Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 21:27:21 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, "Nicpon, John" <John.Nicpon@SouthTrust.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! Message-ID: <20011101212721.F4360@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011101023707.E900@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:37:07AM %2B0000 References: <3BE08283.EC81A8ED@math.missouri.edu> <20011031170629.C865-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <20011101023707.E900@tao.org.uk>
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:37:07AM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 05:20:33PM -0800, Lamont Granquist wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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".
> >
> > 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?
Ooh. Flamebait. As someone who did his academics in chemical
engineering, how can I resist?
It is? Did you get your perpetual motion machine to work?
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