chickenhead
06-06-2007, 11:45 AM
I've crafted a view whereby I more or less classify everyone I meet into one of four categories:
dumb-dumb
smart-dumb
dumb-smart
smart-smart
so for instance the lady that works at the local gas station, she's dumb dumb. Her brain appears to have very little horsepower, and she also has found no good way to use what she has. Some of my PhD friends, they are smart-smart. They not only have much hw overhead, extra clock cycles and tons of RAM, they have well crafted applications that work well and rarely if ever crash.
I look at the first part, the leading dumb/smart, as kind of your operating system, your applications, while the trailing dumb/smart is the hardware underlying it. It's usually pretty easy to spot the smart-smart guys and the dumb-dumb guys, they'll stand out in most crowds.
Most people are in the other two categories, dumb-smart and smart-dumb, and sometimes it takes awhile to tell who is who, but with a little practice they can be distinguished pretty reliably from one another.
I'm a dumb-smart guy (though for starting this thread I may get downgraded to dumb-dumb in some books). My hardware is solid but my OS and applications are pretty crummy. I have bus contention issues, certain areas of RAM are not addressed properly, all in all a very poor use of my clock cycles. Sometimes I get a really good app installed an running, only to find a week later it will no longer run, some driver or .ini file somewhere has been erased by some other program.
I work with a lot of smart-smart guys and a few smart-dumb guys.
Sometimes there is not much difference between dumb-smart guys and smart-dumb guys, but certain things will arrive where the differences are striking.
If you've ever tried to explain something to someone and they just can't seem to get it, even though they seem reasonably well groomed and bright eyed, and you are sure you know what you are talking about, and they are not even close to getting it, it's almost like you're speaking in a foreign tongue, -- chances are the person has a trailing dumb, they just don't have the horsepower, their brain just doesn't work all that well. A dumb smart guy will always be able to pick up on things, he is probably just too dumb to have figured it out for himself. His brain is capable, he just didn't have that application installed. A smart dumb guy has a bunch of apps that work well, but he doesn't have much room on his harddrive, he's short on RAM, and his CPU is a little slow. Some apps just won't run.
dumb-dumb
smart-dumb
dumb-smart
smart-smart
so for instance the lady that works at the local gas station, she's dumb dumb. Her brain appears to have very little horsepower, and she also has found no good way to use what she has. Some of my PhD friends, they are smart-smart. They not only have much hw overhead, extra clock cycles and tons of RAM, they have well crafted applications that work well and rarely if ever crash.
I look at the first part, the leading dumb/smart, as kind of your operating system, your applications, while the trailing dumb/smart is the hardware underlying it. It's usually pretty easy to spot the smart-smart guys and the dumb-dumb guys, they'll stand out in most crowds.
Most people are in the other two categories, dumb-smart and smart-dumb, and sometimes it takes awhile to tell who is who, but with a little practice they can be distinguished pretty reliably from one another.
I'm a dumb-smart guy (though for starting this thread I may get downgraded to dumb-dumb in some books). My hardware is solid but my OS and applications are pretty crummy. I have bus contention issues, certain areas of RAM are not addressed properly, all in all a very poor use of my clock cycles. Sometimes I get a really good app installed an running, only to find a week later it will no longer run, some driver or .ini file somewhere has been erased by some other program.
I work with a lot of smart-smart guys and a few smart-dumb guys.
Sometimes there is not much difference between dumb-smart guys and smart-dumb guys, but certain things will arrive where the differences are striking.
If you've ever tried to explain something to someone and they just can't seem to get it, even though they seem reasonably well groomed and bright eyed, and you are sure you know what you are talking about, and they are not even close to getting it, it's almost like you're speaking in a foreign tongue, -- chances are the person has a trailing dumb, they just don't have the horsepower, their brain just doesn't work all that well. A dumb smart guy will always be able to pick up on things, he is probably just too dumb to have figured it out for himself. His brain is capable, he just didn't have that application installed. A smart dumb guy has a bunch of apps that work well, but he doesn't have much room on his harddrive, he's short on RAM, and his CPU is a little slow. Some apps just won't run.