I can't stand talking to computer illiterate people about computers.
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I got a few of my friends thinking I'm some sort of uber-brain PC geek just because I built my own. This guy whos interested in building one keeps asking me about hardware and I end up talking out my ass half the time :v:
Dude teach those nabs
My older sister [b]says she has 10 Years of [i]Professional[/i] computing experience[/b] and she says that if you're building a PC, it's best to buy all the Components bit-by-bit from the span of the Beginning to the End of the year. I mean, she doesn't even know what fully makes up the PC.
Also, she doesn't even know what's after a Gigabyte, in fact, she thought that was only the biggest.
"Wait, there are Troogerbytes? :wooow:"
And here she is still calling me a Idiot with computers even when I successfully built my own in less than 4 Hours after [b]6 Months of self-experience.[/b]
[QUOTE=Justice]For me, there's only one person, besides a few of the teachers. Everyone else I know uses computers only for Myspace, Facebook, and Youtube. Kind of sad really, when you bring in a thumb drive with Firefox on it and half of the students in the class think you're trying to put a virus on the school computers, even when the said computers are locked up like a drum and have Faronics Deep Freeze on them.[/QUOTE]
So true. It's all thanks to Web 2.0 allowing people who know nothing about computers to have MySpace pages and blogs - people who lack even basic HTML skills. "My MySpace page is SO COOL because when you click on it, it loads a VERY poorly written CSS style sheet that will freeze your Internet browser, blast Slipknot songs from 4 Flash music players at the SAME TIME, etc" is what a majority of people's MySpace pages look like.
Once, in my Graphic Arts class (these computers had Mac OS on them, which is Unix based), I would use xterm when there was nothing to do, usually SSH into the server I have at home. Everyone thought that meant "HACKER!!!"...
[QUOTE=Callius]Yeah Computers teachers are the worst offenders, mine who is actually supposed to know how to use Excel had to look up half the commands on google and asks me for help when things go wrong, I wouldn't mind but I have work to do too I don't want to waste my time helping people who don't even care about their GCSE.
Then again they are also fun, last years group took the doorhandles off a cupboard and locked the teacher in there.[/QUOTE]
I wish my teacher would just say "hey what's this or what's that" but when you act like you know it all then can't do it, that grids my gears
[QUOTE=John Edwards]I wish my teacher would just say "hey what's this or what's that" but when you act like you know it all then can't do it, that grids my gears[/QUOTE]
My teacher is just clueless, awful as a teacher too, we're doing a 2 year IT course and so far we've nearly finished the 1st years work half way through the 2nd year. Of course I can't completely blame her but she's the main catalyst of it, not letting the good people go any further by pouring effort & time into the idiots who spent the hour long lessons trading porn in their mobiles.
I've never had more than one IT teacher who has even pretended to know anything, We did have 1 decent one who taught us Flash in year 7 but she left for £££ in another school. (Last 5 years: Good IT teacher, History Teacher, English Teacher, Shit IT teacher x2)
IT Teachers suck because they utterly fail to get an IT job in the real world..
The odd one is good at what they do and just want to teach, The rest don't have any choice.
[QUOTE=Wayword]I hate people that get Ghz and GB confused.
I can easily live off of 150, maybe less.
Who honestly needs 500 GB?[/QUOTE]
Well, i do, actually more, but i DO actually know about gpu's, cpu's, harddrives, motherboards, etc..
And i totally agree, i hate those MORONS!
[QUOTE=Orsenfelt]IT Teachers suck because they utterly fail to get an IT job in the real world..
The odd one is good at what they do and just want to teach, The rest don't have any choice.[/QUOTE]
Haha, so true. I know two guys who used to think they were fucking gurus, who couldn't make it in the real world and are now computer science teachers at college.
Mind you, I also know several people who never made it any further than IT help desks and they think they're at the pinnacle of IT too, bless 'em.
[QUOTE=Orsenfelt]IT Teachers suck because they utterly fail to get an IT job in the real world..
The odd one is good at what they do and just want to teach, The rest don't have any choice.[/QUOTE]
My computing teacher is a full legend.
He's been programming right from the point of literally flipping bits manually.
ITT: We feel cool because we igniore the fact that most people are good in other stuff than computers and some people are retarded.
hey people, guess what:
If you know more than an obvious idiot, you don't automatically know much.
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[QUOTE=lazyV]My computing teacher is a full legend.
He's been programming right from the point of literally flipping bits manually.[/QUOTE]
My IT teacher used to tell us stories about how she programmed the university computers with cards with holes in them.
If you'd want to have the solution to a mathematical problem you'd have to sit down and make the cards, bring it to the central computer department which had 2 computers in a HUGE building, wait 2 or 3 days and then you'd get the results, often wrong results because you missed something in the cards.
