Experiences with non-techies

[Beskamir]

1). I remember telling a friend that I was milling PCB traces for a project, and he thought that had something to do with cutting wood.

 

2). When I built my mom's computer, she wanted to download iTunes. She went to the Apple website and started dragging around a picture in the browser and raged at me, thinking her PC was broken.

 

3). I personally know a lot of people that buy the most expensive Macbook Pro's to use as Facebook machines. This makes me sad.

 

 

 

 

I thought the rule of thumb with electronics was to jam the connector into the port until it worked?

 

 

 

 

 

I've encountered the same thing. Many people also have the misconception that the total graphics frame buffer/VRAM actually increases by adding a card in SLI or CFX. They should seriously add a warning label on the box to make sure know.

 

I actually though that 2 cards put together meant that there would be more GDDR5 RAM. but that was before I began following all the tech chanels.

[Godlygamer23]

I actually though that 2 cards put together meant that there would be more GDDR5 RAM. but that was before I began following all the tech chanels.

Technically there is more, but because of the way SLI/Crossfire works, it's effectively the same.

[piplupgao]

Again, the energy is being converted into heat. It doesn't matter what you define as your system. I'm talking about the all univers as my system. Heat is being moved... You can't deny that. So you can't just look at the micro without thinking that the heat is dissipated.

Even if your small system was isolated completely the heat would just add up... And there is no energy difference.

dE=0, dE=dMc^2,0=dMc^2, dM=0

(d: delta)

I think another science argument is about to start

[obsidian1200]

So today a classmate of mine needed to present a powerpoint for a project, but he had his flash drive formatted as HFS+ so it wasn't showing up on the computer. He was convinced that it was broken, but I fortunately decided to help him out since I have the software on my computer to deal with HFS+ and let him run his powerpoint off my flashdrive instead.

[piplupgao]

My mom made a program for her co-workers and it said "press any key to continue" and all her co-workers were looking for the button that said "any"

[Eyal]

I think another science argument is about to start

Isn't that a good thing? Science arguments are always fun... Don't you think?

[Nicktrance]

My mom made a program for her co-workers and it said "press any key to continue" and all her co-workers were looking for the button that said "any"

 

What are they the Simpsons?

[aikoels]

My most memorable experience was in best buy, with a tech department guy. He was adamant that the highest end gaming pcs sold have 9gb of RAM. To this day I still haven't heard of any prebuilt pc sold with 9gb of RAM (I mean I know some pcs have it, but he thought ALL high end machines were sold with 9gb of ram)

[MrImnotMLG]

Yeah this guy is awfull, he got an other video where he says that you can have more ram for free, all he does is making the computer think some of the HDD space is RAM.

you do realize what he does is as a joke...

[Guerrero]

My sister wanted to practice her presentation with my cousin and she woke me up to connect her laptop to the tv (she didn't try) and was telling me where the usb cable (to connect her laptop to the tv) so I just unplugged the hdmi from the blu ray plyr into her laptop and left

[Cad6500]

My friend said he got a 'gaming' computer as a graduation gift, I asked for the specs and he said it had a gt630 in it and probably a core 2 duo (this pc was given about 2 or 3 months ago)...

 

Another one of my friends said he had an epic computer, I asked for the specs, he said he didnt know any of it aside from that the gpu was an nvidia...

he also said that he knew this guy who would go to Japan to sift through the trash to find computer parts and sell them here (to any Japanese members, is this true that you just throw away old hardware?)

[mr moose]

Not so much people with little tech knowledge but its the people who should know better that really upset me:

 

Back in 98/99 I was arguing with a computer tech that crts were better because they had better native resolutions and faster refresh rates, he said they did not have a resolution, they were analogue and thus the resolution was infinite.

 

Also when buying car speakers the salesmen was adamant that the 4" speakers with 600Watts written on the box could actually handle 600Watts :o

 

Not too mention when in Harvey norman the tech (guru) was trying to tell me his super expensive "monster" cables were far superior than standard cables by comparing MC component video cables to bog stock s-video cable. He couldn't even understand that it was a completely different video processing standard let alone cable configuration. :rolleyes:

 

Now when people refer to the Hdd as the computers memory I know what they mean and I let it go.

[Keystone Nyan Cat]

I have a 240GB SSD and a relative comes in and asks, ''How much space does your computer have?''. ''Oh, its 240GB.'' He looks at me confused, proably thinking why does that big fat desktop have so less place; and I tell him its a SSD, and he looks further confused...

[Keystone Nyan Cat]

Oh, and heres another one- My friend has one of those Retina display macs and I tell him that my computer has a 670 and it can play BF3 and stuff. He tell me this-

 

I have a Retina display. I too can play BF3 on ultra.

 

*facepalm*

[piplupgao]

My friend said he got a 'gaming' computer as a graduation gift, I asked for the specs and he said it had a gt630 in it and probably a core 2 duo (this pc was given about 2 or 3 months ago)...

 

Another one of my friends said he had an epic computer, I asked for the specs, he said he didnt know any of it aside from that the gpu was an nvidia...

he also said that he knew this guy who would go to Japan to sift through the trash to find computer parts and sell them here (to any Japanese members, is this true that you just throw away old hardware?)

Those are the same specs as my brother's pc ... from 5 years ago

[the_devil52]

Those are the same specs as my brother's pc ... from 5 years ago

 You had a GT630 5 years ago? are you The Doctor?

[LapX]

gosh i've heard so much bash about the geek squad XD like honestly from everything i've heard i think they are train in a 30 minute class about computers

In my opinion they shouldn't be trained about computers, they should already know about computers !

[LapX]

My grandmother once sent me a funny power point that I deleted, she really wanted me to see it so I said I could just log into her account and find it. She gave me her password and then she though I had access to her computer, at least she understood the first time I explained her after that incident. That gave me a good laugh.

 

My grandfather sent an e-mail to my mother all written in caps, I think he haven't found the caps lock key yet...

[Snickerzz]

In my opinion they shouldn't be trained about computers, they should already know about computers !

yes, i agree!

[MrImnotMLG]

I was helping a friend choose pc parts. He was worried about gpu length and this is what he actually messaged me no joke:

"oh okay. what if ur gpu is too short? i know too long, just don't buy it, but if it's too short, can u extend it?"

I facepalmed so hard...

An example: If you bought a 2x4 can you extend it?

[Undieing_Lust]

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.

Wow....

[jarreddean]

I use to work for Harvey Norman in Australia about a year ago, I was asked what google was everyday

[jarreddean]

Also, how do I use this.... A mouse.

[Snickerzz]

I use to work for Harvey Norman in Australia about a year ago, I was asked what google was everyday

 

 

Also, how do I use this.... A mouse.

sounds like those people should stick to roo catching :3

[Godlygamer23]

Not so much people with little tech knowledge but its the people who should know better that really upset me:

Back in 98/99 I was arguing with a computer tech that crts were better because they had better native resolutions and faster refresh rates, he said they did not have a resolution, they were analogue and thus the resolution was infinite

All displays output analog.