CtW

Well they have to make money somehow. At least they are just adding new features rather than charging for ones that were previously free.

Well they have to make money somehow. At least they are just adding new features rather than charging for ones that were previously free.

Well they have to make money somehow. At least they are just adding new features rather than charging for ones that were previously free.

Well they have to make money somehow. At least they are just adding new features rather than charging for ones that were previously free.

Well they have to make money somehow. At least they are just adding new features rather than charging for ones that were previously free.

Well they have to make money somehow. At least they are just adding new features rather than charging for ones that were previously free.

I can't stand it when people refer to samsung phones or anything android in general as "galaxy." It annoys me to no end when people compare "iPhone to Galaxy" instead of "iOS to Android" which is what they should be doing. It's even worse when people ask if things are "galaxy" compatible or something like that. One time, my CAD teacher, when introducing a project where we had to design our own cell phone docks, said that our docks must be able to hold and charge iPhones and Galaxy phones. 
 
PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT ANDROID PHONES ARE CALLED ANDROID PHONES, NOT GALAXIES; AND THAT THERE ARE OTHER COMPANIES THAT MAKE ANDROID PHONES BESIDES  SAMSUNG.

I love seeing these topics on LTT and the cancerous political discussions that result from it. Really brightens my day.

I love seeing these topics on LTT and the cancerous political discussions that result from it. Really brightens my day.

I love seeing these topics on LTT and the cancerous political discussions that result from it. Really brightens my day.

I love seeing these topics on LTT and the cancerous political discussions that result from it. Really brightens my day.

I love seeing these topics on LTT and the cancerous political discussions that result from it. Really brightens my day.

I love seeing these topics on LTT and the cancerous political discussions that result from it. Really brightens my day.

I just got back from my Model UN meeting which is held in the library. When in there, I noticed that one of the monitors had a piece of paper taped to it that that read "No CPU" in small black font. I looked where the tower was to find that there wasn't one. So I now know that my school librarian thinks that the computer tower is a CPU. uggghhhhh

Someone one mistook my monitors for individual computers... They didn't realize that the massive fucking tower next to them was the computer despite the fact that it was running.

This is a long and technical one
Background info: This took place at a COMPUTER ENGINEERING camp a few weeks ago and the other person in the argument is the "looks/sounds like he is 10 but is actually 14 and pisses everybody off" type. At the time, we were talking about ultra high end intel processors then this little shit chimed in.
 
Him: The best procesor is the AMD FX-8350 8-core processor!
Me: Well it is behind the current gen haswell processors in terms of single core performance and runs pretty hot.
Him: Well Intel processors are just cheap knock offs of AMD processors!
Me: Um... No they aren't
Him: Yes they are! Intel just takes AMD technologies and makes them worse then sells them at a high price.
Me: Um... No. I'm certain that that does not at all happen. Intel processors are very different from AMD ones.
Him; Well my AMD FX 8350 8-core processor is more powerful than the highest end core i7 processors because of its 8 cores.
Me: It is only faster when you are using all cores and if it is overclocked. But then it is using a ton of power and producing loads of heat 
Him: Well a major selling point of the AMD FX  8350 8-core processor is how much L2 and L3 cache it has. It has 16 MB of it which is more than the highest end i7 has which makes it perform better in games.
Me: Cache is not a major selling point for it, it doesn't do shit in games and that CPU only has 8 MB of each level. My i7 has the same amount of L3.
Him: Well it is 16 MB combined which is more than your i7 has.
Me: Yes, but due to the fact that the processors have different architectures that use L2 cache differently, and the 8350 benefits from more of it.
 
This continues  for a while until he get's flustered and changes the subject.

I went by an audio equipment store the other day that had a sign by a window that read: "We will make your iTunes sound better!"

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/world/asia/south-korea-park-geun-hye-choi-soon-sil.html
This article gives a good overview of the issue.

Sister story 1:
 
Me: Would you like me to swap out he 4GBs of RAM in your computer for 8? It should speed up your laptop a bit and I have it lying around.
My sister: No! I like my computer the way it is. I don't want you touching my computer.
Me: But It will be faster and I can just give it to you for free. ( have 16GBs in my laptop that I now only use for taking notes in school)
My sister: No! I don't want you to break my computer!
 
