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Cree340

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  1. These People (below) who think they can use social media and not be on the internet.

    http://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-idea-theyre-using-the-internet/

     

    Also, I would like to point out that some people think that "Wi-Fi" is the internet and everything to do with the internet. For instance, someone was on a (desktop) at school and said, "Why is the Wifi not working?" even when the computer was connected with an ethernet cable. Sometimes, people even blame "the wifi" on a computer because the computer is too slow at booting up or opening a application (which is completely unrelated to any form of networking). Another experience, is when people think its the "wifi's" fault when its actually the ISP's fault (or amount they are willing to give the ISP). For instance, when people have a really strong wifi signal (like -45 RSSI) and then they complain that the "wifi" is so slow even though its because their ISP limits them to (like 3 mbps).

  2. So what if you're rich and have 2 SSDs, one for the OS and another as a separate drive? Basically calling an SSD a windows box is about as logical as calling a GPU a Star Citizen box.

    Again, I never said that the SSD is only for your operating system, you could have multiple operating systems to boot off it and have all your applications reside on it and yes you can use it to store things on the same drive. If you were wondering, I store my space consuming data on Hard Drives, not another SSD if you were wondering. The Other SSD was because I edit video and I ran out of space on my main boot disk and editing high bitrate video takes speed.

  3. I've never seen a SSD have Windows pre-installed.

    I never said that it had to be pre-installed, but usually a person installs their main OS on it (whether it be Linux, OS X, or Windows) and without a storage device (SSD) to boot off, the computer would just just go to the motherboard startup screen and sometimes say that there is no boot media or something like that. So without a storage device (in this case SSD) windows would not be able to run on the computer.

  4. My mom calls my computer a computer box and my SSD a Windows box.. No matter how many time you explain stuff to them, they never care to remember it.

     

    Thats sorta makes sense since the SSD (probably) contains Windows on it. Also, calling a computer a computer box is like calling a computer a computer, so that makes sense too.

  5. My friend:

    I consider any computer with over 4 tb hard drive a super computer

    Me: that's not that much, I have 1 tb hard drive, besides, it doesn't matter how much storage for a supercomputer.

    My friend: well I have an 8gb hard drive (wut?) And it's not even close to full.

    I think he's talking about RAM. 

  6. WHY?!?!? :(

    My school got "new" (new to the room, the computers aren't new) computers for the computers we use for photo editing (photoshop/illustrator) and they have a Pentium 4 HT and 1 GB of RAM and a 80GB HDD (plus intel iGPU). But for video editing we have computers with i7-4770 with 8GB RAM and nvidia Quadro K2000 and a 1TB hard drive. Talk about cutting costs to spend on other things.

  7. I pinged my friend's computer, he came over to see what I was doing and he said, "what are you doing". Pinging your computer, and he said, "don't break my computer!" It took forever to explain that pinging a computer is harmless, and even if done to stage of a DDOS attack, doesn't cause any damage. He was so mad that I pinged his computer and still doesn't accept that it does no harm.

  8. When my mom's friend came over an external monitor was attached to an iMac. When she saw this she said, "How do you connect a Samsung to an Apple?" (monitor was a 27" Samsung). (it was with HDMI to a HDMI to mini display port adapter.) I don't recall that I answered the question since I thought she wouldn't understand.

  9. Don't be hatin' on dat 1meg internet - I live with it too! One day it got up to 1.1meg!!! :D 480p video actually loaded!!! But really, she has the ability to upgrade, and I don't know what she's paying but $5 more per month would grant her enough so that she was getting more speed for her money. I, currently (until they activate the fibre cabinets on the main road) can't get an upgrade an am getting something close to 0.03meg/£ (not sure exactly how much it cost us per month). Compare that to £10 more per month and 36meg I'll be getting with fibre, that'll be 1.1meg/£ - wow such improvement many speed such video wow.

     

    But, I can't believe she got a new computer (did you buy it or were you just helping her choose) and then didn't use it for some reason and then sold it for less than it was bought. If you're gonna sell something worth some money don't you normally get someone to evaluate it (or at least your family to help you)?

    I Helped her choose, we went to this store in Canada called Memory Express. I guess I just can't stand 1mbps since at my home (compressed) 4K video loads without buffering. The $5 a month extra is actually $10 extra and is to upgrade to 10mbps (Canadian internet prices; which makes her pay $44.99 for internet right now or $55 for the 10 times faster internet) but I asked her if she would upgrade even if it is only $5 more and she said no.

  10. One day my friend said he wanted to buy an iMac, he asked me where and what the "computer" part of the iMac was and asked if it was the black thing (mac pro). Facepalm.

    On another note, he wants to play battlefield 4 and the latest games (like watchdogs) on his laptop, a Ivy Bridge i5 computer with 8 GB of RAM and Intel integrated HD4000 graphics. 

  11. The reason why she's using such a slow toshiba laptop is because one day we went out to buy a new computer for her (core i5, SSD, 6GB RAM, integrated graphics) and she didn't use it at all, then one day (when the computer was only 2 months old and gathering dust) she sold it for very cheap, like $400. And she needs a computer for her work (accounting) so now her old toshiba needs is so slow, it takes 10 mins to turn on and 10 mins to turn off.

     

    Also, her internet is so slow, (1mbps down and 0.25mbps up) and whenever she gets a call from the internet service provider about upgrading, she says she doesn't want faster internet even if it is only $5 dollars more every month. So whenever I go to her home and try to access the internet, it takes forever to load a video and to download anything.

  12. one day i was trying to fix a broken fan inside my computer and when i was idleing i got really high temperatures so, i took off the side panel and put a fan running next to it, then my grandma comes in my room and starts touching a bunch of random things after i told her not to....    i was lucky nothing got fried

     

    not really a non-techie thing but kindof related 

    one day i went to my (other granmas) house and i had to do a  school project on her computer and i turned it on and there was windows vista i just bursted out in laughter

    LOL. My aunt still uses windows vista and I ask her why she doesn't use windows 7, she says its because "it will make my computer slow" (her computer is a toshiba and has a 1.5ghz centrino duo.)

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