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

[QUOTE=Rixxz2;23332344]Also, this may make me sound like an illiterate, but anyway, is OS X only compatible with a certain type of hardware (Such as, some kind of special motherboard), or could you technically just build a computer and install OS X on it?[/QUOTE] Asking questions != illiteracy. Anyway, the only thing really preventing you installing Mac OS X on normal hardware is the TPM, but there are software solutions to that. [url]http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page[/url] That'll keep you busy no doubt.

[QUOTE=Rixxz2;23332344]Also, this may make me sound like an illiterate, but anyway, is OS X only compatible with a certain type of hardware (Such as, some kind of special motherboard), or could you technically just build a computer and install OS X on it?[/QUOTE] you can technically build a computer and install osx, but you may not have all the required kernel modules. an efex chip generally makes shit much easier

[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;23332463]avatar matches[/QUOTE] Matches what? I just woke up, my brain is full of crap today.

[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;23332434]Oh god. Here goes. I'm still living at home (16 yo) and I usually give my mother money to buy games on Steam for me, because I don't have a credit card. Anyways, my dad seems to think that if he sees a $50 charge on his bill labelled "STEAM GAMES" He is paying monthly $50 dollars for this program. He then proceeds to bitch at me about how I'm spending too much monthly on computer games and I should cancel the subscription. I then try to explain to him that it isn't monthly, and I am giving the money to a parent to buy the game. He doesn't understand still. [/QUOTE] Thank god my parents are not as stupid with that. If I want to buy something on steam, I just tell them what I want and how much it costs and my dad gives me his credit card. All I have to do is return it when I'm finished and pay him back ASAP.

[QUOTE=dutchah;23332609]Thank god my parents are not as stupid with that. If I want to buy something on steam, I just tell them what I want and how much it costs and my dad gives me his credit card. All I have to do is return it when I'm finished and pay him back ASAP.[/QUOTE] I give the money I earn to my mom and she then puts it in my account, checking card ftw. Only reason I give the money to her is because she works at the bank, and I don't go there often enough.

Well I mean if you're buying $50 of games per month, that's a rather normal assumption. If you want him to stop fussing, go to Wal-Mart and get one of those prepaid debit cards and use that for Steam.

[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;23332589]Matches what? I just woke up, my brain is full of crap today.[/QUOTE] He's saying that your forum avatar is related to your post.

Right. Well anyways, I just thought of another one. Went to see my cousins, and one of them has a really REALLY old PC and he is allowed to do what he wants on it. (controlling as shit parents won't let him touch the NEW one.) Anyways, he's loaded it up with itunes, Safari, Norton, pretty much everything that slows the thing to a crawl, he has on it. I ask him if he would mind if I closed everything except Norton, the response almost killed my eardrums. "DON'T DO THAT I WON'T BE ABLE TO GET ANYTHING BACK OPEN AFTERWARDS, YOU'LL DELETE IT, AND MY IPOD WILL BE BROKEN NEXT TIME I PLUG IT IN" /caps

[QUOTE=dutchah;23331779]USB 2.0 is still mostly used on PC's. I don't know about you, but I've seen maybe 1 PC so far that was advertised with USB 3.0 ports. Just because he doesn't know about something brand-spanking new development doesn't mean he's illiterate.[/QUOTE] My motherboard has 4 usb 3.0 slots on it, than like 8 2.0 slots. A lot of new motherboard have it standard.

[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;23332871] "DON'T DO THAT I WON'T BE ABLE TO GET ANYTHING BACK OPEN AFTERWARDS, YOU'LL DELETE IT, AND MY IPOD WILL BE BROKEN NEXT TIME I PLUG IT IN" /caps[/QUOTE] Oh lord. People in my family do that, if I were to close something they have open, or delete a shortcut, they go batsh*t insane at me.

My computer has 2 usb 1.0 (i think) and 6 USB 2.0 I have no idea why there are USB 1.0 ports

[QUOTE=Takkun10;23332988]My motherboard has 4 usb 3.0 slots on it, than like 8 2.0 slots. A lot of new motherboard have it standard.[/QUOTE] Like I said, I haven't seen many around here. Maybe USB 3.0 isn't that big yet in Holland.

