First posters are dicks?

Could'a told you that without the empirical evidence. :p

Hm, for some reason I had "Pre-Hypertext Processor" in my head. I must've seen or heard it somewhere.

(And now YOU have too, haha!)

You're really referring to fiat currency and not cash-carrying in a broad sense. Although given that the penny's metal now has intrinsically more value than its decree, anything can change. Imagine how valuable paper bills would become if some catastrophe destroyed the world's forests? (Let's assume it also destroys book scanners. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krugerrand#History
http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2011/07/13/bernanke-fights-ron-paul-in-congress-golds-not-money/
http://archive.mises.org/19274/central-banks-gold-is-money/

But it can work.
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/04/27/can-gold-be-used-as-a-currency/

Here in Canada it's winter most of the time, right now my assets are liquidated. :d
Still better than ice cream phones.

Yep, I worked for 5 years after high school, mainly in a grocery store. Best decision I ever made, before going to college.
There just aren't a lot of employers who want to hire a high school grad for anything approaching a complex task. Ten years from now OP will probably understand why... nah, he's a smart kid.. probably 5 years. :-) Need to see your current self in the rear view mirror first.

Something to be said for knowing what you want to do with your life, there's also something to be said for letting yourself change minds. If you're still a programmer in 20 years, good on ya. Probably set for bigger and better things though.

Oh, you mean Firebook?
(Ray Bradbury is not amused.)

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. (Douglas Adams)

It's not a matter of the tool is wrong. It's a matter that assuming one tool is always best is wrong.
Your premise is based on: using a computer is easier and better for 100% of humans. That's not true. Allow me to introduce you to my parents. Allow me to introduce you to senior engineers who can craft new formulas on a whiteboard faster than juniors can wake their laptops.

Different areas of the brain are involved with the act of handwriting than with touch typing or pecking. Make LCARS speech recognition a reality and we have a winner. Solving problems that stump otherwise intelligent humans for *hundreds* of years, *clearly* requires some creatively alternate use of the brain, and not Microsoft Clippy. ("I see you're trying to solve an unprovable theorem, would you like to Quit without Saving?") I don't even need to cite sources that say poor UIs slow people down. That's how it is. Computers add cruft, otherwise there wouldn't be a market for applications that remove distractions when writing.

Poor analogy. Publication implies mass reproduction and distribution. An *author* can write however they want to form their ideas, the result is the same. How the idea gets distributed is irrelevant to the core point. (Also there are such things as shorthand.)

Lou Dobbs would agree.

On one of the photography sites I frequent, there was a poll years ago about: if you could choose, what would be the last photograph you ever take?

I said "Elvis". A good one to retire on.

I could've said "Bin Laden", but that would give an entirely different connotation to "last".

Try MPlayerX. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. The current version doesn't have a playlist or individual loop feature, but that's really about the only things it doesn't have, IMO. It does a reasonable attempt at detecting episodic files in a folder.

That's fair. The more appropriate Slashdottism would be "non-zero".

No it really doesn't. On an internet forum using a corporate alias makes you a fanboy. At best it makes you uncreative.
What you *should* do is a very simple "Disclosure: this is my product".
Presuming that someone will even bother to look at your username, then connect 2 + 2 (lol amirite?) is demanding far too much investigative work from a forum reader.

On a forum that uses Facebook for comments if it said "Works at Perpenso" then your argument would hold water. But a username? No. Absolutely no. You might as well be OracleBoy48.

Actually, *total* theatre is what I experienced in a Greyhound terminal a few years ago. They "beefed up" security following a totally insane and horrific decapitation on a bus.
Everyone lined up around some pillars, geriatric screeners unzipping backpacks to peer inside, not even opening luggage or duffel bags.
And the wanding... oh lord the wanding, which I swear, looked like a Radio Shack coin finder without any batteries, and didn't detect so much as my belt buckle.

The theatre only existed in major terminals, because 15 minutes out of town you can board the bus by standing at the side of the highway with just a piece of ID for collateral until the next ticket agent stop.

At least there probably weren't any Greyhound security guards masturbating to backscatter images.