Interesting Random Statistics Thursday

[HFWR]

I thought the first computer virus was MS-DOS.

Windows 3.0, which paled in comparison to the most virulent ever, Windows 95...

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

You guys must have never seen Bill Gates' first basic interpreter. He was coming around from computer store to computer store trying to sell it.

Least features of any Basic interpreter available, took twice the memory, crashed every 15 seconds, and had a number of functions that were syntactically different than others.

Sound familiar?

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

Fear of imminent death causes soldiers to make more mistakes than usual when filling in forms.

This was ascertained during the 1960's by putting ten soldiers on a training flight where they were told by the pilot that the aircraft was disabled, and about to ditch in the ocean. They were then required to fill in insurance forms before the crash — ostensibly so the Army was not financially liable for any deaths or injuries.

After completing the form filling, the soldiers were told the truth and their scores compared to similar forms filled out by control groups. The soldiers on the plane made far more mistakes.

Your tax dollars in action...

 

[lazygood4nothinbum]

a little child can identify the difference between a cat and a dog in a fraction of a second but even today's most powerful "super-computer can not make the distinction at all."

source: On Intelligence - Welcome

 

[TromboneAl]

There are three kinds of people in the world. Those who can count, and those who can't.