Vorarlbergers (and some German tribes) would use -le, but most Austrians would more likely use -al :)

Well, you are being sarcastic of course, but strictly speaking... you are right...

Are not huge efforts put into alternative input devices, which should be "more direct" - like brain-computer interfaces, eye-computer interfaces, body-motion-computer interfaces etc?

Yes, the computer should know what I want to do, and just do it. That's the whole point of this AI idea; if the computer can think itself (himself?), then you don't need to break everything up into step-by-step instructions.

As for electricity: it's just because we don't know how to put the needed energy into the computer otherwise, in a more convenient way. Well, if the computer had adequate AI and a little chemical plant inside, it could forage for energy, just like humans... or, previous generations dreamed of putting atomic batteries inside, which would go for thousands of years...

As a native: This is all true. Now, if you're learning German, please forget it again.

I believe the way we natives handle this is by associating each common phrase with the correct pattern, not by going through rules and lists of prepositions. So, if I want to express that we are going into something from outside, I recall the pattern "in [den Wald] (hinein)gehen". Walking around inside something is "im Wald (herum)gehen". So, you have bits of meaning, and associate them with language patterns, including the cases. When you learn a language, you have to memorize the patterns anyway ("how do I say XYZ?"). Just also memorize the suitable cases.

Oh, did I mention that in my native Austrian dialect, we don't have a dative at all? :-) Walking into the wood is "I geh an Woid (ei)" (Ich geh inn' Wald hinein). Walking around the wood is "I geh an Woid umanond" (Ich geh inn' Wald herum)...

"flauschig". I think it's a nice word, focuses more on the tactile than the visual. :)

Netbeans, PHP support, Alt+Space. Problem solved :)

Generally, PHP all the way for me, without web frameworks or anything. Some things that I find helpful in PHP:

• Heavily use the object-oriented features (e.g. use classes with static methods for lexical scoping).
• Liberally add comments in the source code (makes the Netbeans autocompletion/help work nicely).
• Make one central database access library in your project (based on PDO), and use that library throughout your project.
• Define central configuration in a config.php file.
• Separate presentation-oriented PHP files (to be treated as "templates") and back-end (which have a starting php tag at the beginning, and no ending tag throughout the file).
• Use AJAJ (with JSON) if needed. Both PHP and Javascript can do it natively, and it's faster and much simpler than XML.
• Consider REST-style interfaces if your project is big.
• Use sane parameter semantics: POST parameters in forms, GET parameters only very rarely.
• Use the PHP session to store context.
• Do not trust user input; check string lengths, options, and run all inputs through regexes to validate the allowed characters. Put this string/number/option checking code into a separate backend library, and use that everywhere else.

Eh, sorry, of course!

Uh, no. It's called "session keys". The content is encrypted with a random number (the session key), and this random number is in turn encrypted with the recipients' private keys. As the content is usually compressed too before encryption, the result may even be a smaller e-mail than without...