You are assuming that people can't keep up with change. Sounds like you've never worked with top notch people. A truly talented IT guy can keep up with innovations well into his 70s - if he pushes himself (or herself).

I would say the issues go back to Adobe's refusal to license postscript as a display language for the OS X display rendering engine and their original refusal to write a version of Premiere for OS X (which lead to the birth of Final Cut).

Unlike 90% of Boston (the relatively new Back Bay is the exception, as that was built on 19th century fill), Chicago is on a grid.

I'll second this comment. Though not a professional genealogist, I am the family historian. Once you move more than 3-4 generations back you will exceed the scope of family lore and need external information to help you figure our where you come from.

For example, family lore held that my great-grandfather (GGF) immigrated from Wales. However, according to the US Census, it was his FATHER that immigrated. His mother came from Ohio. Once I knew that I was able to find my GGGF and that between 1900 (are you a US citizen = no) and 1910 (are you a US citizen = yes) something important changed. From that I was able to track down his citizenship application and find the town where he was born. Now I've jumped the pond and am working to find his parents. Fun times!

All of this started because the US Census asked several critical historical questions such as place of birth for you and your parents, parents names, age, marital status, citizenship, and occupation.

The fact that we are no longer asking these questions, whether for fear of offending or political correctness, is a travesty to future generations.

Insomniacs can sleep. We just take much longer to get to sleep and wake at the drop of a hat, and so never get the amount of sleep we need. Oh, and I live in EST

There's a book that's 2200 years old. I don't mean the story (or in this case, poem) is 2200 years old, I mean the *piece of paper* (or in this case, papyrus) on which someone copied the (2400 year-old) poem is 2200 years old. In the right conditions, archival quality paper will last a *lot* longer than any electronic medium.

I think he's writing a rootkit for a grad school project. Notice the emphasis in "open source."

A cursory search finds that Hyundai donated $1M to the project, so you might not want to make that assumption. The CoE would I imagine have to be involved in any project on the Mall

Guys, it's really not that hard:
GregYear <- (appropriate year for start of Gregorian era in locale)

IF (month = 2 AND year MOD 4 = 0 AND (year < GregYear OR year MOD 100 > 0 OR year MOD 400 = 0))
{MaxDayForMonth <- 29}
ELSE IF (month = 2)
{MaxDayForMonth <- 28}
ELSE IF (month IN (4,6,9,11))
{MaxDayForMonth <- 30}
ELSE
{MaxDayForMonth <- 31}
(pseudocode style adapted for Slashcode)

I certainly hope you don't characterize "real estate" as "real property." The owner of real estate owns something just as abstract as the owner of Intellectual Property does - the right to use and occupy land. Ultimately, all property is abstract: if you hand me a five dollar bill to look at, does it become my property because it is in my possession, or does it remain your property?

I believe such monuments are usually funded by subscription by private organizations; and I find evidence that such is the case for this Memorial. So, NO, your tax dollars did not pay for this, though it is on public land; I do not know if the Federal government maintains the site or a private organization does so (as is the case with e.g. Monticello).

Savitch's book is superb as a textbook. You won't find many other books that are that good. The two things I'd suggest learning about are data structures/algorithms and design patterns. For the former, there are a lot of text books, but the good ones are advanced and expensive (for instance, Cormen, Leiserson & Rivest, *Introduction to Algorithms*), and the inexpensive ones are poorly written. You might try the O'Reilly book "Algorithms in a Nutshell*. For the latter, there are a number of books - a good intro book is *Head First Design Patterns*; the book of books is the so-called Gang of Four book that introduced the idea, *Design Patterns* by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides.

He's probably afraid they lifted his prints from the doorknob to that apt he burgled in high school to get some money to buy weed.

The UAE actually is a collection of small sovereign states who have banded together, but are not unified under a single government ... Sort of like pre-1789 USA.