Posts by Thomas Saulnier

BOFH: Key performance undertakers

Well done

Happy BOFHmas Simon! I'll have one at the pub for you

Americans clueless on NASA budgets

RE: I mean do people really get the idea of a 3 GHz processor?

That's exactly why it's marketed with the GHz at the end ... the number 3 is a lot eaiser for Joe consumer to get his head around.

Why can't a computer be more like a brain?

to add to Simons commment

To add to Simons comment

Most programming doesn't respond well to the unknown. Code jocks go to great lengths to anticipate most conditions and offer up a default response for those conditions that are out of scope ... a true thinking machine would have to be able to interpret and catagorize and then act on something that it knew nothing of ...