When I got my new PC I told my friends about it:
Me: Hey guys! I got a new PC. It has: Dualcore E8500 @ 3.16GHz, 4 Gigs of ram, 2x 750GB and a 9800 GTX. It only cost about 1500 Euros! (I dunno how much it really was in Euros, but it cost 2000 CHF)
Friend: Oh my god! Are you fuckin' stupid! So much moneys for a computah!! OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!
I didn't know he was SO stupid :(
[QUOTE=Mudkipslol]When I got my new PC I told my friends about it:
Me: Hey guys! I got a new PC. It has: Dualcore E8500 @ 3.16GHz, 4 Gigs of ram, 2x 750GB and a 9800 GTX. It only cost about 1500 Euros! (I dunno how much it really was in Euros, but it cost 2000 CHF)
Friend: Oh my god! Are you fuckin' stupid! So much moneys for a computah!! OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!
I didn't know he was SO stupid :([/QUOTE]
1,500 CHF = £1,029.90 UK
Even if you think your friend is stupid, that is quite overpriced for a PC like that. A PC like that if you built it yourself would cost something like £750-£950 or 1,456-1,844 CHF (Swiss Francs). Thus getting more money for a second GPU if you like.
[QUOTE=Mudkipslol]When I got my new PC I told my friends about it:
Me: Hey guys! I got a new PC. It has: Dualcore E8500 @ 3.16GHz, 4 Gigs of ram, 2x 750GB and a 9800 GTX. It only cost about 1500 Euros! (I dunno how much it really was in Euros, but it cost 2000 CHF)
Friend: Oh my god! Are you fuckin' stupid! So much moneys for a computah!! OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!
I didn't know he was SO stupid :([/QUOTE]
That's like 1750USD. Fuck yeah that's alot for a computer. Seeing that you'll have to upgrade it within 2 years anyways.
The thing that absolutely kills me, and it's [I]always[/I] the same response, is when you say that you built your computer people go. "YOU CAN DO THAT?!?!"
[QUOTE=Justice]For me, there's only one person, besides a few of the teachers. Everyone else I know uses computers only for Myspace, Facebook, and Youtube. Kind of sad really, when you bring in a thumb drive with Firefox on it and half of the students in the class think you're trying to put a virus on the school computers, even when the said computers are locked up like a drum and have Faronics Deep Freeze on them.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, you're not allowed to use thumb drives at school because you might be bringing in a virus.
The school computers are like... "Run?" [B]ACCESS DENIED[/B] "Control Panel?" [B]ACCESS DENIED[/B] "Task Tray Settings?" [B]ACCESS DENIED[/B]
[b]1.[/b]
A few days ago a person who I sit near to at school asked it he could run CoD4 on his laptop. I asked for the specs and he said 'It's a Gateway'. When pressed for more specific specifications he replied with 'It's XP'. I facepalmed then and decided not to carry on with the conversation. Despite that, I went in the next day and told him with no doubt that his laptop couldn't run it. Reason? Gateway are a budget laptop brand, so logically their laptops will have Intel integrated graphics. These are not Shader Model 3 capable, and CoD4 is a shader model 3 game. I was impressed with myself, actually, although all the vocabulary of the explanation was lost on the only person who needed it.
[b]2.[/b]
A few people at my school think that you need vista to run any 3D games on the PC, probably because the Vista logo and the Games for Windows logo are one and the same, and that maybe they equate the rise of the 'Games for Windows' brand with the release of Vista..
[b]3.[/b]
The same person as in 1 came up to me and asked how to download a free game called War Rock. It turned out that he knew how to download it but was alarmed at how it took an hour.
[QUOTE=xxFoxxx]The thing that absolutely kills me, and it's [I]always[/I] the same response, is when you say that you built your computer people go. "YOU CAN DO THAT?!?!"
Yeah, you're not allowed to use thumb drives at school because you might be bringing in a virus.
The school computers are like... "Run?" [B]ACCESS DENIED[/B] "Control Panel?" [B]ACCESS DENIED[/B] "Task Tray Settings?" [B]ACCESS DENIED[/B][/QUOTE]
Hehe, you sound like you've had the same experiences as me. There is a girl in my IT class who thinks I'm the messiah (no I'm not a very naughty boy) because I built a computer. Our school added that too for the same reason, ironically they still advertise selling Flash drives on the school bulletin despite the fact you can't use them. They tried to block all computer settings but the Technicians aren't as good as 10 IT pupils who have lessons to waste because the teacher refuses to move forwards.
