[Confused] What is this all about? [/Confused]

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I found this one funny whilst in a programming class, but for some reason the lecturer didn't find it funny.

I thought binary is strictly numbers?

But it is still geeky humour.

YOU are geeky humour.

↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A

R1: ↓ → ← → [] O [] Δ O [] → ←

I think thoses are cheats for people who want little gay garden gnomes outside their drive-way.

What an interesting observation!

Touché dear sir.

Well I was playing the Sims and I entered the cheat for the gay garden gnome and to my horror the next day, my father brought one home with him only he had a fishing rod.
*twilight zone theme*

It's like Nemo always said. "Everything is connected through our dark lord and his wondrous gift of psionics". By god, what fools we have been.

Fuck, I can identify both of those codes with no research required. I really hope that was the point.

Considering that every single thing your computer does, displays to you, and accepts as input from you, is ultimately binary? It's binary in the sense that your lightswitch can either be on or off (let's pretend dimmer switches don't exist). The 1s and 0s are just how we represent the binary in a computer, which can take all sorts of forms depending on how its stored or transmitted.

Well, I knew that much. Calculus sure was a fun class. I was just wondering if you could interpret the numbers as letters, characters, or words. I don't understand how you can express sentences using it.

Fuck off.

You can express anything in binary essentially, it's like if I write a word XYZ that means one thing in English and a different thing in French. 10 could be 2 or a symbol or whatever.







How many prolog programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

No.

Yeah, well. Anyone who attempts to impart the joke aurally fails at life.

The incredibly sad thing is that if Laser hadn't decoded it, I would have.

Yeahbut, numbers can be used to represent anything. So if you can use binary numbers in a computer, those numbers can in turn represent letters, which add up to sentences.

Is there a commonly used way to translate binary to letters?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
In particular this section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#A...ble_characters

(I'm sure Max will come in and post a much longer response comparing and contrasting all the different encoding schemes. I just figured I'd reply with the simplest common answer)

More like faggotyass humor.

I actually started typing a message about different character encoding before I double-checked Nate's message and saw that I'd been pre-empted. =(

0010100110110111000010011101000101001101001000101001100110101110000110100100110011010010001001000011 1001001000101001010110000011010?

Do y'all get it?

I got:

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Does this thread have your name in the title? Or anywhere else in the thread? No? Then it is not faggotyass humor.

It's hard to, considering the number of bits there doesn't divide into a whole number of bytes. There are three bits left over. But giving it a stab...

The first byte encodes U+0029, which as BM points out is a right parenthesis ")". The second byte begins with "10", which is only possible for the second, third or fourth byte of two-, three- or four-byte characters, which begin with "110", "1110" and "11110" respectively. So this is a corrupt string. Unless you're using a very strange encoding.

EDIT: Wait, I get it now. The joke is that there are people who would try to decode it manually. What losers. Haha.

C:/DOS
C:/ DOS/ RUN
RUN:/DOS/RUN

mount c c:\doom_se\doom.exe

c:\windows\system32\oobe\images\title.wma.

sudo rm -rf http://www.oddworldforums.net/

you lost me at 'encode'.

I stopped reading after "It's hard...".

I dare not laugh, for I fear my sides may split.