I have 2 usb 3.0 and millions of 2.0's

Not really illiteracy (maybe) but one day classes at school were canceled, but they decided to keep us there another hour so it wouldn't cost us our weather make up day. Me and a couple of my friends were discussing USB, and my teacher (who likes to randomly pop questions about what we're discussing, to keep us sharp) asks "How many devices can be on a USB chain?" Naturally I answer 127. So a buddy of mine asks "Has anyone ever actually connected 127 devices together?" So my teacher says "Good point." and goes into the back storage room (this was a computer class). He walks out with a rather large box of Dell USB keyboards. These keyboards came with two USB ports on them. So naturally, we start chaining the keyboards. It was going rather well. Until keyboard 50 or so. Don't ask me how it happened, but one of the keyboards in the chain CAUGHT ON FIRE and began melting. It was fun watching the teacher explain to the principal how it happened. The principal was cool with it though.

127? I never knew that... Care to explain?

[QUOTE=Computermaster;23334834]Not really illiteracy (maybe) but one day classes at school were canceled, but they decided to keep us there another hour so it wouldn't cost us our weather make up day. Me and a couple of my friends were discussing USB, and my teacher (who likes to randomly pop questions about what we're discussing, to keep us sharp) asks "How many devices can be on a USB chain?" Naturally I answer 127. So a buddy of mine asks "Has anyone ever actually connected 127 devices together?" So my teacher says "Good point." and goes into the back storage room (this was a computer class). He walks out with a rather large box of Dell USB keyboards. These keyboards came with two USB ports on them. So naturally, we start chaining the keyboards. It was going rather well. Until keyboard 50 or so. Don't ask me how it happened, but one of the keyboards in the chain CAUGHT ON FIRE and began melting. It was fun watching the teacher explain to the principal how it happened. The principal was cool with it though.[/QUOTE] USB 2.0 puts out 5v @ 500mA. I call shenanigans on your story.

I think it's because that's how an a signed byte can address, with positive numbers. So it probably just gives each device an ID from 0-127 because they figured a byte could hold more than any amount of devices a user could connect?

[QUOTE=Computermaster;23334834]Not really illiteracy (maybe) but one day classes at school were canceled, but they decided to keep us there another hour so it wouldn't cost us our weather make up day. Me and a couple of my friends were discussing USB, and my teacher (who likes to randomly pop questions about what we're discussing, to keep us sharp) asks "How many devices can be on a USB chain?" Naturally I answer 127. So a buddy of mine asks "Has anyone ever actually connected 127 devices together?" So my teacher says "Good point." and goes into the back storage room (this was a computer class). He walks out with a rather large box of Dell USB keyboards. These keyboards came with two USB ports on them. So naturally, we start chaining the keyboards. It was going rather well. Until keyboard 50 or so. Don't ask me how it happened, but one of the keyboards in the chain CAUGHT ON FIRE and began melting. It was fun watching the teacher explain to the principal how it happened. The principal was cool with it though.[/QUOTE] I know this is the reason for the limit, but that really annoys me. I tend to have a minor obsession with powers of 2.

I'm not even sure. That's just the way they made it. Might have to do with how the controller addresses connected devices.

it just annoys me when people make number extremely close to powers of two. like 127. or 30. or 1020.

Interesting stuff :3:

[QUOTE=limulus54;23335858]it just annoys me when people make number extremely close to powers of two. like 127. or 30. or 1020.[/QUOTE] As for 127, you can thank the whole computer numbering starting at 0, not 1. 1-128 is what we usually think 0-127 is what a computer uses

[QUOTE=limulus54;23335858]it just annoys me when people make number extremely close to powers of two. like 127. or 30. or 1020.[/QUOTE] The "powers of 2 minus 1" has a good reason though 256 to 255 (i.e in RGB colours) 128 to 127 (the USB thing) 32 to 31 (in some older colouring scheme) It's to do with the maximum number you can make with a certain number of bits i.e with 4 bits (1111) you can have 15, which is one less than 16 With 8 (1111 1111) you can have any number up to 255, which is one less than 256. [editline]08:49PM[/editline] :ninja:

