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Programming

Submission + - Why Teach Programming with BASIC (kickstarter.com) 3

Submitted by
chromatic
chromatic writes: "To answer the perennial question "How can we teach kids how to program?", we created a web-based programming environment. As we began to write lessons and examples, we surprised ourselves. Modern languages may be powerful and useful for writing real programs, but BASIC and Logo are great languages for demonstrating the joy of programming."
The Internet

The Pirate Bay Tops 10 Million Users 300

Posted by kdawson from the my-word-it's-a-convoy dept.
An anonymous reader suggests we go over to Slyck for news that The Pirate Bay has cracked 10 million users. The publicity from the upcoming court case probably helped. "Today, The Pirate Bay asserts itself as the self-proclaimed 'World's Largest Tracker' by topping over 10 million peers, while managing over 1 million torrents. Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay told Slyck, 'We're very happy to be part of all of this and we hope our users keep sharing those files!... And we're looking to break 20 million as well.'"
Toys

Submission + - Book Review: The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book (desicritics.org)

Submitted by
aacool
aacool writes: "Lego Mindstorms Nxt have been a wonderful source of fun for hobbyists worldwide. The Idea book gives you many ways of exploring the platform. The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build (No Starch Press) takes contributions from 11 authors and adopts a cookbook approach. The book briefly explains the basics to get you grounded in the material. But quickly thereafter, the book takes a leap to address intermediate builders. The assumption is that online resources will help bridge the gap. Its an approach that works.
What do slashdotters think of Mindstorms and Lego?"
Programming

AT&T Welcomes Programmers for All Phones Except the iPhone 283

Posted by Zonk from the come-out-and-play dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Apple's reasoning for keeping the iPhone a closed platform is that they don't want to 'potentially gum up the provider's network'. An article in the New York Times, though, points out that there are hundreds of phones out there working on open platforms that don't seem to be causing network interference. AT&T and Palm, in fact, welcome experimentation on their platforms. In AT&T's case ... on every phone but the iPhone. 'Hackers who have explored the workings of the phone say it uses the frameworks and structures that Apple uses on its other platforms to enable development; it just hasn't been documented. So if Apple is going to allow applications later, is there any reason -- other than vindictiveness or obsessive interest in control -- that it would want to cut off those developed by the pioneers who figured things out ahead of the official launch?'"
XBox (Games)

Submission + - Halo 3 sets new UK sales record (pro-g.co.uk)

Submitted by
JamesO
JamesO writes: "Chart Track has announced that Halo 3 has entered the UK All Formats Chart at No.1 and has become the second fastest selling video game ever in the UK — only GTA: San Andreas is able to better the sales of Halo 3.

Approximately 1 in 3 Xbox 360 owners bought Halo 3 in its first week on sale, equating to nearly 500,000 units sold in the UK. In contrast GTA: San Andreas sold to 1 in 10 of the 6.6 million PlayStation 2 install base or approximately 660,000 units. Halo 3 has also come out on top of its predecessor which only attracted first week sales of approximately 1 in 6 of the Xbox install base.

As hoped, Halo 3 has helped shift Xbox 360 consoles with sales more than doubling week on week to the highest level seen this year. The rise in sales also helped the Xbox 360 outsell the Wii for the first time since week 13. Software sales also reached an all time high, beating that of week 51 in 2006."
Education

Submission + - How insanely huge is the population of Tokyo? (tumblr.com)

Submitted by screamingeteven
screamingeteven writes: The greater Tokyo area is the only city on Earth with a suburb housing more than 3 million people. The number of people living in the Tokyo megacity alone is greater than the entire population of Canada. The number of people using the Tokyo megacity train system each day is larger than the total population of Australia.
Linux Business

Submission + - GPLv3 poses a threat to interoperability (metrocorpcounsel.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Here's a Washington lawyer's perspective on GPLv3: By Francis M. Buono (in The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel): GPLv3 is living in the past. The modern IT industry and customer realities are predicated on a healthy coexistence of the OSS and proprietary software models and collaboration between each camp in response to customer demands for increased interoperability. http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/current.php?artTyp e=view&EntryNo=6523
Movies

Submission + - Star Wars at 30 - the Republic, the Empire and the

Submitted by
aacool
aacool writes: "It was thirty years ago today, George Lucas taught the globe to play Star Wars. Since then, we've seen the galactic Republic be replaced by an Empire, which is challenged by a rebel alliance that topples the empire, to replace it with a new Republic.Our world too, has gone through tumultuous change, though not quite in the same order.The American Republic faced down the Russian 'Evil Empire',deal with a Rebel Alliance, & become an Empire."
Media

Submission + - Media Publicity for Blogs and Bloggers

Submitted by
aacool
aacool writes: "Media Publicity is a kind of holy grail for many bloggers. When traditional media like newspapers, magazines, TV, and online portals write about or mention a particular blog or a blogger positively in their stories, it is a huge profile-booster for the blogger. It's difficult but not impossible to achieve. With an understanding of how the media works, bloggers can do their own PR and chart out a plan for their own media-image building exercises. Here are the top 5 steps that bloggers need to take — Do the Homework, Make the contact, Build up relationships, Seek reprint opportunities, and Be media-savvy. What other steps would you take to be in the media limelight? Is it worth it?"

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