Yesterday I watched a TV show on German TV in which they used the Kinect system. It was broadcast on a major channel watched by millions. Two players had to play against each other in a quite unspectacular game. It was embarrassing, both due to the boring gameplay and the technical weaknesses of the system. During the first game, suddenly the split-screen switched to a single screen such that only one player could see his avatar. Nobody knew why and the TV show host quickly reacted and said "well, now you had a training run". After the second run one of the players complained that his moves were not recognized at all. He kept jumping all the time but the cameras obviously did not capture these jumps.

Intel and AMD will not suffer as much as Microsoft and other companies who have missed this trend. The desktop is quickly losing importance and with it are Microsoft's biggest cash-cows.

I live 2 hours away from Fucking. But I've never been there. I've read that the village is quite famous, but I wouldn't have expected to read about it on Slashdot.

This has nothing to do with the programming language used for teaching. Any reasonable CS degree programme includes a number of courses on computer architecure where there's plenty of room to explain topics like word length.

That must have been clear to Adobe when they introduced the concept. I don't see a way for any compiler (JIT or other) to automagically support a new instruction set. If Adobe does not have the resources to offer their JIT compiler for all the main platforms out there (ideally any platform), they can't expect the world to use their stuff.

No. I was merely pointing out that the Java JIT compiler generates optimized code for the platform the program is executed on. Even if it is the same architecture the JIT compiler can decide if e.g. MMX or SSE is available or not and emit suitable instructions.

Any Java VM that has been around for at least five or so years?

It is a perfectly valid and persuasive argument for anyone who argues that Flash lacks platform independence. It may not kill Flash, but it is one more step towards its disappearance.

But still the parent was mentioning this rate in a way that was meant to make it sound high, as opposed to what he thinks is a low wage. This is what I am getting at.

$23 an hour for a highly qualified IT expert? I don't know about the US, but where I live I have to pay about 6 times this rate just for a mechanic who repairs my car...

I stopped reading after this sentence...

I saw a short report about the two strongest beers in this list on German TV. They gave it to like six people, three women and three men, and none of them seemed to like ...

You forgot the LHC.

No it doesn't. "edelweiss" is pronounced like "adle-wise".

We use Flash for video. I see no reason to not use JavaScript (or Java) for audio.