Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: TSL <eno22@enter.net> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 10:45 Subject: Re: [Leica] paperless??? Now: OFF TOPIC: analog vs digital > WRONG. Putting it in uppercase letters does not make it so. > You must understand that a person can only have an understanding > of the word in context. That is irrelevant. My point was that the word has no intrinsic meaning; it is only a pointer to meaning. This is in contrast to analog representations, which carry their own meaning. > The meaning is transmitted as it is inseparable. No meaning is inherent in digitally-represented information. This is why you cannot send an EBCDIC data stream to a computer that is expected ASCII and have it correctly understand the data. The bits are the same in both cases, but the meanings they represent are not, and since the meanings are not inherent in the bit streams, no communication can occur. -- Anthony