Computer illiterate people who think they know things [v3]
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How do you get to that page where it says who posted in x thread?
Guys, can you please stop with the Mac hating already? This is a thread about computer iliteracy, not operating system wars. I don't mind if you post "Mac user that think Macs are virus free" stories or stuff like that, but everytime someone even mentions Mac you guys go batshit insane. It's REALLY fucking irritating. Same goes for consoles.
[QUOTE=Rixxz2;19895584][URL]http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=194601[/URL]
:argh:[/QUOTE]
Post 13 is fighting a fight that can never be won. :sweatdrop:
Friend: Did you play Left 4 Dead 2 last night?
Me: Not much, I was getting really high pings on most servers.
Friend: Isn't that a good thing?
Me: No, the lower the ping, the better.
Friend: No, the higher it is, the better.
Me: And how did you decide that?
Friend: The more bars you have on MW2, the higher your ping. Full bars is best so higher ping is better.
Me: :geno:
Friend: See, you're retarded :smug:
I was talking to someone about my computer, and I said that I overclocked my CPU to 3.00 Ghtz, and he told me that overclocking the CPU is impossible and if it was it would be pointless and that you can only overclock a graphics card.
[QUOTE=Pepin;19899615]I was talking to someone about my computer, and I said that I overclocked my CPU to 3.00 Ghtz, and he told me that overclocking the CPU is impossible and if it was it would be pointless and that you can only overclock a graphics card.[/QUOTE]
You should have just linked him some professional OC videos form youtube and Wikipedia articles.
[QUOTE=UnknownDude;19899484]Guys, can you please stop with the Mac hating already? This is a thread about computer iliteracy, not operating system wars. I don't mind if you post "Mac user that think Macs are virus free" stories or stuff like that, but everytime someone even mentions Mac you guys go batshit insane. It's REALLY fucking irritating. Same goes for [b]consoles[/b].[/QUOTE]
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[sp]<- console gamer :3[/sp]
[QUOTE=Roast Beast;19896680]I'm... I'm at a loss for words...
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Where's my gun, I need to kill something.[/QUOTE]
How people can be so stupid is beyond me.
[QUOTE=Roast Beast;19896680]I'm... I'm at a loss for words...
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Where's my gun, I need to kill something.[/QUOTE]
I'm surprised he meant it and weren't just trolling.
When I read stuff like this, I drop a tear for humanity, that there's some people who'd blindly defend their own options so bad that they'd go batshit insane.
Next thing we'll hear is that someone's lighted Microsoft's headquarters on fire and spray painted apples on the parking lot.
Noob: What graphics card do you have?
Me: ATI 5870
Noob: Ha your GPU suck shit
Me: What do you have then?
Noob: 7100
Me: You do realize tha-
Noob: 7100 is a higher number than 5870, obvious it's MUCH better. Get your facts straight you dumb shit
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Me and a friend talking about a C++ algorithm
Some noob walks by: omg dude, are you talking about programming?
Me: Yeah, something like that.
Noob: Dude I am so awesome at programming too!
Friend: Cool, what language do you work with?
Noob: English
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Some guy: I have a quad core 3.0GHZ CPU, it means that my CPU is running at 12GHz!!
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Someone: My computer is needing upgrade. All the new games runs very slowly on it
Noob: Don't worry, just buy a new monitor. The bigger the monitor, the faster your games will run
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A friend: I am thinking about using watercooling on my CPU, what are some pros and cons?
Me: Well, I personally-
Some noob walked by: DONT FILL UR COMPUTER WITH WATER YOU FOOL IT WILL FRY IT
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;19900576]Noob: What graphics card do you have?
Me: ATI 5870
Noob: Ha your GPU suck shit
Me: What do you have then?
Noob: 7100
Me: You do realize tha-
Noob: 7100 is a higher number than 5870, obvious it's MUCH better. Get your facts straight you dumb shit[/QUOTE]
oh man I've heard this one quite a few times.
[QUOTE=gerbils_alt_2;19900593]oh man I've heard this one quite a few times.[/QUOTE]
It's a common misinterpretation of people believing that a higher model number == better performance, when they ignored the brand, for one.
After failing to print from a MacBook over a network my teacher told me to "try standing closer to the printer"
[QUOTE=LimEJET;19899709][img]http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/shang_jay/0810rage.jpg[/img]
[sp]<- console gamer :3[/sp][/QUOTE]
Post pictures of yourself thread is that way.
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[QUOTE=Hikaru;19900722]After failing to print from a MacBook over a network my teacher told me to "try standing closer to the printer"[/QUOTE]
!!!
Laughed out loud, have a golf clap. :golfclap:
I consistently get into arguments about how system memory =! system storage
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[QUOTE=Tools;19900770]!!!
Laughed out loud, have a golf clap. :golfclap:[/QUOTE]
Thank you, sir.
Classmate: I know how to run Quake 3 (demo) on my USB :smug:
Me: That's easy, all you need to do is extract the main folder to it.
Classmate: Nuh uh you just have to put quake3.exe onto your usb it works. Now to try it out!
[QUOTE=UnknownDude;19899484]Guys, can you please stop with the Mac hating already? This is a thread about computer iliteracy, not operating system wars. I don't mind if you post "Mac user that think Macs are virus free" stories or stuff like that, but everytime someone even mentions Mac you guys go batshit insane. It's REALLY fucking irritating. Same goes for consoles.[/QUOTE]
except that buying a mac is in itself illiteracy, in most cases. and as a result, 90% of mac users tend to think they know everything, but are really stupid. it's quite related. the same goes for consoles, to a degree.
speaking of consoles, the other day, my friends started taking about a "pro" friend of his, who is really good at mw2. then he says he uses a turtle beach headset, and explains surround 5.1 as though it's something new that only pros use, and will change games forever.
