I used Microsoft's OneNote in graduate school to write notes using a digitizer/touchscreen and it worked great. The only downside is getting stuff out of their file format. I'm sure I have hundreds of pages of notes in a format that is barely accessible now. It's too bad the software for this has a similar problem.
Melinda Gates: Bill! There's a horrible problem! Millions of children spend months or years in hospitals and, as a result, never develop appropriate social skills!
Bill Gates: Hmm?
Melinda: We should invest in programs to get college or nursing students to go in a hang out with these kids! Think about it! The kids would be able to develop appropriate social skills and the students would gain valuable experiences as mentors!
Bill: I've got it! Let build robots to play with these kids!
Melinda: Uh... What?
Bill: Yeah! Robots! That way, the kids will learn to interact with the robots they will eventually grow up to serve! And, interacting with people? That's what msn is for, noob!
Why helicopters?? Wouldn't the fuel, maintenance, and pilot costs (not to mention the costs of the helicopters) be exponentially more than the costs of those remote cameras? What about the over time for monitoring at night and during holidays??
Not that I'm in favor of automatic speed monitoring, or even enforcement of speed limits. If they really wanted people to drive the speed limit, they would use those remote monitoring systems to send people money (tax refunds, etc...) for actually driving the speed limit, as opposed to making people occasionally (or, rarely) pay a fine for speeding. You could make driving the speed limit analogous to playing the lottery. Once a week or something, someone would win some money. I bet it would cost less than enforcement and damages/injuries as a result of speeding accidents.
Alternatively, they could design speed bumps to make it difficult/uncomfortable to drive over 80mph or something.
Even cooler, someone needs to make one of these that would actually play in a cassette player! Imagine having 4 gigs worth of songs on a friggin tape!!!
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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