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Submission + - The G-spot 'doesn't appear to exist', say research

Submitted by xirusmom
xirusmom writes: The elusive erogenous zone said to exist in some women may be a myth, say researchers who have hunted for it. Their study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine is the biggest yet, involving 1,800 women, and it found no proof. The King's College London team believe the G-spot may be a figment of women's imagination, encouraged by magazines and sex therapists. , BBC reports

Comment Re:Alvin & the Chipmunks (Score 2, Insightful) 782

by xirusmom (#30641760) Attached to: <em>Avatar</em> Soars Into $1-Billion Territory
Phineas and Ferb proves that you can make it clever enough for both kids and adults. It is brilliant and sometimes I watch it even without my 3 year old. I guess it is the perfect geek cartoon, with all the necessary references.

All in all, Disney/Pixar movies are usually clever enough that I won't get bored watching. And after having to see Cars about a 100 times, that says a lot. But it is so rich in details, that every time (well, maybe in the first 10 times) you will find something you haven't noticed before.

Comment Re:Didn't see Avatar... (Score 1) 782

by xirusmom (#30641504) Attached to: <em>Avatar</em> Soars Into $1-Billion Territory
No you are not. I am resisting, but I think in the end I will have to see it just to be able to rant about it. If they had spent some of the 150 mi they did for publicity to improve the plot (as everybody seems to agree that sucks), I would be more willing to see it. Yes, I get the argument: "But the technology is amazing". Fine, but maybe I should wait for a better writer to make better use of that technology and come up with a decent story. Or is that too much to ask? In the end, maybe it is a good combination: The mellow story is there so a guy can convince his girlfriend to go with him. In this case, maybe he needs to get a better girlfriend.

Comment Re:The Onus Should Not Be on the Nerds (Score 1) 453

by xirusmom (#30527966) Attached to: The US Economy Needs More "Cool" Nerds
Even if income were the only consideration... The mean annual incomes is not a very good comparison, because you need to consider the actual chances of getting a job in the field. His point was: how many athletes can actually make a living from the sport only? And do you really think your kid is one of them?

Comment You obviously have never been to Brazil... (Score 1) 920

by xirusmom (#30433932) Attached to: The best pizza I have ever had, I found ...
If you think that we (in the US) have the most variety of sauces and toppings, you obviously have never been to Brazil. Try any, any pzza place in Sao Paulo, you will find the pizza to be better. And BTW, that cheese stuffed border? They do it in Brazil for decades with a cheese called catupiry, a creamy, delicious kind. (Goes great with shrimp also). That said... I prefer to get buy a good dough and make the rest myself with fresh ingredients.

Comment CNN, FOX, etc...? (Score 1) 316

by xirusmom (#30402672) Attached to: Three Lawmakers Ask For Enforcement Against Leak Sites
I first learned about the leak on CNN. They may have not showed the text on TV (I did not look on their site for it), but they sure talked about some of the contents and now I know that if I have a prosthetic leg I can bring, say, some maple syrup from Canada. If Wikileaks is hosting the content, so is CNN, and FOX, and....

Comment not really Color x Energy (Score 1) 123

by xirusmom (#30383058) Attached to: Five Top Publishers Plan Rival to Kindle Format
A device could have different settings, so you could turn on the color just when you want it. That said... the same could be done for a netbook. So while they may be highlighting the "pretty pictures", the main reason is to have a dedicated device is, of course, content control. ----- My husband is always trying to convince me that I, like him, am a geek. I keep telling him: yIDoghQo'
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Submission + - ABC president can't get her kids to wacth tv

Submitted by xirusmom
xirusmom writes: The quote, by ANNE SWEENEY, president of the Disney-ABC Television Group, really says it all: "You're going to have a television if I have to nail it to your wall." ... recalling a remark to her college-bound daughter, who insisted she only needed a computer to watch television. (TIME Magazine)

Submission + - Legal Status for Climate change Belief (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by xirusmom
xirusmom writes: In the UK, climate change belief was given same legal status as religion.
The London Telegraph reports that an executive has won the right to sue his employer, on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views. A judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.

Feed Schneier: Zero-Tolerance Policies (schneier.com)

From feed by bsfeed
Recent stories have documented the ridiculous effects of zero-tolerance weapons policies in a Delaware school district: a first-grader expelled for taking a camping utensil to school, a 13-year-old expelled after another student dropped a pocketknife in his lap, and a seventh-grader expelled for cutting paper with a utility knife for a class project. Where's the common sense? the editorials cry....

Feed Engadget: OLPC shakeup: dual-screen XO-2 out, ARM-based XO 1.75 in (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed
OLPC's plans for a dual-screen XO-2 laptop / tablet always seemed a little... ambitious, and it looks like even Nicholas Negroponte himself has now realized that it may be more than the organization is able to pull off at the moment. That word comes from a recent interview with Xconomy, where Negroponte confirms that OLPC has indeed scrapped plans for the dual-screen XO-2, and says it will instead focus on a "model 1.75" that has a design similar to the current OPLC XO but gets a boost from a faster ARM processor. Negroponte isn't completely giving up on the idea of a revamped OLPC, however, and says that model 3.0 will have a "totally different industrial design, more like a sheet of paper." That model apparently also includes "aspirational aspects" like an unbreakable, waterproof enclosure that's just a quarter inch thick, a full color, reflective and transmissive display with no bezel, 1W of power consumption, and (here's the real kicker) a $75 price tag by 2012.

[Via Liliputing]

Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs

OLPC shakeup: dual-screen XO-2 out, ARM-based XO 1.75 in originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Submission + - Linux on a Home Theater 1

Submitted by TheSharpCrayon
TheSharpCrayon writes: My question is about a new, store bought or home built computer, to feed a Panasonic 50 inch Plasma 1080p TV.
I am fairly familar with Suse 11.1 with updates as they come along so that is what I would like to use. It will be used for movies, internet, e-mail, and internet video conferencing. Most of the TV input will be from a satellite.
What I would like is something with 4+ gig of ram and a video card to make the 50 inch TV happy. The motherboard would be best with a seperate video and sound card in my opinion. The audio will be going into a older Bose surround sound system.
    I am willing to go with a 64 bit processor but it is not critical. It would be nice to keep the whole system under a grand. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Stephen

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