Experiences with non-techies

[Lewiscpullan]

The sales people in pc world are crap! Here's my story.

 

So my mum and I are looking for two cheap laptops in pc world for my mums company, we know what we want but a sales women comes up and asks us what we're looking for we tell we're alright but she insists so she starts pointing out the microsoft surface but they're way to expensive so she then tells us that she should get a netbook. So we tell that we want at least 4gb of ram and the netbook only had 2gb and so I say no we want a proper laptop with 4gb of ram with that she replied "How would you know you just play games and listen to music!" At that point my mum and I were furious and we just left! Goes to show you have to look after your customers and not offend them.

 

(She also had a foul breath!)

[Str_Mape]

Technically this doesn't belong in the thread as the people are techies but it's so bad I'll put it here anyway.

Class of 12x A+ Certified students and the lecturer (He taught me 3 years ago and is cool guy) bring in a computer that they can't get to boot and none of them knew why. A student was building it at home and brought it in to build in class.

I open it, unplug the floppy power from the system fan header and facepalm.
I got them sorted with a new board after testing the old one that ended up being dead and installed it for them,

 

[Str_Mape]

Second post because I just remembered it and am pretty sure I haven't posted it here

Before final exam of a course I'm doing, the most annoying guy of the 7 people who had lasted to now was going on about how you'd have to be an idiot to not pass the exam. Exam was to take apart and rebuild a computer, install windows and drivers then do some stuff other easy stuff. I guess he was right that you'd have to be an idiot not to pass.

Cut part way through the exam, I'm finishing up the windows install, and other people have just started windows except for two people, guy across the room and the annoying guy next to me. 
Guy next to me starts swearing at the computer while trying to solve the issue for around 10 minutes,guy across the room quietly works at it and eventually gets a post.

Guy next to me seeing he is the last one, starts crying and storms out of the room, I peek in his computer, jump the power connectors and laugh as it comes on.

TLDR: Guy says you have to be stupid not to be able to build a PC prior to an exam, he starts crying and leaves when he can't get it to turn on, turns out he forgot to connect the case switch / jumping the connectors with a screwdriver..


 

[Str_Mape]

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[DirtyDane]

Thought it would be fun to make a topic about, all of our experiences with all the people, who doesn't really understand all the tech. Note: Don't make this too harsh on them. You need to help them, not yell at them. I'll go first: So my mom has a daycare. And one day I am sitting on the floor with my laptop. And one of the kids, with real dirty hands come and put his hand on the screen. Guess he thought it was a touch screen. Still haven't gotten it off, and it was 3 months ago. My grandmother is scared of getting rid of the computer, because she thinks it will cut the power to her house.

oh well what do you know another dane! looks like im not alone here either. im telling you we seem to pop up in all sorts of places

[Fgtfv567]

Another quote from my boss "144 Mega Hertz is similar technologies to G-Sync Synchronise"

No..... Both have to deal with refresh rates, but they are not similar to one another

[Str_Mape]

On 11/9/2015 at 7:45 PM, Fgtfv567 said:

No..... Both have to deal with refresh rates, but they are not similar to one another

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[PotatOS - Andrew]

I thought it would be but I wasn't sure .

I HATE THAT SITE AND ALL IT STANDS FOR.  I WISH IT WOULD JUST GO UP IN FLAMES.  <- Does that look like green crayon?   All decent rant/hate  letters are written in green crayon?

Are you kidding me?  This is the best site ever!  It's so hilarious for people who know it's a joke and hilarious for those people to watch other people who think it's legit actually try to use it.

[soup]

Are you kidding me? 

 

 

I am not kidding. I think that particular 'joke' (downloading RAM) has been over played for years and certainly overplayed in here.

[I need a better name]

.....

[Boink]

-Snippers-

*sigh* Just when I had a little bit of hope for humanity...

[I need a better name]

*sigh* Just when I had a little bit of hope for humanity...

if you had hope for humanity, you probably haven't read any on the posts on this thread

[vanished]

.....

 

This is so painful and hilarious at the same time.

[WkdPaul]

if you had hope for humanity, you probably haven't read any on the posts on this thread

or worked as tech or customer support...

[vanished]

or worked as tech or customer support...

or interacted with another human being, either online or in person

[DirtyDane]

This is so painful and hilarious at the same time.

i think i just died a little....

[DirtyDane]

I hear you there! One of my analogies for talking about what each part is/does is regarding a house with people doing things.

RAM is the room so the more RAM the bigger the room the more that can be done in the room at once. The CPU is a group of people that do things. Each core would be a person and the more GHz the faster they can do things (regarding hyperthreading each person can do two things at the same time). The HDD is a storage room that is really packed so it's slow to get to things but holds a lot. That's about it for that one as that's what I think is the limit as I can't think of what the GPU and PSU would do in that analogies.

 

It's not perfect but gets the point across the majority of the time.

the psu could be the coffee machine that keeps all the people energized and working. and the gpu is like a decorator he comes in and makes sure everything you see looks ncie and orderyly

[RedOwen1177]

Our teacher the other day was trying to AirPlay music, and it kept cutting out. So when someone walked in-front of her phone, she told them that they were breaking the beam.

[kgorringe]

When people think reformatting the hard drive on a 2002 Pentium will make it run just like a $15,000 gaming pc.

[Bazilias]

When I'm watching a video on Youtube my mom thinks i'm skyping with a stranger that can hack my pc... ;_;

 

When I play games like GTA V BF4 and other games my mom think it's a big virus... ;_;

 

When I'm helping a friend out with his new hardware my mom thinks I'm going to blow the sh!t up... ;_;

[Sithhy]

When I'm watching a video on Youtube my mom thinks i'm skyping with a stranger that can hack my pc... ;_;

When I play games like GTA V BF4 and other games my mom think it's a big virus... ;_;

When I'm helping a friend out with his new hardware my mom thinks I'm going to blow the sh!t up... ;_;

Have you ever watched iCarly? Because your mum reminds me of the mum from one of the main characters [emoji1]

[Bazilias]

Have you ever watched iCarly? Because your mum reminds me of the mum from one of the main characters [emoji1]

Haha, yeah u mean Freddy? Haha yeah she's just like his mom .

[Sithhy]

Haha, yeah u mean Freddy? Haha yeah she's just like his mom .

Yeah, I meant Freddie [emoji1] Somehow I forgot his name [emoji1]

[BlazingGunnerFTW]

"Just because I am a woman does not mean I can't work on computers."

 

FML, that's the dumbest shit I've ever heard of. HOW THE FUCK COULD YOU MESS THAT UP!?

Feminazis.... 

[steezemageeze]

 

This was a question I was asked in the math portion of my high school programming class. For one, it was obviously written a while ago (2006ish?), and for two, it doesn't give me any other information. Are we doing single channel? Dual Channel? Quad Channel? How many sticks does the MoBo support? 

 

Oh, and assuming that I'm just buying three new sticks of 1GB per computer, it'll cost nearly $9,000 to upgrade the whole lab