On the "10% of your brain" legend, here [urbanlegends.com] is a pretty cool writeup. The best quote from the article:
In other words, the "humans only use 10% of their brains" canard would more correctly be phrased "humans only use 10% of their brains for walking around and smelling things"...
Since most of a modern CPU's transistor count is cache memory you'ill probably find that outside the control unit at any one time even less than 10% of the transistors are active. If you include the number of transistors present for main memory in the mix that percentage gets even lower.
So somewhere off in the universe, someone is using 90% of my brain power so they can get a slightly better Frames Per Second in Quake III. Now I get it...
You know, the ones using the earth as a gigantic supercomputer in order to find out the question for the universal answer.
I'd write more about it, but I have to go stop somebody from bulldozing my house is about to be bulldozed and a friend of mine is trying to drag me off the bar for some reason...
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Great writep (Score:5, Interesting)
In other words, the "humans only use 10% of their brains" canard would more correctly be phrased "humans only use 10% of their brains for walking around and smelling things"...
And what about modern CPU's? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:And what about modern CPU's? (Score:5, Funny)
We are more efficient than silicon so they use us.
Re:And what about modern CPU's? (Score:1)
It's the mice (Score:2)
I'd write more about it, but I have to go stop somebody from bulldozing my house is about to be bulldozed and a friend of mine is trying to drag me off the bar for some reason...