From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 1 21:33:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from raven.mail.pas.earthlink.net (raven.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F52637B401 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 21:33:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.247.138.228.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.138.228] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by raven.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15zWwc-0003xe-00; Thu, 01 Nov 2001 21:33:18 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fA25RYO06603; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 21:27:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 21:27:21 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Lamont Granquist , Stephen Montgomery-Smith , "Nicpon, John" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix Philosophers Please! Message-ID: <20011101212721.F4360@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <3BE08283.EC81A8ED@math.missouri.edu> <20011031170629.C865-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <20011101023707.E900@tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011101023707.E900@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:37:07AM +0000 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message