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Challenge: Point to the physical embodiment of software please | 141 comments | Create New Account
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Software is not a machine. /nt
Authored by: artp on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 06:33 PM EDT
This is not the text you are looking for.

---
Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
sinks ?

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Computers are not machines?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 06:35 PM EDT
Software does not need a computer to exist OR to be run.
for(i=0; i< 10; i++){
print i;
}
I can run that loop in my mind quite easily, though it sincerely it is rather
dull.

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Computers are not machines?
Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 06:48 PM EDT
Software is not a computer.

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Computers are not machines?
Authored by: lnuss on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 06:51 PM EDT
Please read more carefully, or are you actually saying there is a computer (or
some machine) IN the software?

Granted that a computer is a programmable machine, but she was talking about
what the software *itself* is, which (usually) goes into a machine, not the
other way around.

I've got software on tape (of more than one kind), on floppy disks, on hard
disks, even on "thumb" drives. I also have software in books and on
printouts. I'd love for you to show me where imbedded in any of that software is
a machine.

So what is this "incorrect way?" I'm far from clear about what you
mean.

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Larry N.

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Virtual Machines? n/t
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 10 2013 @ 06:52 PM EDT
.

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Challenge: Point to the physical embodiment of software please
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 11 2013 @ 10:10 AM EDT

If you can't, then you are deliberately conflating the physical with the abstract!

RAS

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