This would have been a decent post without all the "sweetheart" bullshit. Hard to take a sexist seriously.

I wonder if Berners-Lee cringes when he sees Cerf described as "the Godfather of the web" :-)

Quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_performance#Comparison_to_other_languages:

• 1-4 times slower than compiled languages such as C or C++
• close to other Just-in-time compiled languages such as C#
• much higher than languages without an effective native-code compiler (JIT or AOT), such as Perl, Ruby, PHP and Python.

Oracle still owns the copyright.

He then later followed up with "SHABOOM!" and slapped his wife on the ass, before immediately pounding a 40.

Scala is multiparadigmal; you can use the functional features when you want, and ignore them and program Java-style when you want.

How could you "corner the market" like that? Java has an incredibly strong free software culture around it; making the compiler proprietary (it's free software today) and then even charging for it, would be Oracle Java's death knell and a free fork would take over.

Heck, Amsterdam even has it in their flag.

It's just been revoked.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1910868 is a little apropos, perhaps.

Ah! I had an M100 as well. It was great for its time. I later got a Tungsten, which was even better. Have both of them around here somewhere.

Is that you, Rick Sanchez?

I suspect and hope that your post is a hoax. I have not been able to find any news coverage.

Honestly, 115 kg is not "only". You should take care of your body.

I see what you mean, thanks for the link. So it's a scale between features/convenience/usefulness and privacy. Personally I value privacy higher, and I'm glad I can "opt-out" so to speak.