Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category

What is the Difference Between Static and Dynamic Types?

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Programming languages, especially object oriented programming languages, classify values and expressions into types. What is the difference between static and dynamic types? First, the term type refers to the kind of data type in a computer program. When you use static types, you use variables that don't need to be defined ...

What is the Difference Between DVD-R and DVD+R?

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Traditional DVDs are a storage media for computers and media players that can store 4.7 GB of data. The DVDs that you buy are written once, and can then be read many times. But the data on a DVD is burned permanently to the disk and can't be overwritten. The ...

What is the Difference Between GET and POST?

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Most HTML pages are static documents that you read in your web browser. But when you really want to interact with a web page, you need some way send data back to the web server. The main way of doing this is with a form. There are two methods you ...

What is the Difference Between Process and Thread

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

You think you can multitask, but you can't. The human brain can really only concentrate on one thing at a time. You might be surprised to know that computers aren't great multitaskers either. Or sure, it might look like they're doing a bunch of stuff all at the same time, ...