I'd older than Christ at 30 years and three months! Jeeez...I'm already a third past my guarenteed lifespan (baring Death by Misadventure). Depressing.
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I really should switch from cryptography to artifical intelligence one of these days...
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George Harrisons guitar was auctioned off on saturday. The winning bid was $434,750. I Guess the Beatles still have a few fans out there.
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Oh, I know they've still got fans -- like I said in my original post, I do enjoy listening to their music if it's on the radio or if my parents play it in the car during our long trips up to New York (or elsewhere).
My issue is, though, just how many people know (or care) that their company's label name is "Apple."
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Trademarks are very important in business. The public is easily confused when different organizations have the same name. Bad business practise by one organization then reflects badly on the other and damages their reputation and cuts into their profits. Changing one letter in the name would solve the legal issue. Change the name to "APPLES COMPUTERS"
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Cryptography! The NSA crypto museum is high up on my list of places to visit. Not that I have ever visited any place. I cannot even solve the morning jumble, though.
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Cryptography is dependant upon numbers. One early people who used numbers were the Mayans. A good way to learn about the Mayans is to go to Guatemala.
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When you mentioned the morning jumble I thought you meant the Newspaper Cryptograms that are based on letter substitution codes. Thats what 'The Gold Bug' deals with. The principles are probably similar to the Number puzzles that I guess you meant. Poe went to West Point. He dropped out but I guess he learned a little about decoding Cryptograms there. The story is very interesting. All Poe's stories are. http://www.planetmike.com/crypto/
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Actually, there's a very obscure British comic that featurerd these little creatures that spoke in a language represented by made-up letter characters. But it was just transposed, so if you worked out what each letter's analogue was you could understand what they were saying. So, I used thr system as described in "The Gold Bug" and it worked perfectly!
Turned out there's one frame I missed in which a charcter reads out a sight-test card in English and one of the LHCs (they were called "Little Happy Creatures") does the same, providing a rosetta stone. But my way was much cleverer. 8)
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