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Novell Bringing .Net Developers To Apple iPad 315

Posted by timothy on Friday January 29, 2010 @10:50PM from the odd-confluence dept.

GMGruman writes "Paul Krill reports that Apple's new iPad could be easier to write apps for, thanks to Novell's MonoTouch development platform, which helps .Net developers create code for the iPad and fully comply with Apple's licensing requirements — without having to use Apple's preferred Objective-C. This news falls on the footsteps of news that Citrix will release an iPad app that lets users run Windows sessions on the iPad. These two developments bolster an argument that the iPad could eventually displace the netbook."

Whatever Happened To Second Life? 209

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @07:30AM from the i-blame-ralph dept.

Barence writes "It's desolate, dirty, and sex is outcast to a separate island. In this article, PC Pro's Barry Collins returns to Second Life to find out what went wrong, and why it's raking in more cash than ever before. It's a follow-up to a feature written three years ago, in which Collins spent a week living inside Second Life to see what the huge fuss at the time was all about. The difference three years can make is eye-opening."

Music By Natural Selection 164

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 21, 2009 @03:57PM from the survival-of-the-grooviest dept.

maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum 'genome size' and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."

Comment Overbudget? (Score 4, Insightful) 187

by OberonX on Thursday January 29, 2009 @05:44PM (#26659041) Attached to: OLPC 2.0 — One Laptop Foundation Reboots

I thought this quote from the article was quite scary:

"The Rwandan leader initially ordered 10,000 XOs, then upped it to 100,000. The program now makes up a large fraction of the countryâ(TM)s education budget, according to Negroponte."

I'm all up for the use of computers in a developed world, including the OLPC initiative but considering most of these countries don't have a basic deployment of schools, teachers, books, etc isn't it unwise to spend a "large fraction" of your budget on OLPCs?

Comment KittenAuth? (Score 1) 197

by OberonX on Saturday January 24, 2009 @11:34AM (#26588929) Attached to: Building a Better CAPTCHA

I know that KittenAuth is an old idea, but can anyone tell me why isn't this system ideal to replace current captchas?

Comment Re:let em release it (Score 1) 246

by OberonX on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @05:40AM (#24300951) Attached to: Oyster Card Hack To Be Released, In Good Time

Tourists can get an Oyster card too. Actually all my friends that come to visit get one. There's a Â£3 deposit which you can get back at the end of your visit but that's it. The requirement for a London address (which was easily circumvented anyway) doesn't exist any longer.

Comment Re:Ditch the stock buds and anything Bose (Score 1) 632

by BinxBolling on Wednesday September 14, 2005 @04:31PM (#13560469) Attached to: Is the iPod Generation Going Deaf?

Isolator earbuds are great. Mine happen to be the Etymotic ER6; Lest I sound too much like a shill, I'll say I never have compared them directly to any other isolator-style earbuds, and it's quite possible that others out there offer better value.

However they compare, I absolutely love mine -- they're far more effective for reducing distraction in a noisy office than either earplugs (when everything is muffled, muffled noises become distracting) or normal headphones or earbuds (which require me to crank the volume and risk further hearing loss).

And I'm no audiophile, but I really do find music more enjoyable with these -- when I started using them, I found myself discovering new subtleties to quieter passages of songs that I'd been listening to for *years*.

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