Computer illiterate people who think they know things V8: Mandrith appreciation Station. - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;27722818]Last time I used something that was washed and dried it destroyed my Gameboy.[/QUOTE] Let me guess, did it have batteries in it? [editline]28th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Badal;27722238] My computer lived, whether it was chance or the ASUS motherboard is unknown. I bet a cheapo school computer would die.[/QUOTE] All modern USB controllers + PSUs have over-current and short circuit protections.

[QUOTE=B!N4RY;27722845]Let me guess, did it have batteries in it? [editline]28th January 2011[/editline] All modern USB controllers + PSUs have over-current and short circuit protections.[/QUOTE] No, a cartridge got washed then when I played it short circuited my Gameboy.

A flash drive won't short circuit your computer :frog: And somehow I think your Gameboy dying when you inserted the cartridge was a mere coincidence.

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[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;27723693]No, a cartridge got washed then when I played it short circuited my Gameboy.[/QUOTE] I might be wrong here But didn't older cartridges have a battery in them to keep the save data stored on them

[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;27723950]I might be wrong here But didn't older cartridges have a battery in them to keep the save data stored on them[/QUOTE] They probably did. I'm just a very paranoid person. :tinfoil:

[QUOTE=ze beaver;27723844]A flash drive won't short circuit your computer :frog: [/QUOTE] I've had my computer shut off on me for removing a flash drive, plugging in headphones, unplugging headphones... Basically for using the front ports. Needless to say, I don't use 'em often anymore.

Wow, GALAXY have some of the coolest/weirdest GPU designs A wireless GPU [img]http://www.frontsidebus.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/kfa2-gtx-460-whdi-600.jpg[/img] Some kind of easily detachable fan [img]http://www.dvhardware.net/news/2010/galaxy_geforce_gtx_460_detachable_fan.jpg[/img] And oh god a white graphics card [img]http://www.etechnopedia.com/images/upload/workgallery/7922Galaxy_460_1.jpg[/img] Only if GALAXY products are more commonly available here in North America... :allears:

[QUOTE=Badal;27721267]So, I apparently turned my phone into some kind of rampaging death machine. I made the mistake of buying a cheap Chinese phone charger from Wal-Mart, when I connected it to my phone the screen went scrambled and turned off. Now whatever device I connect the phone too turns off. All the little power LEDs on chargers turn off when it's plugged in, for example. The best part is when I plugged it into my laptop [B][I]it instantly turned the computer off[/I][/B]. Luckily the computer survived but a few friends told me I came close to frying the entire motherboard. I have to fall back to my parents old RAZR until I can get a new phone in April. Oh well.[/QUOTE] Reminds me of the time I found my dad's old Ericsson in the bottom of an old box full of clothes. His BMW had this integrated handsfree system that ran through the entire car, but it was just for this specific phone (old as hell, 2x16 symbol display and all that) so he hadn't gotten any use for it since he lost it. I asked him if I could put it in the car and see if it still worked. He said yes, so I went out to our carport. The second I pressed the phone in place, the car made a "BEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOUuuuuuu..." sound and all the lights faded out. Turns out the phone had drained the entire battery of the car in less than a second.

[QUOTE=B!N4RY;27725129]A wireless GPU [img_thumb]http://www.frontsidebus.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/kfa2-gtx-460-whdi-600.jpg[/img_thumb] [/QUOTE] i dont.... what?

The 460 with a removable fan looks like some kind of toy.

[QUOTE=Badal;27725846]The 460 with a removable fan looks like some kind of toy.[/QUOTE] It's a sensical idea though. Take the fan out, blow out the dust with a can of air, put the fan back. Cake.

so my friend decided to set his theme on Windows 7 to Classic. It's after school, there's 5 of us in a classroom, programming (if you've been in the programming forum, you'd probably have a vague idea what I was talking about, otherwise, long story). One of these people ended up getting a free ride after saying that AP Computer Science was too difficult and dropping the course. He's still part of the team though, and we can't just say "no, you can't be part of our group anymore," at least not this far in. Anyways, we're just coding. The friend who dropped Comp Sci asked the Windows 7 Classic friend, "Why is your computer all 32-bit?" All 4 of us turned around at the same time and stared at him. Usually it's just me who gives that "do you even know what you're talking about" look to people when they say stuff like that. Also, an unrelated event, "How many megapixels does your server have?" - after a while of thinking about it in context and figuring out what he means, the nearest translation would be "What upload/download speeds do you regularly get when tethering an internet connection from you Android phone?" Other than a few cases like that, the rest of my school is competent, except for the occasional mac fanboy who makes a very pointed statement about Windows when the teacher's handing out a document about how to input letters with accents in Word, etc. [editline]29th January 2011[/editline] also, I'd love to build a white desktop, case and all. With that GALAXY graphics card of course... It would be a nice deviation from the black with some red/blue you usually see.

[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;27719319]Sure it wouldn't be very hard at all. Just design a fatter smaller motherboard. Although a beefier GPU would be really nice, seeing as that is prebuilts in general and Apple in particular's most common problem, besides price.[/QUOTE] you are acting like the price is a minor issue its a thousand fucking dollars man [editline]29th January 2011[/editline] i mean even if you somehow randomly got the money and decided fuck it, i want to try something new and got a mac, you could just install the damn os on your computer for free.

