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Re: The Code behind Coding Languages?

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:24 pm
by hugh
magma that is all going over my head :(

Re: The Code behind Coding Languages?

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:37 pm
by noam

Re: The Code behind Coding Languages?

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:41 pm
by magma
hugh wrote:magma that is all going over my head :(
Before floppy disks, computer programs were carried around looking like this:

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Great way to look like a spy, carrying shit like that through customs!

Re: The Code behind Coding Languages?

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:48 pm
by kidshuffle
JBoy wrote:Cue a wikipedia article from parson.
:cornlol:

Re: The Code behind Coding Languages?

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:51 pm
by Shum
magma wrote:His best story was taking some programs to Germany to be run in a factory... stopped at the border by German immigration asking what all the holey paper is for and how much it was worth.

"Well, the card is worth about a penny, but the holes are worth millions"

He was there a while.
What a wonderful story.

Re: The Code behind Coding Languages?

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:55 pm
by ketamine
magma wrote:
hugh wrote:magma that is all going over my head :(
Before floppy disks, computer programs were carried around looking like this:

Image

Great way to look like a spy, carrying shit like that through customs!
:o is that Call Of Duty 4

Re: The Code behind Coding Languages?

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:36 pm
by fractal
magma wrote:
"Well, the card is worth about a penny, but the holes are worth millions"
i love that! one day we might use dna in this manner, as a storage medium. it would be perfect- four bit code, ten atoms wide, millions of miles long...