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My parents think that HD is really bad, and refuse to upgrade to HD on our TV for $5 a month more.  Yet they've never seen HD through their TWO HDTV's.  :angry:

 

I hate people who tune into the SD version of a channel and say "I can't tell the difference between this and HD"...

 

I should have said something but I just watched.

Great pixel dencity BTW, 240p projected on a large smart board.

About smart boards my teachers always say "oh theses are not very smart" when there is a computer or progector problem. And really they shuould be 16:9, they replicate what is on the teachers 16:9 screen so some things get messed up.

Another thing, all the projectors have dead pixels and they are all like 3 years old. One has at least 50, prob more.

 

Many projectors in my school are failing and now they display colours wrong, there is one that displays everything in a purple-ish shade, when the colours are balanced.

 

We have Macbook Pro's with a 2.4GHz i5's, and some really weird sub 1080p resolution, and Intel onboard graphics.  They work pretty good, except everything is looked down, like we can't even add and remove apps from the bar at the bottom  :(

That and it takes like 10 minutes to render 15 seconds of 1080p footage in After Effects / Premier (and then it's displayed with black bars)

 

In my schools PC's they blocked right clicking, getting properties of files is a pain.

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I hate people who tune into the SD version of a channel and say "I can't tell the difference between this and HD"...

 

 

Many projectors in my school are failing and now they display colours wrong, there is one that displays everything in a purple-ish shade, when the colours are balanced.

 

 

In my schools PC's they blocked right clicking, getting properties of files is a pain.

Right clicking is fundamental to the OS how do you block that?

 

 

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I hate people who tune into the SD version of a channel and say "I can't tell the difference between this and HD"...

 

 

At my grandparents house hd makes the image too big for the screen :/

The year is 20XX. Everyone plays Fox at TAS levels of perfection. Because of this, the winner of a match depends solely on port priority. The RPS metagame has evolved to ridiculous levels due to it being the only remaining factor to decide matches.

Only Abate, Axe, and Wobbles can save us.

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I hate people who tune into the SD version of a channel and say "I can't tell the difference between this and HD"...

 

 

Many projectors in my school are failing and now they display colours wrong, there is one that displays everything in a purple-ish shade, when the colours are balanced.

 

 

In my schools PC's they blocked right clicking, getting properties of files is a pain.

Several years ago my school district got cheap NEC projectors in all the classrooms. Most of them have failed and have been replaced with a newer and much better projector. (The NECs were hard to see with lights on.)

 

Last year we were presenting projects and the teacher had us turn off the projector while we were getting the presentation. (Not that pic mute thing that has the bulb on dim mode/idle. Fully turning it off.) By the end of the day the bulb was dead.

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Some teachers shut the projector off when they leave their room and the next class uses the projector, and soon the bulb will die.

 

I always tell my teachers that if they are showing a movie to let the system warm up before they show it (<3 mins), and when they don't the class complains that they can't see the image.

 

I'll move to pipe 1 on your heatsink once I rob the LinusBank and get enough money to pack up and move. By the way, I still own pin 854, so I can move between both towns as I please. I use the CPU for that.

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At my grandparents house hd makes the image too big for the screen :/

I'd check the screen mode (Zoom, Wide, Normal, Panorama, et cetera). It may be set to Zoom, cutting off the edges of the HD picture.

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Just say IRK out loud, and you will know why I put it there.

 

 

This is why I just love my generation.

 

They think that what they can do makes them the top computer geek in the school. I've yet to own a person who thinks he is better than me but is stupid, but I want it to happen.

 

My generation:

 

[A Hypothetical Story]

Me: Do a hard reset on the computer.

Person: WHAT THE FUCK? Don't talk down to me. I am smarter than you.

Me: Okay. Force reboot the PC....

Person: *Does a power cycle on the monitor*

Me: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!

Me: YOU FUCKING THINK YOU ARE SMARTER THAN ME? YOU FUCKING POWER CYCLED THE GODDAMN MONITOR TO REBOOT THE PC! YOU DON'T DESERVE A PC IF YOU ARE THIS STUPID!

