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Beginning iPhone Development Screenshot-sm 216

Posted by samzenpus from the read-all-about-it dept.
Cory Foy writes "When my wife got a Touch several months back, the first thing I wanted to do was build some applications for it. Who wouldn't want to play with a device that has accelerometers, position sensors and multi-touch gestures? But being new to the Mac world, I needed something to help guide me along. Beginning iPhone Development aims to be that guide. But does it live up to the challenge of teaching a newbie Mac and iPhone developer?" Read below for the rest of Cory's review.

Comment Bubble sort (Score 1) 962

by finnw (#26067791) Attached to: Best Introduction To Programming For Bright 11-14-Year-Olds?

The first algorithm I actually understood and was able to re-implement (in Sinclair Spectrum BASIC) was a bubble sort, so I would recommend that. I had been experimenting with the graphics functions for a couple of months before but I did not learn much from that. I think the important thing is to avoid pointers and also avoid dependence on any OO concepts (it's easy to forget how hard they were to learn.)
It's funny. Laugh.

Meet the New Chess Boxing Champion of the World 235

Posted by timothy from the milda-shibonis dept.
Attila Dimedici writes "A Russian man has just been crowned world champion in the sport of chess boxing. Apparently the idea originated in a French comic strip from the early '90s. In 2003 a Dutch artist decided to bring the 'sport' to life. The 'sport' is played by starting a chess match in the middle of a boxing ring. After four minutes, the chess board is cleared and the opponents box for three minutes. A match consists of six rounds of chess and five rounds of boxing. A match is decided by knockout, checkmate, or points."
Music

Submission + - Virtual Jam Sessions

Submitted by Mickyfin613
Mickyfin613 writes: Ultimate Guitar reports that eJamming, which currently makes software that allows musicians to practice with MIDI enabled musical instruments over the Internet, has announced a service that will work for non MIDI instruments (IE regular guitars, drums, bass). Obviously the service requires high quality audio streaming with extremely low latency, as such, the service isn't recommended for anyone more then a few hundred miles apart from their band mates. Is it a revolutionary musical advancement or just the latest evolution of Guitar Hero/Rock band software? How much can real musicians benefit from practicing over a network, I'm barely qualified to call myself a musician, but to me a good deal of the value of jamming is the interaction with other musicians that might be difficult over the Web. The service will debut at $15 / month for each band member.
Google

Submission + - Family help and support to quit smoking. (blogspot.com)

Submitted by peterjohnset
peterjohnset writes: The dangers of smoking on health are well known. With a growing awareness of the dangers to health associated with smoking , which both the smokers and those who surround them realize, the people are looking for opportunities to get rid of this habit. In most cases, however, a person have fought for a certain period of time with the problems that arise during and after the abandonment of smoking.
The Internet

Students Downloading Jihadist Material Acquitted 318

Posted by samzenpus from the it's-ok-to-look dept.
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Five UK students who were charged under the UK's 2000 Terrorism Act for possession of jihadist materials were acquitted after the jury found that, while they had downloaded the materials, there was no evidence that they were planning any sort of crime. The Lord Chief Justice was quoted as saying, 'Difficult questions of interpretation have been raised in this case by the attempt by the prosecution to use [this law] for a purpose for which it was not intended.'"
Patents

Submission + - Concept of Swarming patented

Submitted by Wertigon
Wertigon writes: It looks like someone has received a patent on Swarming, which among other things Bittorrent utilises. FTA:

[The patent] describes file swarming, which is a class of data transfer technology whereby data is broken up, distributed to other sources and then reassembled at an endpoint. These core algorithms form the foundation of many common modes of next-generation network data transfer, including peer-to-peer, grid content delivery and multi-source streaming. File swarming provides the ability to harness unused network capacity by distributing and exchanging small pieces of data between servers, network routers or personal computers.
AMD

Submission + - AMD sued by worker for disabling her son (idg.com.au)

Submitted by
icecap
icecap writes: "An ex AMD employee is suing AMD, claiming that exposure (before she became pregnant) to glycol ethers and acetates in an AMD Fab plant clean room caused severe birth defects in her son. "AMD negligently failed to use chemicals, which were less hazardous, and/or failed to design its facility or use equipment so as to prohibit or minimize the hazards," Writes the angry ex-employee. "Quite simply, AMD put profits ahead of employee safety, and the safety of its employees' unborn children.""
Windows

Submission + - Software RAID on XP/Linux Dual Boot System?

Submitted by FilmAddict
FilmAddict writes: Hi all, Just dusting off the old desktop and turning it into a media/backup server. I installed two 500gig drives solely for storage (OS's are on another drive). What I'd like to do is make a 200gig partition on each and mirror the partitions, then use the rest of the space for unsecured storage (media, etc). My issue is that I want to dual boot Ubuntu and XP and have access to all of the data, as well as backup data to the RAID over the network regardless of which OS is booted. I can "hardware" mirror the drives (my motherboard supports RAID 0 and 1 through the BIOS — I know it's not ideal) but I don't need all 500gigs for secure storage, so I'd rather save some of the space. Is there a way to use a software RAID to accomplish this? Is there a cross platform software RAID solution? Thanks for your help! -Jon
Communications

Submission + - The end of l33t speak on forums (custompc.co.uk) 3

Submitted by
arcticstoat
arcticstoat writes: "Software developers create a 'StupidFilter' to block out phrases like 'OMGZ hax!!!111one' from forums. Once the software has been installed on a webserver, it will scan posts before they are published for nonsense terms including 'OMG!!' and 'LOL', blocking the worst offenders with a message that says 'This comment is more or less unintelligible. Please try to restate it.'"
Microsoft

Submission + - MS: New VS to be allowed for Cross Platform

Submitted by
WED Fan
WED Fan writes: "Aiming at being a "kinder gentler Microsoft", the company has announced that it will allow developers to use Visual Studio to develop for cross-platform solutions.

In what amounts to a monumental reversal of policy, Microsoft said Monday in a press release — so it's in writing — and publicly at TechEd in Barcelona that it's changing its licensing terms and will no longer restrict developers "to building solutions on top of Visual Studio for Windows and other Microsoft platforms only."


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Microsoft said it plans to create one of its shared source licensing programs for the Premier-level partners in its VSIP program so they can see VS IDE source code for debugging purposes and to simplify the process of integrating their products with the thing.

The move obviously suggests that Microsoft is under increasing pressure from the open source movement and is acting to protect its precious developer base.
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