Does a ROM chip with a firmware weigh more than one without?

In terms of Mass.
Well does it?

Yes

Depends on the process.

>>1

In terms of Mass.

Firmware is information. You can't have information without mass. Every bit of information has mass.

>>4
And while current theory states that photons are massless, detecting a photon requires instrument that has mass.

We don't use punchcards anymore. Data makes no difference in weight.

>>5
Current Theory's opinion on photons doesn't matter though, they aren't electrons.

>>4
Absolutely unjustified.

>>7

photons doesn't matter

I've bad news for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29

I move a stone one inch to the left to signify flipping the bit. Has the mass changed?

>>10
if you're asking whether putting energy into a system changes its mass, the answer is still yes. at least until thermal equilibrium is reestablished.

>>10
Irrelevant. That's not a ROM chip. To answer >>1-chan's question, we need to know what the electromagnetic field of all the data on the chip weighs. This is a simple calculation, just determine the capacity of the chip, find the strength of the gravitational field of zeros and that of ones, then determine the mass from that calculation. But it is complicated because we lack a few key bits:

Does >>1 want the inertial mass or the relative mass?
How fast is the chip moving?
When manufactured, was the chip left with random data on it, or was it blanked before writing?
How much voltage is needed to induce a component to store data?
What is the information density of the firmware?

But the question of whether it weighs more is simple: it does. However, you are unlikely to be able to construct and instrument sensitive enough to detect that change on Earth, or anywhere within hundreds of millions of lightyears of any gravitational body.

What is the potential energy stored by an anus that has been perturbed from equilibrium by a penetrating penis?

oh you undergrads think you're smart but you're still just undergrad dilettantes with your physics, programming, linguistics, etc all at an undergrad level lol.
and not a 1960s undergrad level either. 1960s undergrad is basically post-doc level now.

>>4
Information is information, not matter or energy.
—Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

you cant dispute him, he's Norbert Weiner and you're just a dilettante sysadmin undergrad.

>>14
Wasn't he a Jew, though?

>>15
Check my jews

>>14

lol wiener hahaha

Did you mean: weiner

>>14
http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1197

>>19
You don't even understand what they are writing. Stop posting arbitrary links to arxiv and get your ph.d in whatever first, nigger.

>>19
Virus, don't click.

>>1
Yes and no. 100% compared to 50% full doesn't neccesarily mean a 2x increase in additional weight.

Why? Because the additional weight comes from the electrons. But the presence of an electron is only true when there is a 1, not when there is a 0. So depending on the ratio of 1's to 0's, weight may vary.

This is also why it's cheaper to ship a blank HDD from newegg, but it's more expensive to ship it back for RMA. To save money on RMAs, people normally blank the HDD first.