Would you care to explain any of your reasons why? It seems to be vastly superior for client side work in comparison to everything else right now. I wouldn't use it on the backend (that's still C++ territory in my opinion), but it and/or Java work well on the web services side of the backend.

Writing a bytecode platform is exactly what using C# would do in any case (I guess I should have been clearer.) I don't care if the actual language on top is exactly C#, or something else, just let it compile to a bytecode platform that takes all the best of Java, C#, and other THICK CLIENT application languages because the state of the world today is that people are trying to write thick client applications in the web browser using languages never intended to be used in such a fashion.

This, a thousand time this.

Why don't browser makers get together and throw out the entire existing paradigm of horrific compromises and agree on completely fresh start with both language and UI framework.

Throw out HTML, throw out CSS, throw out JavaScript. Take the best *ideas* from them all, use C# (nothing to do with Microsoft though) and create a common framework on all platforms embracing those *ideas* and use OpenGL as the composition engine.

Reduced stimulus is EXACTLY classic sensory deprivation.

Maybe you're confusing it with total sensory deprivation.

Remove external stimuli with a static environment, and leave a single available stimulus, guess what's going to happen...

Sensory deprivation experiments, partial or full, have been going on for decades. How is this 'news' to the scientific community?

Weird, I only used it for C++ from 1.5 until VS 2010. The only time I had the problems you're describing are when the intellisense files were being invalidated because people were storing them (*.ncb) in source control and this was confusing my local VC++ setup.

I'm pretty sure you could turn off intellisense in 2003 and 2005 (don't recall with 2008 onwards though.)

As a long time VisualStudio user I find your problems to be rather 'bizarre' to say the least. I use many IDEs on a day to day basis from XCode, Eclipse, MonoDevelop, Emacs, KDevelop (only for one old project), and VisualStudio 2008, 2010, and 2012. It depends upon what platforms I'm building for.

I have a rather large Visual Studio solution that contains more than 30 projects including web services, DLLs, controls, assemblies, client applications, and COM/DCOM objects, and it takes about 5 seconds to startup and be ready to work when I load that solution.

I also don't run into the incremental build issues that you seem to experience. I've been building huge projects in VisualStudio for more than a decade and never experience the problems you are reporting except when somebody was hosing up source control and VisualStudio though files where changing all the time.

That being said, XCode is a really nice environment as well.

Seriously NASA?

SpaceX is launching rockets that effing land themselves and you're celebrating that your parachute works? Well, those are new...

Perhaps we could settle for "incapable of subtlety"... ;)

According to the Washington Post the CIA knew he was in the car. Several news outlets report this (although that could be parroting the Washington Post); however, several early reports about the attack appear to show the CIA proud that they killed Derwish as well (although that quickly changed after people got wind that he was an American.)

Apparently there was a 'secret finding' making this ok back in 2001/2002.

George Tenet is a yes man.

Honest about what? Why we should invade Iraq? That we aren't torturing anyone? That the CIA didn't mean to kill that American citizen?

Obama is a worse disappointment in this regard simply because everyone with half a brain should have known that as a Neo-conservative Bush would behave that way. Obama was supposed to be a return to constitutional principles. Now he might as well be making security policy with Cheney (there's a scary thought, lol...)

Sorry, Republicans handed him the perfect excuse so that objective parties will really never be able to know given they basically said f*** you to anything the guy even thought about irrespective of whether or not it was good for America...

Stop cheering me up...

They did, actually.

The CIA killed a 'terrorist' despite knowing that a U.S. citizen, Kamal Derwish, was in the vehicle at the time.

Apparently before 2002 there was a 'secret finding' that you could assassinate U.S. citizens who the government believed were aiding Al Qaeda.

That f***ing a**hole Bin Laden won the minute we started destroying our own constitution.

...amendments to the Constitution?

Obama is turning out to be just as bad as the Neo-Cons when it comes to "protecting us from ourselves."