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Comment Get a donation (Score 1) 281

by atkulp on Thursday May 15, 2014 @12:57PM (#47010655) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Easy-To-Use Alternative To MS Access For a Charity's Database?

Microsoft donates a lot of software for charities and non-profits. You don't even need to contact them directly. Register through TechSoup.com for donations (or immense discounts) on products from many software companies.

Researchers Convert Mouth Movements Into Speech 154

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @11:17PM from the mouthing-of-the-future dept.

andylim writes "According to Cellular News, researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a method for mobile phones to convert silent mouth movements into speech. As recombu.com points out, the 'potential for secret conversations just got huge.' You could pass the time by making phone calls from the cinema without disturbing anyone. In noisy places like bars and clubs you could make yourself heard without having to shout."

ARM and Dual-Atom Processors in New Portables 147

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 02, 2009 @03:09PM from the arms-and-atoms-and-netbooks-oh-my dept.

chrb writes to tell us that Dell's new Latitude Z has finally been delivered as promised, complete with ARM processor. Codenamed BlackTop, the device runs a modified version of Suse Linux, and is capable of near-instant bootup. Dell's research has apparently found that some early users spend 70% of their time in the Linux environment." Relatedly snydeq writes "Colombian computer maker Haleron has designed a netbook that combines Atom processors in an effort to provide the performance of a standard laptop at a price more affordable to Latin Americans. The Swordfish Net N102 includes two Atom N270 processors running at 1.6GHz. Haleron worked for six months to modify Intel's 945 chipset to run the two processors. The processors divide the workload, much like a dual-core processor does, the company said. The netbook, which begs the question, when does a netbook stop being a netbook, comes with Windows XP Home Edition. 'We found that it works best on the Windows XP operating system. Both Windows Vista and the new Windows 7 performed below Windows XP in the load sharing department,' the company said."

Comment Been there, done that (Score 1) 136

by atkulp on Thursday March 05, 2009 @01:19PM (#27080107) Attached to: Good Robot Projects For K-5?

I've been running a Robotics Club in my local elementary school for 2.5 years now. We have a Mindstorms NXT set and the club is always very popular. One thing that helps is having interested parents. Several of them wish they had such a club as a kid so enjoy helping! One of them brings an NXT set from home so we have two to use. I show videos of robot-related things (funny commercials, industrial robots, trade show robots, Robo Wars). I also manage a junior high team for FLL and challenge the K-6 kids with similar challenges. Some of them love to build, some design, some program, and of course I encourage them to take turns. I have about 1/3rd girls, the rest boys. It's a lot of fun!

Feel free to contact me for more details.
http://www.ariankulp.com/

Comment Bring 'em on! (Score 1) 150

by atkulp on Thursday September 18, 2008 @06:04PM (#25063343) Attached to: A Windows CE Shell For Netbooks

This would be a great idea. I have a Viewsonic ViewPad SuperPDA from about eight years ago. It's one of the first tablet form-factor PC's and it was powered by CE. Resistive 800x600 touchscreen with USB host, PCMCIA, CompactFlash, integrated sound, VGA-out adapter. I have a wireless network card in there and I can use a USB keyboard along with the stylus for mouse input and it's really nice. What makes me mad about my device is no option to upgrade that I can figure out/hack. I would love to install the latest version and get .NET Compact Framework support. Writing native CE apps in VB or C is not to my liking! I can install many CE apps, but not Windows Mobile (which is a layer over CE), and nothing for .NET. Its built-in web browser is pretty good for its time (though it needs updating pretty bad now), and the Microsoft Word (lite) works well.

Bottom line: if I could get a modern piece of hardware running CE I would. It's cheaper, and much more stable. I'd love to see $150 netbooks made possible this way -- especially since my target functionality is rich text editing, web browsing, and remote desktop support -- all possible on these devices.

-Arian

Journal Journal: Geeks race in the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race

Journal by gizmateer on Sunday February 18, 2007 @08:25PM

Several Flight Simulator geeks are flying around the world in the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race. The race pits teams from AVSim, FlightSim and Sim-Outhouse against each other in a race around the world with special rules, conditions and bonuses.

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