Sister story 2:
 
Me: You should get an external monitor. I have seen you have your phone sitting on top of your laptop when you are playing TF2 and it looks like it is kind of awkward. 
My sister: I don't want a monitor. My laptop's screen is touch and the monitor isn't.
Me: But you could have multiple things open at once in larger windows and you will be better able to watch movies. 
My sister: I don't want to be able to do more than one things at once.
Me: *Facepalms then walks away*
 
Sister story 3:
 
Me: Hey, when you get your new computer, can I dismantle your iMac? (see mah sig for the build log which will be updated soon, I promise)
My sister: NO YOU CAN NOT!
Me: Why? It's not like you are going to use it or anything. 
My sister: We are going to throw it out.
Me: If you are just going to chuck it, then why the hell can't I dismantle it and use it for something?
My sister: It's my computer and I control what happens to it and I say that you can not have it.
*Arguement happens which causes my mom to step in*
My mom: What's the problem here?
My sister: Christopher (its the C in CtW) wants to dismantle my iMac after I get my new computer
My mom: Why can't he  do that.
My sister: Because we are going to throw it out instead.
Me: That is why I think I should get it. I think it is better to use it than to let get thrown away.
My mom: I don't see why he can't do this? Its not like you are going to use it any way. Why do you insist on throwing it away?
My sister: I don't want him to break it.
Me/My mom: Ok this dam Mac is being dismantled. That logic is retarded.
The irony in this story is that my sister is all about saving the environment. She will yell at me if I leave the water on while washing the dishes. 
 
My sister is the sort of person who you will want to beat the shit out of after meeting, as shown by these stories.

they probably lost them all

*downgrading

*downgrading

About a year ago, my dad called me into his office to tell me something. Eventually I noticed the slowness of his 5 year old HP laptop and told him, which resulted in him saying that he was going to buy a new one soon. I started looking and found that, not only was he using and old version of IE that had many tool bars, but also that he had not gotten rid of ANY of the bloatware on his laptop and most of it was set to run on start up. I installed chrome and got rid of all of the bloatware which resulted in a large increase in relative speed. When he got his new laptop recently, he refused to let me take the thing away for an hour to set it up properly but had no idea how to configure windows properly (mostly the windows live stuff in windows 8 as he was upgrading from Vista),  but yelled at me when I tried to take over. 
 
My mom is the sort of person who thinks that they know more than they actually do about tech. Also she uses an iMac. There will be many times when she will ask me to come and help her with a problem that is exclusive to macs (navigating through Finder, changing file types, etc.) and expects me to know everything there is to know about the damn thing despite the fact that I never use OSX. Sometimes she is completely clueless with tech. The other day, she purchased a second monitor for her Mac (Dell ultrasharp) and purchased a miniDsplayport to Displayport cable (under my supervision, naturally). The whole package came before I managed to get home from school and she tried to hook it up w/ the monitor. Instead of plugging the cable into its proper port on the monitor, she instead tried to plug it into the USB port on the side of the monitor. Instead of waiting until I got home and asking me to help, she instead "went online and did a help" (as she puts it). According to her, the Dell person was completely useless and was asking her various questions that "she had already answered." Before I finish the story, **I must mention that my mom thinks that tech support are supposed know everything about the problem that you have and will solve it without your involvement. As a result, from what I have heard, she NEVER provides sufficient info to the person on the other end then complains about how crap all tech support is (minus apple, according to her.) ** Anyway, after she got nowhere with Dell, she decided to go to Radio Shack and purchase a thunderbolt to VGA adapter... For her god damn new Dell ULTRASHARP  monitor. She then proceeded to use VGA WITH A FUCKING PROFESSIONAL GRADE MONITOR AND A REALLY SHITTY ADAPTER. Just let that sink in for a bit. 

yay coil whine is coming to phones!

We've been over this. This isn't handing control of the internet over to any foreign body. This is transferring control of the distribution of domain names to an international body. Ted Cruz is just doing this to bring up some issue that most people don't understand so he can resist the budget. If his fellow senators did any ounce of research the'd understand how ridiculous what he's saying is and shoot him down. He needs to get his head out of his ass and think like a sensible elected official.