LabVIEW makes easy things easy and hard things impossible. Those responsible should be drawn and quartered. Matlab sucks too.

When the robot wars come, then we'll see who's laughing...

You can block the ads via hosts file: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

debian (or netbsd)

What exactly are you trying to infer from the trading volumes? It just looks like more people are trading Intel because Intel is a bigger company. Also, the link to ARM you posted is for an ADR, so Google might not even be including the numbers from the native exchange. And above all the, the only thing a heavily traded stock should mean is a low bid-ask spread

Finally, ARM doesn't sell any chips. They design them, and license the cores to companies that fab them, ie TI, Nvidia, and even Intel.

LISP and Self are highly dynamic languages, yet they're compiled. If they can be compiled, then so can Python.

The difference between Lisp and Python (aside from kludgey syntax) is that Lisp records are not hash-tables. Structures in Lisp are actually vectors, so a field lookup is one pointer dereference and an add over directly having the object reference (same as Java). I'm not sure how you'd do similar things in Python. Maybe caching the most recently accessed field at each access point would help.

What are you, an NI shill? Dataflow programming models suck for all but a very small domain of problems, and those problems are pretty damn easy to solve in conventional languages.

Object Orientation is just a method of organisation for procedural languages.

Do you realize that closures and OOP objects are semantically identical? Both are a function(s) and associated state. The only differences are syntactic (ignoring the unforgivable lack of GC in some languages claiming to be object oriented)

It seems like organic life would be most likely since its made of up lighter molecules which are more common in the universe, ie there's are lot more carbon around than there is silicon.

What agency of the government is run efficiently? What agency could compete against any private business if it had to?

USPS competes rather well against UPS and Fedex. They haven't received subsidies for a number of years now. I guess you could argue something about nobody else being able to open mailboxes, but that doesn't seem like a big point for package delivery, at least.

Also, there have been studies showing that Medicare has a much lower overhead than private insurance.

But we also have boondoggles like Amtrak, which unlike private boondoggles, will never die like a failed business should.