Binary Question

During the show last nite, (during the Batman-ish fight scene) they was a screen with binary on it.

Whats it mean (if anything).

The binary number listed was 01001010 (and remembering the conversations earlier, the leading 0 is both valid and useful to signify that it's an 8-bit word), which is decimal 74, hex 4A, or octal 112. I'm not sure of the exact significance of it, if any.

fo0bar

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:05:54 -0800, fo0bar wrote:

In ASCII, it's a "J".

And the ASCII character "J". I think it's random.

[email] (Matthew Miller) wrote in message news:...

Perhaps. Perhaps not. Remember your cartoon history. Virtually every cartoon character has the middle initial "J" - Bullwinkle J. Moose, Rocket J. Squirrel, and - of course - Homer J. Simpson and Bartholomew J. Simpson. Could very well be deliberate, knowing they'd only be able to get one letter in. (The binary code was the "joke", but perhaps that's how they chose the sequence they did. It's a theory.)

"Sniderman" wrote ...

Don't forget Philip J. Fry.

-Jay

"Jay G" wrote in message news:...

ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!

I forgot it. Dammit.

And Michael J. Fox (christened Michael A. Fox).

JQM

"James Morrissey" wrote in message news:b438v2$nl5$[email]...

Bartholomew

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Actually, the actor Michael J. Fox was NOT christened Michael A. Fox, he was cristened Michael Fox with no middle name at all. Or so I've heard anyway.

Rhino

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:33:11 -0400, "Rhino" wrote:

He added the J when he joined SAG. They have a bylaw that states no two actors can be credited with the exact same name. There was already a Michael Fox in the union, so the Michael Fox we know added the J to differentiate from the one already in there. I have no idea whether he actually has a middle name which begins with J though.

It's the same deal with Futurama's David X. Cohen. There was already a David Cohen so he just added the X. In his case however, the X was a random choice. He does not have a middle name starting with X. He talks about it on one of the Season 1 DVD commentaries.

In alt.tv.futurama on Tue, 29 Jul 2003 at 19:17:03, David Litchman wrote :

Could be a big problem if your name was John Smith, then. :)

Supposed to be a tribute to Jay Ward, or so I hear.

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On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 01:18:15 GMT, "Shiborugu"

The album by Frank J. Zappa?

"qaz" wrote in message news:[email]...

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sure

More of a theory, then an album. Characters from songs re-appear in different songs, etc... You know, inside jokes for hard-core fans.

Well, 8 bits is a single ASCII char, in this case 0x4a is the letter 'J' -- not your standard Adam West batman cartoon bubble :)

In article , "Shiborugu" wrote:

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it wasn't too long, so it could be a letter or two (depending on the encoding, eg: ascii 7 bit or 16 bit unicode), but more likely it was just a bunch of ones and zeros.

Kawaldeep

The real joke here as I think was that a robot would cry out in binary instead of words....

In article , Kawaldeep Grewal wrote:

Shame they didn't spell out something in hexadecimal like: B0FF (1011000011111111) or B1FF (1011000111111111)

Programmers love to do stuff like this. I think the most famous one is DEADBEEF (http://www.deadbeef.com/)