Really? So how to I use those nice office widgets like the excel pivot or word rich text editor (since the one I can use in MFC is crap) in my own native MFC application?

Thats like saying that C/C++ adoption on windows is due to vector locking because that's what the API is built on. Due to that, C-like bridges need to be build into other languages so they could talk to the OS
The same can be done to talk to Objective-C

DISCLAIMER: have been dealing with windows api the whole week and is not funny

It's not really just the language. It's the entire programming environment: the language, the library, what system features it allows you to get your hands into and failing that last one, how much the language has "build in" and with how much quality, how much trouble-less it is to run in your target system, how much easy is to build a program around it
The major PITA's I have found with "alternative" languages is when building beyond hello-world/clickety demos. Many languages with their respective build environments fail to provide a good desktop infrastructure to build rich apps. Some fail at the web side of it. Some ain't much good at any of it. For windows desktop apps, if you don't provide support for system widgets, you better have a alternative to the build in rich editor with printing support that can just copy/paste to/from office-like software without much trouble. Many focus too much into the "programming" side of it and relegate the integration with everything else to second plan.

Nerds spend more time on /. than any other use spend time on G+. Or MySpace. Or both added up together.

Java Runtimes are installed side-by-side, even minor versions. And even if you have a grip with a particular installer feature, you can very well get your own folder bundled with the app and it will not touch anything else. Try that with a .NET runtime. I've seen 1.1 .NET apps fail to work properly after a 2.0 .NET runtime got installed in the system, no way to do otherwise that I know, the only solution was remove everything and stall from scratch and stop the damn f* windows update from messing with the SO.

The only FS who can call death upon something/someone is ReiserFS

*ducks*

Last time I used that, I was using compiz, avant-window-manager and gDeslets. I used nautilus as filemanager, but keep in mind this was in the gnome2 days where all you needed was to lauch gnome-settings-daemon and you was set. At this day and age, I use a customized kubuntu, and plasma makes very easy to move stuff around the way I like to do, kwin is working great in 4.7.6 as window manage. The only complaints I got is kopete protocol stability (only recently msn got back to working for me) and lack of a descent SIP phone, so I got to use ekiga for that. I always used thunderbird as mail client and that's unlikely to change since it is mostly desktop-safe, same for chrome (konqueror or rekonq are still too slow;/buggy for general usage)

Thats my 0.02 brazilian cents

We need a "like" button on slashdot

* flamebait mode on *
Because Linux STILL F* SUCKS! Even tried to use linux for anything desktop remotelly serious? Office suites on it are still a joke (I am lookin' at you Open/LibreOffice), it is still hard to do anything gui-wise, some stuff still lacks any useful gui, while some other don't even had any. Try to configure sound for example. Or try to use any intel graphic card (majority of OEM PC's come with them). I use linux daily, have used from many distros, used gnome, kde, E15, E16, E17, XFCE, black box, you name it, but to say it is as usable as windows or OS X, that's a dream, and most tech users agree with it (even if they don't speak so, but OS usage figures speak wonders for that)

I wonder if light is being affected by space-time some way and neutrinos aren't. Then they measure the true maximum allowed speed better than light does. Taking that into account, how the theories will look like using c @ neutrino's speed ?

Anything can be abused, give enough time and effort. It's just a matter of figuring if it is still worth giving how much useful it is still is. By the looks of the example it reminds me a lot of a ESB where You have services that do stuff registered in a common place, Google way seems like the REST counterpart of it.

Working with people on organizations over here, everyone uses a simple html template with their sig (simple html plus embedded company logo)

It is not. I've seen many times in many games. I've done it myself for a variety of reasons. Seeing someone pretty skilled at RTCW:ET was very entertaining to watch in a Saturday afternoon (sometimes with a big cup of coffee on cold days where your fingers could barely move).

And while at it, look around for other opensource projects on their hand that they can't handle it themselves and work out the issue BEFORE another fork happens wasting everyone else's time

Thats not even that old-school, just post-Phanton Menace if my memory even serves me right