TheMonsterMan8

So todays experience is with my ICT Teacher. He's the head of IT at my school, and has not a single clue about tech. It takes him five minutes to setup a file path.
 
I stayed behind after class to ask him if the rest of the class would ever learn something useful - How to install an OS, for instance.
"Sir, forgive me for being rude, but are we ever going to find out something useful. Maybe installing an Operating System?"
"No, it's not in the curriculum, your only being taught software this year and you'll probably not even find this out, even if you take a computing degree at university." No shit Sherlock. People who take computing degrees already know how to install an OS. Also, how dare you suggest that I don't know how to install an OS? I've built more PC's than you've had hot dinners (probably.)
"Also, I think you were being incredibly rude then."
"Sorry if it came out that way, sir."
"I suggest you do some research if you'd like to find out anything useful. Perhaps you could even take some of your free time out and research more about our Dreamweaver lessons." Why would I do that dumbass, Dreamweaver is easy.
 
So he's probably thinking "Here's another arrogant kid who knows nothing about PC's."
I'm thinking "Please go and jump out the nearest third story window."
 
Also, a new school rule this year is that we can't have ANY removable media, due to the risk of "viruses." So I brought in a USB Stick with my (3 A4 pages) of homework. He told me that I couldn't use it because it would have malware on. I mean, you made the school security system and you're not confident in it? Scumbag. That being said, I did hack their security within five minutes. I now have the joy of accessing my school account at home, and vice-versa.
 
Finally, he said that unless I had the homework on his desk tomorrow - In paper form - I would get a detention. Tempted to put the disk on his desk with a piece of paper on top.
 
Arrogant, teacher non-techies... They're the worst.

As true as that is for the generalisation, I'm sure there's more than just me and Piplupgao who can use PC's. But yes, in general kids, and adults, can't use a computer to save their life.
 
EDIT: Here's a new story from me.
So, in ICT, we were going over how to build a computer. I was being completely ignorant, considering I already know all this stuff, just talking to my other tech-savvy friend. We had a good chuckle when the teacher called the case the CPU. Anyhow, we were just talking, and suddenly the teacher snapped at me;
  "Oh, but it appears Mr. Anderson here already knows all about computers! Perhaps he'd like to teach the lesson?"
Now, me and this teacher have NEVER liked eachother. So I, in my classic, detention giving way, said;
  "Well I'd probably do better than you."
So he stood there, gawping like a fish, mouth hanging open. And then he told me to stand up, come to the front and recite the whole process of building a computer. He had that kind of self-satisfied smirk on, as if he knew I was going to slip up. So, I stood up, kicked his chair out of the way, and started.
  Five minutes later, this teacher is just standing there, fish mode activate. Funnily enough, I got sent to the headteacher - To see about me doing GCSE Computing a wee earlier.
 
EDIT #2: Another thing. In my Humanities lesson (at my school, KS3 takes a subject called Humanities, which is History, RS and Geography combined) and she was trying to load a video to show us. She'd just got a new PC, and said "This was meant to be faster, it's brand new!" (the video was buffering) "I mean, the Technicians gave me this today, but this video is loading so slow!" I face palmed soooo hard.

Being the family tech support guy...
 
http://www.geekosystem.com/family-tech-support-guy/
 
It explains it all... I suffer eternally.

"How come you have three computers?"
"Oh, those?" *points at gaming, server and guest PC*
"No, those are hard drives! The computer is on your desk!"
*facepalm*
 
Literally, so many times... I think I have a permanent palm shaped bruise on my face. 

As true as that is for the generalisation, I'm sure there's more than just me and Piplupgao who can use PC's. But yes, in general kids, and adults, can't use a computer to save their life.
 
EDIT: Here's a new story from me.
So, in ICT, we were going over how to build a computer. I was being completely ignorant, considering I already know all this stuff, just talking to my other tech-savvy friend. We had a good chuckle when the teacher called the case the CPU. Anyhow, we were just talking, and suddenly the teacher snapped at me;
  "Oh, but it appears Mr. Anderson here already knows all about computers! Perhaps he'd like to teach the lesson?"
Now, me and this teacher have NEVER liked eachother. So I, in my classic, detention giving way, said;
  "Well I'd probably do better than you."
So he stood there, gawping like a fish, mouth hanging open. And then he told me to stand up, come to the front and recite the whole process of building a computer. He had that kind of self-satisfied smirk on, as if he knew I was going to slip up. So, I stood up, kicked his chair out of the way, and started.
  Five minutes later, this teacher is just standing there, fish mode activate. Funnily enough, I got sent to the headteacher - To see about me doing GCSE Computing a wee earlier.
 
