It seems a lot of people, players in the game and viewers alike, have forgotten that Survivor is a game as well as a TV show. The people on the show of Survivor are contestants competing for the grand prize of a million dollars.  The rules of the game are simple: Do whatever it takes to be in the final three and then get enough people on the jury to vote for you. What a contestant does for a living, how much money they make, or how cute they are should not influence a jurors vote, but it does time and time again.

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Winter TV Schedule for December 2009 - February 2010

This Winter TV Schedule is for the months of December 2009 through February 2010. CLICK HERE to view a schedule of when your favorite Winter TV show will be airing. CLICK HERE for a sneak peek overview on the thirty-nine new shows coming up in the 2010 Winter TV season. Check my HOME PAGE to view daily holiday schedules featuring holiday shows only and for weekly TV schedule updates on new TV shows and premiers.

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New 2009 Winter TV Series Have Been Announced

Winter is just around the corner for 2009 bringing with it a new Winter TV season and numerous new Winter TV series. Here is a look at the forty new Winter TV shows along with a quick recap of each new series including the date and time of when the new series will air.

CLICK HERE for the complete 2009-10 Winter TV schedule.

Check my HOME PAGE for weekly premier & debut updates along with a daily holiday TV schedule featuring only holiday-themed TV shows.

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Last Thursday Buffalo revealed the BR-X126U3, an external Blu-ray burner that can cram data on both single and dual layer Blu-ray disks at 12x write speeds. While the new external burner certainly makes a tasty alternative to shoving an internal drive into an open bay (or chucking out the current lame DVD burner), the USB 3.0 connection should make it even that more appealing. [Source: tomshardware.com]

Batteries that harvest energy from the nuclear decay of isotopes can produce very low levels of current and last for decades without needing to be replaced. A new version of the batteries, called betavoltaics, is being developed by an Ithaca, NY-based company and tested by Lockheed Martin. The batteries could potentially power electrical circuits that protect military planes and missiles from tampering by destroying information stored in the systems, or by sending out a warning signal. [Source: technologyreview.com]

After a flawless mission to resupply the International Space Station, the STS-129 crew members now are back at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. They will be honored with a homecoming ceremony at nearby Ellington Field today. Meanwhile, preparations for space shuttle Endeavour and its crew are ramping up for the STS-130 mission targeted to launch Feb. 4, 2010. Endeavour is scheduled to roll over from the orbiter processing facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA. [Source: nasa.gov]

On the day a new computer virus hits the internet there is little that antivirus software can do to stop it until security firms get round to writing and distributing a patch that recognizes and kills the virus. Now engineers Simon Wiseman and Richard Oak at the defense technology company Qinetiq's security lab in Malvern, Worcestershire, UK, have come up with an answer to the problem. Their idea, which they are patenting, is to intercept every file that could possibly hide a virus. [Source: newscientist.com]

The "Big Bang" experiment at CERN near Geneva scored a world record on Monday by accelerating beams to the highest energy ever achieved in a particle collider, the research center announced. Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said the achievement marked a major milestone on the way to tests next year which they hope will unlock secrets of the origins and make-up of the universe. The energy of the twin beams circulated around 27-km tunnels deep underground. [Source: abcnews.go.com]

Is it a step towards a free OS? That may or may not be the case with a decision by Microsoft to sell desktop real estate in Windows 7. The advertisements, announced over the weekend, will come in the form of sponsored desktop themes from the likes of Twentieth Century Fox, Porsche, Coca-Cola, Infinity, and more. Currently the upcoming program is in beta, with plans to roll out the official version in October 2010.

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The New York Times reports on an Apple patent that was disclosed last month (the same day as the Windows 7 launch, incidentally) that would embed ads within the Apple OS, possibly as a way of subsidizing its hardware. "In return for paying attention to the advertisements, the user can receive a product or service for free or at reduced cost, or otherwise receive a benefit," the patent notes. [Source: NY Times]