You have a point. But this is goes deeper. It's about keeping salaries down, and IT salaries have been stagnated. So it's working...

Freaking joke of a language? It's the number 1 or 2 language in use today (along with C) if you consult language ranking sources... The reason it stood still for a few years is due to Sun going under. But we can't complain. Sun created Java and languages directly inspired by it (such as C#) owe a lot to them.

If Oracle wins the suit, this project will be liable for damages to Google :) A brave new world indeed!

Sorry, but this is the most awful example I've heard of how Twiter can be a useful "service"... What's the moral of the story? She didn't have to send the text multiple times? Or that she didn't get billed for multiple texts? She could always call or text directly...

Let's not forget the underhanded tactics that Intel used. They were forced to pay a minimal $1bn to AMD for it. I always thought its too small an amount for losing their position as leaders in the CPU market. And now look how things turned out...

From my experience (Lead dev, London, Finance, JVM) I'm hearing of more and more projects being done in Scala and Java than any of these other languages...

I'm very surprised... But it's just Tiobe, which uses a brute-force "page-count" approach. Scala is becoming more and more relevant. Lots of projects in major banks are being done in Scala, some would say "eating" Java's lunch. But in my opinion, these two language can co-exist very harmoniously...

How did you get first post with such a long verbiage? ;D

You can get petaflops with a fraction of 12,000's x86 price, just use GPUs...

I don't feel as if a stand is being made. It's just a stalemate / horrible situation. And there is nothing I feel I can do about it...

This crap is precisely the reason me and my peers don't vote.

Captain Nathan Bridger of the SeaQuest DSV, is that you, sir?

It was the 1960's hackers in MIT that made programming cool.