PB Blaster is an excellent product but some of the stuff put out by specialty companies such as Zep or Chemsearch is just another cut above. From my experience Zep 40 is an excellent penetrant + ptfe lubricant.

This would put patent renewal in the hands of the wealthiest, further tipping the balance in the favor of the rich.

Pretty sure Android is profitable for Google. (est $3.7 billion per year in revenue)

Can't validate the comment on Google Docs but I'm pretty sure their enterprise Google Apps Domain accounts continue to grow

Does this mean that for balance we have to start including YECs, flat earthers, etc as reviewers in studies? Cause that's definitely how the scientific method works.

The ones without a filter are called former sales engineers.

If you ever see a SE with an amazing resume but 3 or 4 recent 1-2 year stints on there? Those tend to be the ones whose filter broke mid career. I love those. They are a fantastic resource for competition research... it's like a waterfall of delicious negativity.

That would be the technically accurate claim and for a number of hardware products that my employer manufactures.

In our example we assemble in the US, design in the US, program the firmware in the US, program the chips in the US but source a number of the raw parts from TAA compliant countries. I'm pretty sure the Nexus Q can claim pretty much the same manufacturing mix minus the TAA compliance, not that that matters for a consumer device.

That said I'm going to buy one... I don't care if it ends up being a paper weight, I'll support on-shoring wherever I get a chance.

Yeah, screw poor children! Why don't they get jobs.

Why not the 2009 budget that included the first TARP passed under Bush?

Or the fact that Bush enacted policies with $5.07 trillion of new cost
With Obama at far under $2 trillion

If he has the money to throw around then a rack made for branch offices and network closets with integrated cooling etc like a Liebert MCR would be perfect. Since its basically a plug and play configuration integrating cooling, PDUs etc.

You can just type:

X nm = (X*10) angstroms

The plan is that people will be able to define lots of functions like this, along with much more complicated ones, and then share them. The best of them will become part of the default vocabulary.

Please sign up for the mailing list if you'd like to keep up with developments (or, if you can code Java, perhaps you could help?!)

Or somehow silence grammar nazis...

Yeah, it kinda is. Did you ask that when Slashdot opened their codebase many years ago? How about when Reddit did it? What about Google with their various open source projects?

You should be glad that people open source things.

Nah, just wanton irresponsibility :-)

Soulver was actually what inspired LastCalc, but I wanted to bring it to the web, and make it programmable.

OpalCalc looks neat, unlike Soulver it supports functions, and I'm sure it has a few features that LastCalc currently lacks.

However LastCalc has a few features that OpalCalc lacks too, such as support for higher-level datastructures like lists and maps, pattern matching (like Haskell), and the ability to pull data from the web to use in calculations.

So I'm not sure that I would describe OpalCalc as "LastCalc on steroids" by any stretch.