[QUOTE=Overpowered;19901258]Classmate: I know how to run Quake 3 (demo) on my USB :smug:
Me: That's easy, all you need to do is extract the main folder to it.
Classmate: Nuh uh you just have to put quake3.exe onto your usb it works. Now to try it out![/QUOTE]
That could work if it was a shortcut and the USB never left his computer.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;19898282]I didn't know you could check how many people posted in a thread.
I'm in third place :buddy:
Actually pretty sad because I have to put up with so many computer illiterates on a daily basis.[/QUOTE]
simply click the post-count number to the right of the thread when browsing the forum directories :eng101:
[QUOTE=xZippy;19898791]Aww c'mon OP, can't you mention that I was the starter of the whole thread series?[/QUOTE]
Sure thing, I'll make a v1/v2 link in a little while.
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done.
[QUOTE=UnknownDude;19899484]Guys, can you please stop with the Mac hating already? This is a thread about computer iliteracy, not operating system wars. I don't mind if you post "Mac user that think Macs are virus free" stories or stuff like that, but everytime someone even mentions Mac you guys go batshit insane. It's REALLY fucking irritating. Same goes for consoles.[/QUOTE]
agreed. I for one cannot stand mactards, but at least I know when they're a tard and when they're just a user. I should add another part to the 'posts people are sick of' to clarify retarded flaming based on product/service is not allowed.
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;19900576]Noob: What graphics card do you have?
Me: ATI 5870
Noob: Ha your GPU suck shit
Me: What do you have then?
Noob: 7100
Me: You do realize tha-
Noob: 7100 is a higher number than 5870, obvious it's MUCH better. Get your facts straight you dumb shit
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Some guy: I have a quad core 3.0GHZ CPU, it means that my CPU is running at 12GHz!!
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Missed the op?
[QUOTE=Beartato;19900726]Post pictures of yourself thread is that way.
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:golfclap:
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;19900621]It's a common misinterpretation of people believing that a higher model number == better performance, when they ignored the brand, for one.[/QUOTE]
which is why it's mentioned in the "posts people are sick of" section. That isn't computer illiteracy, 95% of the people out there don't sit there and obsess the slightest bit over graphics cards and thus wouldn't have figure any other reason than the numbering process in figuring out what's better.
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Whilst I'm editing the post, can someone clarify the bad spelling in the OP? I swear to god, if you rated me because of the example quotes... :argh:
[QUOTE=daijitsu;19903318]
Whilst I'm editing the post, can someone clarify the bad spelling in the OP? I swear to god, if you rated me because of the example quotes... :argh:[/QUOTE]
Asshats is one word.
...you know, I [i]actually[/i] thought about that when I wrote the word... but after hearing someone in-person say "a shat", I've been motivated to hyphenate the word. Changing anyways, I guess it's general facepunch knowledge.
Some kid thought that the Internet was stored inside his computer, any program exiting would wreck it.
Noob: My computer is so slow
Me: You've got Firefox, iTunes, Steam, AIM, MSN, and YIM running. Just close a few
Noob: [b]NO DON'T DO THAT YOU'LL BREAK MY INTERNET[/b]
My brother's school bought 50 dual-core computers when they we're hugely overpriced. (Damn Australian economy) After they were setup some days later to test them they let all of the 6 year olds use the internet on them first. Half an hour later they were kicked off to install the anti-virus software. The anti-virus was a home-made the school's I.T "Expert" made, they scanned every computer and everything came up clean. When the computers started to restart themselves when Internet Explorer was opened they dismissed it as an I.E problem, and installed Google Chrome. Me and a friend were called in to take a look, we installed some proper AV software and found 7 different trojan horses on them. They ignored us, and called our AV fake. The I.T Expert showed us that his worked and that the one we used to detected the virus was a virus itself. 2 days later 6 people broke in and stole the new computers, plus the 25 they already had. The school had CCTV installed and found 3 of the thieves, but let them go if they returned the computers they had, as long as it kept the media out of it.
Every person in school.
They're all like:
OMG I HACK UR ACOUT NLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOL
And,
dis computer is soo lsoowo omg dids press of crap!
I'm the fucking IT in my fucking class "Cuz i typed a document fast and made a powerpoint presentation"
Rate me bad spelling.
Most of the people who post in this topic (by this I mean the previous ones as well) can relate to that in one form or another. Everyone has retarded classmates, teachers, and family that think you're a pro because you know more than them, and that ends up in a surprising amount of cases leading into being called a hacker, either as a good thing or bad.
Personally, I've pretty much become the teacher's aid in all of my media classes at the college. Everyone thinks I'm crazy good at computers, but every god damn class teaches the same basic crap, and it's usually generic photoshop tutorials because the teacher thought no one else on the planet knew the basic little things we all learned whilst playing around with Photoshop 7 as a kid.
[QUOTE=Pc hater thread that I Dont feel like quoting because im lazy]
[QUOTE=^squirrel^]Lets play Counter Strike....oh sorry you cant![/QUOTE]
Ok.. hold up.. lemme boot up into window's xp....[/QUOTE]
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I hate people who are
"HURR HURR We can play windows games because of dual boot!"
Agree^
Also, the Advanced I.T class in my old school consists of making a 5 second Pivot Stickfigure animation, teached by a teacher who spends most of her time playing Halo with the other kids in the class.
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