Wow, 30 GB was really a lot back then. On 1997 I purchased an excellent Micron (brand) laptop with 3GB, and 512Mb ram, and it felt huge in capacity. It lasted until 2004, really a good machine.

There is nothing in this world like Guatemala's Antigua Coffee. Either extra fine grinded for a capuccino or medium grind for a 10-second-boiled coffee half liter. Mmm tasty... Just add a couple of topped tablespoons per glass of boiling water and let it boil for 10 seconds. You will need to pass it thru a mesh before serving right to your cup and add sugar if you like.

Agree and do not agree. If you know what you are doing it boosts your productivity. If you do not, intellisense popups can either help you learn or can make you lose time. Beginners of course, could benefit of code completion to get them running. I started back in '80 with assembler for 6501 and TRS-80 basic.Then gw-basic, At college we used turbo pascal which evolved to turbo vision and then delphi. Yes, hand coding was great for training, but in real world you can really take advantage of the time you save by using those tools. Using delphi I can do a great sql app in hours. Yes, a simple data form in a couple of minutes. When time is money AND you know what you are doing, modern tech addons like intellisense have a great value. Back to the root topic, here in Guatemala at IT faculties in main universities, all programming training is hard, and I can tell even at high school level there are many schools that train very well for coding, from html to C++, java, pascal, you name it. Of course visual programming is there as well.

As a software developer myself am concerned over the piracy issue. Crackers use all sort of techniques and many are successful on the crack. Their intentions are not profit but challenge and fun, that is why they distribute the cracked software for free. The fact is that they assure they are converting the product into a time unrestricted trial version. On the other side of the coin, this is proven to lead to sales from the developer company, many of which are in constant upgrading to new features, so the cracked software becomes obsolete in some time frame. I can not remain blinded assuming that my software will not fall victim of piracy, and the best thing to do is to test it, just like Mercedes Benz crashes a beautiful sedan in the search of faults. Many software companies rely on protection schemes well known to crackers, and hence they are probably paying for false protection. Once I found a protection bug in a 3d software called MilkShape, which I am a paid customer. I documented the way on which the software could be cracked and sent it privately to the developer. He was very glad on what I did and he corrected the problem "Pronto". I didn't charge a cent, but am sure that kind of information has its price. Is like a doctor finding a virus and a way of destroying it. So, if you find a way to crack the software and proceed correctly, probably someone could be glad if you find a way on which you avoided his salary to get stolen. If you proceed in the wrong way, yes, you could be end up doing a bad thing. The result depends on the path you choose NEO, red pill or blue pill.