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Except that is no longer as clear-cut as it once was. There are many other languages and toolkits out there that are crossplatform. Java isn't as perfectly cross-platform as Sun would have you believe either.

Doesn't change that it's still a joke: x86 processors are doing, what, ~6000 MIPS by now? A fast 486 did about 55. And yet applications and operating systems don't actually do anything significantly different.

Am I the only person who sees a problem with this? Am I the only person who gives a damn? Am I the only person bothered by applications taking several seconds to load when by all rights it should be instantly by now?

Yes, this is a pet peeve of mine. I'll get off my soapbox; thanks for listening.