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:

)· ÑM"™®LÒ$9"•ƒ

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.

if(man==geek)
{
charisma = 5+random(5);
}
else
{
charisma = 51+random(50)
}

where's Stan?

and the 'hello, obvious joke, my friend!' ?

You clearly missed my avatar. He will always be there laughing at all silly posts and stupid mistakes.

And I am ashamed that you didn't get my Blackadder reference (but to be fair, I may have miss-quoted him).

"Thank heavens I was wearing my corset, for I fear my sides have split."
Off the top of my head. I got the reference instantly, though. *hug*

You have earnt much more than reputation, you have earnt my proudness. Congratulations.

"Baldrick, you're fired."
"But Sir, I've been in your family since 1532!"
"So has syphilis, now get out."

Nice try, but you win nothing.

But I get reputation too, right?

Of course.

Hey, I'm just sharing an intrest, and saying a quote I find funny. I don't expect congratulations. You gave that out for understanding a Blackadder joke without being prompted.

Wait, it was a Blackadder thing?

O Δ [] X ↓ ↓ ↓ O Δ [] X






if you guess it you win the prize

Is that not the Invincibility cheat in Abes Exoddus, and you must also hold R1 whilst entering the cheat.

I would like to take credit for correcting the above code.

Couldn't have done it without you. ;)

THE GAME!

Supercollider? I hardly know her!

i didn't get the Blackadder reference until you pointed it out. i cant believe it.

if($emo = TRUE){
addslashes($wrist);
}


Although that's not reeeeally humorous..... >.>