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Comment Re: Even my DVDs are streamed (Score 1) 152

I've never allowed my kids to handle the discs, so when I introduced the media server to them they were suitably happy. Now they can select and play digital copies of DVDs and blurays we've bought them with having to wait for me to do it and without being forced to watch countless previews that have become prolific on kids' disc these days.
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Lizard Previously Unknown To Science Found On Vietnam Menu 133

eldavojohn writes "A lizard long served on the menu in the Mekong Delta has recently caught the attention of scientists when it was noted that all animals in the species appeared identical as well as female. The species appears to be a hybrid of two other species (like a mule or liger). But the curious thing is that this hybrid isn't sterile — it reproduces asexually. The species, known for some time in Vietnam, has now officially been named Leiolepis ngovantrii."
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Scientists Discover Booze That Won't Give You a Hangover 334

Kwang-il Kwon and Hye Gwang Jeong of Chungnam National University have discovered that drinking alcohol with oxygen bubbles added leads to fewer hangovers and a shorter sobering up time. People drinking the bubbly booze sobered up 20-30 minutes faster and had less severe and fewer hangovers than people who drank the non-fizzy stuff. Kwon said: "The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage reduces plasma alcohol concentrations faster than a normal dissolved-oxygen alcohol beverage does. This could provide both clinical and real-life significance. The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage would allow individuals to become sober faster, and reduce the side effects of acetaldehyde without a significant difference in alcohol's effects. Furthermore, the reduced time to a lower BAC may reduce alcohol-related accidents."

Comment Re:Python (Score 1) 799

I started with BASIC on a 1980's era Amstrad CPC. It is a fine language for learning on, but if the goal is to move to a more structured language like C, then BASIC is possibly a little sloppy. I got frustrated with the line numbering, as any subroutine calls had to be made via gosub which made it tedious when editing and adding lines. Sure renum renumbered and took gosubs into account, but something like pascal or C just felt more intuitive in that area to me.

I'm not sure if pascal is taught as a beginners language anymore either. I did pascal in high school, but the first thing my programming lecturer said to those that had done pascal programming before, was to forget everything we'd ever learnt before learning C.

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