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Comment Re:Consistent Histories? (Score 1) 365

No the article still states that the receiver needs to know the "correct measurement" to be made, which means that Bob needs information from Alice on which measurement to make and that information has no choice but speed-of-light exchange. I just wonder if not the energy of the information exchange exceeds the energy exchange of the entangled pair, even theoretically.

Comment travelling (Score 1) 152

I bet it initially smashed through a porous structure and entered an underground river which spans a martian continent. Now it's popping up closer to the surface and can penetrate the thin ice it is trapped under! I could also suggest it is being carried by aliens, but that's boring if you're a scientist. Wait.. I'm not a scientist. But I'd like to be one, so there.

Comment chrome bar (Score 1) 447

I guess chrome/chromium location bar is a ripoff of firefox, but I think it works faster and better.. I just tested typing 'banana' into my chrome bar, and it presented me a with an obscure link with no 'banana' in it, I clicked it, no 'banana' in the title either, but somewhere on the page it said 'banana'. That's awesome. I guess. Anyway, why the hell use firefox with all that junk, all that junk, when you can have chrome with humpless minimalism?

Comment Re:I'm thinking about moving to Norway (Score 1) 154

I'm not going to comment much on this, I think everyone can see that this is bombastic and narrow. I'm norwegian myself and I don't recognize myself or my friends in this. But alas, this is not forum for discussing nations and the people there. But seriously man, you should get out more, locally but also globally.

Comment Re:Why now? (Score 1) 132

This is proof of global warming! A high-altitude cloud surface does a better job in trapping radiation than reflecting it, so boom, man-made greenhouse. In combination with less low-altitude cloud cover (for some reason, speculatively from less solar activity, less cosmic particle showers, less water-droplet-seeds), which are good at reflecting light, we have a powerful greenhouse effect, maybe totally dominating any CO2 greenhouse effect. Would be fun if somone could quantatively back this up :p

Comment Re:Not a good measure (Score 5, Informative) 453

Again, for all participants in Shell Eco Marathon, including the Norwegian contribution, and the Turkish one, they are allowed to use the amount of energy in 1 liter of petroleum. The unit is not 1 liter of hydrogen, but 1 liter of gas. They use hydrogen which is consumed in fuel cells, but the amount of energy in that xxx volume hydrogen equals the amount of energy in 1 liter of gas. The efficiency of the whole system is reflected directly by how far they get with the fuel they are allowed to take on board the vehicle. UrbanConcept Fuel Cell class: 1st place: 1246 km 2nd place: 804 km 3rd place: 568 km

Comment Shell Eco Marathon, 1246 km on 1 liter (Score 5, Informative) 453

I'm surprised. Why does this 3rd place winner get this attention? If the numbers are anything to impress with, take a closer look at the winner, the Norwegian contribution, clocking in at 1246 km per 1 liter of fuel equivalents. Official Results: http://www.shell.com/home/content/eco-marathon-en/europe/2009/results/app_results_2009.html

Comment Bluetooth is perfect! (Score 1) 519

I have a Razer Pro|Click bluetooth mouse and to me it's working pretty well. The battery life seems excellent, I can probably go two months without changing batteries. It uses 2 AA batteries. An improvement possibility there, with li-ion rechargeable, but then you'd add some cost. Bluetooth though, is simply brilliant. I never think about the connection. My laptop has always-on bluetooth, together with the wifi, so I just flip on the mouse itself and 3 seconds later I can move it around. The accuracy for office work is adequate, but I have one annoyance with it: Every once in a while, it freezes. Either it unfreezes by itself after 10 seconds, or I have to switch the mouse off and on. It's one reason, that while doing CAD design, I prefer a wired mouse which never fails.

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