If you want something that works everywhere now, you're out of luck. JOGL probably works in the most places, but I've not seen many things use it. WebGL has a lot of potential. When I visited Google a couple of weeks ago, one of the guys there showed me a port of Quake 2 to WebGL. It was pretty impressive; the game is quite old now, but it was running in Chrome on a Mac without needing any extra plugins. All of the resources were loaded on demand, which produced some interesting effects (the walls were flat shaded when you started the level and only became textured a few seconds later, as the server provided the textures), but you can fix that with precaching.

You'd be surprised. My health insurance (in Gemany) pays for all homeopathic treatments up to the age of 12, and only for specific treatments after that. The caveat is that the treatment is only paid when prescribed by a certified physician which has had additional training in homeopathy.
Treatments from "natural healers" without medical schooling or certification are not allowed.

I'm going for the latter.

Plenty of 3D plugins have come and gone over the years. There's obviously no real demand, DX11 or otherwise.

PS: Why would DX11 be more compelling than (eg.) DX9?

For an erudite discussion of the challenges of applying the scientific method to historical sciences, I suggest you read Stephen Jay Gould's wonderful book "Wonderful life".

Well if you actually think about what you're saying, you'll realise why it's such a stupid suggestion. You put cameras in every home, you have to look thru all the cameras in every home for a change of finding something wrong, which means you're looking into the homes of mostly innocent people. Even the good cop would have to be. However, if you place the camera/tracking device on the thing that's actually being stolen, and activate it when it is reported stolen (many cars have this) then any interaction you have with that security device is not invading anybody's privacy, except for whomever's trying to steal it, and they don't get privacy protection. An abused system doesn't mean a useless system, it just means measures should be put into place to stop abuse, for example, the owner of the thing in question (laptop, car, or in this case it should be the kids' parents) has a security code that enables tracking software, so the tracking software cannot be used without their authorisation. Problem solved. Without any need to throw out the baby with the bathwater. That wasn't so hard, was it?

KDE's KolourPaint (MS Paint clone) gets it right! Yay KDE!

1. some photos show it more than others (try a sharp photo of a pile of brightly colored plastic toys, showing well-defined edges between the different colors)

2. maybe RAW photos start off with gamma 1.0

This affects alpha blending, including anti-aliased drawing tools.

I think people tolerate it because it's like traditional cartoons: you get a bit of a dark line around everything, more or less. IMHO, that's yucky.

Serious problems happen when you repeat an operation in the same spot. Things like a smudge tool get an odd sort of asymmetry, with black-to-white and white-to-black operations being different.

in loco parentis, dude.

"In some countries reimbursement is explicitly linked to how well you fare against whatever the current standard of care is"
I think that is because the state (which will refund part of the treatment price) doesn't want to spend possibly
more money to a new drug that isn't any better than existing ones, which may have been used for years,
and are better known.

Until recently I thought the same way, I would never endorse a solution that involves java. However
a recently came to the same realization that sun did when they created it. Java is a fantastic
way to over sell gobs of expensive hardware. I am a system administrator so the more hardware it takes to
run a solution the better off I am, more machines, more money and better job security. So I have now
fully jumped on the java bandwagon, java makes me smile.

I think the small part of my brain that handles irony just segfaulted

Now I have to wait 7 years for 100MB? Ouch.