please)

Actually it is less than single cycle if you take into account that you can execute (by hand) multiple instructions per clock (granted that you don't use the same resource).

They say that was is business, but I fail to see what kind of businessman would invest $4tn in a high risk bid to control some oil, a control that IF it is gained, may be lost in a regime change, something that seems to get frequent in Middle East.

No, slow progress is not that useful, if it is outpaced by others. Because with or without DARPA progress will be made and solar cell efficiency will continue to increase. That would be a chance to accelerate it.

But I don't care that much. I've seen trillions of stories in Slashdot about huge capacity batteries of bizarre materials, huge capacity storage media for the masses, etc, etc, but never seen these discoveries to bear fruit.

Oh... Where is Mafia when you need it? Good old times...

By 2030 humanity will have mastered nuclear fusion.
Problem solved.

Uhm... No! Not even for basic things that are taken for granted in normal desktop environments.

See suggestions for USB 4.0, 5.0, etc.

IBM T221 uses a weird scheme of four DVI links, back then when there was no DisplayPort. The latter is at version 1.2, with bandwith something less than 20gbps.
Just wait for the next version...