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Do you ever ask that ever so fragile question about technology?
I always do, and when I do it frustrates me, as I can never think straight when I ask it.
The question is – How?
How do they do it?
All of it!
For example, electronics, how do all these electronic components work themselves? A resistor has a certain density of carbon inside of it, and some how this carbon can produce and electronic resistance! An IC (integrated circuit) can contain around 1000 different components, those IC’s are only 1cm in length and width, some maybe a little bit larger.
But microelectronics is one of those things that rattle your brain.
A lot of you reading this may have looked at the inside of their computers, well, I bet you ask yourself the question? All those tiny, almost insignificant, components, They are all sitting there on a piece of PCB, working away some how making your PC work. They are all helping you play your favourite game, or helping you to type up a post for a forum, or surf the net.
When you think of them like that, they are not so insignificant any more are they?
Another form of a BIG ‘How?’ would be – Us, our bodies. When you build a robot, you will never get it right first time, you will try over and over again, tweaking every small insignificant bug on the robot. When we were made, apparently all of our bug we
‘Pre-tweaked’. All of the organs in our body have no small bugs in them that will enable us from ‘working’. Did you know that we have a layer or mucus around our stomach to stop hydrochloric acid from burning all of our other organs? If we didn’t have that mucus we wouldn’t work! Unlike making a robot, that small bug was already thought of and solved.
I think we take our technology for granted. I imagine you all kick your PC’s from time to time, because it has stalled again! Next time you are going to kick your PC, Don’t! Remember about all those small components, what they are achieving for you! You wouldn’t be reading this if it weren’t for them!
It is quite hard to write about thinking about the question, because it is hard enough to even trying to think about it alone!
When you really think about all this, the ‘How?’ question, could be the biggest question you have asked, or will be asked.
Think.
Badger_guy
I always do, and when I do it frustrates me, as I can never think straight when I ask it.
The question is – How?
How do they do it?
All of it!
For example, electronics, how do all these electronic components work themselves? A resistor has a certain density of carbon inside of it, and some how this carbon can produce and electronic resistance! An IC (integrated circuit) can contain around 1000 different components, those IC’s are only 1cm in length and width, some maybe a little bit larger.
But microelectronics is one of those things that rattle your brain.
A lot of you reading this may have looked at the inside of their computers, well, I bet you ask yourself the question? All those tiny, almost insignificant, components, They are all sitting there on a piece of PCB, working away some how making your PC work. They are all helping you play your favourite game, or helping you to type up a post for a forum, or surf the net.
When you think of them like that, they are not so insignificant any more are they?
Another form of a BIG ‘How?’ would be – Us, our bodies. When you build a robot, you will never get it right first time, you will try over and over again, tweaking every small insignificant bug on the robot. When we were made, apparently all of our bug we
‘Pre-tweaked’. All of the organs in our body have no small bugs in them that will enable us from ‘working’. Did you know that we have a layer or mucus around our stomach to stop hydrochloric acid from burning all of our other organs? If we didn’t have that mucus we wouldn’t work! Unlike making a robot, that small bug was already thought of and solved.
I think we take our technology for granted. I imagine you all kick your PC’s from time to time, because it has stalled again! Next time you are going to kick your PC, Don’t! Remember about all those small components, what they are achieving for you! You wouldn’t be reading this if it weren’t for them!
It is quite hard to write about thinking about the question, because it is hard enough to even trying to think about it alone!
When you really think about all this, the ‘How?’ question, could be the biggest question you have asked, or will be asked.
Think.
Badger_guy
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Grix, Fantasy and Meka sit down to plan their tactics.
Grix - you do a review on Monday
Fantasy - stick a load of cheats in on Tuedsay
Meka - it's your turn on Wednesday, go for a medium length topic about what games do to kids.
That'll do for this week, we must leave something for the others.
Grix - you do a review on Monday
Fantasy - stick a load of cheats in on Tuedsay
Meka - it's your turn on Wednesday, go for a medium length topic about what games do to kids.
That'll do for this week, we must leave something for the others.
*Walks up to Grix and flashes his FOG pass*
Grix: You a regular?
FM: .....
Grix: OK then, come on in.
Grix: You a regular?
FM: .....
Grix: OK then, come on in.
It's called the FOG... they'll have to come through me to get in... ;0)
where is this forum for regulars ownly?
thank-you guys much appreciated
Ta Tony. It will probably be quite popular, there's quite a bit to talk about with the game.
I'll e-mail Ali
We could just ask Tony nicely. :0)
cheers, I tried to make it sound a bit simpler but I think I failed.
If anyone reading this knows of the game Black and White could you please goto the games forum under Games not listed, then goto the "vote to put black and white on SR games forum" and place a vote, I would appreciate it because the more people that say they want it to have it's own place on the games forum the more chance it will get it, and the game definately deserves it! :o)
If anyone reading this knows of the game Black and White could you please goto the games forum under Games not listed, then goto the "vote to put black and white on SR games forum" and place a vote, I would appreciate it because the more people that say they want it to have it's own place on the games forum the more chance it will get it, and the game definately deserves it! :o)
Actually I hate high level languages to!
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