I should let my flood insurance go though, it never floods in South Louisiana.
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I should let my flood insurance go though, it never floods in South Louisiana.
Amen to that sister.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Volcanoes though... That's a serious threat. I mean, aren't we overdue for one?
Do you sell meteor insurance too?
Only if you live south of Grand Isle.
Not so small an amount of trouble. To do a good job with the cutting would have required a special saw, so there would be a fair expense. I did try a bit of cutting with cold chisel, and had mixed results. The lines weren't clean enough to work with.Quote:
Originally Posted by Witis
There is no error. You simply ignore all red blocks and all is well. Binary doesn't carry any inherent meaning. We impose meaning on it when we turn a binary signal into 1s and 0s, then we impose further meaning on it when we interpret some set of binary digits to mean some kind of letter. Had I used some encoding other than ASCII, or some encoding other than 7 bits to a letter, you'd be sorely pressed to figure any of it out. Only by relying on a rigorous convention does the pattern hold any meaning. After all, since I needed less than 32 characters, I could have made my own 6 bit encoding to write the message, but then nobody would be able to figure it out without putting a lot of effort into it. It might not have contained enough information to be able to figure out every symbol, had I done it that way.Quote:
You mean the error you built into your binary backyard is still there? °o°
So, I have imposed a convention that makes it readable. There is nothing pure or impure about it. It is what it is, and that is complete. By saying that it is ASCII, and by saying that the red bits are fill, I give you the tools to interpret the binary into text. Had I not given that information, it could have been inferred with some difficulty. The rules are as much a part of the pattern as the bits themselves. However, it is all just binary, with no right or wrong other than that which we impose upon it.
Shaggy and Witis would be interested in Binary insurance. To protects against intrusions from other numbers.
This post brought to you by the number 3.
AwkwardQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I know, I was hoping number 2 would step up. I guess not :/
Number 2 is stepping up. I just didn't think you'd want me to share that.
Whahaha! Took me a second to register that!
It ain't over until the paperwork is finished.
It seems I'll always be more of a binary purist than you, but ok with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
You can't tell me to simply ignore the error and all is well. According to that logic you could sell a house demolished by a sinkhole at full market price, just ignore the damage to the house and land.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I think the classic would have been an 8 bit binary pattern rather than 6 or 7.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Although the obvious problem is that using 3 colours immediately makes me think of anything except a binary pattern.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I sure would.Quote:
Originally Posted by dclamp
Don't worry, all is well.
http://championfoundation.com/wp-con...y-Sinkhole.jpg
See, that's an issue that we're having right now. Homeowners insurance doesn't cover for earth movement, aka - sinkholes. We had a huge sinkhole in Raceland last year that damaged some homes. I'm glad I wasn't the guy who had to say that it wasn't covered.
By the way Witis, you have the water table to low in that first picture. It should be about a foot to two feet below the surface.
No, only one form of binary purist, which makes you more of a binary bigot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Witis
There isn't any error. There is only a rule that is applied when translating the code into text. That translation is a human activity. The code itself is what it is, only we give it meaning. As long as the rules are consistent, we can retrieve from it whatever meaning was put into it. If the rules are not consistent, then anybody extracting meaning will not necessarily extract the same meaning as the person who created the code. That would be called art.Quote:
You can't tell me to simply ignore the error and all is well. According to that logic you could sell a house demolished by a sinkhole at full market price, just ignore the damage to the house and land.
Only in certain systems and under certain designs. 8 bits does seem like a reasonable number, being a power of 2 and all, but it isn't the only pattern that has been used in computers. 7 and 9 bit byte systems also exist. I haven't head of a 6 bit byte system, but it could easily exist.Quote:
I think the classic would have been an 8 bit binary pattern rather than 6 or 7.
Anything at all? I'd be morbidly curious as to what it made you think of?Quote:
Although the obvious problem is that using 3 colours immediately makes me think of anything except a binary pattern.