"Everyone always complains yet they keep going and eventually get used to the site again"

Not this time. Before I've gone on after a redesign and thought it looked 'odd'. This time I just thought it looked shit

< grin > mindwank< \grin > heh heh

I could have a rocket launcher capable of seriously hurting the biggest monsters but I couldn't so much as crease the pages of a book on the bookshelves. Damn it!

... beard, sandles and feels more comfortable hanging around with other guys. Cleary the bible writers got confused between carpenter and programmer - easy done.

In my experience (nephews) Programming with Dark Basic gives them an instant ROI. It's the best modern equivalent to the Sinclair Basic that I started with. OK. Basic is a bit like programming with the training wheels on, but surely that's the point! The well intentioned posts talking about syntax etc. don't really matter and you already know that yourself. Dark Basic is a simple syntax that will allow games to be written. There are sample programs for most standard game types that means he's got a jump start into making fun stuff straight away.

For me that's the main reason I comment. I started off as a maintenance programmer and quick often I was looking through the codebase trying to find the procedure (or section of some 600 line behemoth) that I needed to fix. In a case like that I don't want to read 100s of lines of code I have no damn interest in.
The key to these is to keep the comments quite vague.

The other times I comment is to clarify code (quite often you are only allowed to make a specific fix on code that is a clusterf*ck) or to explain why I didn't do something in what seems like the 'obvious' way.

It's still a flawed thought experiment. Parent's key point was

"There are a lot of artists out there whose music I enjoy that I would not have if I had not downloaded their music"

There was no *additional* cost to the manufacturers for the music they 'stole' but there was benefit arising from that in the form of the music and tickets they bought

"After doing a search and loving the nice highlighting, is there a way to unhighlight the search term"

If you're asking what I think you're asking ;-) you could try:

let @/=""

I think the idea is that since the / is your search you're setting it to be empty ("")

not much help to you, but I find the glossy screen on my MBP to be superior to it's non glossy counterpart. The only real problem I experience is fingermarks being tricky to simply rub off.