• I can't stand talking to computer illiterate people about computers.
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[QUOTE=hexpunK;13381919]Wow, two cases in one, the helpdesk and your "friend". Unlucky.[/QUOTE] The worst thing is this person has been around computers [b]far[/b] longer than me. I was surprised.
[QUOTE=Phazonaddict;13409966]The worst thing is this person has been around computers [b]far[/b] longer than me. I was surprised.[/QUOTE] How the hell...some people do surprise me. From that website of dumshits. [quote]Two students, who had spent the better part of their class hour bragging about their computer skills, were becoming increasingly frustrated while browsing the Internet. They were trying to access a site that didn't exist, but they were absolutely convinced the trouble was something else. * Student #1: "The damn keyboard locked up again!!!" Actually, a page was loading. * Student #2: "Here, you have to pull the wires out." (yanks network wires out of the back) "When that happens, just pull those wires out and shove 'em back in. Does it work now?" * Student #1: "No, it says, 'Reading File...Done.'" * Student #2: "Oh, ok...that means your keyboard server is down. There's nothing you can do about it." [/quote] Oh god [img]http://d2k5.com/sa_emots/emot-sigh.gif[/img]
That site makes me smile. :) And so is the rest of the thread. But then... I cry due to stupidity of those people.
LOL, from the new thread "No graphics card": I need help now! Can i download a graphics card or do i have to buy it?- supergamer22 Made my day.
[QUOTE=kyruku;13438030]LOL, from the new thread "No graphics card": I need help now! Can i download a graphics card or do i have to buy it?- supergamer22 Made my day.[/QUOTE] Haha i just read that thread :D
[QUOTE=LooperNor;13325772]One of my friends keep ignoring my warnings about Limewire. He says that if theres a virus in one of the things he downloads, Norton will stop it anyways, since it has done it one time before... God he's annoying some times...[/QUOTE] Just replying to my own post here. My friends computer is now fucked up. Norton have stopped working. His internet is fucked. When the internet was working, [url]www.malwarebytes.org[/url] and the spybot s&d site weren't working, but both worked just fine on my own laptop. He can't enter the C: drive. He gets an error message. He doesn't let me do anything on his computer, because he's afraid I will fuck it up more. :sigh:
[QUOTE=GreenDolphin;12008367]My older sister [b]says she has 10 Years of [i]Professional[/i] computing experience[/b].[/QUOTE] Keep this in mind. She recently tried to do a backup of my mother's PC for a system restore onto a 250GB External Harddrive. And here's what she both thought and actually did: [code]"Open C: > Highlight Everything > Send to External Harddrive"[/code] In total over [b]2 Million Files[/b] had been copied taking up nearly all the space on the External Harddrive. It took me [b]5 Hours[/b] to delete everything off of that, and then she still refused to let me help her. Another less dumber case was when my younger sister received a new laptop for Christmas. It came with 4GB of RAM but it had a 32-Bit Operating System. My idea was to update the System to 64-Bit to make use of all the RAM: "No, we don't want to make the computer slow. Having too much RAM slows down the PC." My older sister said, completely ignoring the point of my idea while substituting her own theory.
Jesus Christ, all of my friends seems to use Limewire. Conversation from earlier today when I saw my friend using Limewire: Me: You shouldn't use Limewire. Friend: Why not? It works great. Me: There is a big chance you will get some virus from it. Friend: Nah. Me: Yeah... Friend: Nah... I've got Panda antivirus. I'll fucking laugh at him when he gets some malware...
[QUOTE=LooperNor;13643269]Jesus Christ, all of my friends seems to use Limewire. Conversation from earlier today when I saw my friend using Limewire: Me: You shouldn't use Limewire. Friend: Why not? It works great. Me: There is a big chance you will get some virus from it. Friend: Nah. Me: Yeah... Friend: Nah... I've got Panda antivirus. I'll fucking laugh at him when he gets some malware...[/QUOTE] It's not that much about viruses or malware, but you can easily get the ip from other people this way. You know, some companies might take them to the police etc.
