Aw Christ... a chorus of crazy characters might use a corps of vocal cords to sing a chronicle of chromatic chords, but it's still spelled vocal "cords", not "chords".
If we define "computer" as "turing machine", then yes it is a computer.
People are using "IF-THEN-ELSE" as a touchstone for this. This is wrong. What the Antikythera machine is (if you're willing to encode the input and output digitally, which you may as well because of gear lash slop) is a Turing machine with an unwritable tape, otherwise known as an FSA (Finite State Automaton).
An FSA, since it's a Turing machine, does effectively do IF-THEN-ELSE operations. The important thing is that it is not programmable.
To put it in layman's terms, I could build a standalone computer that emulates the Antikythera, with the programming in ROM. It'll do everything the Antikythera does and vice versa, but nothing else. They are interchangeable. But mine does use IF-THEN-ELSE.
Years back people used the two phrases "Computer" and "Programmable Computer" fairly distinctly. These days the word "Programmable" has become implied, hence the confusion.
Maybe we should start saying "Nonprogrammable Computer" and "Computer" to clarify things.
His python code is here.
It implements a HTTP web server (as well as a command line and direct socket server mode) that directly invokes a DLL to control the unit. And so in the video he can control the thing using the web browser in his cellphone.
All the code is only 283 lines and easy to understand. I don't see anything awkward about it.
In what way exactly would Lua be better at doing that?
Technically, "Air Force One" is the call of any aircraft that has the US President onboard. He could get into a Cessna 172 and it would use that callsign.
The aircraft in TFA do not call themselves "Air Force One" when the prez is not aboard. I guess they just use their tail numbers then?
Thanks for finding it. I just knew generators would be the best way to solve the problem, but I was too lazy to try it. That code runs fast as all hell too; a 30x30 board is almost instantaneous. Plus it doesn't just find one solution; it finds all of them.
Generators are a wonderful python feature. They're a cousin to Scheme's "continuations"; a similarly powerful feature.
PS: I had mod points too, but they expired this morning. Sorry:-)
I just carry a Nokia E90, often with the SU-8W bluetooth keyboard.
You can see it in action here.
I'm posting using that right now. Really it's like a little laptop, with a camera, FM radio and GPSadded.
Oh, and it makes phonecalls:-).
The only bad part is that it's fairly expensive.
Throw around all the irrelevant ad-hominem remarks you want; it won't change the fact that I am right: signals will mix in a radio front end.
It also won't change the fact that you're an ignorant troll who can't admit he's wrong.
LOL, an Anonymous Coward makes a clueless post. Film at 11.
Heterodyning will happen in any nonlinear medium, such as a diode or just two pieces of nonsimilar metal being connected. In particular, it will happily happen in the receiver front end of pretty well any radio, such as a VOR receiver, or any of my UHF/VHF/HF tranceivers, because transistors themselves (e.g. GaAsFET front ends) do not have linear response.
Take any scanner and drive through a downtown city and you'll get pager blare. That's your scanner's front end getting intermodulation (a.k.a heterodyning).
Do you even have a scanner? No, I didn't think so, Anonymous Coward.
I have blonde hair and blue eyes. Every time I have visited China I have been practically assaulted by Japanese tourists. They not only photo me. They try and touch my hair and start posing in front of me etc etc etc. Needless to say this was unappreciated.
Blonde and blue-eyed here too. The same happened to me, but in Malaysia: I was in a museum, when a girls school class invaded.
They were absolutely all over me, poking and stroking.
Unfortunately I was 10 at the time, so it wasn't appreciated.
Life can be so cruel at times.
The mythbusters experiment was highly flawed. They used a single cellphone for all their tests.
There's this effect called "heterodyning", where two signals mix to produce two more (sum and difference).
When you have multiple cellphones going on, their signals will mix to produce all kinds of nasty products.
If one of them happens to land on the VOR/glideslope frequency, things can very suddenly get interesting.
It is very well documented, and they have bindings for pretty well everything the camera does,
including stuff like GPS and OpenGL support on fancier phones like the E90 communicator.
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No it doesn't (Country vs millions of USD GDP as per the IMF):
Aw Christ... a chorus of crazy characters might use a corps of vocal cords to sing a chronicle of chromatic chords, but it's still spelled vocal "cords", not "chords".
If we define "computer" as "turing machine", then yes it is a computer.
People are using "IF-THEN-ELSE" as a touchstone for this. This is wrong. What the Antikythera machine is (if you're willing to encode the input and output digitally, which you may as well because of gear lash slop) is a Turing machine with an unwritable tape, otherwise known as an FSA (Finite State Automaton).
An FSA, since it's a Turing machine, does effectively do IF-THEN-ELSE operations. The important thing is that it is not programmable.
To put it in layman's terms, I could build a standalone computer that emulates the Antikythera, with the programming in ROM. It'll do everything the Antikythera does and vice versa, but nothing else. They are interchangeable. But mine does use IF-THEN-ELSE.
