Experiences with non-techies

[vorticalbox]

7 minutes ago, matrix07012 said:

When I saw the campaign, I was like: "Oh, this is pretty cool". Then I thought about it for few seconds and even without doing math or having advanced physics knowledge, I figured out that it is useless bullshit. Come on people, do you even think for a second before pulling out your wallet?

that is exactly what people do.

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3 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

idiot just lost $2,000 by throwing away all that gold.

And my mom's monitor can do 900P.

Wow, yeah I just watched that and that is the most pathetic shredder I've ever seen.  It's built to look exactly like those uber shredders that'll take literally anything, but in reality it's weaker than your average paper shredder  

 

And I highly doubt there was $2000 worth of gold in there unless he started chucking in gold bricks towards the end that I didn't watch  

[NumLock21]

4 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Wow, yeah I just watched that and that is the most pathetic shredder I've ever seen.  It's built to look exactly like those uber shredders that'll take literally anything, but in reality it's weaker than your average paper shredder  

 

And I highly doubt there was $2000 worth of gold in there unless he started chucking in gold bricks towards the end that I didn't watch  

Of course it wasn't $2K, but you can get some out of it.

http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/576-gold-silver-cpu.html

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1 hour ago, NumLock21 said:

Of course it wasn't $2K, but you can get some out of it.

http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/576-gold-silver-cpu.html

Yeah, some is more like it   Look at that huge pile of CPUs they melted down, and in the end, they had a ball of gold like 2 mm in diameter, which, if it's pure, is worth 0.4 cents $4.18 _{(correction below)} by my calculation  

[DocSwag]

On June 8, 2016 at 11:19 AM, DirtyDane said:

okay im back again too lazy to read everything abck there but i will say that i found this gem. 

 the title makes me cringe. "IT parts" lol

Why, why WHY?!?!? I mean those are some pieces of hardware I'd love to have.... Not sure what that first thing was though it looked like a ram stick, but then that AMD CPU.... Must have been an Athlon XP or something.... And I don't know what that second one was but I would have loved to have had that.... And there was an agp card that did who knows what and a ram stick that wasn't even DDR! Why......

And I don't know what that Intel thing was, but it looked like something awesome.....

Why can't these people have some respect for these old pieces of hardware.....

I cringed when I watched the two CPUs go through the shredder.

[DocSwag]

1 hour ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Yeah, some is more like it   Look at that huge pile of CPUs they melted down, and in the end, they had a ball of gold like 2 mm in diameter, which, if it's pure, is worth 0.4 cents by my calculation  

Not really 0.4 cents.... By my calculations probably somewhere around 10-20 dollars ish depending on purity.

Of course, I could've made some mistakes  but I think it's right.

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9 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Not really 0.4 cents.... By my calculations probably somewhere around 10-20 dollars ish depending on purity.

Of course, I could've made some mistakes  but I think it's right.

I could have made a mistake... let's work it out:

• 2 mm diameter = 0.001 m radius
• (4/3)pi(r³) = volume = 4.189 x 10^-9 m³ 
• Gold price = 51632.53 $/kg
• Gold density = 19320 kg / m³

You're right I did make a huge mistake: it should have been $4.18

 

Still, that's not much  

[DocSwag]

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I could have made a mistake... let's work it out:

• 2 mm diameter = 0.001 m radius
• (4/3)pi(r³) = volume = 4.189 x 10^-9 m³ 
• Gold price = 51632.53 $/kg
• Gold density = 19320 kg / m³

You're right I did make a huge mistake: it should have been $4.18

 

Still, that's not much  

Lol you just made me realize I also made a mistake.... I used 2mm as the radius .

So my calculations were off by a factor of 8, so it's more like 2-3 dollar ish.

Also, you forgot about purity in your calculations .

So it'd be around 3 dollars or so. That's a quite negligible amount of money.

 

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1 minute ago, DocSwag said:

Lol you just made me realize I also made a mistake.... I used 2mm as the radius .

So my calculations were off by a factor of 8, so it's more like 2-3 dollar ish.

Also, you forgot about purity in your calculations .

So it'd be around 3 dollars or so. That's a quite negligible amount of money.

 

This is why engineers work in teams  

[DocSwag]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

This is why engineers work in teams  

Yup, for sure  

Otherwise they would probably make so many mistakes that nothing would ever get done......

[WkdPaul]

10 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I could have made a mistake... let's work it out:

• 2 mm diameter = 0.001 m radius
• (4/3)pi(r³) = volume = 4.189 x 10^-9 m³ 
• Gold price = 51632.53 $/kg
• Gold density = 19320 kg / m³

You're right I did make a huge mistake: it should have been $4.18

 

Still, that's not much  

that's actually not enough, just the energy needed (they used a torch) to melt this and all the chemicals needed, that's underwhelming, you would need to process A LOT of chips to make that profitable!

[WkdPaul]

back to the non-techies ...

 

So I talked about it, but there's a small used hardware / recycling shop I often look at in case they have a deal I might like, just saw that;

 

a Dell Optiplex 780, no RAM, no HD, also in the description it says "updated to Windows 10" ... updated, yet it doesn't have a HDD!!! lollll

 

And no, before anyone points it out, they don't do the update themselves, so it's not a "pre-updated before we removed the HDD" thing, I know because I've sent a few people their way and they actually wipe the drives, so there is no Windows install on these PCs!!!

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23 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

that's actually not enough, just the energy needed (they used a torch) to melt this and all the chemicals needed, that's underwhelming, you would need to process A LOT of chips to make that profitable!

