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Old 09-17-2008, 04:51 PM   #131
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Originally Posted by acidzebra View Post
As an aside and speaking as an engineer, I'm still a little confused on how for a given amount of digital information, 90-something% of possible arrangements of 1s and 0s are worthless noise and somehow a few % of those combinations are "magic" and worth money. Yes, I am simple that way - it must be that autistic engineering gene.
As someone who uses a computer you must see the value in the correct combination of 1s and 0s. Without them your computer would not do anything. Is that not "worth" money to you? I assume you paid cash money for your PC and some if not most of the software which runs on it?

Also, being an engineer you must know that those combinations are not "magic" but engineered.

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