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#1 Yesterday 08:05:43
- chomwitt
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What is software ?
English : hardware software
French : matériel material thing logicie -logical thing
Estonian : riistvara (toolware) tarkvara (smart/intelligent-ware) / intelligence + instruments
Software as the 'program' you send to a dead silicon engraved with metal patterns ? Or software as a part of matter that exhibits a 'smart' behavior , a smart matter (like possesing a 'mind') ?
Interstingly if we see software as program then by it self is not smart. It's just data. The reaction of a machine to a program (running it) seems closer to an intelligent entity.
Why a part of matter that is 'soft' not rigid would be more close to the 'intelligence' axis ? Soft means more amenable to our efforts to 'shape' it , to 'contol it' make it align with our goals ? See how we value in social life flexibility as soft . In greece we say a stuborn man a 'ξερο(dry)+κέφαλος(head)' comparing her/his behavior to a hard wood that lost it's humidity . So being mentaly more ready to aling with other people wishes makes you more -soft- thus maybe more intelligent ?
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#2 Yesterday 10:14:57
- fsmithred
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Re: What is software ?
I think it's simpler than that. Hardware is hard - you could drop it on your foot. The bits and bytes are not hard, so they are called soft.
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#3 Yesterday 11:19:00
- alphalpha
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Re: What is software ?
What do you get when you force a hardcoded binary onto a floppy disk?
Software that turns into vaporware, and hardware that turns into a brick.
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#4 Yesterday 22:04:00
- chomwitt
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Re: What is software ?
What do you get when you force a hardcoded binary onto a floppy disk?
Software that turns into vaporware, and hardware that turns into a brick.
cool @alphalpha ..
I've twisted my mind for a while on that . It has a kind of cyber-coolness. I like it I like the transformational aura it carries with it and how a dull-software could make a hardware more hard ? :-) Or a dull-software transfuses its dullness to every hardware it touches ? wow.. lets add a mythical touch .@ ..the midas touch.
It's like a dull virus ? And so dullness is ethereal and you (a cyber entity) could catch it ? As we catch a cold?.
Also it's interesting now that i read it again.. how the dullness trait you attributed to the software that turned it into a 'vaporware' is a hardcoded binary. So in another ironical twist of that cyber-haiku riddle of yours the software that turned the hardware into a brick it was the one that first catch a 'hardware-ness' trait? Maybe hanging out too much with hardware and catch it? :-)
I wonder if your riddle is used in a hacker initiation .. Well if it was multiple choice i could have a chance althought the vaporware as term is little misleading to me.
I believe that if my semantic investigation of these terms unfolds even more cool cyber @haiku-riddles could be made.
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