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Things you hear about computing... Please share your experiences...

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  • kshegunovK kshegunov

    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.'

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    @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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    • fcarneyF fcarney

      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:

      • Computers slow down after a while and you have to get a new one.

      • 64 bit programs are basically twice as fast as 32 bit programs.

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