I work at Office Depot and this lady wanted some business cards printed up and she was sending them through email, and it wouldn't go through and we were running through the things to check for. E.g. caps, spaces, things to that effect. So we get through all of that and she says "Maybe the numbers are capitalized"

aha have you seen apple's upgrade page this shit is insane [img]http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/74/retard.png[/img] pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffhahahahahahahahaha look at the guy on the far left of the "award winning support" part he's like :downs:

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;27714855]In my experience, every computer class I have ever been in completely fell short of expectations but I am 15 so[/QUOTE] Some do some don't, most of the time I'm just thinking why the hell some people just sign-up. Like the ones that ones that directly type over the network settings that the book gives as a example and then wonder why it doesn't work. It's a class about Windows Server 2008, even have some requirements on diplomas you should have and still that don't know shit attend them.

[QUOTE=slinkman;27726074]I work at Office Depot and this lady wanted some business cards printed up and she was sending them through email, and it wouldn't go through and we were running through the things to check for. E.g. caps, spaces, things to that effect. So we get through all of that and she says "Maybe the numbers are capitalized"[/QUOTE] You didn't learn about lowercase and uppercase 1 and 2's when you were in the 1st grade? [editline]29th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=GrabbinPills;27726077]aha have you seen apple's upgrade page this shit is insane [img_thumb]http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/74/retard.png[/img_thumb] pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffhahahahahahahahaha[/QUOTE] "It doesn't get PC viruses" No fucking shit, it doesn't run PC programs either. [editline]29th January 2011[/editline] Except when you're running Windows on bootcamp, in which case in can get PC viruses. Hrm.

i've always thought that the reason macs never get viruses is because only rich people can afford them and rich people have better things to do with their time than sit around all day making viruses for an operating system.

[QUOTE=GrabbinPills;27726131]i've always thought that the reason macs never get viruses is because only rich people can afford them and rich people have better things to do with their time than sit around all day making viruses for an operating system.[/QUOTE] They never get viruses because there are all of 10 of them, a few of which are already contained. I believe it has to do with the 6% market share and all that, simply a matter of numbers.

"Nobody writes viruses for OSX because nobody cares about Apple." -My (stupid) brother

[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;27726274]"Nobody writes viruses for OSX because nobody cares about Apple."[/QUOTE] I love this argument, I really do. It's actually ass backwards because the only person who benefits from that lack of care is the Mac user, not the moron making the argument.

[QUOTE=GrabbinPills;27726131]i've always thought that the reason macs never get viruses is because only rich people can afford them and rich people have better things to do with their time than sit around all day making viruses for an operating system.[/QUOTE] no it's because the people who make viruses want to affect as many people as possible, and with Windows having the number of users, it just means more potential credit card info keylogged, more potential computers infected with malware, etc. If there were a sudden shift in number of users and it were Linux or OS X that had > 80% of the market, people would be finding security holes in either Linux or OS X. The reason I like Linux is because it's not controlled by a company, so just about anyone, even the person who FINDS the exploit, can write a patch within hours and it can be integrated to the main branches and be distributed by distro package managers instead of waiting for a very long time for a company to roll out a patch or even have to wait for a service pack. Also, the bottom left and bottom right panels contradict each other. If the bottom right panel is active, the bottom left panel is false, but if the bottom left panel is true, the bottom right panel can't be active.

[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;27726317]I love this argument, I really do. It's actually ass backwards because the only person who benefits from that lack of care is the Mac user, not the moron making the argument.[/QUOTE] Hence why I mentioned my brother is stupid. I've said this before in this thread but this is the 25 or so year old that lives at home and is jobless that swears up and down that he has some super virus that is avoiding reformats, by jumping to another partition (recovery), or by downloading itself back onto his computer again from a remote location. This is ALSO the guy who pirated Microsoft Office '07 with fucking [b][i]Frostwire[/i][/b] for God's sake and slowed our internet to a crawl. ALSO!! The guy who told me that I had some horrible virus because my menu and right click options were starting to disappear in Firefox. ... It was Java eating it after I installed it. I proved him wrong right infront of his eyes and he got pissed at me and left.

Did a complete defrag and optimize using Auslogics defragger because I hadn't done it in about 4 years and it was fragmented more than a vase in a wood chipper. Went from about 4.2GB to 6.3GB space, although there's still several files fragmented and each time I try and defrag them, it says it's finished, so I'm not sure what's happening there.

[QUOTE=Niteshifter;27726591]there's still several files fragmented and each time I try and defrag them, it says it's finished, so I'm not sure what's happening there.[/QUOTE] Probably Steam's .gcf files, try Defragging them from inside the properties menu

[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;27726251]They never get viruses because there are all of 10 of them, a few of which are already contained. I believe it has to do with the 6% market share and all that, simply a matter of numbers.[/QUOTE] I have a really hard time believing that number. If you cannot back it up, I call bullshit.

But if a keylogger gets all your credit card info and such, wouldn't it be better on Mac-s? Because Mac owners are richier than Windows users. I think...

[QUOTE=GrabbinPills;27725979]you are acting like the price is a minor issue its a thousand fucking dollars man [editline]29th January 2011[/editline] i mean even if you somehow randomly got the money and decided fuck it, i want to try something new and got a mac, you could just install the damn os on your computer for free.[/QUOTE] Price isn't a issue if you aren't 13 and have a job (not that I am implying you are its just a statement) And you couldn't just instal it and bam OSX is magical and working, it depends on your hardware your using and whether drivers/software to make it work even exists on OSX.

[QUOTE=Sgt Pringles;27727524]Price isn't a issue if you aren't 13 and have a job (not that I am implying you are its just a statement) And you couldn't just instal it and bam OSX is magical and working, it depends on your hardware your using and whether drivers/software to make it work even exists on OSX.[/QUOTE] Well, a good deal of people have done it.