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Comment Youtube/education. (Score 1) 316

by NealBScott (#54165371) Attached to: Will Streaming Media Lead To A Massive Writer's Strike?
There is endless entertaining educational content on Youtube. TV/Netflix/Amazon has a place if you are in the mood for make believe. But there is so much out there from which you can learn when you least expect it!!! I mean, theres a Youtube video on how to measure PI *using* pies. Videos showing the history of Japan. Shows that explain why there is the letter R in the abbreviation for Mrs. What happens when you pour molten metal into an anthill. Your favorite songs played on unexpected instruments (I'm lookin' at you ukelele!) Too cool!! Make believe murders and shows filled with angst about why they had to turn down a prom date.. Give me a break.
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ZFS Hits an Important Milestone, Version 0.6.1 Released 99

Posted by samzenpus from the brand-new dept.
sfcrazy writes "ZFS on Linux has reached what Brian Behlendorf calls an important milestone with the official 0.6.1 release. Version 0.6.1 not only brings the usual bug fixes but also introduces a new property called 'snapdev.' Brian explains, 'The snapdev property was introduced to control the visibility of zvol snapshot devices and may be set to either visible or hidden. When set to hidden, which is the default, zvol snapshot devices will not be created under /dev/. To gain access to these devices the property must be set to visible. This behavior is analogous to the existing snapdir property.'"
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The New Reality of Gaming 122

Posted by Soulskill from the i-blame-the-schools dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Video games used to be about fighting aliens and rescuing princesses, writes Rohin Dharmakumar in Forbes, but the most popular games today have you tilling your farm, hiring waiting staff and devising menus for your restaurant or taking your pets out for walks while maintaining cordial relations with the neighbors. 'Reality, it would seem, is the new escapism.' Video games of the pre-social network era were mostly played by boys or young men but 'now the core audience of social network games are girls and young women,' says Alok Kejriwal, founder and CEO of games2win, an online gaming company. The tipping point in the US came in 2008 when women outnumbered men on the Internet. Combined with millions of parents and grandparents who're new to the Internet, the traditional face of the gamer is changing from that of a 25-year-old male to a band stretching from 16 to 40 years comprising men and women in almost equal numbers, says Sebastien de Halleux, one of the co-founders of Playfish, who predicts that someone is going to create a social game very shortly that pulls in a billion dollars a year. Gaming for this new set of players is less about breathtaking graphics, pulsating sound or edge-of-the-seat action and more about strengthening existing real world relations through frequent casual gaming. 'Think of these games as a sandbox where everybody has the same tools, yet everyone achieves different results,' says de Halleux."

Comment Re:Vitamin D deficiency? (Score 1) 252

by NealBScott (#32825690) Attached to: 'Forest Bathing' Considered Healthful
Since you do get more sunshine on a beach than in a forest, I do wonder what affect other outdoor venues have on your immune system. After all, the sounds of waves crashing on shore is relaxing enough to reduce stress hormones, and certainly a beach offers plenty of sunshine for vitamin D (and sunburns!)

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