This is a project of students at Georgia Tech using Arduino. It’s a solar-powered bus-tracking system that shows students where the buses are on campus at any given time so they can decide if it’s quicker to wait for the bus or walk to their next class.

May be TransJakarta Busway should have something like this. Is TransJakarta have tracking system? Some people don’t want to wait too long, if they know it will come very late. It’s often I read complain about that, something like this: ‘Itu jg datengnya Luama, smpe hampir pingsan bdiri.’

You can see more about WAITLESS Bus Tracking System at their site, even the schematic and source code. By the way: another great project from university students abroad. Hope we’re more like this. Yes we can!

[Inspired by Make:]

Many people will go with cracking an application, disassemble, reversing, use so many tools out there, like otx, and many other to get full version of application (which they can’t afford to buy).

But there’s another way. One brave, wise, and tricky guy went to Apple store, playing with iMac there, opened the application library, wrote down the serial number of the application (that belong to Apple), go home and share it at codez4mac (where I read his story). And it’s a good one!

May be I will try this someday? Another crime?

“A PC is no bargain when it doesn’t do what you want.”

“The one thing that both Apple and Microsoft can agree on is that everyone thinks the Mac is cool. With its great designs and advanced software, nothing matches it at any price.”

~ Bill Evans (Apple spokesman)

Not the movie. The movie is great. But this is greater, luckier.

Connor Mulcahey, age 13, Connecticut, receive a $10,000 iTunes® gift card, an iPod® touch, a Time Capsule® and a MacBook® Pro Weston, as the grand prize winner of Apple’s one billion app countdown contest.

He is the one who downloaded the one billionth application from Apple store.

FYI, The Promotion:

• You will automatically be entered into the Promotion by downloading an app from the App Store.
• You will automatically be entered into the Promotion by downloading an app from the App Store using your iPhone or iPod touch.
• Non-purchase method: Go to www.apple.com/itunes/billion-app-countdown/entryform/, fully complete an online entry, including your name, complete mailing address (P.O. Boxes not acceptable), telephone number, and birth date. Once your online entry is complete, hit the “Submit” button to submit an entry. Entry via this method constitutes one (1) entry into the Promotion.

 This time Indonesian didn’t have the chance. But our time will come. I hope.

Spotlight, Mac OS X search engine kinda different with other OS like windows. It make an index or database of file and its content in in your hard drive, and later if you want to find something it will look at the database.

So, after you have new file like *.pdf, it will started to use your CPU so much to do the indexing process (solution: ATSServer and PDF). The same process happened when you finish an installation of Apple software, like Mac update, iLife, or Developer Tools. The CPU ‘eater’ process name is mds. For this problem, you have to add your drive volume to make it stop. But like the ATSServer problem, I keep it running for a while.

Single Google Query uses 1000 Machines in 0.2 seconds

[labnol]

I watch this quite some time ago. But after watching the ‘supercomputer rules‘ movie, I remember this video again (video was made on 2008):

Here’s some idea:

• The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented in order to solve problems we don’t even know the problem yet.
• The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years. For students starting a 4 year technical degree this means that half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

So ask yourself, what have you learn? Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Get your shit together. We are living in exponential times.

A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. The term supercomputer itself is rather fluid, and today’s supercomputer tends to become tomorrow’s ordinary computer. CDC’s early machines (first supercomputer’s designed in 1960s) were simply very fast scalar processors, some ten times the speed of the fastest machines offered by other companies.

Supercomputer, and many other technology, just some science fiction idea from some time ago, they just come out from some movie or book. But they are real machine now.

Today I watch a movie, about this sci-fi supercomputer, Echelon Conspiracy (2009). It’s kinda boring actually. It have similar story with Wargames: The Dead Code (2008) and Eagle Eye (2008). It’s about uncontrollable supercomputer, they’re becoming too smart, gain access to all digital gadget and network, upgrading themself on their own, too objective on their duty, make them wipe out all threat on their way, including human being.

Today they’re so many research about this artificial intelligence. How to make computer or robot as real as human, like in the Artificial Intelligence movie (2001). And they becoming real. Take a look at this video, CB2, one of Japan’s most advanced robotics projects—using 197 sensors under its pallid gray skin, eye-cameras, 51 pneumatic “muscles” and the high-end processing power to drive it all, it has learned to recognize facial expressions, follow the gaze of its “mother” and even teach itself to walk (Gizmodo):

Scientists nowadays have also created a Robot Scientist which the researchers believe is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. The robot, called Adam, is a computer system that fully automates the scientific process. (Lab Spaces).

Artificial intelligence, by claiming to be able to recreate the capabilities of the human mind, is both a challenge and an inspiration for philosophy. Are there limits to how intelligent machines can be? Is there an essential difference between human intelligence and artificial intelligence? Can a machine have a mind and consciousness? Can they rule the world?

Just one video of the great multitouch screen (so many kind of them out there and they’re really awesome):

[Inspired by TUAW]

My breakfast every morning:

RSS reader: Yes, I know you guys like NetNewsWire better, but I have acquaintance with Vienna first and used it since.