{"id":704,"date":"2005-08-14T13:05:54","date_gmt":"2005-08-14T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=704"},"modified":"2005-08-14T13:05:54","modified_gmt":"2005-08-14T16:05:54","slug":"tech-uh-no-logy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=704","title":{"rendered":"Tech-uh-no-logy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>arlier this month, I was looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vtechphones.com\/vtechui\/products\/dsp_5871_info.cfm\">V-Tech i5871<\/a>. I was amazed about the fact that this was a home phone center where all its handsets have a colour display. Add to that downloadable jingles and backgrounds apparently. I remember going over it and looking for any USB slots, which I (vividly and much to my disappointment) remember not seeing. Anyways, it appears that the device provides linkup via USB. Besides wondering what the &#8216;motherstation&#8217; might be running (OS-wise), I bet it wouldn&#8217;t be too hard to make a Linux-based system that supports exactly the same as the above mentioned phone system.\n<\/p>\n<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.burningbird.net\/archives\/2005\/08\/12\/the-business-of-algorithms\/\">Burningbird a post about algorithms<\/a>, which is too long to summarize in a couple of lines. Shelley discusses how one can dissect a simple calculation in a <em>decimal<\/em> system. If you&#8217;ve calculated in other systems (binary, hexadecimal or octal), you will be aware of the fact that our holy decimal system is based <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Decimal_system\">on the number of our fingers<\/a>. The world would have been a different world, <a href=\"http:\/\/mathforum.org\/library\/drmath\/view\/51901.html\">if we had only two fingers<\/a> (link to math. question how CPUs add numbers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, I was looking at the V-Tech i5871. I was amazed about the fact that this was a home phone center where all its handsets have a colour display. Add to that downloadable jingles and backgrounds apparently. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=704\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}