EzraM - Slashdot User

Comment Hopscotch looks cool (Score 1) 315

by EzraM on Thursday April 09, 2015 @05:55PM (#49442465) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce a 7-Year-Old To Programming?

"Learn to program by making awesome things." "No typing. No syntax errors. Just drag and drop blocks. Hopscotch is an intuitive, friendly programming interface designed for everyone." https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gethopscotch.com%2F Nope, I have no connection to them. Just saw them demo it once and thought it would be great for kids.

MusOpen Releases Open Source Classical Music As Pro Tools Files 83

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 31, 2012 @03:27PM from the now-it's-yours dept.

VVrath writes "Following Tuesday's story about MuseScore releasing its open source recording of the Goldberg Variations, the Musopen project has released ProTools files from its open source recording project. The final edited recordings are still being worked on but it seems we're living in very interesting times regarding open source classical music."

Anti-Piracy Dog Uncovers Huge Cache of Discs 283

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 04, 2009 @04:38PM from the follow-your-nose dept.

sgt scrub writes "I've never thought about sniffing my CDs before buying them but that is all about to change. According to this Yahoo! news article, dogs can be trained to tell the difference between a legit copy of a DVD and one from those pesky pirates. From the article, 'A DVD-sniffing anti-piracy dog named Paddy has uncovered a huge cache of 35,000 discs in Malaysian warehouses, many destined for export to Singapore, industry officials said on Wednesday. Paddy was given to Malaysia by the MPA to help close down piracy syndicates, which churn out vast quantities of illegal DVDs. The dog is specially trained to detect chemicals in the discs.'" We ran a story about anti-piracy dogs being trained in Ireland a few years ago.

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