Very fast, very high testing marks. Not free but you get what you pay for - it is worth it.

Try BlitzMax (http://blitzmax.com/Products/blitzmax.php). It can do GUI, console, games, even CGI. Nice OOP language with hundreds of libraries and east C integration. It made me love programming again, the way I did back when I first learned. It's a great language to bang out a quick tool or idea.

I suggest looking into the Bilt application: http://buildadatabaseapp.com/ It's a fairly easy to extend system built for creating adhoc shared database applications without having to write any code. You could use a bit of custom PHP on top of it to integrate into whatever public forms or whatever you need to pull data from. All your operators and employees would only need to interact with the UI provided by Bilt.

I thought I should clarify that the bonus we use for OT work is paid by the hour. This is a direct incentive to work more hours. If the hours make the company more money then it makes sense.

This can work for short periods of time, up to a couple of weeks IF you pay an overtime bonus to the sallaried employees. My company does this and most people actually look forward to the infrequent times when it is needed because we are well compensated for it (in addition to our profit sharing program).

and shot?

Fuck yes it is.

"If Texans have a way they want to do something, LET THEM, and don't live there if you don't like it."

Not if their decisions shapes text books all over the country. Not if they are receiving any Federal funding for their schools.

If they want to blur the line between church and state, and between facts and politics, then surely they won't mind the Federal Government taking away funding. After all, the Church will pick up the slack, right:)?

I have to admit though, living in an ultra-blue state (Oregon), it would be amusing to see my communities reaction to receiving a K-12 set of "Texanized" books.

I mean this in the nicest possible way, but that post really makes it sound as if you don't know what you're talking about. 100000 light years is the size of a typical galaxy, i.e. the Milky Way (admittedly diameter, not radius). And the more massive a black hole, the bigger it is (as measured by the Schwarzschild radius); a black hole with 100 billion stars - which, again, is a typical galaxy's worth - would be about 600 billion km across. That's something like 100 times the size of the orbit of Neptune, and much bigger than any star.

To put the dose in perspective, the ICRP 60 recommended dose limit to the whole body for the public is 1000 microsieverts/year. A 0.02 microsievert effective dose to the whole body is nothing. You would have to fly 50000 times to exceed this limit.

What concept is this proof of?

Reply with a resignation letter signed by all of the programmers. He'll let you use your music players.