Lol 24.

You made the first affirmation, burden of proof to educate is yours.

I have been programming since I was 15. Most likely before you were a stain in your mothers bedsheets when she was 11.

Better?

- Dan.

I wouldn't call that a good design. But maybe I am just too old school. back in the day we used to design for the lightest CPU load possible, not the heaviest.

As for reducing the collective intelligence of slashdot, most of the newcomers have done a good enough job of that on their own.

  No wonder Cmd Taco quit.

- Dan.
* Taking his marbles, and playing somewhere sane.

Citations please.

Pwned ? get off your Dad's computer, and come back when your balls drop.

The only thing Java dominates is CPU load.

- Dan.

No, It's not. If it's in use still, it's because of vendor lock-in.

- Dan.

Ditto.

At work we are migrating clients away from a java based platform as fast as we can. The Oracle/Sun marketing front can infest all the blogs and news sites with it's marketing drivel till the cows come home, only senseless newbs out of college will sacrifice what may have been a budding career to it.

Yes, you can call me bitter now.

- Dan.

I have said it before, and I will say it again. Slashdot needs an astroturf rating.

- Dan.

The heart to heart with Mom or Dad implies that children ever get to see their parents for 3 to 4 hours per night before going to bed. And even this may be occupied by homework, sports, dinner or doctors visits. Most parent's only know their children's names because they *gave* them the name in the first place. Much less what's going on in their lives to be able to connect for this 'heart to heart'. Raising children has devolved to dropping them off at the best state daycare-in-school-disguise they can manage to live close to.

If there is at least one parent not working and staying home to be with the kids after school chances are they won't be starved for attention in the first place.

- Dan.