[QUOTE=DrLuke;13645419]It's not that much about viruses or malware, but you can easily get the ip from other people this way. You know, some companies might take them to the police etc.[/QUOTE] I wonder if Panda antivirus will help him when that happens :v
i has 500 ghz hd :O)
I has 250GB CPU
I only have 60gb...BUT thats because Im to lazy to replace it with a bigger one. Then again I did replace all the old parts with new gaming ones...so the only reason I have only 60 would be that all my music, vids and pics are on my zune so... Anyway, I agree. Talking to people that have no idea about computers is a pain. Especially those who think the bigger the hard drive the better it is. Or if your trying to help them with something and you have to put it extremely simply." THE COOKIES ARE NOT REAL COOKIES! ITS JUST WHAT THEY CALL THE CRAP IT DOWNLOADS!" They say, "But earlier you were talking about batches? Batches of the cookies?"............Things like that. I do not like.
[QUOTE=christarp;10317047]Seriously. Especially with kids at my school unless they know their shit. Like if I tell someone "Hey I got a new computer", they try to act all smart and say "How much hard drive space does it have? :c00l:". I then say 300 gigs is all I need, and they go "HAHA, I have 500 gigs!, you got ripped off!" I can't stand this. I only need 300 gigs. Then I ask them about other hardware, like the video card, and they just go ":confused:" and I say, I have a 3870x2, and then they go ":confused::confused:" and just walk away, thinking to them selves that I'm an idiot for buying this computer because it doesn't have as much hard drive space. Why this bothers me: 1. They think I'm an idiot for spending more and not getting as much hard drive space as their 3 year old machine 2. They go around telling people that I'm a computer illiterate moron (EG. "Dude, this guy thinks he got a good computer, but he only got 300 gigs HAHAH!" "REALLY?!" "YEAH" "HAHHA WHAT A MORON")[/QUOTE] I hate people like you who think they know everything about computers and then complain about how they don't like talking to computer illiterate people, when in fact they themselves sound dumb.
Here's how it goes: Upper Computer Literates > Computer Literates > Computer Illiterates > Computer Illiterates That Act Like They Know Everything.
You know what you do when people think they know a bunch of shit about computers, when they really dont? You laugh at their sorry asses behind their backs. Frustration solved
That is what I do, but then I rage because of their ignorance...
a heshe from hell uses a dell... xD yeah same, for the past 4 years i have had an 150gp drive and i ONLY JUST filled it up... i do agree that some people do need that space but you CAN live without it!
Not if you are into Film. Then you need as much space as possible. Uncompressed footage = FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
[QUOTE=Riutse;13659086]Not if you are into Film. Then you need as much space as possible. Uncompressed footage = FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-[/QUOTE] Fucking AGREED. My cousin and I do a lot of filming, right now he's got 2 external 500 gig hard drives filled up. He really likes to keep the uncompressed raws.
[QUOTE=darnok;13659295]Fucking AGREED. My cousin and I do a lot of filming, right now he's got 2 external 500 gig hard drives filled up. He really likes to keep the uncompressed raws.[/QUOTE] I try to keep my raws as much as possible, because I know the moment I delete one, I'm going to need it again. >:C
I have this issue at weird places. I have to deal with idiots who use noncustom made computers with practically 80 gig drives. I use a custom machine, the "GREENMACHINE", which is a green computer with 300something gigabytes, a great video card, and some other stuff I put onto it, which is everchanging. Heck, where the students are supposed to be more intelligent than me, I have to bring a microphone to explain everything about my computer. It really gets old.
