Beauty and the Geek: 02-03
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This week’s challenge made use of the geeks’ interior decorating skills and the beauties’ technical skills. The guys went on a Bed, Bath and Beyond shopping spree to pick up anything they’d need to decorate a bedroom. The tie for worst decorated room had to be between Josh, who did a kid’s room complete with a messy floor and a teddy bear stapled to the wall; and Wes, who dipped his finger in red paint and wrote on his dark green walls, “Time stands still when I’m with you.” Why he thought a psycho message on the wall was the way to go is beyond me. Besides Josh and Wes, most of the guys did pretty well.
The girls were asked to come in and judge each of the rooms without knowing which geek did which room. Once a winner was determined, desks and boxes of computers were brought out. The task for the beauties would be to hook up a computer, burn a CD and then play that CD on a separate CD player. When I first heard the girls were going to be building computers, I thought they were going to build one from scratch. I should have known better. Surprisingly, most of the girls did well in this task too. Some of them, of course, were pretty hopeless though. In the end, Tristin and Cher were neck and neck.
Spoilers inside! Do not continue if you don’t want to know the outcome.
Joe won the guys’ challenge and Cher won the girls’. They decided to send Tristin and Chris into the elimination round along with Tyson and Thais. I always hate eliminations on this show, since I usually love most of the players. Tristin kicked butt with her questions, securing her second victory with Chris. Maybe now they’ll start sending some other teams into elimination. It was sad to see Tyson go, but Thais hadn’t made that much of an impression on me. It was good to see Tyson has gained confidence. Maybe he’ll be able to put down the cube every now and then and go have some fun.
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James Thomson
The answer to the question about where the PC stores information is memory. A hard drive is a piece of non-volatile memory while ram is volatile memory. The question didn’t specify what type of memory (i.e. active or inactive data storage) - it just asked where information was stored. Any first year computer science major knows that. They should have received a point for the answer. The WB owes them a second chance.
-James Thomson
Software Engineer, BSCS, member of IEEE Computer Society
(they had to imagine they’d attract a geek audience)
The following wikipedia articles is an explanation of non-volatile memory, demonstrating how Thai’s answer was correct:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-volatile_memory
