Thinking in Circles is more to the point.

This timely article http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121006/NEWS/210060324 contains the kernel of why highway funding will never be solved. We are going to name the project after the ex-representative who advocated the project. The study for this project was limited in scope because PennDot knows that any area studies in this region will show problems it needs to correct, with dollars it does not have. County planning is deficient in picking up the slack in the admissions in the State of Comprehensive Plan done in 2002 to review a 2020 plan,

Since politicians make plans and do not follow or fund them the political class is clearly at fault.

But they can agree to name the project after one of their own, so typical of our elected officials.

I spend the early '80 going blind in my left eye from a disease process, I had a cataract removed from my left eye in 1986 and I did not get an implant. About six months later I noticed this violet glow in my left eye as I entered a strip bar, there were black lights behind the bar, the typical ones we used to use with the posters. UV light enhancement was one of the considerations I made when choosing not to have an implant which were new at that time. All in all, the the UV enhancement is not that spectacular or useful and occasionally just annoying.

E85 always has limited distribution in the United States. See the follolwing map http://www.greentechmedia.com/images/wysiwyg/research-blogs/blend-wall-visual.jpg. Flex Fuel vehicles sales needed E85 pumps and E85 pumps needed flex fuel vehicles. Most of these pumps are in the rural US.

The US is currently close to the E10 blend wall (we have the capacity make all the ethanol to include in all our gasoline that is 10%) this limits the construction of new ethanol plants. It also limits the construction of new non-corn ethanol plants because the current plant as the existing plants control marginal capacity with existing established plants.

Additionally we are exporting ethanol to Brazil and importing ethanol from Brazil to meet advanced blender credits. http://cornandsoybeandigest.com/energy/us-importing-exporting-ethanol-and-brazil

This is all the result of short sighted incentives. The entire US ethanol market is a mess, however sugar cane shortages in Brazil will keep American corn farmers happy for at least a year. And ethanol plants are now planning to sell off the oil portion of the distillers grains in an attempt to put more to their bottom lines. http://sdcornblog.org/archives/tag/corn-oil

From TFA,The young staff has told HFA to dump the legacy and start over. Given the decade of conflict with music industry challaging and the tech industry on rights issues TFA has it's hand full to get talented young programmers.

I think the younger staff see this type of organization as a dead end in an organization that has a single core business and has a difficult time adapting to change...and has a limited growth business model.

Take your money and the next offer (ANY offer) out of this place.

East Coast v West Coast? It is in the /. title not in the TFA.

Stupid!I downloaded the page with source code encoded.I need more caffine.

To install python on windows

http://python.org/ftp/python/3.2.2/python-3.2.2.msi

My problem is that the .py file seems to be coded as HTML. Perhaps it is just that darn time change...

Of course 37% is a big increase and CO2 and climate may be sensitive to small amount of CO2 but, CO2 is still less than 0.1% by vol (more like 0.04%) so who is being alarmist the big 37% increase or the small 0.04% by vol.

It is just how the numbers are presented and to who but that are political arguments and not scientific ones .... so never mind ... who cares when stuff matters.

The study lumps front end labor costs by an average over the lifetime of the facility. This gives the impression that we can have a burst of spending and then a nice number of jobs but that is just an illusion, an artifact of the average. The jobs and expenses are front end loaded. To average the cash expenses we need to acquire debt over the period of time.

Now we need to consider the actual lifetime of the employment over the life of the facility and is the up front payment worth it?

The fact that solar costs more should cause us to choose coal because of cost. Unless we factor in the cost of carbon which is another discussion....

Watching a dropped ball was a historical way of setting a marine chronometer up and until the advent of radio signals. Pre 1920 watching a dropping ball was essential tech.

from :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_chronometer

It was common for ships at the time to observe a time ball, such as the one at Greenwich, to check their chronometers before departing on a long voyage. Every day, ships would anchor briefly in the River Thames at Greenwich, waiting for the ball at the observatory to drop at precisely 1pm.

But goofing off by who? Perhaps by those who are raising the SEX issues... could be...

These people are going to be because it is politically popular to use this issue to raise money and support based on the hot button issue of SEX and probably because SEX beats GREED in a head to head competition. So an issue such as those "GREEDY people at Goldman" will likely be displaced by "All that SEX at the SEC". The Devils Casino is a look at internal culture at Lehman Brothers in reputed to combine GREED and SEX so we need to through SEX at the SEC to remain "fair and balanced" .

I think the real big issues here are Systemic Risk, To Big to Fail and undoing of Glass-Steagall there should be a debate about those types of issues. Remember The Republicans claimed at the time that Bill Clintons attempt at an attack on Bin Laden was just an attempt to divert attention from the Lewinsky Scandal sex scandal. This is playing politics on the short side as seen after Sept 11, 2001.

Beware of the SEX card

Just wait a dumber one is on the way!

This is SLASHDOT! Agreement is futile!

Actually you were the closest to my thoughts as I read down the thread. The right way is code AND optimize with the least amount of resources, that is if you are paying programmers to do a job. There are trade off in most choices including maintenance and the cost of keeping brains who know how your system is coded which is a lot higher for keeping asm updated.

Unless I can find a expressive asm routine or a real need to cut processor cycles C is preferred IMHO. I have coded and debugged at "switch panels" we have higher level languages is because of the labor involved with direct machine interaction.

And not enough people or companies do it the right way, they just pay and waste programming brains, and because of this program language wars will just go on and on. Pointless because the method of code,test, measure and optimize is the economic/engineers way to work.

php v perl v C v asm is a waste of time.... oh, I forgot this is SLASHDOT!

Test how it runs then optimize the most used sections and repeat until you have the best results you can afford.
Don't waste time avoid pieces of code that don't matter find out the most used sections by testing, optimize those portions.
Perhaps this is how it should be done in the real world perhaps this what Facebook is doing. Who cares what management thinks we are the coders of slashdot...

resistance is futile or V/I ?

I looked at specs for a new data center last week and the cost of electricity for the servers is followed closely by the cost for electricity to run the HVAC equipment. In a few more years it is likely the will become HVAC the major cost. So from a cost point of view the "lock in" is the HVAC equipment will become the major problem. This type of system will start to look real attractive and if we can get good leak detection within the server cabinet most of the problems will be manageable.

When concrete sets it shrinks and tends to crack, most concrete slabs will crack, joints are often placed by cutting with a saw to control where the cracks should be but this is not always perfect to control. I also believe that the minerals in the concrete will attack the copper.

I lived in a house with 70 year old plumbing and leaks did happen. I would consider using PEX or placing copper underneath a drywall section you still need to use nail guard which are metal strips that protect the pipes from nails driven with hammers or drywall screws....