Are computers as smart as we think? (765 hits)
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Submitted by John Doe <national_panel_beating.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2004-01-18 21:59:17 EST
Now, computers have long been heralded as the greatest invention since... well, the wheel, or fire, or porn. But the point is people love computers because they make life more effecient and fun. This is because of their so called "superior intelligence". We use them to do things we could never do unaided, such as map the human genome, or play Warcraft III, The Frozen Throne (copyright blizzard etc. etc.) Computers can perform mathmatical calculations faster than any single person probably could, (of this I am not actually sure but hey). But let's look at the facts.
Computer use binary. This means they only know two numbers. Soooo, six is a ridiculously long number, like 0110 or something, I don't remember my Cisco courses all that well. And A is even longer, probably along the lines of 01110011101011. What intelligent thing would ever want to do that? It's like, inferior, making things more difficult than need be.
Additionally, computers can't count. Why, just today my roomate was downloading something totally legal, and he was counting down the download as it closed to an end. The count went as follows. 10.... 9...... 8... 7.. 6... 5. 3.2.1.... 12... 4.. 8... and so forth. Now that sounds an awful lot like someone who has no idea how to count.
Something else to consider, computers always crash at the worst times. This is a horrible idea. People who have a computer crash after writing a super important term paper tend to break the computer. Which means computers must have no sense of self-preservation. That is not smart in the least.
Computers get dumber in groups. The more computers you use your computer to talk to, the dumber it gets. Spyware, Adware, all this crap needs to be fixed by the user. (on a side note, why is it that computer afficianados and drug addicts are both called users?)
I ran out of ideas. I'm gonna go get drunk with some friends. Did I mention I am dyslexic and have a lot of trouble counting? And I have a tendency to sleep in class, and at work, well any important time really.
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Submitted by MmmVag (user info) at 2004-01-20 02:59:26 EST (#)
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Because I wrote a bad post when my thoughts were not entirely lucid, I give myself -2, thank you for pointing out ShadowDragon's inconsistencies, I don't feel like pointing out yours, again... I apoligize.
Submitted by Razor (user info) at 2004-01-19 16:27:58 EST (#)
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This could well be the worst possible use of words I have seen in years. You would be better off taking every letter and number that was used to write this post and entering them into an anagram maker in the hopes of coming up with somtehing that does not want to make intelligent readers pluck their eyes out.
Submitted by LarryG (user info) at 2004-01-19 16:00:59 EST (#)
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Submitted by glasscpp (user info) at 2004-01-19 11:07:24 EST (#)
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I was always told that "a computer is as dumb as a box of rocks", and its true. Its the operator of the computer that tells it what to do. Operator meaning whoever is currently running the machine and whoever wrote the software that runs on it (this would include Windoze or Winblows).
glasscpp
Submitted by Despiadado (user info) at 2004-01-19 09:50:13 EST (#)
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Shadowdragon, you seem to have a great understanding of how computers work and how they process information, but the human mind doesn't use binary code. I'm sure that you have heared of the brain cells called neurons(sp?). These cells form links between them and when the links send electical impulses between them, they become active and create pattern with other neuron links to form a thought or idea or concept or whatever. The on/off state of the neuron's links are not to be confused as binary, because it is not the links state that allows the thought to occour, but the pattern that results that triggers a response in your consciencness(sp?).
This post was trash, go cram it up your arse, knob-jockey.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-01-19 04:02:33 EST (#)
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Some people don't have a sense of humor. I did smile on the self-preservation bit, though.
Submitted by bargled (user info) at 2004-01-19 00:12:10 EST (#)
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Submitted by Electro (user info) at 2004-01-19 00:07:34 EST (#)
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Submitted by shadowdragon (user info) at 2004-01-18 23:54:14 EST (#)
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dakingisdead: wtf is a computOr?
for all you morons who dont understand the 1s and 0s and couldn't be bothered to look it up, 0 and 1 are DIGITS, not numbers, of binary, just as 0,1,2,...9 are of decimal and 0,1,2...9,A,B...F are of hexadeciaml we say 13, computers say 1101, and programmers say D). the binary code for A, as set by ASCII (http://www.asciitable.com/) is 01000001 (65).
why use binary? because it's a shitload easier to deal with when you're speaking with electricity.
every signal is either 1 or 0. it's simpler this way. thinking of complicated things as big groups of simpler smaller things makes things MUCH easier, not more difficult. and i cant think of a better way to record things on a cd than in binary (little mark means 1, no little mark means 0).and considering our hearts and brains run on electricity (look it up), we probably DO record stuff (at the lowest level) in binary patterns.
And as for computers crashing and stuff, that only happens because people fuck them up. Very few people actually know how not to screw up a computer.
as for the "10.... 9...... 8... 7.. 6... 5. 3.2.1.... 12... 4.. 8..." thing, what the hell was that counting? seconds? bytes? percent.
Submitted by seanfogy (user info) at 2004-01-18 22:40:29 EST (#)
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Yeah, I think six is 0110. 8421 right?
I dont know if computers exactly "know" numbers. I'm pretty sure that 1's and 0's are voltages. Say, for the electronic system that I work on, a 1 would be 5v and a 0 would be .01v. But a modern computer is totally different than a Vietnam era electronics system.
The different voltages open or close switches and run through different gates to change what they are given the circumstance. I'm kinda fuzzy on that though, since its been about 2 years since electronic principles. So I dont know if theyre really "numbers" literally.
Yeah, I'm an electronics nerd. So what.
Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-01-18 22:23:36 EST (#)
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You need to upgrade... Everyone knows win9x sux...
Submitted by dakingisdead (user info) at 2004-01-18 22:13:34 EST (#)
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Don't be a moron. The human brain is far smarter than any computor. All a computor does is process digitally and extemely quickly data that is fed into it by using a program that is invented by ..baba baba baba crash of cymbals.....A human mind.
Superior intelligence indeed. humbug