Things you hear about computing... Please share your experiences...
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My favourite is: "The computer's wrong" (in regards to computation)
In all fairness your first point, has some basis in fact.
As one N. Wirth stated: 'Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.'@kshegunov said in Things you hear about computing... Please share your experiences...:
My favourite is: "The computer's wrong" (in regards to computation)
In all fairness your first point, has some basis in fact.
As one N. Wirth stated: 'Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.'Or, as someone else put it so well: "what Santa Clara giveth, Redmond taketh away."
Of course, this isn't directly applicable to the Linux folks in the audience, but I'm sure they have a parallel experience...
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We were discussing things uninformed users say about computers that are sad, humorous, and scary. Note, that these can be completely valid from a user's experiences, but technically wrong. We remembered a couple of really good ones:
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Computers slow down after a while and you have to get a new one.
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64 bit programs are basically twice as fast as 32 bit programs.
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