{"id":501,"date":"2008-06-10T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/2008\/06\/10\/why-is-a-computer-a-stupid-machine\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:12:00","slug":"why-is-a-computer-a-stupid-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/10\/why-is-a-computer-a-stupid-machine\/just-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is A Computer A Stupid Machine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing through some of the recent visitors to davintosh.com just now (<a href=\"\/2008\/06\/10\/pushing-2000\/\">as I am wont to do<\/a>), and came across an interesting item. When a hit is registered from a search engine, Sitemeter also shows what the terms entered into the search field. This one was interesting:<\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/stupid_computer.jpg' title='stupid_computer.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/stupid_computer_sm.jpg' alt='stupid_computer_sm.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(click on the image to see the whole report)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;ve told others that a computer is nothing but a stupid machine and does only what it&#8217;s told, and I&#8217;ve sometimes wondered why a computer can&#8217;t be at least a little more intelligent, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve ever thought to Google for an answer to it. No surprise though that the system at the other end was Windows XP and Internet Exploder; I&#8217;d expect the user has a big goose egg on his forehead from banging his head against the desk.<\/p>\n<p>The best part though is he thought the answer could be found here. I&#8217;m gonna be grinning over that one for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing through some of the recent visitors to davintosh.com just now (as I am wont to do), and came across an interesting item. When a hit is registered from a search engine, Sitemeter also shows what the terms entered into the search field. This one was interesting: (click on the image to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,14,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-this-site","category-computers","category-fun","category-just-stuff"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}