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On 11/1/2017 at 2:19 AM, Rodinski said:

For some reason, people tell me the color of their computer as if it makes it faster or something. 

 

"Ya, I have the HP red one, really fast." 

 

"k." 

They're referencing the color of their computer cause they think that the speed of the specific wavelength of light is gonna make their CPU/GPU run faster or that the color of the bezel is gonna give them a higher refresh rate

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My grandad seems to think keeping something on standby somehow ruins it, so he turns of his phone when he isn't using it (shuts it down...) so I can never get through to him :P  

Same story with his laptop, so I installed an SSD and now he doesn't have to wait as long to play Candy Crush or whatever retired pensioners do all day :)

 

My granny listens to me and doesn't care about leaving her phone on, but my grandad usually turns it off if he sees :P

 

 

 

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If you’re interested in spending nearly 20 minutes of your life watching someone read out comments made by idiots and then cringe and correcting them, be my guest.

 

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12 minutes ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

If you’re interested in spending nearly 20 minutes of your life watching someone read out comments made by idiots and then cringe and correcting them, be my guest.

Did you just try to sum up 90% of You Tube by chance?

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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In a computer subject at school, we were 'learning' about the different parts of a computer.

According to my teacher, a computer consists of:

a monitor

a keyboard

a mouse

a printer

speakers

a modem

and a "hard drive" (he meant the pc/desktop/case with all the parts)

 

in the same class we had a substitute teacher. She didn't know what hardware was and thought that they were "computer bits"

 

My teacher closed and reopened ie to refresh the page

 

another teacher thought that her thinkpad with an i7 was bad, but the school's desktop with a core 2 duo was good.

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19 minutes ago, Reppiy said:

In a computer subject at school, we were 'learning' about the different parts of a computer.

According to my teacher, a computer consists of:

a monitor

a keyboard

a mouse

a printer

speakers

a modem

and a "hard drive" (he meant the pc/desktop/case with all the parts)

 

in the same class we had a substitute teacher. She didn't know what hardware was and thought that they were "computer bits"

 

My teacher closed and reopened ie to refresh the page

 

another teacher thought that her thinkpad with an i7 was bad, but the school's desktop with a core 2 duo was good.

why did i just take a graphics card out of a sleeping computer?

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13 hours ago, dave3818 said:

My grandad seems to think keeping something on standby somehow ruins it, so he turns of his phone when he isn't using it (shuts it down...) so I can never get through to him :P  

Same story with his laptop, so I installed an SSD and now he doesn't have to wait as long to play Candy Crush or whatever retired pensioners do all day :)

 

My granny listens to me and doesn't care about leaving her phone on, but my grandad usually turns it off if he sees :P

 

 

 

Well it would put less wear on the battery, but in theory shutting it off like that is actually bad for the the hardware because of the rapid heating and cooling cycles. Not really a practical concern though. His battery must last like a week xD

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4 hours ago, Reppiy said:

In a computer subject at school, we were 'learning' about the different parts of a computer.

According to my teacher, a computer consists of:

a monitor

a keyboard

a mouse

a printer

speakers

a modem

and a "hard drive" (he meant the pc/desktop/case with all the parts)

 

in the same class we had a substitute teacher. She didn't know what hardware was and thought that they were "computer bits"

 

My teacher closed and reopened ie to refresh the page

 

another teacher thought that her thinkpad with an i7 was bad, but the school's desktop with a core 2 duo was good.

Why u allowed to teach.

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15 hours ago, dave3818 said:

My grandad seems to think keeping something on standby somehow ruins it, so he turns of his phone when he isn't using it (shuts it down...) so I can never get through to him :P  

Same story with his laptop, so I installed an SSD and now he doesn't have to wait as long to play Candy Crush or whatever retired pensioners do all day :)

 

My granny listens to me and doesn't care about leaving her phone on, but my grandad usually turns it off if he sees :P

 

 

 

That's cute

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4 hours ago, DeezNoNos said:

Why u allowed to teach.

My school has such a low budget that when computers were made compulsory in the Australian curriculum last year they got a maths teacher and a French teacher to teach it.

at least i convinced my teacher to let me do python programming instead of scratch.

 

Here’s another story:

when I was in primary school, the year 3s had some “programming” incursion, and then they had to talk about it at assembly.

