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I bought a netbook because I wanted a computer that I could easily bring along while traveling because I went to a lot of meetings abroad at the time. I could easily have afforded …

Please be aware that Celsius is not a SI unit, Kelvin is used in stead as the standard temperature unit. The only reason why many people use Celsius is because it makes sense in th…

Mecanical parts are the most difficult thing to switch because there are many things defined in relation to one another. For example the american UNC threads have different angles …

Regionalized units have the same damaging effect to manufacturing as closed software ecosystems has to software development. The only reason most US citizens do not feel the pain o…

It is true that the US has had remarkebly high birth rates during the last 30 years compared to most of Europe and the rich cuntries in Asia. However, once the trend for low fertil…

That is not entirely true. Nuclear fission is not powered by the sun, nor are nuclear fusion plants on Earth (when they arrive). However, fission is only possible because of the ex…

If you have a bounded system growth will eventually level out. Physical considerations makes it unfavorable to go below the atomic level for feature size. Therefore growth in trans…

Solid materials are much more complex than single atoms and support several types of multiple particle states. One noteworthy example is the Cooper pairs that result in conventiona…

It is actually not very difficult to make stock, except you have to wait some hours for it to cook, so I guess lack of time to cook is the driving force behind soup stores. However…

My mother committed suicide when I was five years old. She was lost for seven months and I never really understood she was dead until several months had passed. It took years befor…

The brain is designed to process signal and if there is none it will sometimes make up its own. I guess you can compare it to dark current in photo-multipliers. People who have tin…

Yes Chromium without sync works fine for me too. edit: Gmail works fine for me in Denmark, maybe it is only a regional outage?

Phosphorus recovery is an important problem indeed, but there already exists a solution: http://www.grontmij.com/highlights/water-and-energy/Pages/pe... The main problem at the mom…

Maybe less than two years ago, otherwise he would need to have superhuman powers :)

This kind of user behavior will be very expensive in terms of capacity requirement at the super chargers. If everybody comes in at lunch time and dinner time there will be at least…

This is not the first time Norway has been interested in Thorium, already in the sixties they had plans to exploit their rather large Thorium deposit. India also has large deposits…

You can call it what you want but one thing is for sure. These prices demonstrate that the competition on the US telecom market is limited. In Denmark you only pay for out going sm…

Philanthropy is much bigger in the US than in the Nordic countries so there is much more money to go around. That being said there has traditionally been a feeling among the rich t…

Denmark has been doing the same since the nineties and we have also developed over capacity. We get around the waste problem by "reusing" it in road construction. BTW Denmark is th…

You can already do this with Labview and National Instruments hardware. It is quite easy to program and Labview is inherently a parallel language so you get that for free, but the …

I can back you up with real word evidence for your claim. In Denmark we have system very close to what John Stewart proposes but still we have far fewer entrepreneurs than in the U…

Wireless will never be able to match the bandwidth of fiber. Today fiber can transmit close to 10 Tb/s through a single line. This is orders of magnitude more than will ever be pos…

The space shuttle was a poor design in many respects even by the standards of the 1970s as described in Feynman's Challenger crash report http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-r…

I am sorry, but from the press release they have only added two new industry partners to help develop this battery. There is still a long way to go before they have anything near a…