Yes, but tax minimization (unlike tax evasion) isn't "evading the law".

Which one it actually is in this case is up for the courts to decide. I doubt anyone here actually has enough knowledge, and/or access to documentation, to make a definite conclusion either way.

If as the ice-core data shows, CO2 lags warming, then there would be significant increases of CO2 from increased solar output.

You did modify your numbers in a later post. But the actual numbers are less significant that the fact that you're claiming the warmth follows the rise in CO2, where evidence indicates the CO2 follows the warmth. The natural CO2 is easily explained by warming tundras and less CO2 consumers in the warming oceans.

...but I definitely see the need for a special Medic Alert badge for this.

No, it's the other way around. You proved GP's point.

Netscape had no competition until IE5. It was either Netscape, or AOL, and AOL wasn't a web browser in any way, it was a glorified portal. People flocked to IE when it came out. If you think people went to IE because it was on every Windows 95 machine and up, you'd be wrong. Not completely wrong, but wrong nonetheless. IE5 was the epitome of Good Enough, especially for the web as it existed back then. It was fast, reliable, lightweight, and loaded most pages without making a fuss, even pages that were poorly written (malformed HTML). There's a reason why Netscape's nickname was Nutscrape, and it's not because of some weird form of adoration.

As for what made the web, IE made the web far more accessible than Netscape. It wasn't even Netscape that started the revolution. You can credit that to AOL (who later bought out Netscape, but that's long after Navigator 4 and into Navigator 5 territory). Netscape was a big player very briefly and only for power users on the WWW. By the time e-commerce and all the other things online people nowadays take for granted came about, IE was the only player in the market left outside of AOL (which eventually adopted IE before the Netscape buyout).

Indeed, it is not. And so, as politically incorrect as it may be, I sometimes question the wisdom of rebuilding a city that is largely below the water line of a huge river.

You'll need a proper desk to display that teletype.

Now that it's working, the plan is to build a case of brass and glass, with lights inside, to show off the mechanism and make it look Victorian-era. The California Steampunk Exhibition is on for spring 2010 (2009 was canceled due to the recession), and I want to have it there.

The software for this is on SourceForge, if anybody else has a Baudot teletype machine. It not only does RSS feeds, but you can send SMS messages from the Teletype. The idea is to support modern communications with very retro technology.

I have had two of them. They are grown now, but once they were 3 years old and crafty.
I also made it past the age of 3 with out the help of Global Positioning Satellites.
So, if your baby slips away and hides at the market, you are going to whip-out your iPhone and track them? Best of luck.
And if you think that a pedo grabbed them, then what? Maybe a state wide amber alert and car to car search?
"Oh, here she is, in the pet food aisle...my bad, sorry."
Your 3 year old wears a watch? All the time? With out wrecking it? Really?
They are not talking about a pair of size 2 shoes, TFA calls it a watch. Do you know many children who wear one? perhaps a pocket-watch with a picture of a train on it?
This IS NOT about keeping an eye on your baby. It's about knowing where your kids are when you are not around.
That, my FriendlyPrimate, is called, "surveillance"
All that I'm trying to say is that when you resort to surveillance with you kids, you might be on the wrong path.

The TI-89 runs for weeks/months on a set of AAAs, boots quickly, and has a bunch of nice hardware keys that make it perfect for entering math problems.

Yes, it's too expensive. But it's a darn useful device.

Because practical knowledge of mathematics is actually useful.

Me I would just install the new DB in parallel with the new one, on a new set of machines; and migrate the apps one by one. They're probably thinking of upgrading in place and/or migrating all the apps at once; I see idiot admins trying to do that quite often ... and fail, obviously.

2) The thing is, Java can be debugged/developed on a Windows box and deployed on a Linux box, without any further testing.

I mean, you'd be nuts to actually do it without testing, but if your coders are smart and multi-OS aware there won't be any problems.

I myself wrote a calendar app for personal use, on Windows 2000. One day I tried it on Ubuntu, and everything worked fine - although it looked like shit because Gnome skinning didn't work. Not the same category as a business app, but it didn't even need a recompile. When you can write something java in 2002, and it runs flawlessly on a 2009 OS that didn't exist when it was created, without a recompile... you have to factor that in as a feature.

3) Python? :P

Java's VM is impressive. When flipping from C-based to JVM-based, Python gets about a 2-5x speedup. At this point, Java is "the wheel", for a lot of non-business apps. Re-inventing the wheel in other languages is pointless - just build on top of it.

4) I agree with you here. Although Java encourages readable syntax, it's certainly not the best language available for it.

5) Java running in Server mode is effectively compiled. That's why it starts so slow. Java running in Desktop mode is quasi-compiled. Quasi-compiled works okay, because the Java interpreter is very fast, and it lets Java apps start quicker than C# apps.

6) Python and C/C++ are more popular for front-end apps - probably because there are more front-end apps than back-end apps. Java is extremely popular for DB stuff that connects with webservers. There seems to be a lot of government, banking, and business sites running on Apache Tomcat - but because of the nature of the JVM, each site is running its own unique applications.

Ignoring the sementics, what exactly is the difference?

It's impossible to give a simple answer, since there are a whole range of different things generally called "regulations". About the only common factor is that regulations are not issued by Congress, but by some sort of "executive" body like the FCC, USDA, DOT, etc.

So, in the strictest and least interesting sense regulations are not laws by definition, since they are not passed by the one body capable of passing laws, the Congress. Many regulations are more like "serious recommendations", in the sense that it's the executive's statement of the sort of behavior that they find acceptable, given the current state of the law. If you happened to disagree with the executive's interpretation, you could go to court and show (a somewhat uphill battle. but not impossible) that the agency had exceeded its authority, or had not followed the right procedure in adopting the regulation, or whatever. You are not bound to follow the regulations, but if you don't you may have a long and expensive fight on your hands. Still, agencies do loose these battles sometimes.

Sometimes, though, Congress will say something like "The IRS will now make rules relating to deductions for home expenses," and the IRS will go ahead and make those rules. These are still regulations, but because Congress has straight out said that it wants the IRS to make rules of that sort, they are almost like laws. I.e. there's very little chance (although still some chance) that a court would step in and invalidate the regulation.

' it's not practical in a real-world fight '

There is nothing that is , as a real world fight , has no definition to it. It has no rules.

But karate can teach you techniques , which can help in such situations. As can any other martial arts , as they have a lot of common ground ( the human body is , after all , the same in all martial arts ).

But you have a point , that this won't keep your childeren safe, simply because it takes a lot of time to learn karate , and it requires a certain maturity , to really be able to defend yourself , and deal with the consequences of your actions.

Why does TV require low latency? As long as you keep the buffer non-empty, high latency shouldn't much of a problem.