"Because compilers and graphics editors are expensive too." I imagine that this was the era before GCC and GIMP and other free software took off in popularity. And nowadays, it's more "Because game consoles don't let amateurs load their own programs and run them" and "Because you need a Mac to make iPad games, and a Mac is more expensive than a hundred iPad games."

And not just that but specifically indie PC games. Major video game consoles tend not to come with interfaces through which an end user can load homemade programs. (The reasons for this date back to a 1983-1984 recession in the North American video game market.) Debug consoles do, but console makers sell those only to financially stable companies that either A. have already published a few PC or Android games or B. are staffed by veterans of the traditional video game industry.

Was it anything like Nintendo's Donkey Kong Jr. Math?

There are a couple reasons for that. One is that consoles' ease of use outweighs desire to play mods for a lot of users. Another is that publishers may have realized that people squeezing the last bit of replay value out of a years-old game by playing mods is competing with sales of the same publisher's newer games.

Plus how much per month? AT&T forces "smartphone" users to buy a data plan.

The problem with using a Windows Phone is that AT&T will probably still make you pay for a data plan that you don't use.

A Chromium build that has full feature parity with Google Chrome might have to wait another decade until certain MPEG patents expire.

Then let me rephrase: What's the right tool for entering both native language text and program code?

So the first steps are to 1. learn to find friends, and 2. learn more specifically to find friends who use torrents. Could you elaborate?

We do have a widely adopted Lisp. But it's not Java; it's JavaScript. JavaScript implements Lisp-like semantics, and its syntax is a C-colored fulfillment of the "M-expression" syntax concept originally envisioned for Lisp.

Only because Oracle keeps breaking it. The Java virtual machine's security has proven to be Swiss-cheese enough that Oracle is falling back on the traditional video game console security paradigm (reliance on commercial code signing certificate authorities) rather than actually restricting what a program module can do.

Which isn't necessarily good style.

First, the type name in a declaration can and often should be more generic than the constructor. It could be an interface that the constructed class implements or an abstract class that the constructed class extends. For example, you can do Map map = new TreeMap() if you're not going to call any tree-specific methods later on.

Second, why name the variable similarly to the class? Map enemies = new TreeMap() makes the variable's purpose easier to understand.

The amicus brief by Dr. Seuss Enterprises in Eldred v. Ashcroft implied that one key objective of a long copyright term is to cover adaptations into new mediums created decades after first publication of a work.

Reading from standard input does not mean "reading from the command line". Standard input is often redirected from a file, from another program's output (called a "pipe"), or from data provided by the client that connected to a running server.

Rapidly switching back and forth between en-US and the keyboard layout for your native language can be uncomfortable as well. "Doctor, the contortions that I have to make between doing this with my arm and doing that with my arm hurt. I am required to do both for my job."