Article on a neat product for sale that automates grading of essays in school. Nifty. Took him 6 years. Yikes.
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If you need a daily dose of information about in-car computers and computing (like I do), or want to help provide one, i've just kicked off carhacks.org and i'm looking for contributors (contact damien@robotarmy.com).
The site is tracking what's going on in the car computing space from all angles: computer-like features going into the car; entertainment features such as satellite radio going into the into the car via computers; Mac Minis going into the car, iPods going into the car, Playstations and PSPs installed in the car, and pretty much anything that looks, smells, or acts like a general purpose computer in the car.
I've completed work on the upcoming book Car PC Hacks and I really believe 2005 is going to be the breakout year for in car computing (of course, I'm biased...)
I was consulting for a company a while ago that was predicting this - and now it seems like it's going to go mainstream. Once you have flat fee data over your mobile phone, why not use a Vonage or a Skype over that link? And the first cell provider to dodge that bullet by embracing it will hopefully not cannibalize their own per-minute-billing business.
I'm delivering an all-day tutorial on the first day of the Streaming Media East Conference (Monday, May 16, 2005) and I'll be covering Windows Media streaming in depth. Like O'Reilly conferences, the Streaming Media conferences have a very high signal to noise ratio (i.e. few vendor pitches, only actual do-ers are there). It's actually a very interesting time with MPEG-4, Windows Media, and the evolution of High Def DVD and media standards(*), so if you're interested at all in net video I recommend it.
For a kid who grew up under the DARE program (drug abuse resistance education, aka "drugs are really expensive") I'm amused that we've given up on drug abuse prevention and now we're making drugs mandatory.
"Please Google, don't hurt 'em."
Let's see if Google's lawyers drop the hammer on this satirical homage.
Promotional video on the East vs. West cell phone technology gap and Earthlink's new partnership with SK.
You can also Google Earthlink + SK
At the CES show I tried out these eyeglasses with a small QVGA monitor overlay in the right eye. Still a bit big, but getting there - they even had another unit with onboard camera on the left eye, so you can do mobile recordings.
For telepresence (letting others use you as a physical proxy) the technology is getting closer and closer. Just a few more years...
"The following are individual pages with information about various technologies relevant to improving bootup time for Linux. Some of these describe local patches available on this site. Others point off to projects or patches maintained elsewhere."
TODAY, you can go out and buy a car that can display television, park itself, display your email, and surf the web. But not in America - our cars have to stay dumb, blunt like safety scissors, lest we hurt ourselves and blame the manufacturer.
