Comment SoundAMP for your iphone (Score 1) 727
There is software for your iPhone (about $400 also) that can turn it into a hearing aid.
It is called SoundAMP and costs $10
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10281062-233.html
Comment how about accessibilty augmentation? (Score 1) 111
Play captions/subtitles while in a movie theatre.
Speech to text for the hearing impaired.
Camera zoom for those with bad eyes.
Comment Re:Nice (Score 1) 383
separate plugins might improve security but if they aren't careful, all those heavy-weight process will tie up resources. Ive never looked at the code but this was my first impression of chrome last year, though that impression has changed over time. Heres to hoping the firefox team learns from chrome
Chemical "Infofuses" Communicate Without Electricity 115
Al writes "Researchers at Harvard and Tufts University have developed a way to send coded messages without using electricity. David Walt, professor of chemistry at Tufts, and Harvard's George Whitesides have developed 'infofuses' that can transmit information simply by burning. The fuses — metallic salts depositing on a nitrocellulose strand — emit pulses of infrared and visible light of different colors whose sequence encodes information. They were developed in response to a call from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for technologies to allow soldiers stranded without a power source to communicate. In the first demonstration of the idea, they used the infofuses to transmit the message look mom no electricity." Currently the researchers are "trying to figure out a way to dynamically encode a message on the fly in the field without specialized equipment."
Green GT's All-Electric Supercar Unveiled 196
Mike writes "Swiss auto company Green GT recently released the first details on a svelte all-electric supercar that is being heralded as the most powerful electric race car ever built. Designed with the 2011 Le Mans race in mind, the Twenty-4 will boast a sleek carbon fiber chassis and twin 100-kw electric motors totaling 400 hp — enough to push the vehicle from 0-60 mph in 4 seconds flat, and to a top speed of 171 mph. GreenGT's head engineer Christophe Schwartz has stated that 'The GreenGT Twenty-4 design study could become our 2011 Le Mans Prototype electric racer, or it could even become an electric road-going supercar. There is a possibility to do both!'"
Comment Re:You could just lie and go for it. (Score 1) 374
right, whats the worst that could happen?
Just lay it on thick!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7FFXBrOAdg
Comment if you don't want them (Score 1) 546
i'll take them
Comment Re:missing option (Score 1) 549
do not forgot to enable jumbo frames
Best FOSS Help Desk Software For Small Firms? 321
Nocts writes "I'm currently working for a moderately sized company that manages a large portion of its internal help desk questions through a Jabber-based chat room. What we're looking for instead is an open source, preferably Web-based solution that will give us the ability to have floor representatives queue questions and concerns in a similar fashion to BugTraq, directed at the help desk. Email capability would be preferred for elaboration of specific issues, but the more we can centralize everything into the queued system the better. Any recommendations and experiences? Just about any language is doable since I have the ability to configure and upgrade our servers and we're looking at about a user base of 100 people, with around 5-10 questions a minute."
Comment arch or eeebuntu (Score 1) 466
After ditching the stock xandros that came on my eeepc 700 2G, i tried ubuntu-eee netbook remix (now easy peasy) but performance was not great. I tried eeebuntu-base which was a lot better and includes one-click scripts for you to run at anytime to get the configuration and performance just right for your model. but for what i use my little laptop for (local or remote development) i realized that a command-line was really all i needed so now have arch linux installed with toofishes' custom kernel for the eee and no GUI (for now). It boots fast, only has what i need and pretty easy to update with pacman (rolling distro). Its pretty awesome.
The Arch Linux wiki entry for installing on an eee has some great general purpose advice
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_on_the_Asus_EEE_PC#Avoiding_Pitfalls
Comment don't encrypt system files (Score 2, Informative) 468
unless of course your requirements call for it. But your systems will run very slow if every time they have to boot they have to go thru the decrypt process. you should only need to encrypt your users' data. Hopefully, system data and user data are, at least, in different folders of the filesystem.
Comment girl in ad (Score 1) 46
she doesn't need a reason to have a hammer. she can do what ever she wants and whatever they are selling will still sell. see? i bought five or six already
Comment erasure codes (Score 1) 53
link is skim on details. any word if there is error correction or is it just detection? what does this add that say erasure coding (reed-solomon) lacks?
Comment separate code repository (Score 1) 136
besides setting up a development evironment - commandline, GUI, or otherwise - i would also include some plan for a separate code repository so that if you change your mind on the dev env. you won't have to move code all over the place. I would look into svnrepository.com which is about $5-10 a month. Or if you are looking to use your PC graveyard, maybe use them as a repository farm.
This way you won't have to overthink your environment and can build up a trial dev env. and tear it down if it doesn't suit you with no fear of data loss.
Comment Re:Young Star Trek (Score 1) 591
i'll just wait for the Star Trek Babies spin off.
