Computer illiterate people who think they know things V5 = I FLICK PSU VOLTAGE SWITCH - Hardware & Software

I'll just leave this here [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=992896[/url]

[QUOTE=Comrade General;24397837]From what i heard(HEARD.) it's mainly used for warez purposes.[/QUOTE] I use it for copying my media collection, or if I have to move smaller files to a computer outside my network. It is infact very useful still, though probably won't stay on the market for long.

[QUOTE=codenamecueball;24404731]I fucking hate people who do that. I was writing BASIC (it's part of the course, I was doing some revision in the library) and some guy shouts "MISS HE'S HACKING OUR BITNETS" and she came over, looked at me, said leave the library and I got a detention and 1 week ban. Didn't even get to explain myself.[/QUOTE] Most teachers at my school don't take any accusations seriously. (A LOT of people think they're clever when they shout out "HE'S PLAYING GAMES" or "HE'S LOOKING AT PORN!!!!") Even when I [i]was[/i] playing Portal in class :smug: (I had done the work and was bored)

[QUOTE=agentgamma;24407443]Most teachers at my school don't take any accusations seriously. (A LOT of people think they're clever when they shout out "HE'S PLAYING GAMES" or "HE'S LOOKING AT PORN!!!!") Even when I [I]was[/I] playing Portal in class :smug: (I had done the work and was bored)[/QUOTE] That sounds really believable. You have steam [B]and[/B] portal on your school computers without being caught, plus most school computers are shitty DELL's or HP's[in ireland anyway] you probably would've had about 10FPS Also, not really illiteracy but when i got on my PC i signed in and tried to close messenger etc. and i was wondering why it was'nt warking, turns out it was'nt plugged in v:3:v

My school has good computers in the IT room

Found this on [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pKCpSQudnI[/url] [img]http://gyazo.com/70fa10ba12738bb138790bbaf06d883e.png[/img]

[QUOTE=kmlkmljkl;24409260]My school has good computers in the IT room[/QUOTE]Only good computer here is a custom i7 build with an 8800gtS For 3d modelling, [the school is sorta illiterate] [editline]05:00PM[/editline] [QUOTE=tomoom165;24409284]Found this on [URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pKCpSQudnI[/URL] [IMG]http://gyazo.com/70fa10ba12738bb138790bbaf06d883e.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] Wut times 3

[QUOTE=tomoom165;24409284]Found this on [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pKCpSQudnI[/url] [img]http://gyazo.com/70fa10ba12738bb138790bbaf06d883e.png[/img][/QUOTE] Halo: Reach - Space themed hat simulator. Whoops, auto-thumb made it bigger.

you guys have shitty classmates [editline]05:19PM[/editline] nobody in my school snitches on each other

In my primary school they had these all-in-ones designed for a primary environment (ie had a flap screwed in blocking access to the connectors). One of them wouldn't turn on and they were completely baffled as to why, so I was told to find out what was wrong with it (me and my friend were the school's "computer monitors" :V:). After a few minutes I found someone had pulled the power cord out. As the flap was screwed in we couldn't do anything about so off I popped to find a screwdriver. The first teacher said she'd lost hers so told us to find someone else. I found the teacher in charge of IT and explained what had happened as clearly as possible, but she went batshit about how it wasn't our place to take the computers apart and repair them. It was unplugged for weeks until I finally got her in the room to show her it was a protective flap over the cables and that we weren't going to take it apart.

[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;24411031]you guys have shitty classmates [editline]05:19PM[/editline] nobody in my school snitches on each other[/QUOTE] College classmates can be pretty cool guys. We managed to get a full hour of Counter Strike: Source in by being very careful and watching each others backs (except one guy we liked to make our bitch). The PCs we use are pretty decent really, playing it at pretty much max on the shit resolution we use.

