On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:24:59PM -0400, Amelia A. Lewis wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:38:50 -0400 "Bob Hall" rjhjr@cox.net wrote:
Ever since tools got more complicated than the hammer, civilization has been going downhill. Hammers use binary logic; if you hit something, it either goes <bang> or <splat>. I don't know what computers use; pixie dust maybe?
Magic smoke, actually. You can tell, 'cause when the magic smoke escapes from inside, then the machine stops working. A hammer can be
You mean the smoke emitting diodes weren't designed that way?
used to prove this thesis (but it's a ternary-logic hammer; in this case, it generally goes <crunch>).
I wouldn't know. I prefer to use a rock on computers. It doesn't make the computer work better, but the juxtaposition of the geological and the computational seems to restore harmony in the universe.
Bob Hall
Bob Hall