I can't stand talking to computer illiterate people about computers.
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A few weeks ago my parents made me install Farcry 2 on my old 2000 laptop because apparently Graphic's Card, RAM, or the CPU don't count for shit. HDD space is all that you need.
[QUOTE=Overv;10326889]Yea, lots of people confuse Ghz with GB.
And my mom thinks the pc will run faster if she removes stuff from the HD. Lol...[/QUOTE]
Actually your mom's sorth of right. I just think she overhypes it, as removing stuff from a hd hardly has any effect.
If you uninstall stuff and remove temporary files, there'll be less to load up, plus there'll be less for the hard drive to search through.
I know alot of people who confuse "downloading" with "installing"
That totals 1% of my experiences with illiterate people.
Rage.
[QUOTE=tarkata14;14757599]I'm lucky, at my school, most everyone knows I know more about computers than them. But, there are some kids. DAMN THEM. HARD DRIVE SPACE ISN'T MEMORY.[/QUOTE]
I overheard two idiots talking the other day and one told you other "you're retarded for getting vista with only a 500 megabit hard drive. Vista uses up your memory, it's called superfetch, it makes you need a 1 terabit hard drive just to keep your PC for a year. You should have just gotten XP, that gives you more memory over time."
he pronounced Vista "veester". If I'd been able to pick him out of the crowd I'd have snapped his neck just to prevent more shit from spewing from his face
hey, re-ah-pa-nine-jur!
A friend of mine wanted to know "what HTML I used to use Wiremod."
Then he asked how to write HTML so it shuts down someone's PC
Everyone I know is computer illiterate. That's why I just don't talk about computers anymore.
I have a 500gb harddrive and I really only need 150.
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[QUOTE=waxrock;14755462]Well... does he use all of them?[/QUOTE]
No, that's the problem.
[QUOTE=Roast Beast;13917323]Today I heard a kid say that his dad "installed McAfee to protect the hard drive from cookies" [img]http://sa.tweek.us/emots/images/emot-downs.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
My dad is always like "Oh AVG picked up 200 viruses when it scanned today" when it's just showing him cookies.
[QUOTE=tarkata14;14757599][B]EDIT:[/B] Another form of people I hate. Tech people. My school has a Dell desktop that's broken, and he comes in, looks at it for half an hour, and leaves, saying it needs to be reformatted. Is that their answer to everything?[/QUOTE]
Well our guys are really funny, they carry Walkie talkies as if they're the police and the generic answer to anything is "The server needs a reboot" and "turn it off and try it again" I think I could do better than they do.
[QUOTE=tarkata14;14757599]I'm lucky, at my school, most everyone knows I know more about computers than them. But, there are some kids. DAMN THEM. HARD DRIVE SPACE ISN'T MEMORY.
[B]EDIT:[/B] Another form of people I hate. Tech people. My school has a Dell desktop that's broken, and he comes in, looks at it for half an hour, and leaves, saying it needs to be reformatted. Is that their answer to everything?[/QUOTE]
They only say reformat when they dont know how to fix it.
[QUOTE=nerdygamer;14784625]They only say reformat when they dont know how to fix it.[/QUOTE]
so true, i went to fix my friends connection to the internet and i found that he had somehow managed to save nearly half his documents in random folders in his local disk and program files utterly fucking up his system, but the only choice was to reformat considering i didn't want to deal with homework documents in his win32
it really doesn't bother me at all, computer illiteracy is common because computers are complicated.
I don't expect people 'not to stand it' when I don't understand something they think is simple.
If anything annoys me, it's the attitude of most of the arrogant nerds in this thread.
[QUOTE=Roo-kie;14786949]it really doesn't bother me at all, computer illiteracy is common because computers are complicated.
I don't expect people 'not to stand it' when I don't understand something they think is simple.
If anything annoys me, it's the attitude of most of the arrogant nerds in this thread.[/QUOTE]
I do realize u could ban me at a whim, but the impact of computers and their function on todays society is something that has not been seen in all human history. Through the way that it can connect us to people all around the world to share ideas and viewpoints or to simply argue on flame threads. And to show true arrogance in the technology that has bought the world to where it is now and to where it ill be in the future is truly sad considering it is not that complicated and simply knowing what makes a computer work should be common knowledge just as all people know what makes a car work
I don't know what 'True arrogance' has to do with technological progression. I don't know where you pulled that one from.
Not everyone grew up with computers and understandably would be a difficult concept to grasp for older generations. Your attitude that 'it is not that complicated' is misconstrued, computers are complicated, our generation just doesn't think so because we've grown up with them in our lives.
[QUOTE=Roo-kie;14786949]it really doesn't bother me at all, computer illiteracy is common because computers are complicated.
I don't expect people 'not to stand it' when I don't understand something they think is simple.
If anything annoys me, it's the attitude of most of the arrogant nerds in this thread.[/QUOTE]
I think it is more based on the people not the technology, when you break it down for people (well when I do it) using laymen terms most people don't find it complicated
[QUOTE=Roo-kie;14787199]I don't know what 'True arrogance' has to do with technological progression. I don't know where you pulled that one from.
