Our children depend upon us to ensure their safety and protection. Sadly for some children, it’s their very own parent who victimizes them in subtle or not so subtle ways through brainwashing and manipulation.
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Ubuntu is known for many things: ease of use, regular updates, widespread community support, and more. One thing it is not known for is gaming. This is changing, however, with Steam heading to Linux in the near future. System76′s new Bonobo Extreme is Ubuntu-powered and aimed at gamers, boasting some impressive hardware and a hefty price tag.
According to System76′s CEO Carl Richell, the new Bonobo Extreme is the fastest Ubuntu laptop available. The base model runs an Intel i7 quad-core 2.6GHz processor. If that’s not powerful enough, users can spend approximately another $500 to get an i7-3940XM Extreme 3GHz CPU. This is accompanied by 8GB of DDR3 RAM.
As far as graphics go, the Bonobo Extreme boasts an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX with 3GB of RAM and 960 CUDA cores. As with the processor, you can shell out $134 more for an upgrade, bumping the system to a GeForce GTX 680M with 4GB of RAM and 1344 CUDA cores. Other hardware includes a DVD drive, a 500GB 7,200rpm hard drive, and an 8-cell battery.
The display measures in at 17.3-inches with a full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution. Ports include HDMI, Display Port, Ethernet, a media card reader, and 5 USB ports. There’s a Kensington lock for security, and the entire system weighs in at a hefty 8.6lbs. You can pick one up now for $1,499, saving you $100 via a Christmas discount.
[via OMG Ubuntu]
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LOS ANGELES — That East Coast-West Coast beef is over. So, too, are the Boston vs. New York, and the Seattle vs. Portland rivalries.
“The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that … I feel like that’s dead,” declared Fred Armisen, co-creator of the TV series “Portlandia,” a loving parody of quirky, eccentric Portland, Ore., and “Saturday Night Live’s” newest recurring sketch, “The Californians,” a soapy send-up of Los Angeles’ ditzy, directions-obsessed population.
The New York native is also an 11-year veteran of SNL, perhaps Manhattan’s quintessential live comedy TV show.
After over a three year run,the Acetrax-powered Samsung Movies is about to fade to black. We received an email advising UK subscribers that the service will no longer be available as of December 15th and that its website would drift into oblivion. It’s uncertain if this will affect customers in other European territories, but Acetrax references its plans to offer extended service for those looking to continue after Samsung Movies officially meets its maker. In addition to deep-sixing the service, the gloomy message advises that support has ended for the Galaxy Tab, Galaxy S, Wave, S8300 Tocco Ultra Edition, S7350 Classico, M7600 Beat DJ, i8910 HD and Jet. Check out a snapshot of the customer email after the break.
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Remember how Red Bull made that amazingly ridiculous athlete-powered Rube Goldberg machine? This is how they did it. And it includes 11 athletes, 12 different machines, 4 RED cameras, 45 GoPro cameras, a 75 person crew putting in 3,422 man hours and a helluva sawdust. More »
The Huffington Post founder talks about how the development of online tools has changed giving back.
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The reality is that the large budget deficits of recent years are due to the economic downturn following the collapse of the housing bubble. But pointing out this fact makes one shrill; you have to say that the deficit is a huge problem to be a serious person in Washington.
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Gmail didn’t become one of the world’s most popular email services with just one language; indeed, it supports 56 languages, ranging from Simplified Chinese to Hebrew. As of today, however, that list has grown to 57. The Cherokee, or “jaw la gee” language, has just been added to Gmail after Google Web Search incorporated it back in March 2011. The Mountain View company is not the first to do this — Apple did it with the iPhone and iPad back in 2010 — but email is a relatively new frontier. It apparently started after a Google engineer found himself in a car with a member of the Cherokee Nation and was persuaded by the need to encourage younger Cherokee generations to learn their native tongue.
After some collaboration with Durbin Feeling — the author of the Cherokee-English Dictionary — they found Cherokee terms for relatively modern words like “inbox,” “sign in” and amusingly, “spam.” They also added a Cherokee virtual keyboard (which joins more than 100 other keyboards in the system) so that Cherokee youth can use the language to communicate with each other. As much as we applaud the service, we do lament that even the Cherokee Nation won’t be safe from Nigerian prince scams, fake Neiman-Marcus cookie tales and terrible jokes forwarded by their mothers.
Source: Official Gmail Blog
At long last, you can purchase AC/DC’s complete discography on iTunes. The band is one of the last massive hold outs that have refused until now to sell their rocking jams through Apple’s music megamall—probably because their entire catalog continues to sell extraordinarily well in physical formats. After Michael Jackson’s Thriller, AC/DC’s Back in Black is the bestselling record of all time with some 50 million units sold. More »
Wind Tech hits back with a new all-in-one desktop PC, the AIOH61-PC. This space-saving machine is equipped with a 23.6-inch 1920 x 1080 capacitive multi-touch display, a 3.30GHz Intel Core i3-3220 processor, an Intel H61 Express Chipset, a 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 120GB hard drive (Intel SSD 330 Series), a 1.3MP webcam, a DVD Super Multi Drive, WiFi, an HDMI port and runs on Windows 8 Pro 64-bit OS. The AIOH61-PC will hit the market from mid-December for 84,980 Yen (about $1,044). [Product Page]
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