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The latest news about Winphone 7 is it won't support copy/paste... whaaa? Seems like Microsoft is trying to invent iPhone OS 1.0

I've heard October in rumors

I use Backgrounder on my jailbroken iPhone constantly. It's a mod that allows you to background applications and configure policies as to what applications should run into the background per default. Backgrounder reveals the true nature of the iPhone: the underlying OS supports multitasking, but the ability to multitask 3rd party apps is prevented through user interface restrictions. IMO this is a huge limitation of the iPhone OS which Android has solved beautifully and the iPhone "dev"/jailbreaking community has provided a relatively elegant solution to. One of my most common use cases on the iPhone is listening to music and doing something else. I prefer not to use Apple's built in "iPod" functionality but instead stream my music most of the time. I used to use Pandora but now I use an app called GrooveShark. I imagine this will hit iPad users right way... what if they want to listen to Pandora (or any other streaming music app) and browse the web at the same time? Fortunately iPhone OS/"iOS" 4.0 has been rumored to include native multitasking for quite some time. That said, I can't see WinPhone 7 getting anywhere. I'm glad Microsoft has finally admitted that Windows Mobile 6.x is a dead end and extremely antequated and clunky in the age of iPhone and Android, but I don't see WinPhone garnering considerable market share so much as trying to catch up to where the iPhone was almost 3 years ago.

The best example of one is probably the BlueBrain project: http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/ That's already happening with various Brain/Computer Interfaces. Electrodes implanted into the brain and connected to a computer have given patients basic keyboard-like functionality without the need to move a single muscle. That's a philosophical question about identity and one which is probably best asked in the philosophy forum. My opinion is if we slowly replaced the neurons in your brain with artificial replacements that behaved more or less identically to their biological counterparts, and did this gradually over time, you'd end up with the same person with an artificial brain.

I recently tried to play Starcraft II through less that legitimate means. Unfortunately I couldn't get the graphics rendering working correctly.

He made a mistake, therefore he does no checking of his data at all! Slippery slope much? *facepalm* jryan, seriously, can you knock off the completely out of context quotes? Here's what you paraphrased Reto Rudy as saying: Here's the quote where he actually said the words "rudimentary analysis": If they didn't look alike, then it would be an indication that one of them was doing something wrong. So yes, it's no surprise. Models don't have to have predictive power. Models provide estimates of the behavior of larger systems.

Aren't you quite the apologist... Thomas Jefferson had far more to do with the founding of the US than Thomas Aquinas, end of story. Thomas Jefferson is a central figure of America's history and deserves to be recognized as such. C'mon jryan, don't you consider yourself a libertarian, or as you would self-identify, a "classical liberal"? Thomas Jefferson is the primordial libertarian. Why are you defending removing him from the history books?

The problem isn't one of the "Atheist viewpoint". Atheism isn't a religion, and you can't just lump it in with similar concerns about specific religions and their incompatibility. Indeed the same language that protects atheists from professing a belief in any religion is the same text that protects the religious from being forced to profess disbelief in religion. To go back to the Everson v. Board of Education SCOTUS decision: Neither [Federal or state governments] can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will or force him to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion. These people are being forced to profess a belief in religion, namely that God exists and all Americans are in some manner beneath this deity. Vague as that may be, since the law requiring the statement of the pledge is compulsory, I really don't see how this isn't violating the Establishment Clause, at least within the precedent of Everson.

http://www.physorg.com/news187879295.html Apparently with the deletion of a single gene, laboratory mice become capable of tissue regeneration in a manner which is similar to "flatworms, sponges, and some species of salamander". Unlike typical mammals, which heal wounds by forming a scar, these mice begin by forming a blastema, a structure associated with rapid cell growth and de-differentiation as seen in amphibians. According to the Wistar researchers, the loss of p21 causes the cells of these mice to behave more like embryonic stem cells than adult mammalian cells, and their findings provide solid evidence to link tissue regeneration to the control of cell division. "Much like a newt that has lost a limb, these mice will replace missing or damaged tissue with healthy tissue that lacks any sign of scarring," said the project's lead scientist Ellen Heber-Katz, Ph.D., a professor in Wistar's Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis program. "While we are just beginning to understand the repercussions of these findings, perhaps, one day we'll be able to accelerate healing in humans by temporarily inactivating the p21 gene."

