Try java to F# or Ruby (I know they're different), then to Lisp. That should give you the understanding of Lambdas you need to hop the rest of the way to Lisp (or Clojure or Scheme) which makes it far easier to grok.

Generally peer review is done by peers -- i.e. people who work in the field where the research is done. These days, most research is printed online, or at least the pre-prints are.

Depends on both the virtual servers, and the laptop.

There's a mismatch between the IEEE spec and the Java spec for floats. For instance, -0 is forbidden support in Java, but is supported on most floating point processors. And this is a problem on every single processor, not just the x86.

Blue isn't the name of the release. It's the internal code name that people are referring to, until they actually brand it.

Not true. The Atom doesn't include any of the floating point capabilities. Also, most (all?) Atoms are 32 bit, not 64.

You could have said the same about the pre-ribbon Office UI. The current UI has won awards, and more than a few converts once they get used to it.