Computer illiterate people who think they know things [v3]
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When my mom want to cut the internet, she take off the D-link. Too bad cause i still have the modem.
Our parent always told us : And do not download anything, you will put viruses on the comp'!
[QUOTE=dutchah;20916739]Also, this is an absolute gem:
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=912965&highlight=requirements[/url][/QUOTE]
From what I can gather he's trying to make the game think he has a better computer than he does. Computer parts =/= liscence for better preformance.
[QUOTE=dutchah;20916739]Also, this is an absolute gem:
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=912965&highlight=requirements[/url][/QUOTE]
I'm tempted to post, but I don't want to be banned by the local mod for being a jerk or not being helpful.
He DOES know why there's requirements, right? it isn't just "you must be this tall to ride" where you can put wooden blocks on your shoes and be the right height, and as shib put it, just having the specs listed when it checks doesn't automatically mean you can run the game. it will allow it to start, but it's going to fail miserably at doing so.
[QUOTE=daijitsu;20917441]I'm tempted to post, but I don't want to be banned by the local mod for being a jerk or not being helpful.
He DOES know why there's requirements, right? it isn't just "you must be this tall to ride" where you can put wooden blocks on your shoes and be the right height, and as shib put it, just having the specs listed when it checks doesn't automatically mean you can run the game. it will allow it to start, but it's going to fail miserably at doing so.[/QUOTE]
Just post that last paragraph. It's helpful, but you aren't being a jerk.
[QUOTE=dutchah;20916739]Also, this is an absolute gem:
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=912965&highlight=requirements[/url][/QUOTE]
Oh wow
Loved your reply btw :v:
[QUOTE=fenwick;20859695]The thing that I find funniest is when people say that Windows 7 is good, just because of the visual effects and window snapping. I heard someone complaining because my friend was using alt+tab instead of windows+tab, and had it set back to classic theme. Like who the fuck cares if he doesn't want the transparent taskbar, it's the same damn thing.
Or when people say that open-source software inherently rivals proprietary software. Someone tried to tell me that Audacity rivaled professional recording tech like Ableton Live or Pro Tools. Don't get me wrong, there is plenty of open-source software that rivals or even exceeds proprietary software. IE and Safari are terrible compared to Opera and Firefox, and Linux has legit applications. But still, this doesn't mean that this is always the case.[/QUOTE]
Safari isn't terrible.
It's not terrible, but there's better
and tbh i don't like its GUI
One for this thread, I think: [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?p=20922186#post20922186[/url]
My dad browses the internet via yahoo. You could tell him an address for site. If he's not already there, he will click the home button to Yahoo and type the address in there.
One time he updated his browser without realising it and in the process somehow switched his homepage to google. He thought he had a virus and unplugged his printer just in case it spread. :downs:
[QUOTE=Cluckyx;20924429]My dad browses the internet via yahoo. You could tell him an address for site. If he's not already there, he will click the home button to Yahoo and type the address in there.
One time he updated his browser without realising it and in the process somehow switched his homepage to google. He thought he had a virus and unplugged his printer just in case it spread. :downs:[/QUOTE]
HA hahaha...
oh god.
[QUOTE=Cluckyx;20924429]My dad browses the internet via yahoo. You could tell him an address for site. If he's not already there, he will click the home button to Yahoo and type the address in there.
One time he updated his browser without realising it and in the process somehow switched his homepage to google. He thought he had a virus and unplugged his printer just in case it spread. :downs:[/QUOTE]
I feel so sorry for you.
It is now your duty to teach him what the internet is.
I'm talking to a friend of mine that is telling me to get an iPod because Apple is "superior in every aspect" and "its customer service beats any other company".
I'm sorry to any Apple fanboy but this is funny as hell.
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"no...they sell QUALITY music players...you get what you pay for. If you ask anyone with ANY computer knowledge (which I'm starting to see that you have less and less), they'll say that Apple's customer service beats ANY other company's. Go into an Apple store and it will be the best in-store experience that you'll have. Call Apple customer service and It'll be the most helpful, friendly customer service call you've ever made. Buy an iPod, and it'll be the best music player you've ever owned. Hands down."
He works for Geek Squad. I find this pathetic that he thinks he knows more than me because he is in Geek Squad. What do?
[QUOTE=AmericanInfantry;20928239]Epic.[/QUOTE]
I'll submit the logs from the facebook chat we're having right now, no worries.
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[img]http://i43.tinypic.com/ruaex4.png[/img]
Made me laugh. Nice one.