EDIT #2: Another thing. In my Humanities lesson (at my school, KS3 takes a subject called Humanities, which is History, RS and Geography combined) and she was trying to load a video to show us. She'd just got a new PC, and said "This was meant to be faster, it's brand new!" (the video was buffering) "I mean, the Technicians gave me this today, but this video is loading so slow!" I face palmed soooo hard.

I tested this out on my weakest PC, so it could give a realistic idea to people not running something stupidly insane. On my main machine, this works fine, decent high resolutions and good FPS.
 
The system I tested this with;

 
BIOSHOCK INFINITE
 
3200x1800
Medium
46 FPS Max
29 FPS Min
38 FPS Avg
 
2880x1620
Medium
60 FPS Max
34 FPS Min
54 FPS Avg
 
Minecraft
 
3200x1800
Render Far, AF 16, Fancy
60 FPS Max
57 FPS Min
60 FPS AVG
 
Borderlands 2
 
3200x1800
Max Settings, FXAA Disabled
Did not work
 
2880x1620
Max Settings, FXAA Disabled
47 FPS Max
29 FPS Min
31 FPS Avg
 
2560x1440
Max Settings, FXAA Disabled
60 FPS Max
36 FPS Min
44 FPS Avg
 
So yeah, this does work on lower end systems, with a tiny bit of tweaking. I saw no change in Minecraft, obviously, Bioshock Infinite had a huge change, Borderlands 2 had little impact on the terrain, but weapon and model detail was a lot more obvious.

Being the family tech support guy...
 
http://www.geekosystem.com/family-tech-support-guy/
 
It explains it all... I suffer eternally.

So todays experience is with my ICT Teacher. He's the head of IT at my school, and has not a single clue about tech. It takes him five minutes to setup a file path.
 
I stayed behind after class to ask him if the rest of the class would ever learn something useful - How to install an OS, for instance.
"Sir, forgive me for being rude, but are we ever going to find out something useful. Maybe installing an Operating System?"
"No, it's not in the curriculum, your only being taught software this year and you'll probably not even find this out, even if you take a computing degree at university." No shit Sherlock. People who take computing degrees already know how to install an OS. Also, how dare you suggest that I don't know how to install an OS? I've built more PC's than you've had hot dinners (probably.)
"Also, I think you were being incredibly rude then."
"Sorry if it came out that way, sir."
"I suggest you do some research if you'd like to find out anything useful. Perhaps you could even take some of your free time out and research more about our Dreamweaver lessons." Why would I do that dumbass, Dreamweaver is easy.
 
So he's probably thinking "Here's another arrogant kid who knows nothing about PC's."
I'm thinking "Please go and jump out the nearest third story window."
 
Also, a new school rule this year is that we can't have ANY removable media, due to the risk of "viruses." So I brought in a USB Stick with my (3 A4 pages) of homework. He told me that I couldn't use it because it would have malware on. I mean, you made the school security system and you're not confident in it? Scumbag. That being said, I did hack their security within five minutes. I now have the joy of accessing my school account at home, and vice-versa.
 
Finally, he said that unless I had the homework on his desk tomorrow - In paper form - I would get a detention. Tempted to put the disk on his desk with a piece of paper on top.
 
Arrogant, teacher non-techies... They're the worst.

"How come you have three computers?"
"Oh, those?" *points at gaming, server and guest PC*
"No, those are hard drives! The computer is on your desk!"
*facepalm*
 
Literally, so many times... I think I have a permanent palm shaped bruise on my face. 

As true as that is for the generalisation, I'm sure there's more than just me and Piplupgao who can use PC's. But yes, in general kids, and adults, can't use a computer to save their life.
 
EDIT: Here's a new story from me.
So, in ICT, we were going over how to build a computer. I was being completely ignorant, considering I already know all this stuff, just talking to my other tech-savvy friend. We had a good chuckle when the teacher called the case the CPU. Anyhow, we were just talking, and suddenly the teacher snapped at me;
  "Oh, but it appears Mr. Anderson here already knows all about computers! Perhaps he'd like to teach the lesson?"
Now, me and this teacher have NEVER liked eachother. So I, in my classic, detention giving way, said;
  "Well I'd probably do better than you."
So he stood there, gawping like a fish, mouth hanging open. And then he told me to stand up, come to the front and recite the whole process of building a computer. He had that kind of self-satisfied smirk on, as if he knew I was going to slip up. So, I stood up, kicked his chair out of the way, and started.
  Five minutes later, this teacher is just standing there, fish mode activate. Funnily enough, I got sent to the headteacher - To see about me doing GCSE Computing a wee earlier.
 
