Emacs is awesome, but there are some things that more modern IDEs do that are nice. In Eclipse you can get a list of all calls to a function from the spot where it's defined. I haven't been able to find a way to do that with Emacs. etags works great for jumping to the function definition, but not the other way around.

That's not enough to convert me to a pointy/clicky bloated thing for coding just yet, but at some point, it seems like there will be enough features like that that Emacs - even with a lot of customization - just won't be viable.

If I did move to another editor, at least it would be nice to bring the good parts of Emacs along.

Agreed. Mass media is optimized for getting you to watch/buy the thing, not to like it. They get the same payoff regardless of whether you passively tolerate their production or really love it. Firefly's a good example. It didn't take off, but the people that liked it really got into it. I imagine they would have funded season 2 easily if it was on Kickstarter. Maybe the fact that they're not directly responsible to anyone will lead to trouble, but I'm hoping my donation to the Wasteland project will result in a true Fallout 3.

That's true (mostly; if you've bought a plane ticket in the last 5 years, there's a good chance that functional code priced your fare.)

Are you from bizarro world? You can say a lot of bad things about Lisp, but "limited paradigms" is not one of them (unless you've got extremely specific criteria or don't like parenthesis.)

I'll give you that one, functional programming is hard to grok.

C's going to win on I/O and other low level stuff, but modern Lisp compilers can produce some pretty efficient code.

With all the disadvantages accounted for, there's still a reason some people use functional languages. There are a bunch of things you can do that are near impossible otherwise.

They should have used Errol Flynn, or even Russell Crowe. Hell, Cary Elwes was a better Robin Hood than Costner.

Prince of Thieves has to be the only Robin Hood story where you're kind of rooting for the sheriff of Notingham.

I can see you've played linky spoony before!

I was going to accuse you of just being a cheap bastard, but I thought about it, and I'm just as bad in a slightly different way.

If I can't download/stream a thing legally, I'll usually get the torrent. I really don't care what it costs (within reason).

It's annoying when I want to give a company money for their content, and they don't let me do it.

Not paying attention to WoW would be dumb, but it's like they just copied it exactly and decided to tweak a few things.

Judging from some of the videos, combat consists of standing a couple of feet in front of a guy and repeatedly shooting him in the face until he's dead.

Maybe that's a bit lame in sword/sorcery games too, but for some reason it seems to really stick out more in this case (and I guess all gun based MMOs).

I'd rather play T'Rain

Is that like in the movie Tron? "You're under arrest, basic windowing function."

They're trying to help you think more creatively! All three of those products - combined with a motor or electromagnet of some type - could provide the functionality you're looking for with extra Rube Goldbergy style. :)

On topic: That video was pretty bad. What was the point of saying their projects don't involve "LED lights" and capacitors? And then the phrase "maker and DIY consumer" seemed really awkward/wrong. The request for feedback seemed like it was going in the right direction until they made us limit our request to three products. I don't know if I'll need germanium diodes or opto-isolators or tantalum capacitors ahead of time. The whole point of radio shack is that you can go there and overpay to grab that random part when you need it.

From the Aeyron website "Operational duration: up to 25 minutes."

In practice it's probably a lot less than that.

I'm not sure that their scenario of detecting a dork dressed up like a spy stealing my Hyundai has me sold on the concept.