[QUOTE=Callius]Hehe, you sound like you've had the same experiences as me. There is a girl in my IT class who thinks I'm the messiah (no I'm not a very naughty boy) because I built a computer. Our school added that too for the same reason, ironically they still advertise selling Flash drives on the school bulletin despite the fact you can't use them. They tried to block all computer settings but the Technicians aren't as good as 10 IT pupils who have lessons to waste because the teacher refuses to move forwards.[/QUOTE]
The technicians at my school, when they're not resetting stupid boys' account passwords, dedicate their time to restricting access to practically every program on the system. Unfortunately, their combined efforts were no match for me feeling tired and with a pounding headache. The first command I tried, (shutdown-i) worked. I also remember getting the little wizard to pop up and say rude things (for personal use) and I got banned from the system for 2 weeks.
I once sent a copy of the report the Resultant Set of Policy program (generates a list of all restrictions on the system) to the printer right in the IT department's office. 90 pages of NOTHING BUT POINTLESS RESTRICTIONS that ruin the systems. And the first page said "Here is why you spend so much time "fixing" computers: Because you lock them down to the point where they're unusable".
They have to fix everything, even simple problems I could fix. Why? Because I can't fix them due to the restrictions. Task Manager: BLOCKED. Display settings: BLOCKED. Even the fucking File menu on Windows Explorer is BLOCKED! So literally, on the menubar, it goes "Edit View Tools Help". Why???
Plus, my fucking retarded Superintendent just moved ALL OF THE IT PEOPLE (2 people) to another school, out of the high school. So now 2 people are responsible for over 10,000 computers across 15 schools! Recipe for disaster.
While we're on the topic of school computer abuse... one of my friends brought pop tarts to class, but they were cold. These are the HTPC-type computers that site on their side, so we slid off the top of the case and put the pop tarts on the CPU cooler and left them there for the rest of the hour. Unfortunately, they didn't get any warmer.
[QUOTE=mblunk]While we're on the topic of school computer abuse... one of my friends brought pop tarts to class, but they were cold. These are the HTPC-type computers that site on their side, so we slid off the top of the case and put the pop tarts on the CPU cooler and left them there for the rest of the hour. Unfortunately, they didn't get any warmer.[/QUOTE]
I can't tell if that's good or bad.
[QUOTE=GenericMonk]The technicians at my school, when they're not resetting stupid boys' account passwords, dedicate their time to restricting access to practically every program on the system. Unfortunately, their combined efforts were no match for me feeling tired and with a pounding headache. The first command I tried, (shutdown-i) worked. I also remember getting the little wizard to pop up and say rude things (for personal use) and I got banned from the system for 2 weeks.[/QUOTE]
You know what this means don't you? You must dedicate your life to becoming the greatest IT tech ever.
[QUOTE=demoguy08]The problem is that you are a socially inept nerd [B]that don't know how to talk to people[/B], not that they are illiterate. Try explaining slowly next time without using complext terms and don't become all arrogant and snotty when they don't understand.[/QUOTE]
Hmm...
I fucking hate it when people call the computer a "Hard Drive" or "Modem". They try to sound smart but it just makes them look like more of a fucking idiot.
I don't blame people for being unsavy about computer equipment but I just want to bash them when they act like they know what they are talking about. Instead of admitting they don't know what you said, they make shit up to make themselves sound good. This applies to anything actually, and it really is annoying.
[QUOTE=savagest]I fucking hate it when people call the computer a "Hard Drive" or "Modem". They try to sound smart but it just makes them look like more of a fucking idiot.[/QUOTE]
I love it when people do that really.
Then I lecture them.
Meh, our school has competent staff - goddamned Group Policy. They've blocked the console (you can do things with batch files, though). It's possible to get admin access via, say Metasploit and some ancient program with gaping security holes, or via an OphCrack livecd, though.
On the bright side, the computers are all as slow as fuck :)
A rather humorous conversation with one of my many, MANY computer illiterate friends:
me: So what kinda comp you got?
him: Oh, it's awesome!
me: specs?
him: It's got 2 processors (I can forgive him for that, seeing as a dual-core is essentially 2 processors combined)
me: What speed?
him: one's 3 ghz and one's 5.
me: dude, that's not even possible.
him: you're just jealous cause your comp isn't as good as mine.
when he showed me his full specs, he had 2 gigs ram, 250 gb harddisc and some shitty onboard graphics. He claimed it outperforms the latest graphics cards 'because I fully updated the drivers so it kicks ass'.
I laughed loudly while he wasn't there.
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slightly unrelated, but did I mention my friend who thought the shop made a mistake when he saw that he got an 8 gig ipod 'while it says 4g on the box'?
[QUOTE=erikvduyn]slightly unrelated, but did I mention my friend who thought the shop made a mistake when he saw that he got an 8 gig ipod 'while it says 4g on the box'?[/QUOTE]
I don't get it. :geno:
[QUOTE=Robber]I don't get it. :geno:[/QUOTE]
4g means 4th generation, while he though it meant 4 gigs. He went bragging about it for a couple of days. Until somebody actually told him. Many more lols ensued.
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