This is amazing! Just another example of Moore’s Law.
The visualization below, inspired by the recent 50th anniversary of Moore’s law, tells the story of the trillion fold increase in computing performance we’ve witnessed over the past sixty years. That’s impressive enough, but some of the other finds are downright astounding. The Apollo guidance computer that took early astronauts to the moon, for instance, has the processing power of 2 Nintendo Entertainment Systems, while the Cray-2 supercomputer from 1985—the fastest machine in the world for its time—roughly measures up to an iPhone 4.
And I know someone who swears up and down that an iPhone 4 is not a computer. He spent two hours on the internet and he knows it’s not a computer. He even welshed on a bet he made with me about it. Of course, I spent three years in college as a computer engineering major and 27.5 years in IT with IBM in both hardware and software and I taught both hardware and software, so what do I know? Two hours on the internet trumps all of my knowledge and experience, not to mention all of the other IT people I know who get a chuckle about this. I’m up to about 300 years of IT experience trumped by his two hours on the internet. Amazing!
Clearly, you don’t know what a *real* computer is.
Hey! Did you hear about that new watch thing from Apple? That’s clearly nota computer either; there’s no 8″ floppy drive.
(When do we hear the promised end of the story?)
It will come eventually. I promise. I got all of my wine that was at their house so I no longer have to worry about it being held hostage. I was really shocked that I had known this guy for over 25 years and only recently did I realize that he is not really very bright.
Having friends that are not very bright? Not a problem.
But someone who is stubbornly stupid just so he can assuage his own wounded ego? Pass.
I’ve much brighter friends than I. I have no problems being corrected when I’m clearly wrong. (Although I might wind them up a little with evermore pharisaical arguments until they realize I’ve already conceded)
I would not have started an argument with him about wine because I knew that he knew more about that than I did and I respected him as a friend. He did not give me the same respect in either regard. I won’t miss his friendship. I will miss his wife’s friendship.
This country has had one installed into the oral office since 2008 and now some of the people in this country have found out that he is not really very bright, either.
Obviously your friends do not understand the difference between “General Purpose” and “Special Purpose” computers. The IBM and other computers that you list are “General Purpose” in that they are designed to solve varying problems based on variable programs that programmers load in to the computer; the Sega and other devices are “Special Purpose” computers that perform a limited series of steps restricted to predesigned sequences, with very limited to nonexistent means of varying the instruction set.
I hope I described the two types of DIGITAL computers adequately; then there is analog, a whole different kettle of fish.
You can go on the internet and find support for any position that you want to take. Using the internet with a disengaged brain is really tragic.
But it can be so much fun.
I have absolutely no degree whatsoever except from the school of hard knocks, and I know that my smart phone is a computer. Good grief.
Just like my cleaning lady and she knows an iPhone is a computer.
Among the old fossils in my family, I’m the tech geek. Go figure.
Yep. That’s just how bad-ass the Internet is…
Was he on his phone to view the internet?
When the argument started, he pulled out his little iPhone 4, and fired up the browser, and googled is an iPhone a computer or sumpin’ like that not even realizing that his browser is a computer program. The two hours on the internet was prolly from his desktop at work.
As my Gunnery Sergeant used to say, “You can always tell an a$$hole, you just can’t tell’em much.”
Well he is using a Iphone, which i feel is inferior to pretty much any andriod on the market!