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Comment Re:What PenTile means (Score 1) 297

Wow, that sounds like the Apple II's color display! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_graphics#High-Resolution_.28Hi-Res.29_graphics "another quirk of Wozniak's design is that while any pixel could be black or white, only pixels with odd X-coordinates could be green or orange. Likewise, only even-numbered pixels could be violet or blue."

Comment Re:Would not one have to spend energy... (Score 2) 222

Since you're not *un*-entangling the particles during the experiment, the energy used to entangle the particles shouldn't matter. Besides, they're not talking about a specific amount of energy, they mean there is a technique to sort *all* of the higher-energy particles into one side of the box. That means you can extract some energy from the diffusion when the particles re-randomize, and then do it all over again to collect (over time) an unbounded amount of energy.

Education

Submission + - America is underinvesting in science education - except it isn't (cnn.com)

TaeKwonDood writes: Every few months a story comes out that American kids are falling behind and they reference an international standardized test score which shows the US in the middle. Then they say we need to invest more in education. With 5,000 PhDs working as janitors that does not seem to make sense. And America is already number two in the world in spending per child.
Hardware

Submission + - Cray XK6 supercomputer used to simulate ice cream (geek.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The processing power available inside modern supercomputers isn’t just able to help us better understand the universe we live in, develop better medicines, and model complex systems. Apparently it is also helping to make better ice cream.

Research has been carried out at the University of Edinburgh to simulate the soft matter that makes up ice cream. More specifically, scientists are trying to understand the complex interactions occurring between the many different ingredients that make up your favorite flavor of the delicious cold stuff.

Comment Re:The reason Christianity has this problem. (Score 1) 1359

"Jesus saves us not because he died on the cross, that is just a spectacular example of incomprehensible self-sacrifice."

It is that, but I do think you missed the part where he ROSE from the dead. His sacrifice was impressive and might well have gained some loyalty points, but the reason we are "saved" is because of Jesus' power to conquer death. And the New Testament is full of people saying that Jesus did not, in fact, prevent them from sinning (although they gave it a good try), the point is that Jesus has the power to forgive them *even though* they descend into sin anyway.

Comment Re:i know! (Score 1) 284

Debian releases when *everything* is ready, which means that it release well after *some* things are ready. More frequent releases means less pressure on developers to make deadlines, and less pressure on users to upgrade to bleeding-edge software just to get a few new features they want.

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