Many European countries are closing in on "fake-hybrids". If you care about electrification of cars this is a good thing. People were/are buying expensive hybrid (sport) cars with tax incentives but never bothered to charge the batteries or use the cars properly. The Netherlands cancelled hybrid tax incentives. In Belgium, in order to be classified as a hybrid, they introduced a minimum battery/weight ratio starting from 01-01-2018. Other EU countries have similar plans. Here in Belgium the Porsche E-Hybrids and BMW edrive models were very popular. For 2018 those sales will plummet. Hopefully the car manufacturers will update their hybrid models and increase the battery packs.

Get digital copies of those books, open them with your favorite text editor and do a :

ReplaceAll("sport", "WoW");
ReplaceAll("beer", "Mountain Dew");
ReplaceAll("talking about woman", "techtalk");
ReplaceAll("cars", "computers");
ReplaceAll("espn", "Discovery Channel");
ReplaceAll("Playboy", "torrents");
ReplaceAll("Hustler", "torrents");

There you go. The books will make a lot more sense to you now. :)

The question is not if we want to rely solely on computers during flying or not. The question is how many times did a computer corrected a pilot from a fatal error and how many times did the computer made a mistake. The latter is now 1 (for 2009 that is) . The amount of times a computer corrected a pilot from a fatal error we will probably never know.

Buy a 16GB card and move all data of your 32MB en 64MB cards to the new one. :)

Take one and learn it well. Make sure you understand OO , learn design patterns, uniform your coding. Don't get stuck into a 'simple' webpage or quick winforms. Try to set out some goals and mile stones that you want to reach in your coding skills. Make sure you don't neglect your (project) management and communication skills as well.

When you know Java or C# well, it's not that hard to switch over to the other. It's just syntax.

Yeah I know open source free blablabla.
I'm not paying the Visual Studio license, my employer is, so I actually don't care. Other competition is also asking money for it. Even Sun!! Although they tend to put the extra cost in their hardware. I simply love the one stop shop solution(s) that MS offers.

And the 2000$ Visual Studio license cost every two years. It's peanuts compared to the 24x month salary, social security, dental, hardware etc that my employer has to pay / buy me.