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Can one still enter?

Can one still enter?

I know these are still for linus mems, but like, How could I resist.

E4500? yum. Currently have DDR2 in my system, so I can't show it off. Don't have anything old because I'm 12.
 
EDIT -- 23-7-14 I do not run my system with DDR2 anymore. I still have a Core 2 Quad Q9500, a E7500, and a E5300.

Bob Lazar on Joe Rogan > Star wars and Star Trek combined.

Oh it makes me sooo mad. Our parents refused to put service on our phones because they read an article on CNN like 10 years ago claiming the signal from "radiowaves" cause cancer.
I called them out on it but they refused.

This better not be another thread ike the one where people were hating elon musk for donating 1 million to the teamtrees project and claiming he was a braggart and annoying.

This better not be another thread ike the one where people were hating elon musk for donating 1 million to the teamtrees project and claiming he was a braggart and annoying.

english is a german language, has an intimate history with french and latin. A direction i will point you in is to study our vowels, and study the roots of your own language. We only have five vowels in normal writing but we have multiple ways of pronouncing them, and this changes regionally. The way I pronounce vowels in NZ is totally different to an american for example. It all makes sense if you can tell if a modern english word originated from german, latin, french, or old english.
didnt the ancient world speak greek?
 

Nikola Tesla

Wait... Hawking is dead?

Definently my dad. He was a homie.

This thread is ridiculous. So what, You have a first world problem, Don't go and complain about it online. A lot of us have REAL problems, and you don't see us complaining.

Oh it makes me sooo mad. Our parents refused to put service on our phones because they read an article on CNN like 10 years ago claiming the signal from "radiowaves" cause cancer.
I called them out on it but they refused.

This is basically a conversation that I had with my friend;

Me: Why are you using internet explorer? (IE 6)
Him: Because it is awsome!
Me: Why do you like it?
Him:Because it is fast!
Me: You do realize that firefox is a lot better in every way, right?
Him: No, firefox sucks I used it and it was slow. (keep in mind this is the guy who has a computer but no internet anywhere but the library...)
Me: I don't know how it was slow for you but it is definitely faster for almost everybody else.

After that the conversation pretty much ended, and he started to talk to another person trying to tell him that a core 2 duo is faster than an i7, but that is different story. (Saying that core 2 duo, meant that it had 2 CPUs or something.)

When I was kid, I thought you could download a new graphic card... :x I still feel bad about it.

My little brother the other day came up to me while doing research on both YouTube and New Egg for my new build. This is the conversation that followed.
Him: What are you looking at.
Me: Computer stuff.
Him: Why?
Me: Because all the computers that I have now a slow (true, both my Mac's have huge bottlenecks)
Him: There slow, because you bloat them
Me: ......
I have no idea what he ment by that but still, when has the amount of data on a mechanical harddrive affect the speed of said drive?

Them - "hey I need advice on buying a computer"
Me - "sure id be happy to help you pick something out or ill build a great computer for you"
*week later*
Them - "yeah, i just decided to buy a computer from Best Buy"
Me "......................."

The latest for me, is my mother calling me to ask why her computer mouse doesn't work (while shouting that it's a piece of crap and what not), when I get there, I find she managed to plug the USB mouse in the Ethernet port of her laptop.. Couldn't help facepalming in front of her.

I don't really have an example except that when I go to the apple store with my gf, because her phone broke again, I would look around for the noobie and mess with him/her. I would also like to add that I do not think some of the employees should be called geniuses lol. Anyone else enjoy doing this?

so this one time I was hanging out with my friend who is the manager at a tech shop by where I live and a girl comes in and buys a 2tb hard drive. we let her know that we install hard drives for $1 (the cost of the sata cable we use) and she says "just because I am a woman does not mean I cant work on computers" and leaves in a huff. two days later she comes back in saying that the HDD is not working so we take the computer in to look at it, we open it and the HDD is nowhere to be seen, so we ask her where it is. and it turns out that she scanned it and put the scanned image on her desktop to install the drive. and to top that off she threw away the drive she paid almost $200 for and she wanted us to give her a new one.
 
 
 
EDIT: feel free to quote this comment, I like seeing peoples reactions even though the comment is 2+ years old.
EDIT EDIT: still funny in 2021 keep em comin'

Customer walks into the IT shop I worked at. She looks around (Computers and gadgets everywhere) . She walks to the counter and asks me if we sell clothes.

A really old man (worst example EVER), was comming to our pc store because he bought a pc that didn't work.
he plugged it in, and nothing worked.
...
he didn't push the power button...
that said, he came back. the screen is still black.
same freaking reason. he did not turn the darn thing on, we had to draw out the symbol of a on/off switch, i walked to the back and laughed reeeaaally hard i allmost cried, 3 times in a row (first for the not working pc, second for the not working monitor and third for the actual drawing) XD
this has really happened :P but the guy was old (75?) and probably has never used an electrical device in his whole life (country side).
that was the least tech savvy person i have ever encountered.

So, here's my experiences, that I can come to think of now:
 
- After I've fixed a computer for a friend or relative, they always blame me for every future problem.
- Two guys were talking in an MMORPG I used to play, and one of them said that he overclocked his hard drive and his computer is now more than twice as fast.
- Whenever I tell someone that I like computers and technology, they always assume I just post stuff on Facebook and play Farmville all day long.
- My mom freak out every time an email from someone she doesn't know, slips through the spam filter and end up in her inbox. Something worth mentioning is that she use hotmail, so she freaks out a lot.
 
Edit: fixed the formatting.