EDIT #2: Another thing. In my Humanities lesson (at my school, KS3 takes a subject called Humanities, which is History, RS and Geography combined) and she was trying to load a video to show us. She'd just got a new PC, and said "This was meant to be faster, it's brand new!" (the video was buffering) "I mean, the Technicians gave me this today, but this video is loading so slow!" I face palmed soooo hard.

Found this on a poll against GTA V coming to PC...

Unfortunately, it's true. The thing is, these people get their job by saying "I have a lot of experience with computers." which means they use Facebook every day.

A fun one I did last term at school was to unplug the Power LED and HDD LED from the motherboard, then turn off the power to the monitor. Teacher comes into class and spams the power button. We got new PC's that had only one fan - The CPU one, and in a class full of kids, that's hard to hear, so the teacher thought the PC was broken. IT guy gets summoned, and he spams it too. Says, and I quote; "The CPU has ran out of gigahertz, we'll have to recharge it using our RAM dioder." The teacher did that nod of; "I don't have a clue what you're saying, but I'll nod like I understand."
 I don't normally misbehave in school, but IT is an exception.

Helping a friend of mine do this to his mum right now. She's very Victorian, thinks that PC's are the Devils work (despite owning just about every Apple product), tells him to go outside, get a social life and stop wasting his precious years on the internet. Therefore, she gets locked out. Lets see how she functions without Facebook. >

As true as that is for the generalisation, I'm sure there's more than just me and Piplupgao who can use PC's. But yes, in general kids, and adults, can't use a computer to save their life.
 
EDIT: Here's a new story from me.
So, in ICT, we were going over how to build a computer. I was being completely ignorant, considering I already know all this stuff, just talking to my other tech-savvy friend. We had a good chuckle when the teacher called the case the CPU. Anyhow, we were just talking, and suddenly the teacher snapped at me;
  "Oh, but it appears Mr. Anderson here already knows all about computers! Perhaps he'd like to teach the lesson?"
Now, me and this teacher have NEVER liked eachother. So I, in my classic, detention giving way, said;
  "Well I'd probably do better than you."
So he stood there, gawping like a fish, mouth hanging open. And then he told me to stand up, come to the front and recite the whole process of building a computer. He had that kind of self-satisfied smirk on, as if he knew I was going to slip up. So, I stood up, kicked his chair out of the way, and started.
  Five minutes later, this teacher is just standing there, fish mode activate. Funnily enough, I got sent to the headteacher - To see about me doing GCSE Computing a wee earlier.
 
EDIT #2: Another thing. In my Humanities lesson (at my school, KS3 takes a subject called Humanities, which is History, RS and Geography combined) and she was trying to load a video to show us. She'd just got a new PC, and said "This was meant to be faster, it's brand new!" (the video was buffering) "I mean, the Technicians gave me this today, but this video is loading so slow!" I face palmed soooo hard.

Found this on a poll against GTA V coming to PC...

So todays experience is with my ICT Teacher. He's the head of IT at my school, and has not a single clue about tech. It takes him five minutes to setup a file path.
 
I stayed behind after class to ask him if the rest of the class would ever learn something useful - How to install an OS, for instance.
"Sir, forgive me for being rude, but are we ever going to find out something useful. Maybe installing an Operating System?"
"No, it's not in the curriculum, your only being taught software this year and you'll probably not even find this out, even if you take a computing degree at university." No shit Sherlock. People who take computing degrees already know how to install an OS. Also, how dare you suggest that I don't know how to install an OS? I've built more PC's than you've had hot dinners (probably.)
"Also, I think you were being incredibly rude then."
"Sorry if it came out that way, sir."
"I suggest you do some research if you'd like to find out anything useful. Perhaps you could even take some of your free time out and research more about our Dreamweaver lessons." Why would I do that dumbass, Dreamweaver is easy.
 
So he's probably thinking "Here's another arrogant kid who knows nothing about PC's."
I'm thinking "Please go and jump out the nearest third story window."
 
Also, a new school rule this year is that we can't have ANY removable media, due to the risk of "viruses." So I brought in a USB Stick with my (3 A4 pages) of homework. He told me that I couldn't use it because it would have malware on. I mean, you made the school security system and you're not confident in it? Scumbag. That being said, I did hack their security within five minutes. I now have the joy of accessing my school account at home, and vice-versa.
 
Finally, he said that unless I had the homework on his desk tomorrow - In paper form - I would get a detention. Tempted to put the disk on his desk with a piece of paper on top.
 
