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Topics like these usually lead to a very big argument and a toxic environment.

How about we don't start a flame war?

Topics like these usually lead to a very big argument and a toxic environment.

How about we don't start a flame war?

Topics like these usually lead to a very big argument and a toxic environment.

How about we don't start a flame war?

It is my sons first and middle name and my age

How about we don't start a flame war?

Probably computer engineering for me.

How about we don't start a flame war?

How about we don't start a flame war?

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What did you get your degree in/majoring in/planning to major in?
 
Also, answer that question, but if you have a little bit extra time, do you think it'd be better to major in IT or Computer Engineering?

Probably computer engineering for me.

Must read.... I borrowed this from a friends post..
Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.
I asked for a half dozen nuggets.
'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.
'You don't?' I replied.
'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply.
'So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?'
'That's right.'
So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets
(Unbelievable but sadly true...)
(Must have been the same one I asked for sweetener,
and she said they didn't have any, only Splenda and sugar.)
TWO
I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those 'dividers' that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed.
After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the
'divider', looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it.
Not finding the bar code, she said to me, 'Do you know how much this is?'
I said to her 'I've changed my mind; I don't think I'll buy that today.'
She said 'OK,' and I paid her for the things and left.
She had no clue to what had just happened.
( But the lady behind me had a big smirk on her face as I left)
THREE
A woman at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly.
When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM 'thingy.'
(Keep shuddering!!)
FOUR
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. 'Do you need some help?' I asked. She replied, 'I knew I should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?'
'Hmmm, I don't know. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked.
'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered,
handing it and the car keys to me. As I
took the key and manually unlocked the door, I
replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and
check about the batteries. It's a long walk....'
PLEASE just lay down before you hurt yourself !!!
FIVE
Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, 'I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?' 'Just use paper from the photocopier', the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five 'blank' copies.
Brunette, by the way!!
SIX
A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine, the mother says, 'I just gave him some ant killer......'
Dispatcher: 'Rush him in to emergency right away'
Life is tough. It's even tougher if you're Stupid!!!!
Someone had to remind me, so I'm reminding you too.
Don't laugh....it is all true...
my nephew just posted this on his facebook, so i thought i could share it here... number 3 is typical tech noob...

My little brother used to think that the more data you store on an HDD, the heavier the component gets. He also thought that if you pivot the monitor clockwise during a transfer of files or an installation, it would go faster because the gravity would help the loading bar fill faster...^^

People thinking they can download RAM....

This post + your facepalm pic = lol
 
He probably has something suspicious in his "work" PCs iykwim :>

I used to have a daily driver desktop with slightly higher specs than that. It was an E-450 Laptop APU (1.65GHz Dual-Core) with AMD Radeon HD 6320 iGPU. Earlier I said it was a Desktop, well it was. It was an $300 HP Prebuilt Desktop with laptop internals. It had an ITX motherboard with NO PCI-E EXPANSION SLOTS and ran off of a 20w power brick. I had to live and "game" on that for 4 straight years.

KK. I feel you.
 
How do you think I feel with a Intel Pentium M 1.6Ghz and Intel GMA graphics?

You don't really go somewhere to become a techy... if you're drawn to tinkering and technology, you're there. There are different levels of it, though.

Remember to be polite about it, and to point out that computers is what you want to do for a living.

True, but when AMD's stocks are constantly decreasing compared to their competitors, that's got something to say about how well the company is doing.

Even if they are dying, I don't want them to, as competition is really needed in these times.
 
(Look at Intel, when was the last time they lowered the price of their CPUs?)

Stocks don't tell the whole story