Somehow I think this could easily swing between here and Wikkity. Meh.
Anyways, first some background.
One of the managers at the store where I work occasionally comes to the back door for a smoke break. (This is technically illegal according to the handbook; not that he cares.) Sometimes I think there's a little something-something extra in those cigs he smokes; they smell worse than normal cigarettes for one, and some of the things he says on those smoke breaks can be pretty weird. Like today's little rambling he gave.
He called me to the back room when he was going on one of his smoke breaks. I thought I was in trouble at first. Apparently, he only wanted to share some of his "logic." (You'll understand the use of quotes eventually.)
He began by asking about my familiarity with BitTorrent. Now I haven't used it, but obviously I've heard of it. He goes on to explain about the basics, and goes into an example of BTing a movie, having it separated into parts which are later combined into the whole. Obviously all the files are more or less combinations of 0's and 1's, as anyone decently versed in computers would know. (Silly binary.) Now once you combine the pieces in order, you have your finished movie.
At this point, I was wondering where he was going with this.
I was sorry I did. Because then he says something along the lines of "Couldn't you just write up a binary file (of 0's and 1's) and be able to create the movie on your own?" I was slightly weirded out by this. I mean, it might be possible, but highly improbable. (And I mean highly.)
And then the inevitable happens. "Then wouldn't it be possible, with luck, to create a binary file and have a movie that hasn't even been created yet?"
At that line, I think my mind exploded.
Discuss.
