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[QUOTE=luck_or_loss;23134835]I hate how my friend keeps telling me that his computer is better than mine, when one of his specs is 8 gigabytes of nvidia sli ready ram... ugghhhhhhh[/QUOTE] Run benchmarks and prove yours is better then

[QUOTE=attackyourself!;23130360]True, but that's not what he meant. He genuinely thought you could hack a BB gun in the same way you could hack a computer. This same kid also thought that megabytes were a unit of battery life.[/QUOTE] I Facepalm'd with the force of a thousand years of war and death to come.

I always read your name in the voice of the Russian intelligence officer from Red Alert 2.

my friend was trying to host a website from his house and it wasn't working, so i told him his isp probably blocked port 80, then he linked me to an article that confirmed it while browsing through the comments of said article i came across this gem [quote] OMG, i cannot believe what you are saying. Do you have a large box? Good put your computer in it and send it back. Ports are part of your operating system and your routers firewall and thats it. ISP's couldn't block a port even if the wanted too. A cable modem does not have that kind of a capability. And just to correct a few other thing you said: Webservers dont use port 80, internet explorer does andyou can make telnet use what ever port u want by typing telnet <insert website> <insert port #>. If you are experiancing problems with internet based programs connecting you are most likely using a router. and just need to forward the ports. The problem with port forwarding is that nobody supports it, not even the router companies. So it is quite easy but you will need to do some research about yourparticular brand of router and do it yourself.[/quote]

This is in the IT shop I'm doing work experience in. This lady and her what looked around 8 year old son walked up to the counter with a netbook one of the employees opens the netbook to see what was wrong then asked why the keys were sticky turns out they bought it there because her son actually pissed on it the employees reaction was priceless.

My step brother's friend gave me his iPod asking him to figure out why it won't turn on Turns out he never charged it

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;23139441']This is in the IT shop I'm doing work experience in. This lady and her what looked around 8 year old son walked up to the counter with a netbook one of the employees opens the netbook to see what was wrong then asked why the keys were sticky turns out they bought it there because her son actually pissed on it the employees reaction was priceless.[/QUOTE] Pissed on it? What? He's 8 he should be more than old enough to know that you don't pee on a fricking laptop. [B]Edit:[/B] Page king, have some content: [quote] Her - I don't think my internet is working. Me - Why's that? Her - The screen is black and it says no signal. Me - Are you using a desktop computer? Her - Yeah, it's an Acer. Me - Alright, I need you to check something for me. Her - OK. Me - Is your computer turned on? Her - ... ... No. Me - OK ma'am, press the power button on the computer. ***A minute later*** Me - Is it working now? Her - I think so.[/quote] [url]http://boards.ign.com/teh_vestibule/b5296/184503551/p1/[/url]

[QUOTE=Tools;23139884]Pissed on it? What? He's 8 he should be more than old enough to know that you don't pee on a fricking laptop.[/QUOTE] That's what I thought, must be one retarded-ass 8 yr old, or one silly story :3:

he did look retarded [editline]02:55AM[/editline] possibly :downs:

[QUOTE=MegaJohnny;23130758]Okay this is a chat log that I've just got... is this guy saying stupid stuff or is he right? I don't know terribly much about multiple cores but I've never heard of 2-core and 6-core processors having crashing problems in particular. Yet he seems insistent that this is the case. Hope you don't mind it being a chatlog. [code] 20:07 - Technocat: dual core? 20:07 - Technocat: dual core has a lot of problems with games 20:07 - Technocat: Dual and six core 20:07 - Technocat: are the bad ones 20:07 - MegaJohnny: where'd you get this from 20:07 - Technocat: 4 core only has graphical problems 20:08 - Technocat: what from? 20:08 - MegaJohnny: this notion that dual core has technical problems 20:08 - Technocat: past expeirences 20:08 - Technocat: so instead of a dual 20:08 - Technocat: I got a 6 core 20:08 - Technocat: XD 20:08 - Technocat: only like a couple games didnt have problems on it 20:08 - MegaJohnny: what kind of problems 20:08 - Technocat: so i got a 4 core 20:08 - Technocat: like, running problems 20:09 - Technocat: everything running on one core 20:09 - Technocat: much more 20:09 - Technocat: crashes 20:09 - Technocat: Ive never crashed once on this computer 20:09 - MegaJohnny: the game does have to be programmed for it to use more than one core 20:09 - Technocat: its not the game really 20:09 - Technocat: its the core 20:10 - Technocat: its never meant for such [/code][/QUOTE] Holy fuckballs is that guy wrong. Multi-core processors are completely backwards compatible. If a game isn't coded for multiple cores, it doesn't use them. To the game, it's exactly the same as running on a single core so there's no way it could cause more crashing. The only case where a multi-core processor could make a game unstable is if the game is coded for multi-core processors but isn't coded very well. In that case, the game would detect that you have multiple cores and enable its buggy multithreading code. However the number of cores shouldn't really matter. Yet again it all scales: if you have too many cores it just ignores the others, if you don't have enough it doesn't try to use them. I've also never heard of a game where the multithreading support was so bad that it caused instability. Granted there are some games (e.g. a few Source engine games) that allow you to turn on multithreading features through the developer's console and those are usually buggy because they aren't officially supported. Perhaps that's what that guy was talking about, but in those cases you should not fuck around with multithreading at all. tl;dr he's talking out of his ass. Quad core isn't more stable than hex core.

