I find it no end of a marvel that any of this works at all! Let's look at what 
our "data" really is: We coat some metal discs with some form if oxide (read 
that "rust") and then spin it real fast while several magnets turn on and off 
at exactly the right instant, real fast. And how do we put this data to work, 
so we can interpret and use it? Well we force electricity through 
microscopically thin wafers of silicone at precisely the right instances in 
time. There are many billions of these instances of time each second, and they 
have to be right 99.999998% of the time, and yes I just pulled that percentage 
out of the air. But you get the point. 

Bob


On Sep 9, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Given the combinatorial explosion of possible components, it's quite a marvel 
> that Linux installs on a majority of computers flawlessly.


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