If all the one's are delivered as ones and all the zeroes are
delivered as
zeroes, at that point in the transmission, the "data" is error free.

Jumping from there to stating that any two drives which accomplish
this must
sound exactly the same is a bit of a leap. There is some non-digital
processing between that perfect state and our ears. There is no
perfect machine.
Even our big old Universe is often crashing into itself.

Just because we can sample reality into ones and zeroes does not mean
we
understand it perfectly. It just means we can fool ourselves.

And it is the flavor of the fooling which we seek to enhance, not
worship of
perfect binary storage.

Digital encryption and processing can be done creatively. It is more
commonly used a bit less creatively, like counting money and
picoseconds and other
theoretically finite imaginings. Neither money nor units of time
exist beyond
our finest pretenses.

Yes, a bit is a one or a zero. Binary digIT.

In that sense, we can only be half wrong.

The two best stereo system's each of us has ever heard were both
pretty
good, but, not the same ... neither was I ... the same, that is

-=Bill Eckle=-

Vanity Web Page at:
http://www.wmeckle.com


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