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Comment Re:Just hard drive? (Score 1) 876

That's only because most people only have one kind of facial tissue in their local context, even though Kleenex makes several (e.g. lotion, ultra soft, reguar, aloe, etc). On the other hand, there are currently at least six types of Coke (Coke Classic, Diet Coke, Caffeine Free Coke, Caffeine Free Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Cherry Coke). To make it worse, half of the soft drinks are distributed by Coke, and restaurants will often tell you "we have Coke" or "we have Pepsi" when they mean "we have products distributed by X". Personally, I've lived in the South my entire life and never had anyone ask me what kind of Coke I wanted. I've always treated that as a lame Jeff Foxworthy "Redneck" joke.

Comment Re:Not the point (Score 1) 876

To a user, the "magic box" with all the fancy wires running to it and blinkenlights on the front is a central unit that does processing, and if you want to get down to it, the CPU is the computer (i.e. it actually does the computations, and everything else is storage or I/O, even if it's inside the "magic box"), so "computer" isn't even an unambiguous term here. Granted, telling the user that "the CPU is actually a chip inside the case, along with a lot of other things" is nice in theory, but the user isn't going to remember unless you give them a replacement term for what they called "the CPU". Personally, I call it the case and use a grocery store analogy if necessary. The case holds all of the parts of the computer "just like" a case of water holds all of the individual bottles.

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