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Kasz216 said:

richardhutnik said:

Kasz216 said:

richardhutnik said:

mrstickball said:

Take the most unreguated industry in the world - PCs, and compare them with a heavily-regulated, capital-intensive industry such as energy production or cars.

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."  

- Robert X. Cringely

 

It's a funny quote... but not really an accurate one.

Afterall, a PC doesn't kill anyone when it dies.

Sure your data is wiped, which a PC is for...

but a car is for transporting people.

So the computer wouldn't blow up the people.  Just no longer be able to transport them.

Also, if you take care of your PC... it will actually last a LOT longer then a year.  You just need a good PC mechanic, or PC mechanic tools.

Car = contains passengers and transports them.  A car crashes, it ends up eliminating what it carries, which is passengers.

PC = contains data and does stuff with it.  A computer crashes, it ends up eliminating that which it carries, which is data.

Except you know... a PC does more then simply contain data.

Data can literally not exist without the PC.  It's more like a life support situation in such a manner.

The term connected with computing is "data processing".  In this, my use of data is fairly broad by definition and includes applications and so on.  Computers process information, and make sense of things.  Yes, there are games, but people use them to communicate and store data.