Not everyone grew up with computers and understandably would be a difficult concept to grasp for older generations. Your attitude that 'it is not that complicated' is misconstrued, computers are complicated, our generation just doesn't think so because we've grown up with them in our lives.[/QUOTE]
i realize that older people may have trouble grasping the ways of a computer but i believe this thread is more about our peers and how some people refuse to learn about a technology that is used in there daily lives. because the information is there
I don't agree people should learn or have to learn the technology because it's commonplace. Understandably, computer literate folk show some degree of disdain when dealing with lesser literate types, although there are plenty of daily things that I use that I'm completely ignorant about.
[QUOTE=Roo-kie;14787686]I don't agree people should learn or have to learn the technology because it's commonplace. Understandably, computer literate folk show some degree of disdain when dealing with lesser literate types, although there are plenty of daily things that I use that I'm completely ignorant about.[/QUOTE]
i do agree that that it shouldn't be a requirement or anything and its not like I outright insult someone who doesn't know there there stuff, and i hope know one yells at there grandma for using IE or something. But anyone who grew up in the 90's should have simple basic knowledge of what makes a computer work
[QUOTE=fusionpoo;14787563]i realize that older people may have trouble grasping the ways of a computer but i believe this thread is more about our peers and how some people refuse to learn about a technology that is used in there daily lives. because the information is there[/QUOTE]
Generally the ignorance is hardware based (at least in my experience). Most people know how to use a computer at a competent level
People never stop to think about the technology and hardware behind stuff, I'm sure your average person couldn't identify over half of the stuff inside a TV, car, CD player etc.
Why are computers any different? Just because you took the time to familiarise yourself with how your PC operates it doesn't make you any better than anyone else
[QUOTE=Roo-kie;14787686]I don't agree people should learn or have to learn the technology because it's commonplace. Understandably, computer literate folk show some degree of disdain when dealing with lesser literate types, although there are plenty of daily things that I use that I'm completely ignorant about.[/QUOTE]
Well, today knowing your way around computers is nearly as important as knowing how to read.
They aren't forced to learn about them, but it would be very good for them to do so.
[QUOTE=acds;14788090]Well, today knowing your way around computers is nearly as important as knowing how to read.
They aren't forced to learn about them, but it would be very good for them to do so.[/QUOTE]
That's a bit of an exaggeration IMO
[QUOTE=Conn92;14788423]That's a bit of an exaggeration IMO[/QUOTE]
Yeah maybe it's a bit exaggerated. But knowing your way around computers (no need to be able to code an OS, but at least know how to use a PC) and electronics today is extremely important. And it will just get more and more important.
[QUOTE=acds;14788784]Yeah maybe it's a bit exaggerated. But knowing your way around computers (no need to be able to code an OS, but at least know how to use a PC) and electronics today is extremely important. And it will just get more and more important.[/QUOTE]
Yes it is, but most people in our generation are computer literate enough to do the things required of them anyway
I thought this thread wasn't as much for dealing with people who truly don't know much about computers, and more for people who arrogantly assume how the inner-workings of a computer function based on a few terms they have heard you say.
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;14791857]I thought this thread wasn't as much for dealing with people who truly don't know much about computers, and more for people who arrogantly assume how the inner-workings of a computer function based on a few terms they have heard you say.[/QUOTE]
This. I don't mind people who don't know anything about computers, since they only talk to me about it if they have a problem and I can usually fix the problem. It's the ones that who think they're cool because they can spout a few acronyms that make me mad.
[QUOTE=tarkata14;14757599][B]EDIT:[/B] Another form of people I hate. Tech people. My school has a Dell desktop that's broken, and he comes in, looks at it for half an hour, and leaves, saying it needs to be reformatted. Is that their answer to everything?[/QUOTE]
Exactly the same here. I was at a i.t. college, being there a few weeks to see if it was anyting for me, and one of the others there managed to install windows antivirus 2008 on the computer, I mean really, what the hell, that kid's never gonna be anywhere near a computer ever again.
Oh well, then the school tech walks in, looks at it while the kid explains, and our teacher overhypes it so god damn much it's amazing, only for him to reformat it and install it over the network.
The first time he installed the wrong version over the network, meaning it came with the wrong drivers and he had to do it all over again. :sigh:
[QUOTE=†_Slash_†;14801413]Exactly the same here. I was at a i.t. college, being there a few weeks to see if it was anyting for me, and one of the others there managed to install windows antivirus 2008 on the computer, I mean really, what the hell, that kid's never gonna be anywhere near a computer ever again.
Oh well, then the school tech walks in, looks at it while the kid explains, and our teacher overhypes it so god damn much it's amazing, only for him to reformat it and install it over the network.
The first time he installed the wrong version over the network, meaning it came with the wrong drivers and he had to do it all over again. :sigh:[/QUOTE]
My friend installed antivirus 2009 thinking that it would make his computer faster, he comes to me for help. Of course I told him to use Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, then finish up with a scan from avast!. Of course he starts complaining that its going to take a couple hours and wants an alternative. So, the only "faster" way to get rid of it was to reformat. I don't see what the big deal of reformatting a school computer is, where I go to school everything is held on a big central network drive. Reformatting is the easiest way to make sure nothing malicious is left behind.
I have a 2TB RAID for storing my mass movie / anime collection
But most people in our college know how to work a computer, I just build them for them
I am personally fine with most computer illetirates, being as I'm always happy to teach someone about computers. It's just that I hate it when
1) They ask me for help extremely often
or
2) They think they know it all but they really don't
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