Arrogant, teacher non-techies... They're the worst.

"How come you have three computers?"
"Oh, those?" *points at gaming, server and guest PC*
"No, those are hard drives! The computer is on your desk!"
*facepalm*
 
Literally, so many times... I think I have a permanent palm shaped bruise on my face. 

A fun one I did last term at school was to unplug the Power LED and HDD LED from the motherboard, then turn off the power to the monitor. Teacher comes into class and spams the power button. We got new PC's that had only one fan - The CPU one, and in a class full of kids, that's hard to hear, so the teacher thought the PC was broken. IT guy gets summoned, and he spams it too. Says, and I quote; "The CPU has ran out of gigahertz, we'll have to recharge it using our RAM dioder." The teacher did that nod of; "I don't have a clue what you're saying, but I'll nod like I understand."
 I don't normally misbehave in school, but IT is an exception.

Found this on a poll against GTA V coming to PC...

So todays experience is with my ICT Teacher. He's the head of IT at my school, and has not a single clue about tech. It takes him five minutes to setup a file path.
 
I stayed behind after class to ask him if the rest of the class would ever learn something useful - How to install an OS, for instance.
"Sir, forgive me for being rude, but are we ever going to find out something useful. Maybe installing an Operating System?"
"No, it's not in the curriculum, your only being taught software this year and you'll probably not even find this out, even if you take a computing degree at university." No shit Sherlock. People who take computing degrees already know how to install an OS. Also, how dare you suggest that I don't know how to install an OS? I've built more PC's than you've had hot dinners (probably.)
"Also, I think you were being incredibly rude then."
"Sorry if it came out that way, sir."
"I suggest you do some research if you'd like to find out anything useful. Perhaps you could even take some of your free time out and research more about our Dreamweaver lessons." Why would I do that dumbass, Dreamweaver is easy.
 
So he's probably thinking "Here's another arrogant kid who knows nothing about PC's."
I'm thinking "Please go and jump out the nearest third story window."
 
Also, a new school rule this year is that we can't have ANY removable media, due to the risk of "viruses." So I brought in a USB Stick with my (3 A4 pages) of homework. He told me that I couldn't use it because it would have malware on. I mean, you made the school security system and you're not confident in it? Scumbag. That being said, I did hack their security within five minutes. I now have the joy of accessing my school account at home, and vice-versa.
 
Finally, he said that unless I had the homework on his desk tomorrow - In paper form - I would get a detention. Tempted to put the disk on his desk with a piece of paper on top.
 
Arrogant, teacher non-techies... They're the worst.

So todays experience is with my ICT Teacher. He's the head of IT at my school, and has not a single clue about tech. It takes him five minutes to setup a file path.
 
I stayed behind after class to ask him if the rest of the class would ever learn something useful - How to install an OS, for instance.
"Sir, forgive me for being rude, but are we ever going to find out something useful. Maybe installing an Operating System?"
"No, it's not in the curriculum, your only being taught software this year and you'll probably not even find this out, even if you take a computing degree at university." No shit Sherlock. People who take computing degrees already know how to install an OS. Also, how dare you suggest that I don't know how to install an OS? I've built more PC's than you've had hot dinners (probably.)
"Also, I think you were being incredibly rude then."
"Sorry if it came out that way, sir."
"I suggest you do some research if you'd like to find out anything useful. Perhaps you could even take some of your free time out and research more about our Dreamweaver lessons." Why would I do that dumbass, Dreamweaver is easy.
 
So he's probably thinking "Here's another arrogant kid who knows nothing about PC's."
I'm thinking "Please go and jump out the nearest third story window."
 
Also, a new school rule this year is that we can't have ANY removable media, due to the risk of "viruses." So I brought in a USB Stick with my (3 A4 pages) of homework. He told me that I couldn't use it because it would have malware on. I mean, you made the school security system and you're not confident in it? Scumbag. That being said, I did hack their security within five minutes. I now have the joy of accessing my school account at home, and vice-versa.
 
Finally, he said that unless I had the homework on his desk tomorrow - In paper form - I would get a detention. Tempted to put the disk on his desk with a piece of paper on top.
 
Arrogant, teacher non-techies... They're the worst.

That is now my wallpaper.

That is now my wallpaper.

So I've been sodding around with AC4 the past two days, trying to get it to use all my cores. I found that a good system was when I launch the game, in task manager, set the affinity of the game, start with the bottom core, alt tab back, then add the next one, until they are all selected. This seemed to work for me, all six cores are now being used equally and my FPS has gone from scraping 40 to around 120.