it's like tiny marbles being push through a little hosepipe

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:52, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Stephen Fry
Nod of approval.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:53, Reply)

I remember having that explanation!
It still doesn't explain how it makes a telephone work, a light illuminate, a laptop work and so on.
And to be perfectly honest, I'm not that bothered. :)
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:54, Reply)

making a light work is easy
the other stuff is more complicated, but telephones aren't all that hard. Computers I am less sure on.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:55, Reply)

As far as I understand, it's all permutations of switches
Millions and billions of switches.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:57, Reply)

I think that's the problem
once you get to that many things going on at once I lose the ability to understand on anything more than a basic level.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:58, Reply)

I understand the absolute basics (about switches)
And can read a binary clock, but then there's a biiiiiig gap in my knowledge up until everyday stuff and work stuff.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:00, Reply)

that's the thing
I get all that, but it's sort of mindblowing, for want of a better word, to think that on/off switches can develop into something as amazing as an artificially intelligent game.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:02, Reply)

Oh I agree it is mindblowing
And saddening when all that knowledge and power is used to make a CGI baby dance about.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:04, Reply)

Made starcraft 2 as well.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:07, Reply)

and the Sims 3 :D

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:09, Reply)

To be honest I'm making sweeping statements
I remember heating filaments and conductors and magnetic coils - all that sciencey stuff. It just didn't get me excited during physics. The teacher would never discuss black holes with me - that was what I wanted to know about. Quantum physics and the multiverse theories are fascinating but WiFi baffles me.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 15:58, Reply)

that's because most physics teachers are shit
and boring.

electronics never interested me either. I'm shit at it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:00, Reply)

My physics teacher was great.
He was the radar operator on a Fairey Swordfish, and told us loads of stories while he tried to make all the bits he had nicked from the navy, work.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:04, Reply)

mine was shit
she was fresh out a PhD in something completely useless and thought she was the shit.

Mrs V's sister is an a-level physics teacher, and as lovely as she is, I'm not overly sure on her abilities. I had to explain to her why stuff floats. Pretty fundamental I would've thought.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:07, Reply)

The stuff I learnt at GCSE was not that more complicated that the things I've had to teach
when I taught nine year olds. Or maybe I was that crap at Physics I only had the grasp of an average nine year old...
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:11, Reply)

If you stop ejaculating in the bath
You won't have to explain again.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:12, Reply)

my first one was fucking fit. God he was hot.
The second one was dreadful, he made the universe boring.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:10, Reply)

my first one in secondary school
taught us both physics and chemistry. He hated me. It was an unfortunate incident that caused the dislike.

He winked at me, and unsure of what the hell to do, I think I winked back. Sadly for me it was the result of a twitch on his part
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:13, Reply)

do you live in a sitcom?

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:21, Reply)

There was no laugh track
to that incident sadly
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 11 Aug 2010, 16:44, Reply)