Subject says it all! Thanks Hairyfeet :-)

Come to the Netherlands, there's lots of work for good programmers
Spilgames is hiring Erlang specialists.

I second the 'red screen' problems of Windows 7. Very recent Sony VAIO, brand new USB umts sticky, installation of very large name Telecom provider failed with a redscreen.

You can observe things like the color of distant stars, the rotations of galaxies, even the cosmic background radiation. We can see, for example, that hot hydrogen on a distant star has exactly the same kind of spectroscopic signature that hydrogen here on earth does.

But we don't, we see a redshifted version. We have explained that this is because the galaxy is moving away but maybe it's something else.
P.S. I am a physicist, an experimental type.

And what is a day before god made the Earth? Or do you use the 'day' timestandard, and then apply it back to before he made the earth. Oh, which day, the one we have now, or the one a couple of billion years ago? Oh oops, there was no couple of billion years ago, It all started 6000 years ago or something.

The small country is where I live, and it's definitely a social democracy with high taxation, decent unemployment benefits, mandatory healthcare insurance and such. The original poster equated that with high youth unemployment, and it takes just one counter-example to prove that that hypothesis is wrong.

Yeah, so it's apparently not so much the social democrat philosophy of the European countries as it is in the implementation of labor laws and other factors. I know there's more labor mobility in the Netherlands than in France, but I don't know why this is so. Unions are more powerful in France, that's for sure, but I don't know if that's an important factor.

Looking at the youth unemployment figures for the USA (17.6%) and that of for instance the Netherlands (6.6%), you seem to be mistaken.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=youth+unemployment+USA+vs+Netherlands

Suse with KDE has more polish than kubuntu, KDE is definitely second choice in the ubuntu universe.

Tried to install from a DVD on my Vaio laptop. Unity crashes during install. Tried the 32 bit version. Unity crashes during install.
Installed OpenSuse 11.4 from DVD; everything works perfectly, video, sound, camera, wifi, multi-boot.

So you ARE fanboying; you say something is 'miles better' than something else, even though you have never worked with it. If the shoe fits or something....
And you also do not address the caching issue in the JIT compiler, because that's the real problem with anything approaching realtime in Java.

The one big problem of Java is its unpredictable latency, mostly due to the caching status of the JIT compiler. If the bit of code you need for smooth scrolling is already in the cache, its fast and otherwise it's slower. There's also the occasional garbage collect which really locks the whole thing.There are some attempts to make Java interpreters more predictable but to me they feel like an awful hack, trying to force Java into something it was never meant for.
I have actually tried extremely simple programs using swing, awt, swt and qt-jambi, and all of them jitter when showing a tickertape. The same qt program in C++ does not jitter. So I stand by my point of view. Don't believe me; try it yourself.
As for fanboyism; you asked for it with you 'miles better'. It's not, it's just different and far less integrated and not as fast as Qt. And it's Java, so it doesn't start quick, and is not really quick (compare Eclipse with Qt-Creator for instance). Have you even worked in Qt? I have, and in Java + AWT, Swing, Swt and even Qt. Oh and about two dozen other languages.

Try make a SMOOTH scrolling ticker tape text, and then come back with your fanboy nonsense.

here is the complete scenario of what will happen, told by a guy who has seen the same happen to his small company when it was bought by Adobe, via the same guy that's now running Nokia.
Qt needs to be forked asap.

you are kidding