At the beginning of this year I bought a fabulous new LAN router from Belking, the Belkin N Wireless Router F5D8236-4. It's a modem-less router that I use linked to my ISP's router (I am connected through Fastweb).
With its double band (one for B/G WiFi connections, the other for N WiFi connections) it has always served very well for my home devices: an iPod Touch, an iPhone 3G, a Dell XPS 630i, an iMac and a PS3. By the month of April I bought this fantastic brand new MacBook Pro 15", and after a short period I sold the XPS.
Sell the Belkin and buy a D-Link or Airport! 2
Unlocked iPhone 4 international pricing show off. Cry Italy! 0
Filip Chudzinski has created a very clean and helpful document, in which all the international prices for an unlocked iPhone 4 are gathered.
Costs vary a lot. In the document, we can see that the iPhone 4 16GB has a minimum price of 496 € (from Hong Kong) and a maximum price of 659 € (from Italy). Prices for the 32 GB model range from 585 € (always in Hong Kong) to 779 € (always in Italy). The average prices are: 594,21 € for the 16 GB model and 699,29 € for the 32 GB model.
Read MoreMastering the Ackermann Function - Part 2 0
In one of my latest posts I reviewed the Ackermann function. We left with some unsolved problems about efficiency and computability of the function itself. Throughout this post I'll give another point of view for the Ackermann function, and something magic wil come out ...
Read MoreMastering the Ackermann Function 0
Yesterday I came in touch with a curious, astonishing mathematical function. It's called Ackermann function.
Mathematically speaking, it is a well-defined total function. That is, it has defined values for every integer input (= total function), and this value is not ambiguous (every input has one and one only possible output value) (= well-defined).
Speaking about computer science, this function is computable, but it's not a primitive recursive function. In other words, you can implement an algorithm to express the function using while-loops (= computable), but still you cannot write an equivalent algorithm using only do-loops (= not primitive recursive). I suggest you to try this statement.
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