Are you absolutely sure they don't warn you against ducttaping your iStuff to steering wheels? It is Apple afterall..

"RPG elements are creeping into game genres that we never imagined they would" - I really hope the such elements won't creep into my F1 simulator.

.. and my brain made these funny images of a runaway plane not quite ready for commitment..

Sure, you can use the magic invert flag "/usr/bin//cobol2java -i [...]".

Screen is indeed a very nice tool. However, about Emacs and multiple "screens". C-x 2 and C-x 3 splits the screen for you (horizontally and vertically respectively). C-x 0 and C-x 1 reverts. C-x o switches between the screens.

And for today's lecture on Emacs short-cuts: Rectangular editing:
C-x r k will cut the rectangle marked, C-x r y will paste it, C-x r o will fill the marked region with spaces, and C-x r t prompts the user for characters to fill into the rectangle. Lovely, nay?

For Windows XP/Vista I've tried SplitView http://www.splitview.com/ There are others(such as winsplit-revolution.com), but they work only for std::windows and not for overlay and hardware rendered fullscreen apps.

He just might be using the integrated desktop environment and text editor known as "Emacs"

It would be awesome to get eaten by saber-tooth tiger. Actually I think that's the way I wanna go. But hey, aren't they extinct..? Damn it!