From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 31 18:37:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F83237B407 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 18:37:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 95EE6D7; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 02:37:07 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 02:37:07 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Lamont Granquist Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , "Nicpon, John" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! Message-ID: <20011101023707.E900@tao.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Karthauser , Lamont Granquist , Stephen Montgomery-Smith , "Nicpon, John" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3BE08283.EC81A8ED@math.missouri.edu> <20011031170629.C865-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pY3vCvL1qV+PayAL" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011031170629.C865-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org>; from lamont@scriptkiddie.org on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:20:33PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --pY3vCvL1qV+PayAL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:20:33PM -0800, Lamont Granquist wrote: >=20 >=20 > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > "Nicpon, John" wrote: > > > > > > Please specifically define where data goes that is sent to /dev/null > > > > Answer 1. Data is not like energy. There is no "conservation of data" > > law. So the data simply "disappears". >=20 > Doesn't thermodynamics second law actually imply that data has to > disappear and that with the heat death of the universe data will be at a > minimum? For meaningful data to exist there needs to be order, while the > 2nd law requires that systems evolve to less ordered states. Maybe, but the second law of thermodynamics is incorrect so who knows? Joe --pY3vCvL1qV+PayAL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjvgtVMACgkQXVIcjOaxUBYyZACfVxp2aea+F+HEO9QRwT9IO6Kc g6MAn0nYNo0gSpndqtvQM5H5HsKsuoqd =NJ3J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pY3vCvL1qV+PayAL-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message