• I can't stand talking to computer illiterate people about computers.
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[QUOTE=devvothechav;17721544]Best Buy You don't want to argue with the support, they wont shut up and then they'll talk about PCs all day. some guy did this and he grabbed my arm when I was exiting the store, good god :crying:[/QUOTE] Oh god I lol'd, thank god we don't have Best Buys in Denmark.
lol I'm talking about the geeksquad kiosk (instore), i went in to get one of those jumper pins... then... "Yea i like to do lots of encoding with my dvd movies..." But once you get to a topic they know something about, they are not that bad to talk to tbh. :dance:
Yeah, I bet when you talk to them and the nice girls come along you totally get all the pussy. Right?
Now this is why being at college doing a specialised subject (IT Software Development) is great, everybody knows their shit.
When I told my friend I purchased an Intel e7400, he said I got ripped off because his XFX9800 was cheaper.
i remember this thread.
This thread makes me lol every time I read it.
gota love it :cheers:
[QUOTE=Wearwolf;10378217]*cough*People who play professional sports get paid a hell of a lot more than computer technicians / Scientists / engineers.[/QUOTE] I think it's fair to say that there are way more people working with computers than playing professional sports. Unless you count things like washing a professional player's laundry, or say, mopping the floor after they come back in.
My friend was about to buy a Alienware labtop but I changed his mind to getting a better HP laptop for half the price
[QUOTE=Gprimeisback;17723948]My friend was about to buy a Alienware labtop but I changed his mind to getting a better HP labtop for half the price[/QUOTE] Isn't it a laptop? HMM, HMMMMMMMMM!
[QUOTE=Psygo;17723995]Isn't it a laptop? HMM, HMMMMMMMMM![/QUOTE] Not if you use it ontop of a laboratory instead of your lap. [editline]01:41PM[/editline] Also, he might have a cold.
My favorite thing to do is ask people who gloat about their hdd space is ask how much they have used. On 1 Terra hdds most people I talk to kave 50 gigs or less used. Then I tell them I have 250 gigs used and they say "wow your pc must be slow". Durrr
I once tried to teach a friend how to host a css-server. The first thing i asked was: "Do you have a router?" "No." He responds. So after about 20 minutes, we've tried everything from "sv_lan 0" to restarting his computer. So I ask him again: "Are you sure you haven't got a router?" "Is it a box with flashing green lights?" he says.
[QUOTE=Cheezy;17724335]I once tried to teach a friend how to host a css-server. The first thing i asked was: "Do you have a router?" "No." He responds. So after about 20 minutes, we've tried everything from "sv_lan 0" to restarting his computer. So I ask him again: "Are you sure you haven't got a router?" "Is it a box with flashing green lights?" he says.[/QUOTE] I'm guessing your face was like your avatar after that :v:
[QUOTE=Psygo;17723995]Isn't it a laptop? HMM, HMMMMMMMMM![/QUOTE] Edited your majesty
[QUOTE=nige111;17722058]Now this is why being at college doing a specialised subject (IT Software Development) is great, everybody knows their shit.[/QUOTE] Be lucky you're not doing normal A-Level IT or BTEC IT, heh. Some of the people who do it are actually morons when it comes to computers. That being said, now talking to OP: Tolerance, ffs! Not everyone wants to learn about the guts of a computer. I hear people say dumb things about technology all the time in college, and I really couldn't give a fuck. I don't even correct people anymore, unless they're asking me a question. What bugs me more is people who get so worked up about misunderstandings - like having a go at someone for confusing Gigabytes with Gigahertz - it just makes you look silly :\ [editline]05:34PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Blarg190;17724294]My favorite thing to do is ask people who gloat about their hdd space is ask how much they have used. On 1 Terra hdds most people I talk to kave 50 gigs or less used. Then I tell them I have 250 gigs used and they say "wow your pc must be slow". Durrr[/QUOTE] Well technically they'd be right, any filesystem which allows fragmentation will slow down when there's more files stored on it, even if you defrag regularly, a 250Gb-full HDD won't be as quick as a 50Gb HDD because the filesystem still has to spend more time traversing directory trees, stuff like that ;p (Though that's being pedantic and the time increase in I/O is probably something like a couple of milliseconds)
[QUOTE=Blarg190;17724294]My favorite thing to do is ask people who gloat about their hdd space is ask how much they have used. On 1 Terra hdds most people I talk to kave 50 gigs or less used. Then I tell them I have 250 gigs used and they say "wow your pc must be slow". Durrr[/QUOTE] My computer must be really slow, I used 600 gigs in less than three months :saddowns:
Not wanting to learn about the guts of a computer isn't an excuse to spout mindless hyperbole and make unreasonable assumptions even though you know you don't know anything. And doing so is more likely than not an expression of a desire to actually learn. So by ignoring them you are probably doing people a disservice more than anything. In fact, without a reliable source of information these people might drive themselves into a feedback loop of misinformation. Which is probably what created many of the sad cases we see ITT.
