Understanding binary

[Ankhanu]

What is it, Vong, 1000 or 8000 per second? Huh?

Really, that's pretty low rate too, that's only running at 1-8kHz; even computers created around the time of A New Hope being made worked faster than that.
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[vong]

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oh yea, and this is assuming they speak in ASCII.

Owen saying "What I really need is someone that understands the binay language of moisture converters" and c3p0 responding something along the lines of "I worked with X, which is very similar to your moisture converters" implies there is more then one different binary language around (and there should be with different species making machines)
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[cheshire]

See, I don't know what you guys are talking about. Anytime I want to read an e-book, I usually burn it on to a dada CD and stick it in an old CD player. I get to listen to the wonderful digital noise, but I can convert it so fast, it's just like listening to my favorite audio book.

Friggin' amateurs.
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[vong]

[cheshire]

I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead...
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Before we take any of this too seriously, just remember that in the middle episode a little rubber puppet moves a spaceship with his mind.

[vong]

[remo moxey]

I don't think the average person would be able to do it, but it is by no means impossible.

Daniel Tammet recited pi to the 22,514th digit in 5 hours 9 minutes.

[Nico_Davout]

In D20 character can learn to speak binary.
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[cheshire]

In d20 you can also make a cloud appear about someone's head and make it rain acid. It doesn't mean that it makes sense.
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Before we take any of this too seriously, just remember that in the middle episode a little rubber puppet moves a spaceship with his mind.

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[garhkal]

[Ankhanu]

Just a clarification on the insectile species thing, if I'm not mistaken (which I could be) there are one or two species that have the ability to communicate with droids listed under their Special Abilities section. I am ONLY referring to these species as possibilities, not all insectile species.

Though, come to think of it, I believe that droid communication tends to be due to the ability to sense/transmit EM pulses, not actually binary.
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[Whill]

Did anyone else ever conjecture that maybe, just maybe, "Binary" doesn't mean in Star Wars what it means in our world? I'm saying this from a math nerd perspective (that's my bachelor degree). There are a lot of different droid languages heard in Star Wars, and none of them sound like they would be binary communication like our computers use.

I think it is extemely likely that Lucas was just using a buzz word that made it sound more "science-fictiony". We're talking about a computer/droid language used by moisture vaperators and "binary" load-lifters not heard in the movie, so using that word just sounds like a form of communication that machines might use to your average viewer. Remember this movie was made by the same guy that used the word "parsecs" to describe an amount of time (yes, thankfully the EU rationalized that error in a way that makes it make sense). Did Lucas really care about being scientifically accurate? Or did he just want to make it sound good for a movie goer?

I don't think that binary would be an vocal/audio language as others have demonstrated. Within the game universe I don't think that non-machines could understand it so no character could learn it or specialize in it. I also don't think the Force could help with machine communication as others have said.

However, I do think that "droidspeak" or "astromech" or whatever you want to call R2's language could be learned by organic beings. Especially ones that spend a lot of time with them like pilots and technicians. In game terms, I do think you could specialize in R2's language. But I would not say that R2's language is "binary".
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[hisham]

How I've run it is how Whill puts it. It's "Binary" not binary. A human can understand it after a lot of hours of listening and training although humans can't vocalize it.

An easy phrase like yes / no will have a Language difficulty of 15. More complex phrases would be Difficult and above. Anyone with a high Language skill will be able to understand binary / droidspeak as per rules transposition from 1st Edition.

An R3 unit beeps a phrase.

PC1 rolls and fails, "What are you chattering about?"

PC2 rolls and succeeds, "He says you ought to take baths more frequently."
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