[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=993060[/url]

[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=993043[/url] :irony:

[quote] Friend #1: Some window keeps popping up saying something about a 'DSL error' Friend #2: Try turning DHCP on and off, that will fix it [/quote]

My neighbor thought that she was going to get arrested for me using bit torrent to download older ROMs that I needed, Every cop she saw she thought was an undercover agent after me. :l

[QUOTE=Rucksack;24415049]Friend #1: Some window keeps popping up saying something about a 'DSL error' Friend #2: Try turning DHCP on and off, that will fix it[/QUOTE] That doesn't seem like a terrible place to start. I wouldn't be so certain that it WILL fix it, but I don't get why it is illiterate. DHCP can glitch up at times. [editline]05:09PM[/editline] I miss my old avatar.

[QUOTE=xxncxx;24414766][url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=993060[/url][/QUOTE] He wasn't pretending he knew stuff, he was after advice. No one starts of knowing all this shit.

My Computer Literacy teacher thinks that data (day-tuh) and data (dah-tuh) are two different words. The former being plural and the latter being singular. :irony:

Fail. Tell your teacher to look up the word "datum".

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[QUOTE=Kiwi Bird;24417009]My Computer Literacy teacher thinks that data (day-tuh) and data (dah-tuh) are two different words. The former being plural and the latter being singular. :irony:[/QUOTE] Really? English is such a fucked up language if the way you pronounce a word can dictate if it's singular or plural.

[QUOTE=nikomo;24417852]Really? English is such a fucked up language if the way you pronounce a word can dictate if it's singular or plural.[/QUOTE] english is a pretty fucked up language see: moose

"you know if your getting hacked because you can see the hacker controlling your computer"

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;24418039]english is a pretty fucked up language see: moose[/QUOTE] Fun fact: The word "moose" is pronounced exactly the same as the Swedish word for "mashed potatoes"! themoreyouknow.jpg

[QUOTE=xxncxx;24414766][url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=993060[/url][/QUOTE] have to admit, the red ghost party thing was pretty funny.

[QUOTE=Kiwi Bird;24417009]My Computer Literacy teacher [b]thinks[b] that data (day-tuh) and data (dah-tuh) are two different words. The former being plural and the latter being singular. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=nikomo;24417852]Really? English is such a fucked up language if the way you pronounce a word can dictate if it's singular or plural.[/QUOTE] No it's not. That's the reason that it was posted? The singular is, as has already been stated, "datum", not a differently pronounced "data" (which is plural). Pronunciation doesn't change the meaning of words. Though there are quite a few words that are both the singular [i]and[/i] the plural, so your conclusion is still valid.

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Im gonna tell you about my school's computers. They are pentium 4's, intergraded nvidia graphics, DVD drives made of plastic and all 35 computers are hooked up to one 160gb HDD. The internet is 6kb/s. Its fucking insane, they expect us to do shit, while the teachers sit there and smug with their i7, HD 4890, 1TB macines.

[QUOTE=BMCHa;24418358]No it's not. That's the reason that it was posted? The singular is, as has already been stated, "datum", not a differently pronounced "data" (which is plural). Pronunciation doesn't change the meaning of words. Though there are quite a few words that are both the singular [i]and[/i] the plural, so your conclusion is still valid.[/QUOTE] Since when was data and data plural and singular?

Holy crud I just read through a weeks worth of posts to see nothing but arguments about screen resolutions and what words mean. I'm pretty sure I haven't mentioned this before: I think I was in 4th grade at the time, the teacher had moved around her classroom a bit, and as a result the computers were only mostly set up. Everyone wanted to play Oregon Trail, but the speakers weren't plugged in so nobody could play because there would be no sound. I went over to plug the speakers in as one classmate followed me over to the computer. I plugged in the main speaker while the other kid grabbed the other speaker that was supposed to be plugged into the main speaker. He took the connector and tried to plug it into the sound card [img_thumb]http://www.pachd.com/free-images/technology-images/rca-connector-02.jpg[/img_thumb] right next to where I'd already plugged in the main connector. [img_thumb]http://www.getprice.com.au/images/content_images/blog-glossary-3-5mm-cable-jack-connector.jpg[/img_thumb] He insisted that that was how it was supposed to be plugged in, even if the connector kept falling out of the sound card. He fought with me over it for about 5 minutes until we both walked away, and when he wasn't looking I went back and plugged it in correctly.