In article <475f8973$1@news.povray.org>, nos### [at] nospamcom says...
> On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:20:00 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> 
> > So, the questions really are: 1. Does it have to be human readable? 
> 
> That would be a "watch" by definition.  The usage that I have seen this
 
> is in the context of the book "The Invisible Watchmaker", and the premise
 
> (at least from the debates I've had with people who have read it; I have
 
> not) seems to be flawed as the idea is that a watch has to imply a 
> watchmaker because a watch must be made by a maker.  Therefore, there 
> must be a watchmaker or there'd be no watch.
> 
Actually, it just implies that a maker can sometimes come up with things 
that "personally" benefit him/her/it-self, which wouldn't otherwise 
result. The reason I said "human readable" is precisely because of that 
basic conceit, that because its useful to them in some fashion, and its 
too complicated for them to bother (not attempt, just bother) to figure 
out, this implies that a maker had to do it. My point was that you could 
decide that some flower, which had the odd tendency of gripping your 
wrist, would look nice to wear, and never realize that it was so synced 
to the 24 hour cycle of the planet that it also did something that made 
it 100% like a watch. Or maybe there could be a leech that when through 
clear 24 hour cycles, which only appear in its *chemistry*, in which 
case you would still be wearing a good watch, you just wouldn't be able 
to read it at all. And so on. The initial presumption is that you would 
*recognize* it as a watch in the first place. I.e., that it would 
display the information in a way that the moron looking for a watch 
would "recognize" as watch like.

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      call slow_by_half();
      call DRM_everything();
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    call functional_code();
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  else
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