So my buddy and I are talking about the absurdities of the WinAPI. He gives me this quote from the documentation. [quote]If the TCIF_TEXT flag is set in the mask member of the TCITEM structure, the control may change the pszText member of the structure to point to the new text instead of filling the buffer with the requested text. The control may set the pszText member to NULL to indicate that no text is associated with the item.[/quote] Now notice how it says may... We concluded that the WinAPI has a mind of its own...

[QUOTE=Larikang;23141362]Holy fuckballs is that guy wrong. Multi-core processors are completely backwards compatible. If a game isn't coded for multiple cores, it doesn't use them. To the game, it's exactly the same as running on a single core so there's no way it could cause more crashing. The only case where a multi-core processor could make a game unstable is if the game is coded for multi-core processors but isn't coded very well. In that case, the game would detect that you have multiple cores and enable its buggy multithreading code. However the number of cores shouldn't really matter. Yet again it all scales: if you have too many cores it just ignores the others, if you don't have enough it doesn't try to use them. I've also never heard of a game where the multithreading support was so bad that it caused instability. Granted there are some games (e.g. a few Source engine games) that allow you to turn on multithreading features through the developer's console and those are usually buggy because they aren't officially supported. Perhaps that's what that guy was talking about, but in those cases you should not fuck around with multithreading at all. tl;dr he's talking out of his ass. Quad core isn't more stable than hex core.[/QUOTE] yea, strangely enough however I have had problems with my quad core and sim city 4. It would, after approx. 20 minutes of gameplay crash to desktop, no error message or anything. Looking online showed that others had had similar problems, and that setting affinity for it's process to one core fixed it. Did it and voila, no more crashing. Strange, because supposedly sim city 4 isn't multi threaded so i dunno. Everything you said is right as far as i know, just an oddball game i guess.

[QUOTE=Nerts;23136130]I always read your name in the voice of the Russian intelligence officer from Red Alert 2.[/QUOTE] That was intended. Or Richard Burton's voice. [editline]09:38AM[/editline] That actually brightened my day, you telling me that, Nerts.

[QUOTE=InsanePyro;23139477]My step brother's friend gave me his iPod asking him to figure out why it won't turn on Turns out he never charged it[/QUOTE] Well, they tend to say that teir products are magical... Why should it [b]need[/b] power?

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;23146559]Well, they tend to say that teir products are magical... Why should it [b]need[/b] power?[/QUOTE] they run on hype

Apple, innovative as always!

Apple, running on smug since 1976.

So that's why they can't have flash, the hype power levels would overload the system

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;23146847]Apple, running on smug since 1976.[/QUOTE] actually, they were really all right up until the Macintosh, and even that wasn't so bad. it seems to me that it's about g3/g4 era were it all turned to smug bullshit, and it just got worse after switching to Intel.

