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My friend the doctor, (which has nothing to do with the famous work "M'hijo the Doctor", written by the famous playwright eastern beginning of last century, Florencio Sanchez) has a computadora Pentium 4 de la anterior generación, que compró hace dos años, y con lógica razón, me planteó que pretendía que todavía le durara uno o dos años más, pero que quería ampliar la capacidad del disco, que le resultaba escasa, y por ello decidió consultarme.
Le recomendé que le agregara un segundo disco de 80 GB de capacidad, que se consiguen muy baratos y un poco más de memoria para mejorar la performance de los nuevos programas que son bastante pesados. Un gasto, que entre las dos cosas, no podía superar los 400 pesos, y le aseguraba un poco de tranquilidad para los próximos dos años que tenía que durar la Pentium 4.
With that idea in mind I went to the Garden Gallery, and a ground floor business that I know who sell branded reports that are more reliable, the seller offered me I immediately responded: "" I have the a mega Kingston for four and cost $ 66, "
I found a good price, so I accepted the offer and I took my Kingston memory, but I was puzzled by the way he described the product the seller.
For my training as a teacher, and my work in radio as a computer professional, you will never stop calling attention to this simplification that makes the computer jargon, devices of enormous complexity, and it would be nice to know more detail, to avoid falling into the usual errors of unsuspecting buyers who do that after things did not work.
In fact, the "mega for four" I offered the seller, referring to a type of memory, called DDR SDRAM stands for Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory , ie something like: Dynamic Random Access Memory Synchronous double data rate.
This means that this report, which to be synchronous, runs at the same frequency as the microprocessor, sends data twice per clock cycle, one on the rising edge of the wave and the other in descending. This works at twice the speed of the bus system without increasing the clock frequency.
Presented in DIMMs (Dual In-line Memory Module) 184-pin . Such memories are classified according to the frequency of the bus, in this case, the "four" means operating at a frequency of 400MHz, which is double the 200MHz memory bus.
This work often provides transfer rates up to 3.2 GB / s, which is why it is called either DDR400 or PC3200.
Most likely the seller offered me mega for four ", completely ignore the explanation that I have said, but part of the vast majority of people who received daily and sometimes confusing messages with intentional deception, which are responsible to disclose those responsible for marketing of computer and telecommunications companies, which have been determined to do more "friendly" technology, distorting the technical terms.
When I
to my house that day, I received a phone call from a lady who called Gimena and belong to the Commercial Management of Fibertel.
Despite not having ever spoken with such Gimenez, she seemed to know life, as I spoke with unusual familiarity that did not stop surprising me: "It's a promo for the day of friend [...] "How many children do you have?" [...] "If the kids go to school .. you do not know ... they re-need ... " [...] " Do not think you ... I thought about what they will enjoy them ... "Obviously
, Gimenez did not know who I am, or how to manage technology in my house, where we are three, and four computers, all connected to a wireless network and obviously with Internet access, but used the sales techniques he had learned.
Ultimately what I wanted to give poor Gimena was a cable Internet connection of "Two Megas"
"Two Megas? asked as not understanding "
Megas Yes ... Two ... "said Gimenez, as knowing what he spoke ... do not know what it is ...! ... We use it here, and fly ...!
"Mega what? I asked again-
How Mega what ..? In a connection of two Megas ... Internet ....
Yeah ... yeah ... that's for sure ... but I wonder you Mega what? Mega is a prefix ... can be Megawatts, Megahertz, Megabytes -mentioned ... if he intentionally lit the bewildered knowledge-
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do not know ... "replies Gimena- disturbed ... it says here ... Two Megas not know what else you want to know ... I'll tell you what the plan ...? Only you have to pay 44 pesos per month ...
No. .! I just wanted to know what are the Megas ... "I insist-
Totally dazed, ran out of answers and used the old standby: " Wait a while I was online ... " to what followed a little music and a TV commercial with the announcer you very cordial (immediately recognized that this was the voice of my friend Marita Monteleone) promoting the same plan of "Two Megas" Gimena offered me the day of his friend.
Gimena Needless to say I will never meet again, and that the communication after a few minutes cut off suddenly and began to busy tone.
seller Between Memory Garden Gallery, and my phone experience with Gimenez, had managed to convince me that what I so far known as a prefix of magnitudes, forming multiples and sub, which represents the amount of one million units of the same, now had become a noun adjective that seems self-definition.
To this we add the multiplicity of computer terms in English that have entered our vocabulary, apparently in a very natural, and appear to comply with the rules of grammar of our language, as if they belonged to it.
As an example, consider word "boot" which in English means "start", and used the computers to indicate precisely that action, so to say start, we "boot " like a verb in our rich language infinite English.
If so, we could say: I boot, you boot, it boots ... and continue so with all persons and tenses. A horror, repeated with similar terms as "chat" , "googling" , "post" , and many others that are already part of our everyday vocabulary.
Among computer terms we use every day, not knowing its true meaning, and those who come from a foreign language, the use of grammatically incorrect, we are creating dangerous distortions, that can only cause even more confusion that already have.
Only education can help overcome these invisible barriers that separate us from the development of new technologies and bringing new conflicts and new complexities to the already fairly challenging world of postmodernity.
The training is the key. Hopefully our leaders will one day understand.
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