OT Re: Newbie... Strict Compilation mode

[Mark Wieder]

Scott-

Sunday, May 10, 2009, 11:38:17 AM, you wrote:

> Recently, J. Landman Gay wrote:

>> Personally I think we should next discuss the practice of putting little
>> sticker labels on every single individual piece of fruit in the
>> supermarket. If you really want to push my buttons, that'll do it.

> Dude: I saw a food-related program about a company who has developed a way
> to laser-etch the skin of the fruit with the product digits and spray the
> etched regions with a small bit of food coloring to make them legible.  In
> effect: editable labels.  I think this is the most phenomenal thing ever,
> yet there are those who say this process contaminates the food and want to
> continue using stickers.  [sigh]

You ain't seen nothing yet...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/4343032/RipeSense-labels-will-tell-you-when-fruit-is-ripe.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1127504/Colour-coded-sensor-labels-tell-customers-perfect-time-eat-fruit.html

(I get all the best info from the Daily Mail...)

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