Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Blown to Bits Chapter 1 Answers

     a.) Identify the difference between exclusive and rivalrous bits.
Exclusive is only a few people have them and it is hard to keep.
Rivalrous is when you receive them from someone.
     b.) Based on your opinion, can a computer make mistakes, or are they perfect? Justify your answer.
In my opinion computers can't make mistakes because it's just doing what it is told to do and if there are any errors of some kind it's because of the program it is using.

     c.) Draw a Venn diagram regarding the pros and cons of having advanced technology.
Some pros of having advanced technology is that a are very fast at doing what you want them to do. If you want to look up something it can take about 5 seconds. Also it is easier for people to communicate around the world if they have someone not near by.

Some cons of having advanced technology is if you have some personal things that get leaked online, there is nothing you can do about it, it is forever on the internet.

     d.) Summarize Moore's Law and the advancement of processing power.

 Moore's law is an empirical observation of the progress of engineering and challenge engineers to continue their innovation. Processing power has advanced a bunch it used to be able to process 5 things at once now a computer can process a trillion things.

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