It's not about to run out. It's about to--wait for it--PEAK. Production has been increasing since its discovery and soon it will begin to decrease--but 'decrease' (or even 'decrease fast enough to be big trouble) does not equate 'decrease quickly enough to solve global warming', especially considering the time lag.

open sourced an algorithm

Does it horrify anyone else that we talk this way now?

clive and mplayer to the rescue.

http://abstrusegoose.com/92

75% more scenes with TOO MUCH CRAP going on.

'Fuck you, Rick Berman! You ruined this too?'

Yeah, only dumbasses like Tyler Cowen and Aza Raskin.

There may not be much expert discussion on Twitter, but when you dogmatically insist that everyone on Twitter is an idiot you're actually identifying only one person as an idiot.

People who abuse their right to guns are the reason some think we shouldn't have said right.

Yet we're still leaving troops there

Remember how we were all mad at Germany early in the Iraq war? Do you remember how we punished them? We started some of our troops out of Germany and shutting down American military bases in the country. Why did we have military bases in Germany in 2005? Because we put them there during the Cold War, some immediately following World War II.

So, yeah, we're keeping a military presence in Iraq, just a we've kept a presence in Germany for over fifty years. It's strategic to have bases spread around the globe.

You just listed a bunch of products who essentially stalled their own development for years and were overtaken by competition. If Microsoft's success depends on Apple not releasing any new products or updates to their current products, I have some bad news for them.

No one's complaining about people simply not buying games. Free market capitalism for not preclude IP. Perhaps you should consider not being a smug asshole and make your point honestly next time.

Um...Flattr is a way of paying for the cool stuff. You just pay a flat rate each month.

What this world needs is competent programmers. C++ too hard for you? You shouldn't be programming. It's that simple.

How about 'if you think the complex system is either not good enough or absolutely perfect, you shouldn't be programming'. I can write in assembly, but I'd have to be an idiot to reject improvements on the grounds that 'if you can't program in assembly, don't program.' Better tools increase productivity and reduce bug-count. (Anyone who claims to have written a complex, bug-free program, is either a liar or just oblivious, and if they add in that there's no way it could have been done faster/more easily they're either nuts or a knee-jerk Slashdot commenter.)

Go ahead and write your code in C++ because you can, but don't be surprised when all those idiots using other using tools produce better software faster.

The Cost of Social Norms.

No, I can't get it because we used the smallpox vaccines to fully eradicate it. You've confused cowpox (A member of the Poxviridae family and which which provides a no-longer-needed immunity to smallpox) with chickenpox (which a member of the Herpesviridae and I'm pretty sure doesn't help with smallpox). We don't give out the smallpox vaccine anymore not because chickenpox or cowpox is common, but because the worldwide infenction rate for smallpox since 1978 has been 0. (And the single case in 1978 was a lab accident. The last natural case was 1977.)

The eradication of smallpox is one of science's biggest victories. Spread the good word.

People can find security holes and exploit them, but they can't find security holes and fix them. (They can, however, find security holes and report them, so...)