See Fractal antenna no multiple antenna's needed. The receiver part is a different story.

I do not think the FPGA works the way they think it works. For instance an ARM processor is going to be faster less power hungry then a FPGA programed as a ARM processor. It can't grow a blue-tooth or a GPS etc. The FPGA is also in the same improvement cycle as any other part so the newer phone will have the better FPGA. I am not saying having one in there is bad it is nice for tweaks to the system but it is not a magic bullet.

You knew someone was going to do the math. 75708.23568 drops = one gallon in a bucket Source traditionaloven.com $1.37B / 168M = .123 so it is 9310 drops, to 3 places due to pricing accuracy. It is a crap load of drops.

This is the worst place to put a solar panel other then the bottom of your shoe. It is slightly tilted at the ground. A smaller (read less expensive) solar panel on on a hat makes more sense.

Wrong. Being hypocritical is almost universally regarded as a bad thing, but the Bible places no special emphasis on it being worse than any other sin. The verse you quote is Jesus telling His followers not to be hypocritical, but it's just one of many instructions He gave them. The Bible spends a great deal more time discussing man and his general relationship with God than it does hypocrisy. I pity the fool.

I can't tell if religious discussion on Slashdot is more like a bikeshed or an echo chamber. The article summary reads like the latter, but your comment sounds more like "RELIGION? OH HAI, I CAN HAZ OPINION?"

Exactly. If you get thrown out of college for it, it's probably not legit.

Sampling acknowledges the original author. In music, it can be using a riff in the background of your song with a nod in the credits of your album. In literature, it's called "citing your source." If you don't cite, it's plaigarism. Furthermore, this is fiction, not a research paper where citing would be needed. We already have a catagory for writers who "sample" fiction from other sources, it's called "fan fiction," and no one gets paid for it because if they did, it would be copyright infringement.

This makes me really angry because it's just the kind of disrepect that my generation seems to be inidated with towards anyone but their own interests. You do NOT steal people's work and pass it off as your own. What a lazy bitch.

Neiter does evolution.

You do not understand evolution, and should not talk about it.

There is sin. "Original sin" and "sin" aren't identical. Adam doesn't need to have to have sinned in order for another individual to be guilty of sin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipelagianism
The beliefs of the christian community are far from homogeneous.

Also the "original sin" mentioned in the GGP seemed to be the Calvinist version of it which is quite different from the Arminian version of original sin, to the point where many Calvinists will claim that Arminians don't believe in original sin.

Considering Java wasn't "a long time ago", that's an absurd statement :-)

But science really is democracy, people put forth ideas which other confirm or refute and eventually the best ideas stick around. How many scientists with ideas no one else agrees with is getting facts into science books?

The problem with science is that for historical events, science is only theorizing a best guess based on the current evidence. It's not a fact, it didn't happen that way, it is a guess with some logical thinking behind it. This doesn't make other guesses incorrect, which is often assumed by science, just less likely based on a certain way of thinking. Honest neutral evaluation of different perspective is the best solution, because it allows people to decide for themselves. Right now there isn't intelligent argument in this area because both extremes are too brain-washed to consider middle ground as the real answer and they only perpetuate their extreme views.

You are right in the respect that anyone can publish anything and it's only if they get caught that they have to face consequences. In the YouTube case, Google aren't the ones specifically infringing copyright, it's the person who uploads the video. In this case, Google are explicitly the company that is infringing copyright and the difference here is a quantitative one. An individual or company that is caught infringing copyright in one incident would be sued and face the usual fines etc for that. A company that repeatedly and willingly infringes copyright will soon fine themselves facing bigger and bigger sanctions. Judges would start awarding punitively large damages and holding directors in contempt of court; it could even face a winding up order.

Just because one side of the debate has used bad data and judgment doesn't mean there is no merit to the debate. The other side does too. The trick is finding the truth in the whirlwind of lies and deceit.

Anecdotally, my brother works for a hospital. Everyone who works in the Emergency room was offered the H1N1 vaccine as soon as it became available. Each of those who got the vaccine came down with swine flu. Most of those who were unvacinated didn't.

These companies do make mistakes. Like any large organization with money at stake, they want to believe they can handle these problems quietly without large payouts. Is there a link between vaccines and autism? I don't know. I don't believe for a moment that the debate is over. There's way too much anecdotal evidence, even if there is no merit.

My house is full of windows. It's not full of silicon dust.

It don't know which is more sad: That you have no idea that Web apps can work offline, or that you got modded "interesting." http://www.google.com/google-d-s/hpp/offline_en_in.html

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