XXX college fucks me over, again.

I have nothing to do so I'm going to rant here. I'm doing a course called Managing Your Hardware this semester, and the lecturer for this subject has the technical know how of a computer illiterate Idiot, that fool doesn't even know the difference between RAM and processor, she actually thinks processing speed depends on RAM and not the processor. How ridiculous is that? Anyway, she argued with several students, here are some 'memorable quotes' quote "The processing speed is determined by the amount of RAM you have! If your computer has a processor but no RAM, you think the computer will work??" <-- That was what she said, almost word for word, and someone responded with the obvious, "but a computer with no processor isn't going to work as well". How bloody stupid can this lecturer be? Just FYI, the processing speed of a computer, lets just assume this means how fast a computer can execute commands, is determined by several factors, not just the RAM. Ignorant bum doesn't even know how a PC works, and shes actually teaching the subject. Processing speed is determined by the processor, thats my reasoning because the processor is what actually processes the instructions(more clock cycles per second = more instructions done per second), RAM is how much memory you have to execute the instructions, more RAM means more applications are able to run concurrently, since you can have more things stored in your RAM, eg: you can run more applications at once without your computer lagging, once your computer runs out of RAM, it starts using the memory from your hard drive to run the programs, but this is a problem since your hard drive is further from your processor(think 1 million instructions, and you'll understand why you need RAM).


Anyway, even after several students pointed this obvious fact to the 'lecturer', she continues to insist that the RAM is what determines the computer processing speed, quote"The MEMORY is what determines the processing speed, you dun believe me you go check", how the hell someone with this amount of ignorance manage to secure a position as a lecturer is beyond me.



FYI:(The speed of the processor is determined by the number of clock cycles/instructions it handles per second, hence processor, 3 gigahertz means 3 million clock cycles per second, 1 megahertz is 1 thousand cycles per second.) more hertz usually means more speed, and more heat as well.
Duo core processors have 2 processors on 1 chip, hyper threading is a single processor that simulates 2 processors.

PS: this is the same lecturer I complained about below.

edit: took out college name