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  1. Why not call it Freeside and have it run by an AI. While at it, Amazon could join forces with Tesla, and call the joint venture T-A...

  2. Google already did that before on Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps · · Score: 1

    Really nice, but look at Keyhole, another google product, wich is similar to google maps satellite but better and not free

  3. Re:Turning off the computer is costly on Helping IT Save Money ... and Jobs? · · Score: 1

    anyway do you know anybody who start working immediately when they arrive at job ?
    In average, somebody will spend 5 or 10 minutes before doing anything productive

  4. incredible on IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source · · Score: 1

    well. the title shoud be : "IBM give out 1.25% of all its patents to open source".
    And now the looks like the Messiah of Open Source

    Maybe they are...

  5. Collaborative driving simulator on Will Our Cars Become Our Chauffeurs? · · Score: 1

    Some guys at Laval University (here in Quebec, Canada) from a research group called DAMAS (Dialog, Automatic Learning and Multi AgentS) work on this:

    From the site:
    DAMAS is involved in the theme F: Intelligent systems and sensors. Our project is called "Collaborative Driving System" ... The Collaborative Driving project within the Auto21 network, was created to study and implement cooperative driving on canadian highways.

    http://damas.ift.ulaval.ca/projets/auto21/en/index .html/

    They basically work on a simulator for collaborative driving and method to manage small groups of vehicles

  6. Re:april fool ? on Running Ancient UNIX On Nintendo Gameboy · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's where he found his inspiration to porting nix to GBA...

  7. april fool ? on Running Ancient UNIX On Nintendo Gameboy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    it reminds me some odd april fool

  8. option available on Linear Video Editing Software for Mac? · · Score: 1

    Avid provide a good solution but it's not free software...
    It do all the real time stuff and more...
    I ordered the demo cd for my bro (who is filmmaker) and it seems to be a pretty good software.
    You will need probably some extra hardware and the price for avid xpress pro is ~1700$

  9. Re:Didn't sega do this? on Can Infinium Compete In The Game Console Market? · · Score: 2, Informative

    i found this on the subject.
    They were suppose to get this working by satellite (remember... the large dishes)

    1. Information for the games sent via satellite
    2. Special adapters with on-board memory connect the Sega Genesis to the cable signal coming in
    3. The user selects which game he/she wants to play, via on-screen programming and the D-pad controller
    4. The game is then downloaded to the respective Sega Genesis machine. This takes less than a minute.
    5. The user can then play the game for as long as he/she likes as long as the unit is turned on.

  10. Re:818181 (HAHAHA) on E-Voting Company Reveals Their Source Code · · Score: 1

    were they using MSAccess ?

  11. 818181 (HAHAHA) on E-Voting Company Reveals Their Source Code · · Score: 2, Informative

    How to explain that every Congressional race in Maryland, for example, won by the same margin, of 818,181 votes? Funny how those numerals translated to HA HA HA in alpha characters..... www.countthevotecolorado.org

    i hope this software will help prevent such things...(if it not cause it...)

  12. Black & White on 108 Ways To Do The Towers of Hanoi · · Score: 1

    at one moment of the game, you have to resolve this kind of problem in Black & White.