 

One time:

 

A: I have the best gaming PC in the world.

Me: Okay, specs?

A: It's an Alienware.

Me: *facepalm* What CPU?

A: What's a CPU?

Me: *kicks bus stop pole* How much RAM?

A: 16 RAM

Me: What unit?

A: Gigabyte

Me: What's the clock speed on the RAM?

A: IDK

Me: Say I hate Apple.

A: Apple is the best.

Me; I hate Mac OS. I want something complex.

*girl jumps in*

B: You are retarded.

Me: *Full rage mode activated* DONT FUCKING TALK DOWN TO ME! YOU THINK THE MAC IS SO GREAT HUH? WHERE IS THE REGISTRY EDITOR? DO I HAVE TO GET STUFF FROM SOME RETARDED COMPANY? WHAT CHIPSET DOES THE MAC USE? CAN I CUSTOMIZE IT? CAN I INSTALL A TITAN IN IT? DO I GET UPDATES FOR FREE? I DIDN'T THINK SO!

 

/rant

Wow, how can our generation be this stupid? They can tell the difference between a Converse All-Star and a Vans shoe, but they can't tell the difference between a CPU and a hard drive. A HARD DRIVE AND A CPU?? HOW IS THAT NOT DIFFERENT?? STUPID FAGGOT RETARDS DON'T SEE THE PHYSICAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE TWO?? FUCK YOU GENERATION.

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Wow, how can our generation be this stupid? They can tell the difference between a Converse All-Star and a Vans shoe, but they can't tell the difference between a CPU and a hard drive. A HARD DRIVE AND A CPU?? HOW IS THAT NOT DIFFERENT?? STUPID FAGGOT RETARDS DON'T SEE THE PHYSICAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE TWO?? FUCK YOU GENERATION.

Believe it.

 

Our generation is so stupid that sometimes I want to crawl into a hole and die. They are that bad.

 

They go around like "Huurrr I made a YouTube video I am a genius" then I walk by discussing Z97 expectations (f*ck you Intel! Where is SATA express?), the Titan Z, if I should use the bathroom (WTF?), and then the other people look at me as if I am some strange, retarded person. I am just like (in my mind) "Fuck you! You think you know it all! I bet you don't know what the southbridge on a motherboard does."

 

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Believe it.

 

Our generation is so stupid that sometimes I want to crawl into a hole and die. They are that bad.

 

They go around like "Huurrr I made a YouTube video I am a genius" then I walk by discussing Z97 expectations (f*ck you Intel! Where is SATA express?), the Titan Z, if I should use the bathroom (WTF?), and then the other people look at me as if I am some strange, retarded person. I am just like (in my mind) "Fuck you! You think you know it all! I bet you don't know what the southbridge on a motherboard does."

 

/rant

I don't know what the southbridge on a mobo does. :(

 

 

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I don't know what the southbridge on a mobo does. :(

Yeah, me neither. I don't even pay attention. Wait, is ex. Z68 a southbridge or northbridge? Shit, I should know this. I am a techie.

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I don't know what the southbridge on a mobo does. :(

 

 

Yeah, me neither. I don't even pay attention. Wait, is ex. Z68 a southbridge or northbridge? Shit, I should know this. I am a techie.

Check ye PM inboxes.

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Check ye PM inboxes.

 

*Whispers invite me please*

The year is 20XX. Everyone plays Fox at TAS levels of perfection. Because of this, the winner of a match depends solely on port priority. The RPS metagame has evolved to ridiculous levels due to it being the only remaining factor to decide matches.

Only Abate, Axe, and Wobbles can save us.

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*Whispers invite me please*

Do you really need to know the difference between a SB and a NB?

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

Current Rig: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Abit IN9-32MAX nForce 680i board, Galaxy GT610 1GB DDR3 gpu, Cooler Master Mystique 632S Full ATX case, 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA and 1x200gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 LG SATA DVD drive, Windows 10. All currently runs like shit :D 

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Do you really need to know the difference between a SB and a NB?

