I wouldn't call that last update list up to date :) C++ is at C++11 (2011) Objective-C arguably is at a new version due to weak references and ARC (which are a feature of the compiler) (2011). PHP has had updates (for better or for worse)

And what is wrong with Scala? Its miles better than Java. I also don't see Clojure or F# up there.

Technology progress leaves us all in the dust :)

Note that most FPGAs (and all of Xilinx's) are SRAM based - the bitstream has to generally be loaded from an external memory IC at boot-time.

Its all an arms race in speed. However, if people were smart and realized that hashing was never a good solution and instead followed something like PBKDF2 with a large C (thousands of rounds), we still would be safe.

Since you decided to quote message passing, you don't actually understand the power that message passing brings to the table.

I have no idea why you're at 0: Troll. ADT is nothing close to IB, or even Microsoft's WPF tools. If you haven't tried them all, don't rush to make judgement.

I hope its more than $16k - or its a very poor quality diamond (bigger is better right?) - there is no way $16k will net you any diamond at 3 carats.

Out of curiosity, which would you consider the bad episodes in Firefly? I agree there are 1-2 less stellar ones, but would like to see if it lines up with what I felt.

OpenGL is crap as you mentioned - its basically nonexistent on Windows, and the Linux version is only marginal.