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Water Logic Gates Built at MIT
ndogg writes "This story is all wet. Paulo Blikstein at MIT has created a water computer. The one boolean logic gate he created functions as a half-adder (i.e. both XOR and AND). He then proceeded to create a four bit adder."
I wonder if the same principle could be used with hamsters and those little tubes they run around in . . .
*goes off to patent the Hamster Computer*
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
They should try mentos and pop soda gates
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "wetware".
I wonder if I use bold in my signature, people will notice my posts.
"This story is all wet. Paulo Blikstein at MIT has created a water computer. The one boolean logic gate he created functions as a half-adder (i.e. both XOR and AND). He then proceeded to create a four bit adder."
And then he proceeded to plug it in and electrocuted himself...
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
Great idea... the ultimate water park. The path down the massive water slide would be controlled by the very calculations going on. People could be used as math symbols!
Get the mop, I've just had and arithmetic overflow error!
We were joking around, and I mentioned starting a Linux on Plumbing project. I should have known somebody at MIT would actually be working on it...
I bet this guy's nickname is Princess Nell. Lucky fellow.
I wonder if he needs to water cool his computer?
With all the heat surrounding this announcement, I wonder how long it will take for it to become vaporware...
It's a series of tubes!
-- All your bass are below two Hz
Windows, of course.
Being closed source, it should keep the water out. Maybe.
(Mind too tired: AND gates, XOR gates, BILL gates...)
-Eldurbarn
No, no, Windows is full of holes. :(
Guy L. Steele sketched this amusing commentary on problems in '70s fluidic computing, one episode of the Crunchly saga now entwined with the Jargon File.
...when you're writing a game...tweak the difficulty of "Easy" to something [your mother] can cope with. -- onion2k
"...a young gentlemen from Carnegie Mellon University places water-logic-gate in the microwave to reinvent vaporware."
This guy obviously didn't think this through. Any script kiddie with a garden hose could create buffer overflows at will.
Yeah, something tells me this isn't going to be the next Watergate....
Mac OS X -- Your computer needs water which is dyed a special shade of plastic white, is only available from one manufacturer, and costs about double what water usually costs. On the plus side, you chuckle every time you see the iFlow ads.
Gentoo -- You spend all of your day running submerge.
Windows 95 -- Your water has frozen. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot.
Windows 98 -- Your water got some virii in it while you were searching for water sports. I swear, they should put a warning label around the English language some days. You now need to buy some chlorine from one of the numerous providers who specialize in cleaning up Microsoft's messes.
Windows XP SP2 -- Your water suddenly looks a whole lot like plastic Fisher Price toy, but with your newfound determination to never, ever again search for watersports your system is actually pretty secure. Slashdot still makes fun of you, but they're all wet.
Windows Vista -- It looks like you're trying to NAND 0 and 1 together. Do you want to permit this action?
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
does it have one?
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
But wouldn't the cold from the cold war freeze the water?
(Ducks...)
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
Everyone knows he pulled that patent out of his ass.