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Comment Winamp skins were weird. (Score 2) 20

The weirdest thing about skins for winamp is that they grabbed the minus sign from the middle line on 2. That meant that when I made a skin and wanted a font that didn't look like a digital clock I had to put a line through my 2. To make that look normal I put different markings on a bunch of the numbers.

Comment Missing the point.... (Score 1, Insightful) 470

Monsanto continues to push the argument over to whether modified genes are safe. The logical argument against GMOs is not that there is anything wrong with modifying genomes, but in what we have modified them to do, which is to be raised in soils heavily laden with chemicals, Round Up in particular. This has caused a massive increase of such chemicals in our diet. They have been linked to cancer, autism, and a slew of gastrointestinal problems.

Comment Re: Just wondering (Score 2) 333

"Money" as I think you are meaning being an apportionment of the value of all resources is neither finite nor infinite. Since our own actions can effect future suplies and can affect the relative value of those supplies. This is the economic principal of productivity. The reason that programming is now seen as more important than other fields is that the productivity of our capital investments is limited by the intelligence of the user. Current technology on a hardware basis is more than capable than the human brain, but nobody has yet managed to program AI efficient and adaptable enough to replace human intelligence. When that happens, the rate of advancement will go from the order of c^x to cx^x.

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