Experiences with non-techies

[GirlFromYonder]

Just now, themctipers said:

whalecum

[themctipers]

Just now, DeezNoNos said:

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[PCGuy_5960]

On 3/4/2017 at 2:30 AM, techstorm970 said:

1. A Q9550 is NOT worth $95.

2. CPU ON CARPET!!!

 

The worst part is that somebody will actually buy this.  

Is that the only thing that is wrong? This CPU isn't a Q9550

[GirlFromYonder]

Just now, themctipers said:

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[themctipers]

Just now, DeezNoNos said:

 

[longlineride]

My mom once thought that an VGA cable could also transfer power to a monitor, after 5 minutes i demonstrated her that's not the case. derp 

[Akima]

I used to work for a heavy industrial IT company. So not desktop level hardware. Not even server. Industrial grade. Equipment that could operate fanless in extreme wide temperatures environments, and suffer a ton of ESD and EMI interference without even twitching.

 

One of the directors at the company had literally no idea what half the equipment did. It was so cringeworthy watching him trying to blag his way with clients. I remember one meeting with a well known research body and they were after an Embedded PC that met some high-end MIL-STD-810 standard and his response was "oh yeah I'm sure we can meet that.. we're ISO9001."...........

[Techstorm970]

1 hour ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Is that the only thing that is wrong? This CPU isn't a Q9550

Oh!  Q9550S.  That's even worse...

[MrDynamicMan]

1 hour ago, Akima said:

I used to work for a heavy industrial IT company. So not desktop level hardware. Not even server. Industrial grade. Equipment that could operate fanless in extreme wide temperatures environments, and suffer a ton of ESD and EMI interference without even twitching.

 

One of the directors at the company had literally no idea what half the equipment did. It was so cringeworthy watching him trying to blag his way with clients. I remember one meeting with a well known research body and they were after an Embedded PC that met some high-end MIL-STD-810 standard and his response was "oh yeah I'm sure we can meet that.. we're ISO9001."...........

Can you explain for those of us unversed in industrial syntax. 

[Seamonster420]

On 3/3/2017 at 4:30 PM, techstorm970 said:

1. A Q9550 is NOT worth $95.

2. CPU ON CARPET!!!

 

The worst part is that somebody will actually buy this.  

Nope, according to Newegg it's worth $410! No shit, here's a link! WTF!?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115041

[Akima]

22 minutes ago, MrDynamicMan said:

Can you explain for those of us unversed in industrial syntax. 

Basically MIL-STD-810 is a military grade design standard for electrical hardware. It's something that you learn from day 1 in the industry. ISO 9001 is a business standard completely unrelated to MIL-STD. Its quite difficult to confuse the two things but he did.

 

Maybe it's context, but it was one of them head-in-hands situation..

 

Watching someone in such a high authority position, who should understand the industry inside out, squirm and blag his way through.

[PCGuy_5960]

1 hour ago, techstorm970 said:

Oh!  Q9550S.  That's even worse...

No. It's not even an LGA 775 CPU

[Guest]

My friend once told me that consoles have better graphics because you can plug them into a tv, and TV's have graphics cards in them (he first said tvs 2 "make graphics", i asked im if he meant a graphics card, and then he said it)

[Guest]

On 7/11/2013 at 5:47 PM, brownninja97 said:

I remember another one from one my teachers saying dont turn the computer off if its the last lesson because it uses more power to start it. 

power usage can surge for under a second when booting up, but its negligible

[Techstorm970]

57 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

No. It's not even an LGA 775 CPU

OMG I just noticed that!!!  

Bruh...if that IS a quad-core, then it's an i5 or i7, not a Q-whatever. 

[JoeCoke]

When my cousin says he got hacked by Twitch when he got a virus....

[kaiju_wars]

So, I don't know where else to put this than here... because customers don't know how to power cycle the modems properly.
Customer calls in.

"My internet isn't working."

"Okay, I'll be happy to assist you, let me look into this, I'm going to run a couple of tests."

"Okay."
Here I am checking sync and session.  I'm not able to get into the modem though, as the way she was describing while I was doing this, it seemed like her or one of her kids hit the WiFi button.

"Okay, I can't get into the modem here, can I have you unplug the modem for 15 seconds, then plug it back in?"

"Sure."

Customer does that, she's on DSL so it takes a few minutes for everything to come back up.  As soon as sync is back up, I'm in the modem, WiFi is enabled, and she's able to surf.

The customer was upset that this worked to fix her issue....

[themctipers]

[LucasDerpYT]

About 2 years ago my dad got back into HTML, he did it years ago and is really good at it. So he finishes a website for a business and he brings the USB to the business to show the website to them. He gave it to them and they tried to shove it into a type of display port , somehow, within their computer they had like a HD 5450 with no backplate, they knocked it out of the pcie slot and then a thud and a dented case later, broken GPU.

[MrDynamicMan]

Context: every month or so (dam levels permitting) I go to a sailing camp. There are about 15 of us (mostly regulars) and two instructors. We slept in pre-fabricated esque wooden cabins, on like 12 bunks. The 'living room' cabin where we ate and hung out was a very similar affair. I'll take some pics next time I'm around.

 

But, on to the story. One of the instructors, Niel, was a web designer. He didn't exactly look it. Tall and skinny with a hook nose and messy Grey hair, but he was one. He had this old workstation laptop from the 2011-2012 era. It  was an HP, but this has hell with that 'brushed aluminium but it still doesn't look good look.' anyway, me and one of the guys got to chatting, and he insisted that the laptop had 4 i7 four in it. 

 

The end. 

[LucasDerpYT]

5 minutes ago, MrDynamicMan said:

Context: every month or so (dam levels permitting) I go to a sailing camp. There are about 15 of us (mostly regulars) and two instructors. We slept in pre-fabricated esque wooden cabins, on like 12 bunks. The 'living room' cabin where we ate and hung out was a very similar affair. I'll take some pics next time I'm around.

 

But, on to the story. One of the instructors, Niel, was a web designer. He didn't exactly look it. Tall and skinny with a hook nose and messy Grey hair, but he was one. He had this old workstation laptop from the 2011-2012 era. It  was an HP, but this has hell with that 'brushed aluminium but it still doesn't look good look.' anyway, me and one of the guys got to chatting, and he insisted that the laptop had 4 i7 four in it. 

 

The end. 

Rlly?

[LucasDerpYT]

On 8/20/2015 at 6:59 PM, BurgerBum said:

i just remembered this!

back last time when my cousins where visiting, their dad, (my uncle/brother) looked at steam and asked what it was. 

 

whats that?

steam.

whats steam?

its sort of a launcher for you games library, also a community platform and a place to buy said games.

its a launcher?

yeah kinda.

so you're hacking your games? 

 

 

 

 

 

when did that come to be something commonly assumed? 

BTW he's a gamer. xbox and pc since the early 2000's. not hardcore, but he does do it. 

Face controller.  I do Xbox and pc

[1shanghai]

My friend insists that the fx 6300 is a powerful cpu for gaming. He looks at the specs at Game debate and doesn't consider ipc . Lol. 

Not price to performance btw

Also dual cores can't game

And the fx series has better compatibility with gpus

[MrDynamicMan]

7 hours ago, LucasDerpYT said:

Rlly?

Rlly

[themctipers]

2 hours ago, MrDynamicMan said:

Rlly

floof