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  1. Re:This is great! on Examining Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight · · Score: 1

    Mor already does this by adding a GPS receiver to his camera to automatically collect the data

    The Nikon DX1 already has an RS232C port to add GPS info to image headers

  2. A working example of metadata use in images on Examining Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Check out Mor Naaman at Stanford who is working on adding GPS metadata to photographs. Once he has the GPS coordinates he uses that to get information such at time of day, lighting, weather, elevation, temperature, etc... This allows you to create metadata searches for "All early morning images in clear weather in Las Vegas, etc..."

    YOu can try the system out here with a collection of almost 4k images.

  3. Re:This is already happening sometimes! on NIH Proposes to Open Tax-Funded Research · · Score: 1

    That's because the ACM copyright notice explicitly allows authors "the right to post author-prepared versions of the work covered by ACM copyright in a personal collection on their own Home Page and on a publicly accessible server of their employer. Such posting is limited to noncommercial access and personal use by others, and must include this notice both embedded within the full text file and in the accompanying citation display as well"

    If that was not allowed you would not be able to get access to most CS publications either.

  4. 16x DVD+R is already faster than a 52x CDR on First 16x DVD+R Recording Tests Available · · Score: 1

    A 16x DVD+R writes 4.7 GB of data in 6 minutes while a 52x CDR takes about 4(?) minutes to write 700 MB. Even an 8x DVD writer is already using waaaaay more bandwidth than the fastest available CD writer

  5. Re:In other news on Google to be Sued Over Name? · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Enviromental issue anyone? on Massachusetts Considering Desalination Plants · · Score: 1

    Dude, desalination plants allow you purify and use SALT water as in SEA water-pollution has nothing to do with it.

  7. Try talking to the arabs on Massachusetts Considering Desalination Plants · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They should try talking to the arab states which produce 60% of the worlds desalinated water . They are even considering injecting the desalinated water into the ground to raise the groundwater level.

  8. Re:Live like a king on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    Sorry to disapoint you my friend but 10,000 rupees is a little over $200 not $2000. That said a fresh IT grad will get atleast Rs 15,000/month with the better companies often going at high at Rs 30,000. The Rs 8,000-10,000 range is usually a call center job

  9. Other (better?) articles on Sharp to Sell 3D laptop for $3299 · · Score: 1

    you can check out other articles about this at Wired and CNETNews

  10. A Concorde is going to the Smithsonian on Buy Your Own Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    Air France is donating one of is Concorde's to the Smithsonian

  11. check out older projects on Biofeedback Gaming · · Score: 1

    Brainball is a biofeedback game where the person who relaxes the most wins- an interesting contrast to most games where the most competitive person usually wins

    Also have a look at AffQuake for a biofeedback mod of quake II

  12. Affective Quake on Biofeedback Gaming · · Score: 1

    It has already been done for FPS as an MIT research project. Check out where the player avatar's size depends on your heartrate, the avatar also jumps if you are startled

  13. Re:Indian president is a technocrat.. on President Of India Advocates OSS · · Score: 3, Informative

    NASA invited this "politician" to spend 4 months at the the Wallops Island Rocketry Centre and the Langley Research Centre.

    He also has a DMIT in Aeospace Engineering from MIT (Madras) which incidentally has 2 nobel laureates which is more than can be said than for several american school including Georgia tech(Jimmy Carter's prize for peace hardly counts) If you really want to learn about this great man and his career read his autobiography "Wings of fire"

  14. Re:Can anyone explain the economics of .... on Wireless Electricity Set to Power Village · · Score: 1

    Why can't we give these same people advanced windmills and solar cells? (Then teach them maintenance)

    "These people" are already using intelligent renewable energy sources like bio gas while the US uses 25% of the worlds energy.