I know it's not enough   My point was that the huge pile of CPUs gets you hardly any gold at all

[NumLock21]

2 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Yeah, some is more like it   Look at that huge pile of CPUs they melted down, and in the end, they had a ball of gold like 2 mm in diameter, which, if it's pure, is worth 0.4 cents $4.18 _{(correction below)} by my calculation  

At you get 418 shiny pennies.

 

[Finnskii]

My best non-techie experience is when my grandma asked me why google wasn't coming up. It turned out that she typed 'google dot com' into chrome. 

[deWaardt]

On 8-6-2016 at 8:03 AM, Principis said:

They are just trying to scare people it's stupid... My country (Belgium) has a serious energy problem... We have to buy electricity from France...

 

But because of our uninformed population that is always whining about nuclear energy we are closing our reactors and are not building new ones which makes it even worse....

 

It's impossible to power a country with wind and solar alone...

In my town there's a power plant generating your electricity lol.

 

On 9-6-2016 at 10:19 PM, wkdpaul said:

back to the non-techies ...

 

So I talked about it, but there's a small used hardware / recycling shop I often look at in case they have a deal I might like, just saw that;

 

a Dell Optiplex 780, no RAM, no HD, also in the description it says "updated to Windows 10" ... updated, yet it doesn't have a HDD!!! lollll

 

And no, before anyone points it out, they don't do the update themselves, so it's not a "pre-updated before we removed the HDD" thing, I know because I've sent a few people their way and they actually wipe the drives, so there is no Windows install on these PCs!!!

There must have been people buying these things and go like "WTF THIS PC DOESN'T WORK"

[JimmyTheHeadcrab]

"How come I can watch a video of a game with good graphics, but I can't play said game itself at a good framerate"

I guess I need a beefy rig to watch witcher 3 lets plays

[jonsmith9847]

I was very close to watching a guy get a Darwin award.

 

So I worked at an electronics store and we get all sorts of people bringing in half broken c*** that they thing our magic wizardly hands can fix for them.

I was sat at the back and this guy walks up-to the counter and it goes a bit like this:

 

Darwin nominee: "Can you help me out with this component I think its a called a capacitor?"

Myself: "Sure, do you have it with you so I can have look?" (At this point I was expecting him to pull out a small capacitor like the ones you would find on a motherboard)

Darwin nominee: (Reaches into pocket and pulls out a capacitor and hands it in my direction) "Here it is" he said

Myself: "Wow, that's a big capacitor" (I can't remember the exact values of it but It was something like 440v motor run capacitor) I then say "I'm assuming you have discharged it?"

Darwin nominee: And I s*** you not his response was "I'm not really sure? What do you mean?"

Myself: (Right now Im nervous) "Okay, don't touch the metal ends and put it on the table" 

At this point I proceed to find a screwdriver with a reasonably insulated handle.

I touch the two ends of the capacitor together with a screwdriver and it flashes and leaves some fairly obvious burn marks on the screwdriver head.

 

How this guy managed to get a fully charged capacitor from the equipment, into his pocket, and into my store without being electrocuted to death I do not know. 

So moral of that story, be very careful when you take anything mains powered apart! Especially ATX PSU's they have capacitors in them also.

[MoonlightSylv]

My brother came up to me with a USB drive and said "where do I put your graphics card?"

[themaniac]

2 hours ago, jonsmith9847 said:

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this is why i wonder how the hell the idiots of this world have not killed them selves off yet

[J. Hammond]

2 hours ago, jonsmith9847 said:

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The effects of /k/, last night's barbecue, the engineer in me, and a bit of alcohol made this thought possible.

 

If I loaded a charged capacitor in a shotgun shell and fired it, could I make a long range tazer? Could I make a single-use cattle prod by taping a capacitor on the end of a stick? Could I take a M18 Claymore and replace the steel balls with capacitors that will shock anyone in the area of effect?

 

I should probably go to sleep.

[DeathlessGaming]

My experience with non-techies is having a friend who decided at a birthday party to buy norton antivirus and also accidentally install a ton of adware and malware. I decided it was my duty to clean up and spent the birthday party cleaning his computer with some good anti-virus/malware tools. I wish I never went to the party. Mind you he also bought an i7-4790 with an R7 240.

[Sors]

3 hours ago, J. Hammond said:

The effects of /k/, last night's barbecue, the engineer in me, and a bit of alcohol made this thought possible.

 

If I loaded a charged capacitor in a shotgun shell and fired it, could I make a long range tazer? Could I make a single-use cattle prod by taping a capacitor on the end of a stick? Could I take a M18 Claymore and replace the steel balls with capacitors that will shock anyone in the area of effect?

 

I should probably go to sleep.

All of them are possible.  But, most capacitors only stay charged for a brief period, hours or so.  It wouldn't be easy to keep them charged for those uses, and someone already made a taser shell for shotguns:

 

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3 minutes ago, Sors said:

Most capacitors only stay charged for a brief period, hours or so.  It wouldn't be easy to keep them charged for those uses, and someone already made a taser shell for shotguns:

 

Unless we're gonna start using this on people who forget where the start button is, this has gotten really off topic  

[deWaardt]

1 hour ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Unless we're gonna start using this on people who forget where the start button is, this has gotten really off topic  

Ah good use for this shotgun would be those people that reply "an Acer" to the question "what laptop do you have?"

 

"An Acer" isn't helping me a lot, Acer has been making laptops since I don't know how long and has released all kinds of different laptops.