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Tim O Neill
Byrne Robotics Security
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Location: United States
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| Posted: 05 May 2005 at 11:08am | IP Logged | 1
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OK - I have completed the prototyoe JBF decoder ring and...
IT WORKS PERFECTLY!
One small problem, though. In order to use the proper parts
and technology, it weighs 80 pounds and is 4 feet wide and 8
feet long. It is indeed a ring that you can wear, it's just a tad
cumbersome. I wouldn't advise driving a car while wearing it,
for example
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John Byrne
Robot Wrangler
Joined: 16 April 2004
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| Posted: 05 May 2005 at 11:41am | IP Logged | 2
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O'Neill prototype decoder "ring"....
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Steve Lyons
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Joined: 02 September 2004
Location: United States
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| Posted: 05 May 2005 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | 3
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Calling Reed Richards, calling Reed Richards............
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Emery Calame
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| Posted: 06 May 2005 at 12:04am | IP Logged | 4
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That decoder ring design will never work Mr. Byrne. There's no hamster running in a wheel to give it power....
It just might tablutate some census figures though.
Edited by Emery Calame on 06 May 2005 at 12:06am
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Melissa Ashton
Byrne Robotics Member
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Location: Australia
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| Posted: 11 May 2005 at 12:26am | IP Logged | 5
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Lars Johansson wrote:
Melissa Ashton wrote:
| I usually use the Cyrillic alphabet so no-one can read my stuff, but this would be even harder to figure... |
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I got a children's book, cyrillic, by my grandfather to learn Yugoslavian when I was little, I never learned one word and I threw it away. I remember a picture of Tito on like every page. Now I guess I know some characters, two or three from being in S:t Petersburg twice, such that C is S and P is R, no more than that. In case you actually are able to speek it and interpret it, I'm impressed. |
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Nah, I'm strictly a dabbler. I know the alphabet, so I can write English words in it, but apart from a very few Russian words, and those twenty or so that are Russian-ised English or Latin words, I can't actually speak or read Russian.
I can tell you what a word is (eg Gospodin), but I don't know what it means.
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Lars Johansson
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| Posted: 11 May 2005 at 12:35am | IP Logged | 6
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Melissa Ashton wrote:
| ...I can tell you what a word is (eg Gospodin), but I don't know what it means. |
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But your father can speak Kryptonian by now probably, so I will get back to you, I have some linguistic questions.
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Melissa Ashton
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| Posted: 11 May 2005 at 12:40am | IP Logged | 7
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Lars Johansson wrote:
Melissa Ashton wrote:
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But your father can speak Kryptonian by now probably, so I will get back to you, I have some linguistic questions. |
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Nah man, he was an extra in one scene! (It's still cool, but!)
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Chris Durnell
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| Posted: 11 May 2005 at 3:57am | IP Logged | 8
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Someone mentioned that it looked vaguely Arabic which was not surprising considering its origin.
This may not be well known, but "Arabic Numerals" come from India. We call them Arabic numerals because the Europeans got them from Arabs (who of course got them from India).
Abu Rayhan al-Biruni (973-1048), a scholar, said: "What we [the Arabs] use for numerals is a selection of the best and most regular figures in India."
See this link. It's your fun fact for the day.
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John Mietus
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| Posted: 11 May 2005 at 5:29am | IP Logged | 9
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That was me who said that, and thanks for the info!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 11 May 2005 at 6:45am | IP Logged | 10
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Here's another one, tinkered together today.
This time, no clue to the letters -- just some familiar
words used often hereabouts. (Hope I spelled 'em
right!)
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Dave Carr
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| Posted: 11 May 2005 at 7:18am | IP Logged | 11
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I like that one, too, JB. And you've got a hyphen equivalent in this one, if I'm not mistaken.
This one has another numerical clue to figuring it out, but I won't spoil it yet.
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Melissa Ashton
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| Posted: 11 May 2005 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | 12
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Nope. I must be too blonde for this one...
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