Years back people used the two phrases "Computer" and "Programmable Computer" fairly distinctly. These days the word "Programmable" has become implied, hence the confusion.
Maybe we should start saying "Nonprogrammable Computer" and "Computer" to clarify things.
Stepping on a d4 hurts a hell of a lot more than stepping on a d20.
All that proves is that you are unable to google for katrina "ham radio"
It's a Nokia E90 It goes from having a 240x320 display when being a phone to 800x352 with a keyboard when web surfing.
It uses this awesome technology called a "hinge".
His python code is here. It implements a HTTP web server (as well as a command line and direct socket server mode) that directly invokes a DLL to control the unit. And so in the video he can control the thing using the web browser in his cellphone.
All the code is only 283 lines and easy to understand. I don't see anything awkward about it.
In what way exactly would Lua be better at doing that?
Ditto here (Acer Aspire One with XP, using a 1.6GHz Atom N270). About 3 seconds for slashdot.
If firefox is already cached, it starts up in only 3 seconds.
The secret is just to type "poise " over and over again...
If people complain that the text doesn't make sense, I explain that it's sound poetry.
Interesting. So "Executive One" is what a Cessna 172 carrying the president would use?
Perhaps they should simplify the whole affair and just use "Terrorist Target One" for whatever the president is in.
(I keed, I keed!)
How about Russian? Nothing would say badass as showing up in an An-225 Mriya
Technically, "Air Force One" is the call of any aircraft that has the US President onboard. He could get into a Cessna 172 and it would use that callsign.
The aircraft in TFA do not call themselves "Air Force One" when the prez is not aboard. I guess they just use their tail numbers then?
If you really want to go back to the source, "giga" is Greek and uses a "j" sound.
Consider the word "gigantic". It has the same root, "giga". Some people pronounce it with a hard "g", some with a soft "g".
The language is a mess.
Thanks for finding it. I just knew generators would be the best way to solve the problem, but I was too lazy to try it. That code runs fast as all hell too; a 30x30 board is almost instantaneous. Plus it doesn't just find one solution; it finds all of them.
Generators are a wonderful python feature. They're a cousin to Scheme's "continuations"; a similarly powerful feature.
PS: I had mod points too, but they expired this morning. Sorry :-)
At one place I worked, the guy who wrote up the coding standard explicitly prohibited jokes in comments and humorous variable names. I'm not kidding.
Presumably he will be reincarnated as a worker ant in his next life.
Quite often they end up being useful and get cleaned up and documented in subsequent releases.
I just carry a Nokia E90, often with the SU-8W bluetooth keyboard. You can see it in action here.
I'm posting using that right now. Really it's like a little laptop, with a camera, FM radio and GPSadded. Oh, and it makes phonecalls :-).
The only bad part is that it's fairly expensive.
Worse yet, it adheres only to artificial geckos. I don't see any future for this.
Throw around all the irrelevant ad-hominem remarks you want; it won't change the fact that I am right: signals will mix in a radio front end. It also won't change the fact that you're an ignorant troll who can't admit he's wrong.
Heterodyning will happen in any nonlinear medium, such as a diode or just two pieces of nonsimilar metal being connected. In particular, it will happily happen in the receiver front end of pretty well any radio, such as a VOR receiver, or any of my UHF/VHF/HF tranceivers, because transistors themselves (e.g. GaAsFET front ends) do not have linear response.
Take any scanner and drive through a downtown city and you'll get pager blare. That's your scanner's front end getting intermodulation (a.k.a heterodyning).
Do you even have a scanner? No, I didn't think so, Anonymous Coward.
Blonde and blue-eyed here too. The same happened to me, but in Malaysia: I was in a museum, when a girls school class invaded. They were absolutely all over me, poking and stroking.
Unfortunately I was 10 at the time, so it wasn't appreciated. Life can be so cruel at times.
The mythbusters experiment was highly flawed. They used a single cellphone for all their tests.
There's this effect called "heterodyning", where two signals mix to produce two more (sum and difference). When you have multiple cellphones going on, their signals will mix to produce all kinds of nasty products. If one of them happens to land on the VOR/glideslope frequency, things can very suddenly get interesting.
I'm a ham, so I hear plenty of ham activity on shortwave. However, the shortwave bands make up a small part of shortwave.
HF (aka shortwave) makes up 1.8MHz to 30MHz. Have a look at this chart to see what parts are ham. It's not that much.
Spun the dial on a shortwave radio lately?
The vast bulk of traffic that takes place on it is commercial and military, not ham.
It's just that hams, having the technical savvy, were the first to raise a stink about it.
The python for S60 documentation is here.
It is very well documented, and they have bindings for pretty well everything the camera does, including stuff like GPS and OpenGL support on fancier phones like the E90 communicator.