Damn, I always thought fashion patents were non existent. Turns out they simply decided not to use them except in rare circumstances.

Also, women's preoccupation with shoes continues to baffle me.

No clothing manufacturers would sue another another manufacturer for copied designs because patents for clothing are not accepted. And yet the fashion industry doesn't seem to be standing still. Imagine that! Innovation without patents on look-and-feel in an industry that is all about look-and-feel!

I have a small correction. dB is a ratio of power, so it should be 2*48 or 96 dB.

You can already do this. Search the android market for groove ip. Unfortunately, groove ip isn't perfect, you may need to configure it if the sound quality is bad.

Ogg Vorbis lost to mp3 because for the longest time there was no fixed point implementation of an ogg vorbis decoder, while there was one for mp3. This made the hardware to decode ogg vorbis more expensive, and hence no one made one.

mp3 only goes up to 48kHz/16bit. So unless you can hear the frequencies between 22 and 24 kHz, the CD will be better.

However, it might be complicated, because Samsung, HTC and others manufacture their devices i nthe same or similar shops.

HTC actually makes their phones in Taiwan. Since the manufacturing is in Taiwan, they pay the workers a decent level of wages and sweatshop like conditions are not legal.

So you are suggesting that people who get scalded more often have a higher incidence of cancer? Basically anyone who works in a kitchen should have higher rates of cancer than the general population, is that what you are suggesting?

If that were true then the US state of Hawaii would have more cancer than the US state of Washington. We find that is not the case. I have never heard anyone suggest that heat could contribute to cancer. If you look at the statistics at the CDC, there doesn't seem to be any correlation of colder climates to less cancers. Where are you getting your information?

Does this mean that heat causes cancer? We better get all those restaurant cooks in the kitchen some hazard pay!

That was sarcasm, btw. I don't think that heat causes cancer.

Look at what you have written: in radius and denarius the -ius -> -ii If -us became -ii then the plural of radius would be radiii.

As a current resident of Honolulu, I have to respond to some of this.

First taxes are not very high compared to mainland states. According to the Tax Foundation Hawaii has the 30th highest taxes in the nation (out of 50 obviously). http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/topic/24.html

Second, there are a lot of homeless in Hawaii. The primary cause of this is high home prices. A home in a "bad" neighborhood will cost $300k-600k, in a "good" neighborhood they go from $500k-$900k, and in the "rich" neighborhoods they are ridiculous. Unfortunately, we live on an island, so there is a limited amount of land. Couple that with regulations that prohibit apartment buildings in a lot of places because they would "ruin the view", and one economic downturn has the effect of generating a lot of homeless.

It was 550,000/day in mid-July. http://www.dailytech.com/Google+Sets+Earnings+Record+Sees+550K+Android+Activations+Daily/article22164.htm

I hate to break it to you, but Siri (both the voice recognition part and the natural language processing part) isn't running on a phone. It's running on some clusters somewhere and the results are fed to a phone.

If you mean the dialer app, then yes you can replace it, without rooting. In fact, there is very little you must root to do. Off the top of my head I have only had to root to do the following:

Install custom ROMs/patches.
Run a personal firewall/ad blocker.
Run a wireless tether app that doesn't require that I pay the phone company extra.
Run a VNC server.
Run a program that over/underclocks my phone.