Couldn't you have said a petabyte or 1,000 terabytes?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well most people don't know what that is, so...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah they do.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't. But I know a GB is a Gigabyte

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, it's pretty self-explanatory. If one thousand kilobytes = 1 megabyte, one thousand megabytes = 1 gigabyte, then one thousand gigabytes = 1 terabyte, and one thousand terabytes = 1 petabyte.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So it's the metric system of computers

by Anonymous 13 years ago

it's actually 1,024 that = 1. Google it, then comment.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

OH MAN. THAT 24 MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE. In any other measurement, using the metric system, it's 1000.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

24 GB would make a difference to me.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

why it makes a difference is because it's in binary. (sets of 2. Not decimal (sets of 10). So yes, it does make a difference

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Petabye? pronounced "Peda bite?" If yes...then that sounds more like a pedophiles breakfast bar to me than anything.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Maybe you are the one who didn't know what it was.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

look at the way the comments saying you know what that is are voted

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Okay I have read that like 10 times and I have not idea what that was supposed to mean.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i must have been high. someone said everyone knew what that was, the negative votes on the comments prove otherwise

by Anonymous 13 years ago

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by Anonymous 13 years ago

This post is dumb. Nobody likes computers, because they're "smart" the only reason people like computers is because it's FAST, much faster than us.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, the human brain is a faster processor too.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Didn't you see Watson on Jeopardy? If you ask computers math problems or stuff like that a computer will do it way faster than a person can. It just might be the fact that computers don't actually forget? I don't know... but if you test it against a person, I'm pretty sure a computer will win, every time

by Anonymous 13 years ago

See, now you're talking about something entirely different. A computer can have access to a database, which isn't the same as knowledge, but merely resourcefulness. A human CAN process faster than a computer; the reason a computer might appear "smarter" is because of that access to knowledge. And no, a computer wouldn't forget, and one of the things humans do is forget a lot. If it's a thought or tidbit of information we don't use often, it might be deemed unnecessary and forgotten. Again, the topic I was addressing originally was speed.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Okay, even if you get a simple calculator (and you have the problem typed up) do you think a person can do the calculations faster than the calculator (which all you have to do is press enter, as soon as the question is finished)? If you watched the Jeopardy game and looked at the interviews, the two guys said, that they knew most of the answers, it was just that the computer responded faster. So what one of the guys did was, press the button think about it, and then answer. However the computer responded as soon as it pressed the button (which it didn't really do, because it had it built in). I mean you're probably right, because I'm just a comp sci major and all I do is focus on the computer aspect and don't know so much about the human anatomy. From what I have seen though, it seems that computers are faster accessing information than humans.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Those stuff are basic. I thought most people would have been aware of them and that there wouldn't have been the need to clarify things.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So did I.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't want to be a bitch but I would like to add something to what you already said. Memories gained after your brain is fully functional and developped, I mean after it has been conditioned due exposal to a certain environment (usually around 2 years old, after language acquisition, facial recognition of emotions and so on) are not forgotten but 'lost'. In most cases they are still present, just no more accessible to the person. And yes you're right about the argument. Mankind hasn't reached the technological era where it's advanced enough to artificially create an entity that can rival a human brain's storage capacity and processing speed.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Why are computers "last"?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I meant that compared to our brains, our manual note-taking abilities, etc., the computer is our last resource.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

my brain runs on windows 7

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i can look up any bit of information on my computer cuz it already has it, i can find things lost in my memory, i think computer are better. just because they cant "think" and only know the information given to them doesnt mean were better, and theyre deff. faster

by Anonymous 13 years ago

How the hell do you find out something like "our brains can hold up to 1m GB of info"? Memories aren't measured in bytes.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

MUSE magazine. July/August 2009 issue.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh. Now it makes sense.

by Anonymous 13 years ago