It can be done without functional programming, see D's immutable keyword and thread-local instead of global variables by default. It seems the results of this research would fit very well in D rules.

You may want to give Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com/) a try.

The general public in the world doesn't give much thought to anyone having that information.

But changing your name can make you lose some good reputation/respect you've built under the old name.

These things are not problems for the average user who needs to stream only an MP3 file.

In self-documenting code you generally only need to explain why you did something some way if you do something unusual, a large part of the code is/should be very straightforwad.

You can't block websites, they'll just pop up under different names and addresses easily discovered with a google search. You should define which websites are allowed like North Korea does with their own internet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea).

What if you have to download only the first level to start playing? The next level is downloaded in background. Maybe people wouldn't even download the whole game because some developers have said that most people don't even get half-way through their games.

Java is not the problem, Dalvik is. Hotspot is faster but it wasn't implemented at Google so...

You really shouldn't be using C or C++ for user facing applications, unless you're doing Battlefield or something like that. You better be worrying about features than memory management and such.

Android and JavaME are the biggest mobile platforms today so java actually is the biggest winner in tablets, phones, tv cable/over the air boxes, bluray, etc.

Java + SWT is great for the desktop. The best portable runtime environment with native look and feel. What more do you want on top of that?

Isn't there a nanofoot, imperial units users?

No, that means that virtual machines could and did dominate mobile platforms since the start of mobile computing in cellphones and things like that.

In the corporate world, the majority of programmers must use hardware provided by the company that follows strict guidelines about what can be used and that includes Windows-only for the most part. The majority of production deployments are on Linux machines, so there you have a heterogeneous environment where write-once, run-anywhere is necessary.