You say you don't like .NET, but then you mostly just talk about bad coding practices you've seen.

You mention making "forms". Do you mean programming in WinForms, or WPF, or?

You haven't used Visual Studio in 13 years (VS 6.0 came out in 1998), but you feel like you know what problems it still has?

How does this differ than what Google does with the Android OS? Or Apple with WebKit?

If the icon is pinned to the taskbar in Windows 7, you just right click and select "Start InPrivate Browsing"

I have a daughter with a peanut allergy you insensitive clod!

But seriously, since Southwest doesn't clean up between flights (only once in the morning), we can no longer take Southwest anymore. Even if they ban peanuts on our flight, there is too much old peanuts on the seats, floor, and air. Last time my daughter started getting a bad reaction and we had to douse her with medicine to keep it from getting life-threatening.

People don't realize that just a little bit of peanuts around can cause those with allegeries to stop breathing.

There are reasons the progress bar dialogs don't show all the work being done. Reporting takes time. Would you rather have more information over having it complete quicker?

Opera has a plugin system called "widgets" that is quite capable, and the UI is very customizable, such as choosing what you want on which tool bar/area, keyboard shortcuts, customize address bar search and others. What do you want for "real gui modification?" (I mean that as a real question, not rhetoric)

On this newer (but not nearly top of the line) system running Ubuntu, FF 3.6.3 gets a 300 and Chrome 5.0.375.38 beta gets a 2152. This is from the page at http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v3/run.html

This isn't only OOXML documentation. This is the current versions used by Office 2007, and also documents the older binary versions.

Microsoft has documented all the binary and XML file formats used by office: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313118(office.12).aspx

It only rules out RPGs where the authors "documented" the language so that it could be translated. Most fantasy languages aren't fully fleshed out like the one in "Lord of the Rings" or "Star Trek".

That's only partially, true, and the sound is issue is being resolved:

• Version 4 allows custom sound: http://creators.xna.com/en-US/news/gdc2010
• According to this, only "made up languages that are documented (e.g. Klingon/elvish)" are failed.