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I wonder why they use these systems... I also wonder how a computer-processor, which is made up of millions of small gates that either open or redirect an eleetrical pulse, and from doing that a thousand times, it comes to the conclution that it is supposed to play a sound that sounds quite similar to what a trumpet would sound like... |
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It's all in the circuitry eventually. Just a bunch of 1's and 0's shooting all over the place |
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yep, and that's what makes it not-understandable. for instance: 01010110111101110111001000100110101101 = a piano playing #C for three seconds (well, not really, but you see what I mean). |
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computers are so so so insane. |
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they're even wacky! I'll hire a computer to be my jester, and then I'll dress it up in a corset and throw sulfuric acid and sunlotion on it! |
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There are many things I don't understand with computers. One thing that I'm confused about is the switches. These are supposed to be a piece of wire that can go from point a to point b OR from point a to point c (one of 2 forks)... but I don't get why these metal pieces don't break off. There are things called osscillators for example that make this switch go back and forth really fast forever (which is what an electronic buzzer is, the metal switch hits a bell or something repeatedly). But with all that abuse, wouldn't it just break off? It's just metal.. I think. It is amazing that computers can like drunken mastah said produce a trumpet sound from a bunch of logic gates. Well after being 1/2 through a book called "code" (an awesome book for computer newbies) by Petzold, I at least vaguely know how an adding machine works. It is so insane. It's almost impossible to comprehend fully at once exactly what is happening. This is because of a thing called functional abstraction. This means you finally invent a logic gate that does some function, a really complex crazy looking thing. But you take that entire thing and reduce it to one little symbol. Now you take a bunch of those symbols and create a crazy thing out of them. Then you reduce that to a symbol. The way computers work, it's not really necessary to understand the details behind such symbols to still use them. You can just file away the logic behind them sort of. I'd like to really learn from the ground up what's really happening. I'd like to own one of those tic tac toe playing computers that danny hillis built out of tinker toys. |
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i think it's amazing that a speaker, just magnets and electricity, can produce the sound of the human voice and a guitar and a bass and drums etc. all at the same time. just by moving air. |
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anyone who rreads that shit a loserr. |
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I am (quite) sure I have seen this joke on this board before... but it's a good one :) |
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i don't think it's verry funny. |
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Seriously, did you somehow modify your keyboard or computer so it automatically makes double r's... or are you that neurotic to have done so all this time? Actually nevermind since I remember you don't double R people's names. You've probably forgotten one somewhere. |
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it's not harrd. |
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