Here's one of my posts on the matter:

I'd choose January 1st, 1970, the date of the Unix Epoch. Why? I don't really have a good reason but I can't think of a better arbitrary date.

I'll take a snippet from the Everson v. Board of Education verdict: So long as saying the pledge is never compulsory, I suppose this verdict is okay.

In general the .NET framework offers better languages than PHP, such as C#. PHP has a low learning curve but does not offer you a lot of room to improve and write better code.

Demand for Canadian drugs dropped off quite a bit since Republicans created a drug entitlement, so people don't care how much the drugs cost.

Use the output from one as the input for the other?

Bust out your PHP skills and build a "simple" web site: You create multiple copies of the database, and then let random people talk to your poetrybots. At the same time you seed the different copies to produce "poetry" and let people vote on the results. After awhile, you kill off the losers and let the winner(s) live on, making duplicate copies for round 2, rinse, repeat. Bonus points for mixing together the databases of the winners and letting them "breed" Then comes the really hard part: attracting enough people to your web site to drive the intelligent selection process.

I pay with an HSA, which is a plus to me both because I get the money tax free and because contributions are matched by my employer. That said, I use said HSA to buy 3 medications with no generic alternative (the only medications I can buy generically are now all available OTC, namely Prilosec and Claritin D) Refilling my prescriptions runs me about $500 a pop. Were I to buy the same prescriptions from a Canadian pharmacy, it'd cost me approximately $75. I'm buying my prescriptions through a Kroger-owned pharmacy. I guess your next suggested step would be to try Wal-Mart? All that said, sorry, I'm not buying it. American pharma will charge you an arm and a leg to get the drugs you need, because they expect your insurance is paying for it, and if it's not, you're screwed. All your myopic and unsubstantiated free market BS isn't going to convince me otherwise.

Awfully reminiscent of how evolution deniers work, huh?

jackson33, originally you said: But as I noted, the consumer of radio receives the broadcast as a free service. When I point this out, you then note: So yes, my original statement is correct. The "somebody" who is paying who would get "taxed" (your wording, not mine) by this bill is a corporation like Clear Channel, Entercom, or Cumulus. It's not your favorite local station or a non-profit. They are exempt. There are 5 corporations which control approximately 95% of the radio stations in this country. They are the ones who are going to be """taxed""". So why do you care?

It's definitely true that fear, uncertainty, and doubt are the weapons of the climate science denial movement. The mountains of evidence in support of anthropogenically forced climate change are nothing when there are a few things wrong here and there! A few mistakes cast everything into doubt. As Al Gore put it in his most recent op ed: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28gore.html ...the reality of the danger we are courting has not been changed by the discovery of at least two mistakes in the thousands of pages of careful scientific work over the last 22 years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

I don't think there was an enormous tobacco-related cancer denialist movement the way there is with climate change. True, corporate interests do work against the science in both cases, but opposition to climate science is far more grassroots than it ever was with tobacco-related cancers. I also think in the case of climate science there's a bit more to the opponents claims than there ever was with tobacco and cancer. That said, the opinions of a handfull of scientists do get hugely amplified through a cacophony of corporate interests and layman's blogs.

How are the costs passed onto consumers when radio is free?

jackson33, Stop calling it a tax. It's not a tax. It's a royalty. Calling it a tax is just wrong. You've fallen hook, line, and sinker for some terrible spin. But without "these products" (as you so aptly state), their service would be worthless. Content is king. They're using someone else's product to add value to their service, and not paying for it. Now that the government is changing the laws so they do have to pay, they're ostensibly mad about it. The free lunch is going away!

Hey, you're in Denver! Yeah, this sort of thing has never happened to me, even walking down Colfax at night. Although there are a fair number of crazy people...

I've heard stories that there's a lot more stuff like this going on in the UK, mostly blamed on "chavs". It doesn't really happen in America, at least in my experience.