[QUOTE=kmlkmljkl;23298435] [b]Build[/b] them a new pc[/QUOTE] :eng101:

[QUOTE=Computermaster;23334834]Not really illiteracy (maybe) but one day classes at school were canceled, but they decided to keep us there another hour so it wouldn't cost us our weather make up day. Me and a couple of my friends were discussing USB, and my teacher (who likes to randomly pop questions about what we're discussing, to keep us sharp) asks "How many devices can be on a USB chain?" Naturally I answer 127. So a buddy of mine asks "Has anyone ever actually connected 127 devices together?" So my teacher says "Good point." and goes into the back storage room (this was a computer class). He walks out with a rather large box of Dell USB keyboards. These keyboards came with two USB ports on them. So naturally, we start chaining the keyboards. It was going rather well. Until keyboard 50 or so. Don't ask me how it happened, but one of the keyboards in the chain CAUGHT ON FIRE and began melting. It was fun watching the teacher explain to the principal how it happened. The principal was cool with it though.[/QUOTE] Your teacher is awesome.

He let us play CS:S every Friday.

It's not really computer illiteracy in the spirit of the thread but I can't find a better thread for it. Yesterday my idiot brother (he's 21) managed to infect the livingroom PC with some nasty shit, fake AV's, constant popups and about 20 new processes that all tore a new asshole in the old p4's processing power. So I dig up my old Pentium D rig and fit it with a new hard-drive which I promptly format and install windows xp on. All about an afternoons work of mostly doing other stuff while things where either formating or installing. Once everything is set up and working and I explain the situation to my parrents (computer illiterate but they know it), I start discussing payment (I don't get a regular allowance, I get payed according to how much I help around the home) and they offer me $80 for it. I was quite stunned but being the greedy bastard I am I accept with a smile. To them I'm sure it's worth it as they don't know how to do this stuff but eh, I'll just enjoy that new headset I can finally afford to purchase. I'm a dick aren't I?

[QUOTE=Chris220;23335947]The "powers of 2 minus 1" has a good reason though 256 to 255 (i.e in RGB colours) 128 to 127 (the USB thing) 32 to 31 (in some older colouring scheme) It's to do with the maximum number you can make with a certain number of bits i.e with 4 bits (1111) you can have 15, which is one less than 16 With 8 (1111 1111) you can have any number up to 255, which is one less than 256. [editline]08:49PM[/editline] :ninja:[/QUOTE] That's correct, so in this case 0 acts as a value too. So 31 colors, with one of the colors having an index of 0 = 32 colors.

[QUOTE=Nilrus;23338893]It's not really computer illiteracy in the spirit of the thread but I can't find a better thread for it. Yesterday my idiot brother (he's 21) managed to infect the livingroom PC with some nasty shit, fake AV's, constant popups and about 20 new processes that all tore a new asshole in the old p4's processing power. So I dig up my old Pentium D rig and fit it with a new hard-drive which I promptly format and install windows xp on. All about an afternoons work of mostly doing other stuff while things where either formating or installing. Once everything is set up and working and I explain the situation to my parrents (computer illiterate but they know it), I start discussing payment (I don't get a regular allowance, I get payed according to how much I help around the home) and they offer me $80 for it. I was quite stunned but being the greedy bastard I am I accept with a smile. To them I'm sure it's worth it as they don't know how to do this stuff but eh, I'll just enjoy that new headset I can finally afford to purchase. I'm a dick aren't I?[/QUOTE] So you fixed a software problem that could have been fixed pretty easily by reformatting or removing the software itself by replacing the whole computer? Interesting. Profit, though, I guess :) You aren't a dick, you took away their inconvenience and managed to get some cash out of it.

My friend's computer got a virus, and his dad thought he would be able to "see" the virus and opened up the computer, and took everything out.