Every time I mention something computer related to my friends or family, they always have a computer or two that needs fixing. Well as long as Microsoft keeps making Windows, I'll always have a side job. :D
This isn't necessarily computer-illiterate, but it's certainly computer ignorant. My Scholars' Bowl coach's old machine has been crapping out, and he's really been getting into 1080p movies and the like. So I recommend he build a new inexpensive HTPC build. I picked out a small case that would lie on its side in his entertainment center and told him the ins and outs about how a HTPC is small, quiet and low-power consuming. So I came back the next day and he had purchased an i7 920, a X58 mobo, 12 GIGS OF RAM a GTX 260C126, soundcard, terabyte drive, blu-ray burner, the works. x.x He's been getting all the new stuff in for the past couple of days and I've been skipping classes at school to help him build, but in this tiny case the graphics card won't fit. So he bought a case off of me and we continue working. I keep trying to tell him that he doesn't [I]need[/I] all of that stuff and that he's completely missing the point of a HTPC, but he's one that just can't stand not having the best. x.x Will report back on the working state of this PC tomorrow.
I'm at school with my alienware laptop, everyone is on the same network connection. Someone comes up to me and asks me how fast my internet is (because they think internet speed == computer speed?). So I load up facebook, it takes a little while, as does any other computer, because our internet connection is not that fast at school. Then he starts saying my computer is really slow, because my internet connection is not faster than anyone else's. I don't say anything, just facepalm. Story 2: I just upgraded my desktop to a quad core 2.83GHz, and two of my friends go on Dell and build an XPS One which is supposedly "faster than my desktop." -- "It has a quad core!" [I take a look at the specs] Q8200.. 2.3GHz, I have a Q9550. "It isn't faster" "yeah, but it's more awesome!" *silence* "explain." "It just is!"
YOu guys really need this thread to feel cool don't you?
[QUOTE=Killuah;13670530]YOu guys really need this thread to feel cool don't you?[/QUOTE] Oh god yes, without it we're mothing.
[QUOTE=christarp;10317047]Seriously. Especially with kids at my school unless they know their shit. Like if I tell someone "Hey I got a new computer", they try to act all smart and say "How much hard drive space does it have? :c00l:". I then say 300 gigs is all I need, and they go "HAHA, I have 500 gigs!, you got ripped off!" I can't stand this. I only need 300 gigs. Then I ask them about other hardware, like the video card, and they just go ":confused:" and I say, I have a 3870x2, and then they go ":confused::confused:" and just walk away, thinking to them selves that I'm an idiot for buying this computer because it doesn't have as much hard drive space. Why this bothers me: 1. They think I'm an idiot for spending more and not getting as much hard drive space as their 3 year old machine 2. They go around telling people that I'm a computer illiterate moron (EG. "Dude, this guy thinks he got a good computer, but he only got 300 gigs HAHAH!" "REALLY?!" "YEAH" "HAHHA WHAT A MORON")[/QUOTE] Oh great another angry nerd topic about they being socially rejected because they keep spewing their no-one-gives-a-fuck-stories into the public. If you know that they are computer-illiterate, then don't tell 'em, it's that simple...
[QUOTE=Number-41;13671079]Oh great another angry nerd topic about they being socially rejected because they keep spewing their no-one-gives-a-fuck-stories into the public. If you know that they are computer-illiterate, then don't tell 'em, it's that simple...[/QUOTE] Then why do [b]they[/b] keep spewing out stories about football and sports when we don't give a fuck? Same thing.
[QUOTE=pointyface;10319445]I don't like talking to computer illiterate people either, my friend told me he almost bought a mac because the commercials said they were better[/QUOTE] Oh god, hah. Also, I do not talk about computer hardware either with people from my school, they are all dumbasses. One guy bought this super expensive computer, quad core, 4 gigs ram and whatnot. (I don't remember what gpu he had but something good I assume.) You know why? Because he could... fucking idiot, I mean, I need that kind of specs for when I render stuff in 3ds max (Not doing too advanced stuff just yet but for future, more complex projects etc) and when I do machinima. You seriously do not need a fucking quad core and 4 gigs of ram for playing games, unless you are some sort of graphics whore, and the most funny thing is that he only plays Battlefield 2 or so... Geh, ATI 9550 ftw..
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