Yeah makes you sound smarter.

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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Someone was complaining to me about their computer being slow, yet when I said they should go to the task manager and see if something is using up their RAM / CPU they told me it wasn't that big of a deal (and then continued to complain)

 

 

Do you really need to know the difference between a SB and a NB?

Yes I do (though I'm pretty sure a quick http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Southbridge&l=1 will easily let me figure it out)

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Some teachers shut the projector off when they leave their room and the next class uses the projector, and soon the bulb will die.

 

I always tell my teachers that if they are showing a movie to let the system warm up before they show it (<3 mins), and when they don't the class complains that they can't see the image.

 

I'll move to pipe 1 on your heatsink once I rob the LinusBank and get enough money to pack up and move. By the way, I still own pin 854, so I can move between both towns as I please. I use the CPU for that.

You should take a trip to the chipset. I have been there my self and it is quite scenic.

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The "tech guy" at my dads work had not upgraded to windows 7 (from xp) yet, and claims that microsoft will continue releasing important security updates to windows xp. It's like no dude, your network is going to be so fucking insecure within a few days. Plus most of their computers are p4's with 256-768mb ram and and igpu

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You should take a trip to the chipset. I have been there my self and it is quite scenic.

I think a trip to the I/O will see the outer world.

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

Current Rig: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Abit IN9-32MAX nForce 680i board, Galaxy GT610 1GB DDR3 gpu, Cooler Master Mystique 632S Full ATX case, 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA and 1x200gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 LG SATA DVD drive, Windows 10. All currently runs like shit :D 

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I think a trip to the I/O will see the outer world.

That was a fun vacation as well. I managed to get into and explore a mouse.

NEW BUILD LOG!!!: Project Comilinx http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/313532-in-progress-project-comilinx-side-panel-modpainting-update-1932015/

Other build: Project Impracticality http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/131898-wip-project-impracticality-new-name-partsdesign-update/

Wallpaper dump: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/227721-cool-backgrounds-i-found-on-imgur-now-with-phone-backgrounds/

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That was a fun vacation as well. I managed to get into and explore a mouse.

Oh yeah, and let's not forget the time I almost sliced myself in half with the DVD drive laser. I was spinning 7200RPMs on that DVD and laser missed me by a smidgen. Phew.

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

Current Rig: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Abit IN9-32MAX nForce 680i board, Galaxy GT610 1GB DDR3 gpu, Cooler Master Mystique 632S Full ATX case, 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA and 1x200gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 LG SATA DVD drive, Windows 10. All currently runs like shit :D 

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Oh yeah, and let's not forget the time I almost sliced myself in half with the DVD drive laser. I was spinning 7200RPMs on that DVD and laser missed me by a smidgen. Phew.

 

Ok guys It was a fun conversation but lets stay a bit on topic ok?

The year is 20XX. Everyone plays Fox at TAS levels of perfection. Because of this, the winner of a match depends solely on port priority. The RPS metagame has evolved to ridiculous levels due to it being the only remaining factor to decide matches.

Only Abate, Axe, and Wobbles can save us.

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Ok guys It was a fun conversation but lets stay a bit on topic ok?

Yeah, geek roleplay is fun.

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

Current Rig: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Abit IN9-32MAX nForce 680i board, Galaxy GT610 1GB DDR3 gpu, Cooler Master Mystique 632S Full ATX case, 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA and 1x200gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 LG SATA DVD drive, Windows 10. All currently runs like shit :D 

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Yeah, geek roleplay is fun.

Not the only kind of fun role playing...

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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My dad can't even use a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, even if he was the one who bought it.

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

Current Rig: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, Abit IN9-32MAX nForce 680i board, Galaxy GT610 1GB DDR3 gpu, Cooler Master Mystique 632S Full ATX case, 1 2TB Seagate Barracuda SATA and 1x200gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 LG SATA DVD drive, Windows 10. All currently runs like shit :D 

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