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You know how on low-profile ready GPUs the VGA cable is connected via a ribbon like this one?

 

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It was a bad idea to educate my younger bro about computers because he thought that was an IDE cable when I showed a picture of that and asked him.

 

He also thought that a video card was better because it was longer.

 

The only techie in the family besides me is my dad, I pity myself.

How did he think that it was an IDE cable if you educated him about computers?

 

 

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How did he think that it was an IDE cable if you educated him about computers?

I think that was part on the non-techie story.

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How did he think that it was an IDE cable if you educated him about computers?

I have no idea TBH...

 

He also thought that the PCISet (PCI controller) was a capacitor. I mean really...

 

How can this:

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Look even REMOTELY similar to this?

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It befuddled me.

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I have no idea TBH...

 

He also thought that the PCISet (PCI controller) was a capacitor. I mean really...

 

How can this:

Intel%2082439HX%20System%20Controller%20

Look even REMOTELY similar to this?

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It befuddled me.

I have know idea it literally said PCIset on the thing.

 

 

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I have know idea it literally said PCIset on the thing.

Yup. I think my WS440BX has a chip called the AGPSet.

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 lol 

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Jkk!..

yup

and we're having a good time doing  it.

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all of the people who come to this forum...

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Another cringe worthy commercial from samsung. Tell me something that's new...

Um.. Idk... 

 

The turkish prime minister who banned twitter and youtube claims victory in latest election? i guess that's new but unfortunately not tech related

link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26807067 

 

Thats all i got.

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SPRING forward, FALL back

Hope that helps, that's how I remember it

I know, but I didn't even think about what direction I was turning them and somehow didn't see it. I was a bit tired that day, though...

Never trust my advice. Only take any and all advice from me with a grain of salt. Just a heads up.

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Yup the tried and true WRT54GL is still going strong, and sells for way more than it should simply because of what it's capable of.

If you haven't heard, Linksys has brought out the new WRT1900AC to replace the open-source goodness that started with the WRT54GL, and this time they're apparently giving out an actual SDK/Source Code kit instead of waiting for brainslayer and the DD-WRT/OpenWRT teams to hack it. :D

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Yeah, but I'd rather see a lower end model as well. Same hackability but maybe no usb no esata, N version. One that would be same price point as the one its trying to replace.

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The output is a strip of LED lights, and I suppose that's analog, as any light bulb is.  That's not the display though.  The array of liquid crystals in front of the light, which reorganizes according to digital electronic signals, is digital.

there are no led lights in a display. . . 

Finally my Santa hat doesn't look out of place

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LEDs generate the light that comes from the display (or a CCFL bulb in older displays).  The LCD itself is just a color filter.

sorry i misphrased it. I meant that there is a backlight but each pixel isn't an rgb led

Finally my Santa hat doesn't look out of place

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Wow... Just happened... Were watching a video, bad quality, its at 360p max res for that bid, so the teacher tries to improve it and turns it down to 240p!!! It was plenty buffered so she didn't need to turn it down, she just did to improve the quality...

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Wow... Just happened... Were watching a video, bad quality, its at 360p max res for that bid, so the teacher tries to improve it and turns it down to 240p!!! It was plenty buffered so she didn't need to turn it down, she just did to improve the quality...

Uh.... Wow.

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My parents think that HD is really bad, and refuse to upgrade to HD on our TV for $5 a month more.  Yet they've never seen HD through their TWO HDTV's.  :angry:

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Half the time when I'm trying to sell a video card to a customer and I ask what resolution they're running, they tell me how many inches their screen is.

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I once had a screencap of Call of Duty Black Ops as my desktop background. (It had been my background for about 2 weeks btw) 

When one day my mom came in and told me that I need to get off the game and start doing my homework...

 

Also, one day I had SCP Containment Breach installed on my mother's computer and accidentally opened it so when she got on the computer to browse the web she kept telling me there was something about a D Class on her computer and that she thought it was a virus I needed to get off.

 

Im not really making fun of my mother but I just think she could learn a bit more about computers, she is software savvy when it comes to Microsoft Office applications but other that she doesn't have a clue.

 

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Uh.... Wow.

I should have said something but I just watched.

Great pixel dencity BTW, 240p projected on a large smart board.

About smart boards my teachers always say "oh theses are not very smart" when there is a computer or progector problem. And really they shuould be 16:9, they replicate what is on the teachers 16:9 screen so some things get messed up.

Another thing, all the projectors have dead pixels and they are all like 3 years old. One has at least 50, prob more.

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I should have said something but I just watched.

Great pixel dencity BTW, 240p projected on a large smart board.

About smart boards my teachers always say "oh theses are not very smart" when there is a computer or progector problem. And really they shuould be 16:9, they replicate what is on the teachers 16:9 screen so some things get messed up.

Another thing, all the projectors have dead pixels and they are all like 3 years old. One has at least 50, prob more.

Our school got a bunch of older, more low-end Epsons that run at 1024x768. On the teachers laptops it looks terrible (I think they're 1366x768). And all of them have mid-end mobile Core i5's (first gen), while all of the student PC's have Core 2 Duo E7500's and Radeon HD 3450s, even though a lot of them are used for 3D work and so on.

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Our school got a bunch of older, more low-end Epsons that run at 1024x768. On the teachers laptops it looks terrible (I think they're 1366x768). And all of them have mid-end mobile Core i5's (first gen), while all of the student PC's have Core 2 Duo E7500's and Radeon HD 3450s, even though a lot of them are used for 3D work and so on.

We have lenovo thinkcentre all in ones and lenovo thinkpads. The ones in the tech room are nicer and have bigger 1080p screens. Useless touch for windows 7

The others are less than 1080p

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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