Well my CAD class never ceases to have something funny going on. Everyone remember the big red turbo switches on the backs of the computers? Well in my class today we found a bunch of them switched over to 255 and the computers wouldn't start. My teacher said "Fucking 4th period retards must have done it..." He's great.
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[QUOTE=TropicalV2;20928258]I'll submit the logs from the facebook chat we're having right now, no worries.
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[IMG]http://i43.tinypic.com/ruaex4.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I've never seen the concept of pinging explained so perfectly. Have an informative.
[QUOTE=BlackWolf97;20825236]If we're going for laptops posting, I'll show mine
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tiny ass chinese made "netbook" can't run anything, shitty framerate for movies, keyboard is glitchy and doubletypes[/QUOTE]
PM me i am intersted in this chinese netbook
king of page 33, give me tools so i can build a prospering nation for all of us here on page 33
[QUOTE=TheChantzGuy;20929058]PM me i am intersted in this chinese netbook[/QUOTE]
You can buy it online for like $100
There's this guy in all of my IT classes who's a complete idiot...
Now remember, we are studying computer science to make it our career. We're supposed to at least know a bit about computers.
So here's the story..
This guy bought a laptop for college... Now we're in the second semester and a couple of weeks ago we installed him Win7 (MSNDAA agreement, something like that I can't remember the acronym)
He didn't want to lose his old vista so we shrunk the partition and shit...
Anyways... Win7 is installed and a week later (after a break) I see him using vista... He's telling me that he has a virus and he does he got Vista security shit or something. I tell him to dimply run 7. At first he says that the virus might jump from 1 partition to another...
I tell him that 99% of the time it doesn't...
After I get him this idea in his head he goes off...
The stupid shit is... HE'S STILL USING FUCKING VISTA!!!!
Windows 7 is fully installed and setup... His vista partition has a fucking rogue antivirus and he keeps on using vista!
Every time I see him open his laptop and see vista, I fucking rage...
Ohh and there's more...
While we were installing 7 it was doing its updates... He goes and is about to shut down the computer when right in his face it's written in big bold letter "DO NOT SHUT DOWN THE COMPUTER"
We stop him before he fucks shit up and then he tells us that he usually does that and that he shouldn't.
I fucking went mad...
Ohh here's another thing...
At one point he was running avast to scan his vista security shit and since it took too long and he had to go to class he put the computer in sleep mode and put it in his laptop bag...
By sleep mode I don't mean the one that consumes 0 energy... He's using the sleep mode where half the computer is still running... That bag turned into a fucking oven...
He fucks up in ALL i mean ALL of the IT classes we have... VB.Net, Can't code for shit... Basic computer knowledge(understanding a cpu from circuitry and other shit, we're doing ASM now) he cannot understand a single thing... Basic web design (the tool we use does everything for us) can do OK but he makes the most retarded sites... One of his sites had a full blue/red/purple design... It still hurts my eyes. He thinks that site is "Fucking nice"
The worse thing about this is that when you try to help him out and explain to him you'll explain once, then explain again and then when he looks unsure you asks if he gets it he goes "yeah". The next day you'll see him fuck up on the same goddamn thing you tried to explain to him. He fucking pretends that he understands...
Ohh here's another thing... We were taking this laptop apart in class. We were at the point where we had to remove a connector but it was being a bitch. At first I go for the long-nose pliers and then I realize that that was a bad idea... So I hand them to the 'guy' and he takes the plier in a way where his thumb and index were at the bottom of the pliers (he was taking them upside down) and decided to give the connector a shot. I tell him "don't do that you'll break something." Next thing you know the fucking connector is destroyed.
Here's another one...
In my VB class he was talking with the teacher. He was asking about java and C/C++ and C#.
The teacher gives him a great comparison of all the languages explains what is an interpreted language and all... At one point I hear him say "So C++ is more like VB right" my jaw dropped...
He either doesn't listen, can't listen or has a serious issue.
I'll get you guys some more later...
So C++ is more like VB right?
lol reminds me of the CSI thing for some reason.
[QUOTE=don818;20930810]So C++ is more like VB right?
lol reminds me of the CSI thing for some reason.[/QUOTE]
The structure and syntax are SIMILAR, but you cannot really say that it is "more like language B"
It's like comparing english to swedish.
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[QUOTE=Boris-B;20929767]There's this guy in all of my IT classes who's a complete idiot...
Now remember, we are studying computer science to make it our career. We're supposed to at least know a bit about computers.
So here's the story..
