So, what you're saying is that Oracle's stagnant "sit on it" leadership is bad for people for whom the language and runtime are the end, the product, the point of it all.

As opposed to in the real world, in which the language and runtime are just tools to get shit done, and its users want stability.

You don't have to guess which community Oracle cares about. But if you're not sure, ask yourself which community can Oracle extort support contracts out of, or can be upsold on other products.

Follow the money. How much is the JCP paying Oracle to give a rat's ass about their concerns? Innovation is a cost center to someone protecting a market share, and competing against others who are protecting a market share.

If you want novelty, go find it someplace else. The other posters comparing Java to COBOL, even if jokingly, are very nearly right. Especially if you stipulate that, at the time of COBOL's dominance, the primary implementation of COBOL was associated with IBM big iron.

And that's your historical analogue of the day: COBOL was to IBM what Java is to Oracle.

A youtube video from Iran's Culture Minister explaining Tehran Catholicism.

I'll betcha a current CS grad wrote the auto-correct logic that did that.

Case... fucking...closed.

Feh. C. "Memory Management".

CS students taught in high-order language are completely deficient in their education. They haven't learned about opcode timing and instruction placement and hardware stack management.

If you aren't working exclusively in machine code, you're just a poser.

If watching cute adorable kitten videos is crazy, I don't want to be sane.

Because, cute adorable kittens.

I think "Superpower" status includes the ability to have both. Because hypocrisy doesn't matter if you're big enough that you don't have to care what other people think.

I'm pretty sure the U.S. passed that moral event horizon a long time ago.

News flash, badly written laws get misused.

Every tool is a weapon in the hands of someone with violent intent.

Business is a battlefield. Weapons are damn useful in a battlefield.

Business is ultimately responsible for the weaponization of the law. How could anyone argue that the CFAA is intended for anything else? If no one is digging holes, the only use left for a shovel is bashing your adversaries. The only question left, and it's purely an academic one, is whether this (mis-)use of the CFAA is an accident arising after its inception, or its real but unpublicized raison d'être.

But are they really guesting Princesses into Sofia's timeline?

Yes.

Does Cedric have something to do with it?

No, as far as I can tell. I guess it's assumed all the Disney Princesses have some kind of illogical shared continuity (regardless of time, history, or distance... because preschoolers). Think of it as the Power of Marketing.

but when I do, I assemble it myself.

Stay thirsty, my friends.

And a guest appearance on Sophia the First.

<shudder>

I was actually hoping that we'd be turned into Dean Martin. Even if he's long dead, he's cooler than the entire TOR user community and node operator community combined.

I'm not quite sure why Comcast hasn't emiserated the in-store situation yet

There are practical limitations in a brick-and-mortar situation. There are a limited number of behind-the-counter folks, and having to hassle a not-gonna-be-a-customer for an extended amount of time makes the lines at the counter grow and grow. Since it's the same counter (and workforce) used to generate business by selling hardware and service, it's counterproductive to sabotage that by extensive "retention" operations. Not to mention that the desperate, wheedling, infuriating conversation that results would be witnessed by everyone else in line; and no matter how dumb, most of the mammals in line may notice that and wonder if doing business with Comcast would be such a good idea.

Whereas a boiler-room telemarketing op has none of these risks and liabilities.

Moral of the story: deal with Comcast where they have some incentive to deal decisively: their own showrooms.