[QUOTE=limulus54;23150190]actually, they were really all right up until the Macintosh, and even that wasn't so bad. it seems to me that it's about g3/g4 era were it all turned to smug bullshit, and it just got worse after switching to Intel.[/QUOTE] Actually, it was just around the Ipod and the Intel switch a few years later. before that... holy fuck. they actually DID what they ADVERTISED! mainly because they never claimed it to be a religion or cure cancer... unlike today. "Apple is a way of life, therefore we did....." "Mac OS X improves your life quality with the new..." "my boot will tear you a new rectum, because you pretend not to know jackshit about computers when you're probrably one of the most Tech literate people on this planet... Retard Jobs!" Sometimes, i wish he'd start talking to us as if we were intelligent beings instead of pretending to be Super Mega Death Christ v. 2002 rev.B G3 and G4 were and era of fan-fucking-tastic computers... untill they just stopped upgrading them and you were able to buy 1999 laptops at 2000 bucks in 2004. But that was because the G5 wouldn't fit in laptops with a reasonable power consumption. Further more, they didn't know about the plans for the PPC cell processor, otherwise, they'd never have made they switch... but they never heard of it and made the switch. Had they not abandoned the PPC... had they known. Demand would be so high for PPC processors (mix of apple, Microxbox and Sonystation) that Playstation ans Xbox would be just that tad cheaper to produce... the prices would have been reasonable. but i shouldn't complain... i'm the tard that bought it all. [QUOTE=Tools;23139884] Page king, have some content: [URL]http://boards.ign.com/teh_vestibule/b5296/184503551/p1/[/URL][/QUOTE] Oh, god... that's when it isn't even funny anymore... i feel like killing lambs!

Yeah, I would actually like jobs to talk a little more technical. The reason he doesn't, I guess, is that if he began to talk tech-talk, people would think "This is not simple at all, as they said! Better buy a Windows!".

ha, you think jobs has a fucking clue what he's talking about? all he's ever had to do in that company is either convince woz to do his shit for him, or hire people, tell them they're artists. sure he probably knows more than your average human being, but it's not like he actually made anything there.

yeah jobs isn't as smart as people say he is. Woz did all the tech shit

[url]http://www.pcworld.com/article/200512/10_reasons_why_the_pc_is_here_to_stay.html?tk=nl_dnx_h_crawl[/url] RAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[QUOTE=LinuX;23161110][url]http://www.pcworld.com/article/200512/10_reasons_why_the_pc_is_here_to_stay.html?tk=nl_dnx_h_crawl[/url] RAGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE[/QUOTE] There is nothing rage inducing there; wtf.

In fact, It should be the opposite.

"At this writing, both Dell and HP are offering laptops with 15-inch screens and generous memory and hard disk space for around $380. By comparison, the cheapest iPad is $499. It has a 9.7-inch screen, 16GB of solid-state storage, and no physical keyboard. It doesn't run Windows or Mac OS X, which means it doesn't support applications designed for either platform. You can browse the Web on it, but it doesn't support sites designed with Adobe Flash or other plug-ins. If this is the next stage of computing, we're taking a step backward." I think this is the best point in the whole article.

[QUOTE=limulus54;23153226]ha, you think jobs has a fucking clue what he's talking about? all he's ever had to do in that company is either convince woz to do his shit for him, or hire people, tell them they're artists. sure he probably knows more than your average human being, but it's not like he actually made anything there.[/QUOTE] His presentation of the products implies that he likes to relay a magic/fairy tale angle on it to hide limits. He DOES know, very well what it is about and what they do to achieve what. otherwise, he wouldn't be able to be the face of Apple and wouldn't know how to "magify" the features. He knows his system very well, i can tell you that. If you think he just goes "well, i wan't a program for music and then a shop that works over the internet within the program - DO IT" then you live in a fucking fairy tale. He's managing pretty tightly what works how and how complicated it seems and how much resources it takes behind the scenes to achieve a "light as a feather" system... or, as macfags thing "magic" or as you guys call it "gay". [QUOTE=ButtsexV2;23160747]yeah jobs isn't as smart as people say he is. Woz did all the tech shit[/QUOTE] Because, making an OS, streamlining, coding coming up with ideas and then give it a feel worthy of some Wunderkind frankenstein machine run by magic is totally a one-man job. Jobs decided on a feel, waaay back in 84. he and his equals work to realize this (create an illusion of doing so) and seem to be fooling everyone. It's a job that requires more than one individual, is what i'm saying. The system and machine work great though, you're a real fucking cooker if you think otherwise, and may i dare say so, live in a more magic world than any ilitterate mac user. [editline]12:48AM[/editline] [QUOTE=WecksyRex;23161835] I think this is the best point in the whole article.[/QUOTE] agree

One day my friend had bought hl2 and wanted me to check if it would work on his computer and i did, so I went home for a while.About an hour later i walked into his room, And the first thing i saw was a smashed HDD, i asked what happened and he said "It was making my computer slow!". I nearly facepalmed myself downstairs.

Technically he's right. The biggest bottleneck in nearly any computer is the hard drive. What a retard for smashing it though. You should slam it into his face.