Man, is *this* guy gonna be mad in two months...

Man pays $100,000 for superjumbo tickets
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070904/odnm/superjumbo_ticket1_dc;_ylt=AiDvJbB9I65Ygr9kaS8zMISH9EA
Doesn't he KNOW the price is going to be cheaper in a few months?
Or maybe he just wanted to be the first guy on the plane - maybe that's why he paid so much money...
(Oh, and by the way, I KNOW it's an auction for charity - don't bother replying to tell me)

I did a similar thing in a grad course I took--it was text, but we had to read a pragraph about an event and interpret what was said in the paragraph--wedding, funeral, birthday, etc and answer: who, what, where, when.
This took about a month and was done with 2 versions -- one in C and one in LISP. There weren't any structures or processes that couldn't be easily implemented in Java.
The biggest question is not if it can be done in Java, but rather, do you have a sufficient grasp of Java ME and the state problem with sufficient understanding of associated theories needed to supply a slolution in the time provided.
Do you need to implement a voice and text interface or will a text interface be sufficient? If you need a voice and text interface then you need to see what is available to you for voice recognition.
Also keep this in mind: if you can define the scope of the project, don't mess up because you made the scope too big. Implement the text interface and then add voice to it as a level 2 goal, but not as a mandatory deliverable. I had a software engineering prof that told us what was needed without any scope other than what was absolutely required. He purposfully did that to see if we could manage scope and resources to meet the deadline. Out of 4 teams in the class, mine was the only one to complete the project (we maintained a very narrow scope of work and made a resonable timeline that took into account things like other classes, midterms, vactions and etc.)--we all recieved A's and the others lost 1 letter grade off of their over-all class grade for not completing a project.
Have fun, but mostly only you can decide.

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