If course it matters, it's a beta! Duh.

That's two weeks of lost beta testing and compatibility verification with your companies software and existing infrastructure. That's potentially another two week delay in being able to successfully deploy it.

It may not matter much or a lot, but it certainly does matter.

In my case it only slightly matters, but I only have 45 days remaining of my free license for the new version of our ERP client I'm testing for compatibility.
Now I admit I already ran into a couple show-stopper bugs with the ERP client, so I already know we won't be deploying in the next three months. But had those issues not already come up that would be roughly a third of my testing window gone.

You only don't think it doesn't matter and not care right up until something critical doesn't work, then you will complain I didn't do enough testing :P

As much as I tend to poke fun at your corporate overlords policies, a big congrats and thumbs up are in order to both the review team and whomever made that part of the java.com website!

Shh! Please don't jinx me.

I'm currently in negotiations with the University of Toronto to secure funding and resources to start up my Unicorn and Care Bare Dissection class: Biology 666

Doesn't look too heavy of use to me.

With no Java in my browser, I can read all the text on that page, see all the menu links and even click them to go to the target pages, and see only a single Java applet (well, after clicking their agree button)

Even better, when I do try to detect my Java version I see text output on the page that is both
A) there and readable, and
B) factually correct!

It says it can't determine my Java version, which is fairly accurate as I have no Java for it to detect the version of.
It doesn't show a blank page, or an error that Java isn't installed, or have most of the page missing like the original poster claimed would happen.

I have to admit, and I hate saying it about a company like Oracle, but that page is both very light on Java usage and probably one of the best implementations of graceful fail back and browser plugin handling in general that I've seen.

That is pretty much the problem, they apparently only could afford the one backup radio link
(after the problem of the primary fiber break of course)

So they could afford and did have One radio transceiver using a dish, and it was damaged as well.

As far as a ground station at the island goes, there is little difference to a large storm between a microwave transceiver and a satellite transceiver. If they still only had the one backup dish at the same location just of the other type, it would have been damaged just the same.

The obvious joke answer is: clearly they needed TWO backup links!
Or to quote from Futurama:

I'm almost certain any such device will contain at least one atom with an atomic weight above lead, which by definition is a radioactive particle :P

The most wonderful thing about a patent troll attempting to sue me for successfully building a fusion power device, is that by definition I have just built a working fusion device!

There is pretty much nothing that can prevent such a device from simply making the patent troll disappear, almost literally (OK technically the atoms the patent troll used to consist of would not be destroyed, they would simply be rearranged into a non-trollish and non-living form, diluted over a much larger volume of space than previously arranged)

One will not get far in life pissing off the only person with a functional fusion device, and there is next to nothing that could be done to stop them :P

Going off of TV episodes, some books, and the borg documentary, the borg queen has said on a few occasions that certain species are put to certain tasks to be most efficient.

The Klingons were assimilated for physical strength requiring tasks, not brain/CPU power.

The Voth however were assimilated for their technology (roughly equal to the borg) and their brain power, and used mainly to advance the borgs theoretical physics and such.
The Voth also had transwarp technology independently developed, and while it may have been ret-con'ed in it was stated this is where the borg got it from too.

The Kazon on the other hand were avoided for assimilation completely, as the species was deemed too stupid and incapable for anything, and their very presence in the borg collective took them that much further away from "perfection"

PS, sorry... </nerd>

It's another couple good patters for antivirus software to look for and trigger upon finding.
Anyone infected with their rootkitted drivers four years ago and haven't had the malware update may find out about being infected with it.

If they used the same company name for their 2015 certificate as is used in the certs published, that would be another signature for AV software to trigger on if they kept your rootkitted drivers updated.

That's about it however.

The certificate is long expired so can't be used to sign any new code with.
You can also be pretty certain their next certificate (to be issued any day now, if not already) will be under a different name as well.

That's software doing exactly as instructed, and as expected.
The question is: Is the software working perfectly to be considered a software fault?

A developer or operator fault most certainly. But there was no part of the software doing anything it wasn't told. No part that had any expectation of working differently than it did.

Here we call that operator error.

"I right clicked this file and selected delete. When it asked if I was sure I clicked Yes. Now I'm shocked, appalled, and confused why that file got deleted!! Your software is broken!"

Now arguably we don't know the exact details of this particular case, it very well Could have been a software fault and it wasn't reported as such.
It could also have been a fault with the documentation, where even if the command worked as originally intended, it didn't work as documented.
Honestly with such a complex system it could have been one or more of any number of things.

I'm making no claim to what actually happened.
Just providing example on how such a "Not a software fault" situation could have happened.

I don't see why it must be.

Imagine you wrote a shell script to first create a temp folder, then recursively delete the source data folder, followed by copying the source folder to the new temp folder.

Oops, your data is gone!

Is that a fault with the delete command doing exactly as you instructed it to?
Or is that a fault in your sequence commands in the script?