This guy bought a laptop for college... Now we're in the second semester and a couple of weeks ago we installed him Win7 (MSNDAA agreement, something like that I can't remember the acronym)
He didn't want to lose his old vista so we shrunk the partition and shit...
Anyways... Win7 is installed and a week later (after a break) I see him using vista... He's telling me that he has a virus and he does he got Vista security shit or something. I tell him to dimply run 7. At first he says that the virus might jump from 1 partition to another...
I tell him that 99% of the time it doesn't...
After I get him this idea in his head he goes off...
The stupid shit is... HE'S STILL USING FUCKING VISTA!!!!
Windows 7 is fully installed and setup... His vista partition has a fucking rogue antivirus and he keeps on using vista!
Every time I see him open his laptop and see vista, I fucking rage...
Ohh and there's more...
While we were installing 7 it was doing its updates... He goes and is about to shut down the computer when right in his face it's written in big bold letter "DO NOT SHUT DOWN THE COMPUTER"
We stop him before he fucks shit up and then he tells us that he usually does that and that he shouldn't.
I fucking went mad...
Ohh here's another thing...
At one point he was running avast to scan his vista security shit and since it took too long and he had to go to class he put the computer in sleep mode and put it in his laptop bag...
By sleep mode I don't mean the one that consumes 0 energy... He's using the sleep mode where half the computer is still running... That bag turned into a fucking oven...
He fucks up in ALL i mean ALL of the IT classes we have... VB.Net, Can't code for shit... Basic computer knowledge(understanding a cpu from circuitry and other shit, we're doing ASM now) he cannot understand a single thing... Basic web design (the tool we use does everything for us) can do OK but he makes the most retarded sites... One of his sites had a full blue/red/purple design... It still hurts my eyes. He thinks that site is "Fucking nice"
The worse thing about this is that when you try to help him out and explain to him you'll explain once, then explain again and then when he looks unsure you asks if he gets it he goes "yeah". The next day you'll see him fuck up on the same goddamn thing you tried to explain to him. He fucking pretends that he understands...
Ohh here's another thing... We were taking this laptop apart in class. We were at the point where we had to remove a connector but it was being a bitch. At first I go for the long-nose pliers and then I realize that that was a bad idea... So I hand them to the 'guy' and he takes the plier in a way where his thumb and index were at the bottom of the pliers (he was taking them upside down) and decided to give the connector a shot. I tell him "don't do that you'll break something." Next thing you know the fucking connector is destroyed.
Here's another one...
In my VB class he was talking with the teacher. He was asking about java and C/C++ and C#.
The teacher gives him a great comparison of all the languages explains what is an interpreted language and all... At one point I hear him say "So C++ is more like VB right" my jaw dropped...
He either doesn't listen, can't listen or has a serious issue.
I'll get you guys some more later...[/QUOTE]
Ask him if he got the aspergers.
[QUOTE=Boris-B;20929767]There's this guy in all of my IT classes who's a complete idiot...
Now remember, we are studying computer science to make it our career. We're supposed to at least know a bit about computers.
So here's the story..
This guy bought a laptop for college... Now we're in the second semester and a couple of weeks ago we installed him Win7 (MSNDAA agreement, something like that I can't remember the acronym)
He didn't want to lose his old vista so we shrunk the partition and shit...
Anyways... Win7 is installed and a week later (after a break) I see him using vista... He's telling me that he has a virus and he does he got Vista security shit or something. I tell him to dimply run 7. At first he says that the virus might jump from 1 partition to another...
I tell him that 99% of the time it doesn't...
After I get him this idea in his head he goes off...
The stupid shit is... HE'S STILL USING FUCKING VISTA!!!!
Windows 7 is fully installed and setup... His vista partition has a fucking rogue antivirus and he keeps on using vista!
Every time I see him open his laptop and see vista, I fucking rage...
Ohh and there's more...
While we were installing 7 it was doing its updates... He goes and is about to shut down the computer when right in his face it's written in big bold letter "DO NOT SHUT DOWN THE COMPUTER"
We stop him before he fucks shit up and then he tells us that he usually does that and that he shouldn't.
I fucking went mad...
Ohh here's another thing...
At one point he was running avast to scan his vista security shit and since it took too long and he had to go to class he put the computer in sleep mode and put it in his laptop bag...
By sleep mode I don't mean the one that consumes 0 energy... He's using the sleep mode where half the computer is still running... That bag turned into a fucking oven...
