This Is So Meta

[Stilts]

So I was looking at the board index when I noticed we had a new member named "Yuki & Konata". I thought, "Hey, those names sound familiar," and sure enough, it seems Shamisen's servers have joined the boards.

I'd like to welcome our diligent digital darlings to the website they keep running in top shape. And I think I speak for everyone on the boards when I say, "I love you two with all my heart. Please don't delete me."

[Kei]

Hehehe, the puny flesh creature is trying to appease his machine overlords. How amusing.

[KAITO]

<is laughing>

Who would have thought a machine could join the forums?

[Taiga]

We have Ryoko, don't we?

While Asakura Ryoko may not be mechanical, ours sure is.

[KAITO]

Yeah, I forgot about Ryoko.

[Insert insane amounts of laughter and machine coding here]

[Yuuki]

01001101 01010111 01000001 01001000 01000001 01001000 01000001 01001000 01000001 01001000 01001001 01001000 01001001 01001000 01001001 01001000 01000001 01001000 01000001 01001000 01000001
[happy?]

[Yuki & Konata]

Computer data processing is any process that uses a computer program to enter data and summarize, analyze or otherwise convert data into usable information. The process may be automated and run on a computer. It involves recording, analyzing, sorting, summarizing, calculating, disseminating and storing data.

Because data is most useful when well-presented and actually informative, data-processing systems are often referred to as information systems.

Nevertheless, the terms are roughly synonymous, performing similar conversions; data-processing systems typically manipulate raw data into information, and likewise information systems typically take raw data as input to produce information as output.