Comment Re:in the real world... (Score 1) 768
Comment OMG Bold! And Italic! And Colors! (Score 2, Interesting) 737
Now it is possible to change text inside the bounding text box and also use certain styles! For example select a word and press a “Bold” or “Italic” button. You can also change the size, line-height and font! Not just that – meanwhile it is also possible to change the color of certain words and characters.
This feature is absolutely great!
Bold, italic, and colors!? Is this a joke?
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Comment Re:Here's A Tip, Folks (Score 3, Interesting) 313
Acquisition of a trait (by whatever means) would never amount to a significant percentage of the gene pool of an organism unless it proffered some usefulness.
Though a popular view, that's not true. Assuming 'trait' means an independent mutation, then that trait can go to fixation in a population by simple chance (the expectation is that this happens to 1/2N mutations). Also, genes that are physically near each other on the genome tend to be passed as a set. Therefore, it is likely that a completely neutral, or even slightly disadvantageous mutation, that happens to be near an advantageous mutation (or a mutation that won the mating lottery and is heading toward fixation) will also be propagated throughout a population. There are other more esoteric reason why this could happen too, but a strictly adaptationist view of evolution was dropped in the 60s.
Comment Re:Here's A Tip, Folks (Score 1) 313
Comment Re:Heroin? What Kinda Book Reading Do You Do, JR? (Score 1) 73
The book reads like the cereal style stories it imitates.
I assumed he was dripping the the heroin on his cereal instead of smoking. Or maybe the book was emulating the exploits of Toucan Sam and his Loops of Froot? I'm baffled.
Comment Re:What's the purpose... (Score 1) 1182
but i just think there's a time and place for things like that
When is that time and place? In a special free speech zone?