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C++ is not beautiful. If the only thing you've seen, maybe. Smalltalk, it's cousin Objective-C, D, Python, Ruby, even JavaScript are beautiful to many people. But not C++. Bottom line, stick with java and it'll all just work.

Don't mess with C, at least not yet. Stay away from C++ if at all possible. Even though Java is a pretty bad language itself, C++ is even worse. I don't know if the pandora will include j2se by default, but users will be able to install it.

Since the screen is much smaller and has much higher DPI than your average monitor, it should look as good even when it's actually worse. Also, once the id tech 4 gets open sourced, it can be customised for small devices. Many expensive operations can be replaced with cheaper ones if the...

The Voodoo 2 is way less powerful than the SGX. When ported, Doom 3 will look almost as nice on the desktop.

Lumen is also unit of measure for luminous flux.

As far as I know, OpenCL is supposed to use DSPs and SSE/NEON instructions as well. There doesn't seem to be any open source implementation, though.

The java ones are useless for the pandora and the Qt desktop one is closed source. If it were open source, sure. But I doubt opera will bother making a custom interface for such a niche device.

I don't think it will be that useful on a small device. Either firefox customized and with extensions for small screens or, better yet, some webkit browser.

Hardware in general is not designed to be used by two computers (or two OSes in the case of VMs) at the same time. You could make the computer a router for the pandora and the other way around though.

I can't believe I'm in Newcastle and I missed that.

Threading may be useful for blocking input/output, but it shouldn't bring anything other than a bit of overhead and a lot of programming headaches to the table.

Python is VERY different from C++. It's much nicer C# and Java and most certainly nicer than C++. I suggest you try it for a bit. This will help http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ even if you are experienced in programming and so will the official python tutorial. If you don't end up...

Basically, even if you had the complete source code and a proper build system for it, it is unfeasible. But why would you do such a thing? There would be no applications running on it. Any applications would have to be compiled again (if able to run on ARM at all) and there's winelib for that.

Look in Debian package repositories for the armel architecture and in the Ångström repositories for stuff that is already compiled and works.