I was talking to someone at school about the "Google Phone" (the G1) and he said it was much better than the iPhone because it had "a few megs of ram" and the iPhone had "none". :whoptc:
Come to think of it... My friend had this 11 year old computer and when he tried to play a game it wouldn't work. He asked what's wrong with it. I checked it's specs. It had 64 mb of ram, built in videocard, pentium 3, 15 gb hard drive and an 100W PSU. I told him: "Well, you need a new video card, a new processor, a new motherboard, a lot more RAM, and a new PSU. He replied: "Alright, can you download them for me?" I punched him in the face and left.
[QUOTE=Furfurag;17726784]Come to think of it... My friend had this 11 year old computer and when he tried to play a game it wouldn't work. He asked what's wrong with it. I checked it's specs. It had 64 mb of ram, built in videocard, pentium 3, 15 gb hard drive and an 100W PSU. I told him: "Well, you need a new video card, a new processor, a new motherboard, a lot more RAM, and a new PSU. He replied: "Alright, can you download them for me?" I punched him in the face and left.[/QUOTE] Ex-friend you mean. And why didn't you just say "you need a new computer"?
[QUOTE=Furfurag;17726784]Come to think of it... My friend had this 11 year old computer and when he tried to play a game it wouldn't work. He asked what's wrong with it. I checked it's specs. It had 64 mb of ram, built in videocard, pentium 3, 15 gb hard drive and an 100W PSU. I told him: "Well, you need a new video card, a new processor, a new motherboard, a lot more RAM, and a new PSU. He replied: "Alright, can you download them for me?" I punched him in the face and left.[/QUOTE] Seeing that he obviously didn't know anything about computers, rather than being a total dickcheese you could tell him that he needs a new PC.
You could also just have told him that you can't download those things. Which would strike me as slightly more useful. Regardless I smell the foul stench of a troll.
[QUOTE=Turbis2;17727392]Seeing that he obviously didn't know anything about computers, rather than being a total dickcheese you could tell him that he needs a new PC.[/QUOTE] Bullshit, punching people is like so hardcore, especially if they know less than you do.
[QUOTE=johanz;17727748]Bullshit, punching people is like so hardcore, especially if they know less than you do.[/QUOTE] Yeah, lets be badass together :frogc00l:
I can't stand talking to illiterate people about books. It's like they haven't even read them! I can't stand talking to Creationists about biology. It's like they only have one metric for belief! I can't stand talking to Eunuchs about my active and satisfying sex life. They just break down crying! I can't stand talking to talking to ninjas about pirates. They just go *POOF* and turn into logs with a face drawn on or something. I can't stand talking to paraplegics about my silver medal in the 500 meter dash. Can't they just understand how much I deserved gold in that race? I can't stand talking to neo-nazis about racial equity. You'd think that simply calling a person "queer" wouldn't automatically make him one! I can't stand talking to recovering alcoholics about my weekends of binge drinking. They always start sweating, biting their lip, and have somewhere else to be! Come on, you guys.
A better thread title would be "I can't stand talking to computer illiterate bullshitters about computers" since most of the thread is about that.
Just say it don't matter, because you can just get an external hard drive with 2T's, than laugh in their face, and call them total morons. Dont say the spec just say what games it could run easly and at what graphical level.
Me: Why are you using Avira? Dad: Because it's free Me: Well AVG and Avast! are both free, and are much better. Dad: BUT THIS IS FREE
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