Re: Mixing OO and DB

"JOG" <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote in message news:0aa50aa4-db76-40ce-89f0-495ad28d12b5_at_u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
> On Feb 12, 2:19 pm, "David Cressey" <cresse..._at_verizon.net> wrote:
> > "JOG" <j..._at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote in message
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news:9ee041b4-9546-40b0-81fe-54445a216b97_at_d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
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> > > I am suggesting that 10001 is a binary number, no more and no less,
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> grrr, this is from a continuing example cressey! The ones and noughts
> are simply ons or offs.
>

Yes, and that's my point, in case you missed it. Data is passed between a sender and a receiver in the context of a continuing exchange of meaningful signals. Destroy enough context, and you render the interpretation of the received data ambiguous.

The best exmple of this is the SETI project. Are those people decoding data, or just listening to noise?

> >
> > How do you say the number "ten thousand and one" in ordinary decimal
> > numbers?
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> 10001with a subscript 10 after it :P Anyhow what makes you think
> binary isn't "ordinary"? If were all from the simpsons we'd be
> counting in base8 right?
Received on Tue Feb 12 2008 - 17:46:32 CET