heterogeneous - various
homogenous - same
One of the reasons that talking cars have been unpopular is that they've had less personality than a seahorse.
In general, our opinion of a computer's personality is derived from all the things it does badly. On occasion, the reverse may happen. One time I doubled over laughing when my spell-check program looked at my dyslexic-style typo aslo and proudly suggested that asshole was the correct spelling.
Television networks and computer networks are almost the opposite of each other. A television network is a distribution hierarchy with a source (where the signal comes from) and many homogeneous sinks (where the signals go to).
Computer networks, on the other hand, are a lattice of heterogeneous processors, any one of which can act both as source and sink. The two are so totally different from each other that their designers don't even speak the same language. The rationale of the one is about as logical to the other as Islamic fundamentalism is to an Italian Catholic.
heterogeneous - various
homogenous - same
A face-to-face or telephone conversation is real time and synchronous. Telephone tag is a game played to find the opportunity to be synchronous.
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Media Futurism from 10 years ago.
Updated on Mar 06, 08
Created on Jan 21, 08
Category: Computers & Internet
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