Deus Ex (the first one, not the horrible sequel) deserves a spot. It really revolutionized the FPS as a contender in immersive gaming and in integrating the providence of choice. Many FPSes these days owe their design characteristics at least in part to Deus Ex.

Is that what the kids are calling it these days? Whatever floats your boat, I guess.

Redundant. Jar Jar = bad writing.

While TFA accurately points out that in most modern IDEs, you can point at a variable and see what data type it is, thus making Hungarian notation not needed, I disagree that Hungarian is deprecated.

Few points:
If I am reading code, I don't want to stop and point at variables to see what types they are.

If I am doing a code review of printed out code or emailed code, I don't even have an IDE.

And perhaps the most important: If I see something named pSomeValue but it holds data values itself instead of a pointer value (something you can usually see fairly easily in code when being misused) then I question it immediately and often find bugs right away. If on the other hand it was named "SomeValue" that wouldn't be the case. I may actually think it's being used correctly.

Hungarian notation is as much as it ever was, one of the signatures of a programmer who knows what he's doing. (Or she!)

How was he "clearly" running XP? If you disable the Aero interface, Vista looks almost pixel-for-pixel like XP. Yet, it still has some of the better functions Vista has to offer, like search on the Start Menu, or better driver pooling or better application execution protections. I find it amusing you imply the business man was clueless when the reality is probably exactly the opposite.

Get a keyboard that's hard wired. Might I recommend the TypeMatrix?

Using a program called AutoHotKey I have remapped CTRL ; to CTRL C and CTRL Q to CTRL V

Not only have I not given up their easy access, but I find them easier to use now.

I concur. It is easily the best keyboard I have ever used. I own four now.

And switching to Dvorak (which I did not do at the same time, actually) was easily the best thing I ever did for my hands.

As long as the cash goes back to the classroom and not his personal piggy bank, I think it's a great and creative solution. I only wish more teachers were this resourceful.