Hardware/Software-What it is?

BlackDuck · March 15th, 2007, 00:23

What is hardware/software and whats the difference?

Nucking Futs · March 15th, 2007, 00:31

Hardware is anything you can actually touch with your hands. Software is data on a computer (Everything that cannot be touched).

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dashboardy · March 15th, 2007, 01:00

yeah hardware is your computer and the components of the computer including monitor, speaker, printer, mouse, motherboard, hard drive, processor, memory, video card, sound card... etc. etc.

Generally, software is a program on a computer. Data is not really necessarily considered software (when I think of software, I think of for example Microsoft Office, but I don't really consider a document I have made as software in the defined sense of the word)

S.SubZero · March 15th, 2007, 03:37

Software would be like, oh I dunno.. google.com. You can use google.com to look up anything, including the definitions of words like "software" and "hardware".

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**hushypushy** · March 15th, 2007, 03:54

Wikipedia ftw.

Computer hardware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Computer software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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darth sephiroth · March 15th, 2007, 17:07

that's actually a html-document Subzero. Documents are not under the definition of software. Your webrowser is the software

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S.SubZero · March 15th, 2007, 17:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by darth sephiroth

that's actually a html-document Subzero. Documents are not under the definition of software. Your webrowser is the software

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia.org under "software"

Kinds of software by operation: computer program as executable, source code or script, configuration.

HTML is a script, is it not?

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darth sephiroth · March 15th, 2007, 18:21

computer program as... as in, a program in shape of a script.
You might say a search function like google is a form of software i guess, my bad, but not in quite the same sense.

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MT · March 15th, 2007, 18:23

Software is all you can shout at.
Hardware is what you can kick.

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darth sephiroth · March 15th, 2007, 18:35

ahh yes... if only it was opposite...

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BlackDuck · March 15th, 2007, 21:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miretank

Software is all you can shout at.
Hardware is what you can kick.

I like that description

Exodus · March 16th, 2007, 03:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by S.SubZero

HTML is a script, is it not?

It's more like a formatted text file.

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March 15th, 2007, 00:31	#2
Nucking Futs Existentialist Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Austria Posts: 967	Hardware is anything you can actually touch with your hands. Software is data on a computer (Everything that cannot be touched). __________________ ~ whoever calls himself an Existentialist does not understand the true meaning of that word ~ .: Armored Ninja :. CPU: Core 2 Duo E4300 (@ 3.333 GHz) \| Memory: Seitec 1024MB DDR2 RAM (@ 740 MHz) GPU: Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB (Core Clock: Geometric Domain @ 648 MHz / Shader Domain @ 1512 MHz Memory Clock @ 972 MHz ) Case: Thermaltake Armor VA8000B \| Cooler: Scythe Ninja Plus Rev. B \| Mobo: GA-965P-DS3 \| PSU: Corsair HX620W

March 15th, 2007, 01:00	#3
dashboardy Hardware Enthusiast Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: blah Posts: 807	yeah hardware is your computer and the components of the computer including monitor, speaker, printer, mouse, motherboard, hard drive, processor, memory, video card, sound card... etc. etc. Generally, software is a program on a computer. Data is not really necessarily considered software (when I think of software, I think of for example Microsoft Office, but I don't really consider a document I have made as software in the defined sense of the word)

March 15th, 2007, 03:37	#4
S.SubZero Windows 8 Pro Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Bay Area, California Posts: 1,144	Software would be like, oh I dunno.. google.com. You can use google.com to look up anything, including the definitions of words like "software" and "hardware". __________________ -SSZ

March 15th, 2007, 03:54	#5
hushypushy the only one you've ever SEEN Join Date: May 2003 Location: San Francisco Posts: 21,979	Wikipedia ftw. Computer hardware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Computer software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia __________________ Dedicated to mediocrity and repetition since 1994.

March 15th, 2007, 17:07	#6
darth sephiroth .!. (^.^) .!. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: You're looking at it right now. Posts: 2,017	that's actually a html-document Subzero. Documents are not under the definition of software. Your webrowser is the software __________________ "Going too far is going almost all the way around the world, then turn around to go back" - me "He's not going too far, he's going around the world" - me "They're looking for a factbook in the fiction section of the library." - me "I find spam useless and fatally contradictive to its own existence." - me

March 15th, 2007, 18:21	#8
darth sephiroth .!. (^.^) .!. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: You're looking at it right now. Posts: 2,017	computer program as... as in, a program in shape of a script. You might say a search function like google is a form of software i guess, my bad, but not in quite the same sense. __________________ "Going too far is going almost all the way around the world, then turn around to go back" - me "He's not going too far, he's going around the world" - me "They're looking for a factbook in the fiction section of the library." - me "I find spam useless and fatally contradictive to its own existence." - me

March 15th, 2007, 18:23	#9
MT Totally crazy Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Brazil Posts: 3,200	Software is all you can shout at. Hardware is what you can kick. __________________ I do flash and photoshop... stuff.

March 15th, 2007, 18:35	#10
darth sephiroth .!. (^.^) .!. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: You're looking at it right now. Posts: 2,017	ahh yes... if only it was opposite... __________________ "Going too far is going almost all the way around the world, then turn around to go back" - me "He's not going too far, he's going around the world" - me "They're looking for a factbook in the fiction section of the library." - me "I find spam useless and fatally contradictive to its own existence." - me