They said: “people use scratch to program everything. Minecraft was made with scratch. Pokémon was made with scratch. All computers are made with scratch.”

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11 minutes ago, Reppiy said:

My school has such a low budget that when computers were made compulsory in the Australian curriculum last year they got a maths teacher and a French teacher to teach it.

at least i convinced my teacher to let me do python programming instead of scratch.

 

Here’s another story:

when I was in primary school, the year 3s had some “programming” incursion, and then they had to talk about it at assembly.

They said: “people use scratch to program everything. Minecraft was made with scratch. Pokémon was made with scratch. All computers are made with scratch.”

scratch physically hurts to program in. thats just a fact.

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

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#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

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Yeah, um, a 1050 Ti can’t bottleneck a 7700.

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10 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

scratch physically hurts to program in. thats just a fact.

It has its use cases.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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1 hour ago, Nuluvius said:

It has its use cases.

What can be done in scratch that would make anyone use it... It's not even that good of a block programming language

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

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"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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1 hour ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

What can be done in scratch that would make anyone use it... It's not even that good of a block programming language

It's good for children because it's tactile. Though I'm excited about Luna.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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I had a family member that did not know about bookmarks so every time they has a site they liked she was writing them down, her friend then told her that they was a note pad program. That was better then the physical notebook, but the day I showed her bookmarks started the day of almost daily calls for computer help, it was fun lol

 

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18 minutes ago, KonnorNS said:

I had a family member that did not know about bookmarks so every time they has a site they liked she was writing them down, her friend then told her that they was a note pad program. That was better then the physical notebook, but the day I showed her bookmarks started the day of almost daily calls for computer help, it was fun lol

I knew someone like that once, if they liked a site then they'd try to dump the whole thing locally, to the desktop. The result was that the desktop was a wall of html pages... It was a sad story indeed.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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11 minutes ago, Nuluvius said:

I knew someone like that once, if they liked a site then they'd try to dump the whole thing locally, to the desktop. The result was that the desktop was a wall of html pages... It was a sad story indeed.

o what a mess LOL

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On 10/26/2017 at 4:30 PM, Nuluvius said:

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It looks like something else of this man has been triggered....

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"Now that you're on wireless, you'll be using up more bandwidth." - My brother when I got a new computer with a wireless card, 2013

 

"You're on ethernet now? That's not fair, you're plugged right into the router soaking up all the bandwidth!" - My brother when I got a powerline adapter for my computer, 2017

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So we are doing 3d printing and she was talking about the .STL file and a kid screamed STD!!!! She said "Oh stl std whatever you wanna call it." She has called it a .STD for the rest of class so far. Any other teacher stories that made you laugh till you cry.

 

I like pie.

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4 minutes ago, Windows Server 2003 said:

So we are doing 3d printing and she was talking about the .STL file and a kid screamed STD!!!! She said "Oh stl std whatever you wanna call it." She has called it a .STD for the rest of class so far. Any other teacher stories that made you laugh till you cry.

 

make sure you just dont insert the file where she got her education...

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

Builds:

The Toaster Project! Northern Bee!

 

The original LAN PC build log! (Old, dead and replaced by The Toaster Project & 5.0)

Spoiler

"Here is some advice that might have gotten lost somewhere along the way in your life. 

 

#1. Treat others as you would like to be treated.

#2. It's best to keep your mouth shut; and appear to be stupid, rather than open it and remove all doubt.

#3. There is nothing "wrong" with being wrong. Learning from a mistake can be more valuable than not making one in the first place.

 

Follow these simple rules in life, and I promise you, things magically get easier. " - MageTank 31-10-2016

 

 

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Anyone has raid 5 advice for 4tb hdds

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2 minutes ago, DeezNoNos said:

Anyone has raid 5 advice for 4tb hdds

Besides backup, backup, backup?

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Break off your chains

And look what I've found in the dirt.

 

Pale battered body

Seems she was struggling

Something is wrong with this world.

 

Fierce Bloody Angel

The blood is on your hands

Why did you come to this world?

 

Everybody turns to dust.

 

Everybody turns to dust.

 

The blood is on your hands.

 

The blood is on your hands!

 

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6 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Besides backup, backup, backup?

Say I package it into a 7zip file with no compression, encrypt and upload to Google drive or something? And also which raid card should I get.

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