He fucks up in ALL i mean ALL of the IT classes we have... VB.Net, Can't code for shit... Basic computer knowledge(understanding a cpu from circuitry and other shit, we're doing ASM now) he cannot understand a single thing... Basic web design (the tool we use does everything for us) can do OK but he makes the most retarded sites... One of his sites had a full blue/red/purple design... It still hurts my eyes. He thinks that site is "Fucking nice"
The worse thing about this is that when you try to help him out and explain to him you'll explain once, then explain again and then when he looks unsure you asks if he gets it he goes "yeah". The next day you'll see him fuck up on the same goddamn thing you tried to explain to him. He fucking pretends that he understands...
Ohh here's another thing... We were taking this laptop apart in class. We were at the point where we had to remove a connector but it was being a bitch. At first I go for the long-nose pliers and then I realize that that was a bad idea... So I hand them to the 'guy' and he takes the plier in a way where his thumb and index were at the bottom of the pliers (he was taking them upside down) and decided to give the connector a shot. I tell him "don't do that you'll break something." Next thing you know the fucking connector is destroyed.
Here's another one...
In my VB class he was talking with the teacher. He was asking about java and C/C++ and C#.
The teacher gives him a great comparison of all the languages explains what is an interpreted language and all... At one point I hear him say "So C++ is more like VB right" my jaw dropped...
He either doesn't listen, can't listen or has a serious issue.
I'll get you guys some more later...[/QUOTE]
Oh god I know someone like this.. I went to a summer camp for UT3 modding, I was one of 4 or 5 veterans there, we were all expected to know how to use 3ds max/maya, photoshop, zbrush, and the UE3 editor, as this was the "Advanced 2" course.
We start off the week coming up with ideas, he seems like he could contribute a bit. The next day we have an idea, I'm on UE3 creating displacements/general rooms along with one other person, everyone else is on maya/3ds max making props from a list we created the previous day. And so we assign a task to this one kid, he says ok, he opens up 3ds max, doesn't know how to make a fucking box. The week progresses, so does our map. All he does is look at some reference images for something completely unrelated. I also was generous and decided to set up an SVN for everyone so we wouldn't be slowed down by file transfer, most people understood how to checkout and upload to an SVN after one or two explanations (TortoiseSVN, easy stuff). I explained it to him every single time he added one of his files.
Thursday, we have a map that's nearing completion, we're fine-tuning lights, etc. All he's done is made a few untextured, randomly colored boxes in 3ds max and called it "his room," and kept bothering us about ways of getting the room into the level, even though there was no point or purpose to it, let alone a space for it. I was talking to him during one of the lunches, apparently he was in the beginner class but his sister was in the advanced 1 class so because of scheduling or something he decided he should go to Advanced 2... :bang:
What the fuck lol
[QUOTE=robmaister12;20933542]Oh god I know someone like this.. I went to a summer camp for UT3 modding, I was one of 4 or 5 veterans there, we were all expected to know how to use 3ds max/maya, photoshop, zbrush, and the UE3 editor, as this was the "Advanced 2" course.
We start off the week coming up with ideas, he seems like he could contribute a bit. The next day we have an idea, I'm on UE3 creating displacements/general rooms along with one other person, everyone else is on maya/3ds max making props from a list we created the previous day. And so we assign a task to this one kid, he says ok, he opens up 3ds max, doesn't know how to make a fucking box. The week progresses, so does our map. All he does is look at some reference images for something completely unrelated. I also was generous and decided to set up an SVN for everyone so we wouldn't be slowed down by file transfer, most people understood how to checkout and upload to an SVN after one or two explanations (TortoiseSVN, easy stuff). I explained it to him every single time he added one of his files.
Thursday, we have a map that's nearing completion, we're fine-tuning lights, etc. All he's done is made a few untextured, randomly colored boxes in 3ds max and called it "his room," and kept bothering us about ways of getting the room into the level, even though there was no point or purpose to it, let alone a space for it. I was talking to him during one of the lunches, apparently he was in the beginner class but his sister was in the advanced 1 class so because of scheduling or something he decided he should go to Advanced 2... :bang:[/QUOTE]
It doesn't sound like it, but was this by any chance iD?
[QUOTE=robmaister12;20933542]summer camp for UT3 modding[/QUOTE]
What.
Is there a Source equivalent?
Guy: Vista is better than XP.
Me: What.
[QUOTE=Necrotic Fever;20938529]Guy: Vista is better than XP.
Me: What.[/QUOTE]
That's called an opinion.
[QUOTE=Necrotic Fever;20938529]Guy: Vista is better than XP.
Me: What.[/QUOTE]
It is, the idiot is you.
Vista properly modded is far better than XP
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