Because alchemists were afraid of people stealing their recipes. Jabir bin Hayyan (aka Geber) the father of chemistry wrote in his own shorthand which is named after him—-gibberish or jibberish.
So Lead, gold, and quicksilver were not the substances their names suggest. They were codenames. The real processes have never been revealed.
I think there was a bbc documentary where they showed a manuscript of Newton or Kepler with a geometric proof and compared it to one by Al Jazari. They were identical.
In fact even the vertices were labelled the same, and followed the order of Arabic letters.
If you had a ham radio connection and wanted to broadcast emergency bulletins to people, radio fax would be quite useful.
It’s push rather than pull like the web. Email works too, but fax has more utility in an emergency situation. Beats having to download adobe acrobat on every computer….
They talk about so little because that’s what the fcc rules limit them to. Can’t blame people for behaving like Elmer the safety elephant all the time.
What can you do with a license?
Jam live music with other people over the air, in full duplex mode. Thats something only analog radio can do—because the latency is so low.
Yes, discussing politics or broadcasting music is not allowed over ham radio. Basically all we can do is exchange call signs, locations and details about our signals and stations.
I have wondered if you could use the fact that analog radio over short distances has latencies measured in the microseconds, so you could have a jazz band with players scattered over an entire city, but they can play like they are in the same room. Internet comms have too much latency (measured in the milliseconds).
I spent my life looking for such an elegant tome. If I had discovered it when I was 15 maybe my life would have been happier.
Utilitarian programming is like utilitarian food. Programming should be seen as an act of worship to the god of simplicity. If the artificial world intrudes and makes the program complicated, this is what leads to suffering. Ultimately it is the world which should be changed.
If I could look down mid-flight and see what was happening below…ancient battles, modern news events…that would be a truly educational inflight experience.
Yeah, doom advanced the state of the art by maybe a decade(?). Instead of needing a silicon graphics workstation or a Graphics accelerator, it allows a generation of kids to play on any hardware.
If you want to know how the world would be like without video game programmers, just like at internal corporate software and how slow it is.
How many other advances are we tossing away because people don’t know how to optimize and code for speed and fun!
But that’s just 1 vote. ;)