Q.E.D.

We need a law for this; mention a crusty 20 year old technology that still gets the job done and a avid user will manifest.

eg, vi, emacs,

> Java desktop applications are uncommon. Both these things are true,

Unless you actually are involved in software development.

Well now that you bring it up...

Despite Java being my bread and butter for a decade this is hard to disagree with, I've met lots of professional java "programmers" who don't understand the JVM at all. (And don't even get me started on system administrators for enterprise systems... Seriously you're admin of a linux box and you don't know what top is and you're uncomfortable at the command line? Really?)

Even worse is the student world, just dip into the Java question stream on StackOverflow. 50% of the questions any first-year student C.S. would laugh at.

Indeed, I've been using Eclipse as a daily driver for a decade. Current startup time for a new workspace is on the order of 10 seconds, VisualStudio is almost identical.

I had the same reaction.

I weep for my unborn grandchildren's generation.

You want Skynet? Because that's how you get Skynet!

Same... but I'm sure if the operation of a CPU was explained at that level of detail it would be equally opaque.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke

As another Canadian, my response is "know thy enemy".

I don't get my news from Slashdot either, you dirty, dirty men.

Yeah I know, the great unwashed.

Sad world.

Putting Table Tennis, CounterStrike and Chess in the same bucket is pretty weak. (Chess and CounterStrike I can see since they're games (not sports), but Table Tennis at international levels is very physical indeed.)

One of my former coworkers has been competing in Table Tennis at the international level for decades and I can confirm that he's an athlete.

Seriously, how long will it be before tablets have 32GB of RAM?