The new relationship standards:

A friend is someone you share wifi passwords with.
A best friend is someone that helps hide the bodies.
True love is when you merge your media collections.

Allow me to summarize a reply.

As for the modpack, these days I mainly use the direwolf20 pack from FTB launcher. I think it's only just over 100 mods.
I also used to play the TolkenCraft pack (no idea how many mods it used)

As for my world age, it was generated this year so ~6 months old. I couldn't tell you play time, but I'm not really near the god-tier you describe. I do have a small-to-medium AE setup if that counts :P

Also upon generating a new world I see similar results, although in that case the client is being pretty busy generating the new world, so I'm not sure if that counts.
But how long should initial world gen take? Shouldn't the lag be mostly gone in 10-15 minutes?
Yes it certainly has less lag after those 10 minutes, but it is still pretty bad as previously described.

Back in the 1.2.5 days and Tekkit, I recall seeing insane FPS rates in the f3 debug screen. Like on the scale of 400 (I'm pretty sure that was on my gtx275 but I don't remember)
Granted plenty of other problems back then, but still...

Now for the bits that stand out above the rest from your post:

First, thank you for the link.

Second, NO, of course I don't have any Java clues, I'm no Java developer. Why would you even assume I would?
I only use Java because another program I desire to run needs it.

I can't really be expected to customize my Java settings when no one has said that is needed.
So I naturally left everything default.
And yes, it is 64 bit Java JRE

Yea thanks for suggesting I'm spreading FUD.
Let me guess: "Can not reproduce, didn't try or listen to explanation. Closing ticket as NOFIX"

Seriously.. I was/am sitting here offering to run any and whatever actual tests, benchmarks, debugging, and anything else I could do to show the results of these problems to your own levels of expectation... so clearly FUD is a worth mentioning option.

I already and once again grant I could be doing something wrong.
So what the fuck do I do to do it right?!

A fresh install of FTB, fresh download of modpack, on an updated Java with default settings...
On a 6-7 month old Win7 Pro install.

I did run IE once to download Steam and a package from microsoft. All minecraft related files came from my main PC (although all came directly from Oracle, Mojang, and FTB)
In-client downloads, windows updates, and a MS security essentials DL from microsoft, are the only other internet usage that PC sees. No other web browsing is done from there.
(As nice as MSSE is on system resources, I can't say I trust it completely)

But despite all that, and not that I'm trying to force you to help me, but if there is nothing that will convince you of what I'm saying (as seems to be the case) then you have no justification for calling me a liar.

Sorry for the double-reply, but after answering your direct complain I forgot to put in my on-topic reply.

Using Minecraft for education is a completely valid option to be considered.

I know from experience it can do so quite well in some cases, being both on the instructor and student side of things within minecraft.

I was an instructor teaching Lua programming using ComputerCraft on a server setup specifically for education.

I was also a student in various vanilla redstone classes, as my redstone skills are quite lacking compared to even a moderately advanced builder.

Some of the articles listed classes sound like they would work great within minecraft especially creative design, physics, and math, but even advanced math like logic and branching out into either programming or electronic/logic design is a wonderful fit.

I admit to being curious and confused on the history lessons being better in Minecraft, but if someone with more teaching skills than I have wishes to give it a try at making it work, more power to them!

I'm sorry you are having clock malfunctions, but just so you know the current year is 2015 :P

But seriously, when modded minecraft takes 6+ gigs of ram to load in 15 minutes, and after that gives you mainly 1 frame every 3 seconds lasting up to a half a minute, with spurts of 10 frames a second for a couple seconds, it's really hard to give good words to any of the components involved.

But OK, modded minecraft isn't fair. So how about vanella minecraft?

The stock 1.7.10 client under Java 7 (the last cross-platform version), or even the stock 1.8 client under Java 8 (with lwjgl 2.0, which is windows only for now) - I get between 20 and 25 frames a second with the occasional one second lock up every few minutes.

This is on an i7-5820k and Nvidia GTX 970 with 32GB ram - a PC that ranks 97% world wide in 3dmark.

Again, it is extremely difficult to give any good words to any component involved here.

The joke used to be "Can it run Crysis?", but since the answer is now "Yes, at 120fps on a 4k display" the joke has become "But can it run modded minecraft?"

Note I am refraining from putting any blame squarely on any single component involved here, including Java.
(My only real Java-ish related complaint is the sorry state of lwjgl 2.0, but even that isn't a Java problem specifically and so shouldn't count)

If you would like me to run any specific benchmarks on my PC to give the supporting numbers, please feel free to ask. Just let me know what and how and I'll post up the results.
For a baseline, I do own 3dmark, as well as some current high end games like Crysis, Shadow of Mordor, and GTAV which I can benchmark side by side.
What I sadly do not have is any form of screen capture software, nor the experience with such software to produce a video.