Experiences with non-techies

[nekomata]

My computer programming lecturer using an old laptop with XP. We're using Fortran here for programming, so he told us that an i7 is twice as fast as an i5 in terms of compiling and running a program..........It will, when you have a bajilion lines to do. And a GPU.....which somehow helps fortran run faster. somehow. I don't really know, though I doubt it

[mr.skyrim_pc]

There was a kid I talked to yesterday who said that you cannot see more than 32 fps. He also said that 60hz = 30 fps. He said a 2.0 ghz cpu is fine for gaming. He was so ignorant, I wanted to rip my hair out. He still doesn't believe me btw.,

[Extingquish]

There was a kid I talked to yesterday who said that you cannot see more than 32 fps. He also said that 60hz = 30 fps.

Explain to him that 1Hz is, quoted from wikipedia, "It is defined as one cycle per second." and that FPS, stands for Frames Per Second, if that doesn't work, link him to Wikipedia, and he'll have to believe then 

[mr.skyrim_pc]

Explain to him that 1Hz is, quoted from wikipedia, "It is defined as one cycle per second." and that FPS, stands for Frames Per Second, if that doesn't work, link him to Wikipedia, and he'll have to believe then

I tried....

[julekule]

I hate when people have the simplest problem and they can't literally type it in to google because the answers is right their and takes 5 minutes to fix usually. My aunt didn't know how to get her external monitor to work so she had me drive 35 minutes to just click resolution<detect lol 

ever hear of remote desktop?

[manbearpiig]

ever hear of remote desktop?

Yes, and she couldn't set it up on her end

[julekule]

Yes, and she couldn't set it up on her end

that sucked

[Darkman]

Yes, and she couldn't set it up on her end

Next time, just install it for her. I put TeamViewer on my grandmas computer.

[WinNut]

-snippo-

@TheSLSAMG told us that he bought a $1.40 webcam, when he opened up the driver installer it said "PC CMAERA"

[Pugs501]

@TheSLSAMG told us that he bought a $1.40 webcam, when he opened up the driver installer it said "PC CMAERA"

I guess they could only buy 2 Vowels

[TheSLSAMG]

@TheSLSAMG told us that he bought a $1.40 webcam, when he opened up the driver installer it said "PC CMAERA"

Can confirm.

 

[WinNut]

Can confirm.

 

-snippy-

I love how it says "Web PC Camera" in the program title.

 

loving dat SLS

[Darkman]

Can confirm.

 

-snip-

That installer does not look sketchy at all. Not like someone will be watching you and others will see your house and plan to rob you.

[Pugs501]

Can confirm.

 

*Snip*

OH MY GOD!

[TheSLSAMG]

I love how it says "Web PC Camera" in the program title.

 

loving dat SLS

 

That installer does not look sketchy at all. Not like someone will be watching you and others will see your house and plan to rob you.

It's ok, I burned it now. Back to Saatn from whence you came heathen! /s

 

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B52GLpo4UD5DQWpkdjVCV3gwdFU&authuser=0

[c3p0_]

 

I understand what you were trying to do, whoever you were. However, industrial strength zip ties are not the way to accomplish that. Oh the joys

[vt3c]

Update: The morons at the university are getting worse. Right as my friend's rig got working, 3 monitors, core i7 4770, 8GB RAM and dual GPUs, another class period came in and literally broke all the pins on the SSD, attempted to install windows on the mechanical drive once more WHILE THE MACHINE WAS STILL RUNNING, drank a bunch of energy drinks near it (thank god none of it spilled as they had no lids) and just ruined the entire machine. 

The fx 9370 machine I was working on? Yeah, that has my personal key. Someone was stealing keys a little while ago and I swear to god if anyone takes that key I'm going ball-fucking-listic. 

 

Professor has to teach these fucking rugrats that if something works to NOT FIX IT. 

 

In fact, we had a little piece of paper on that machine! It said to not touch it!

And they did.

[Darkman]

-snip-

 

I understand what you were trying to do, whoever you were. However, industrial strength zip ties are not the way to accomplish that. Oh the joys

Lol.. They don't need to be screwed in, as long as they don't have any strain on them and it doesn't look like it has any in that photo.. I don't screw mine into my GPU since it's a pain to get it out.

[DigitalHermit]

-snip-

 

And this is why you put a boot password on the BIOS level, and a good padlock on the case itself... (Our method of theft prevention)

 

If you have license stickers, put them inside the case... The property numbers (if you still use those) should be put on all expensive parts...

[vt3c]

And this is why you put a boot password on the BIOS level, and a good padlock on the case itself... (Our method of theft prevention)

 

If you have license stickers, put them inside the case... The property numbers (if you still use those) should be put on all expensive parts...

There's no key sticker. They used some kind of key finder software that is used for stealing windows keys on another machine in the room.

 

And someone put a bios password on another machine in the room after we got it finally working.

[DigitalHermit]

There's no key sticker. They used some kind of key finder software that is used for stealing windows keys on another machine in the room.

 

And someone put a bios password on another machine in the room after we got it finally working.

 

When everything fails, cut the power... Restrict usage until the culprits have been prosecuted...

[vt3c]

When everything fails, cut the power... Restrict usage until the culprits have been prosecuted...

Professor agrees with us. We were the ones who were getting them working and now they came along and literally broke everything. 

 

He's pretty much saying we're the only ones allowed to get them working now.

[Pugs501]

When everything fails, cut the power... Restrict usage until the culprits have been prosecuted...

Cut "all" of the power?

even the governments power?

[DigitalHermit]

Cut "all" of the power?

even the governments power?

 

Yiss... Anarchy.

 

Obviously I meant cutting power to the lab which has the computers... If I was an instructor there and found out about the thefts, I'll put the lab on lockdown until the culprits fess up or they somehow return the parts... I'll also personally see to the expulsion of the culprits for vandalism and theft...

[Mao_Zedong]

This is on a comment on one of linus's semi-old videos; the first comment isn't that bad, it basically says that 1440p surround is never a good option because surround 1080p is cheaper. That isn't THAT bad, but there are cases where money isn't that big of an issue so 1440p surround is better. Now is the good part:

 

Steve-O 

 2k means 2 times the amount of pixels of standard hd = 1280x720p if you double that you get 2560x1440p, and just with 4k it is 4 times the amount of standard hd 720p



Nathaniel G

  that is just purely wrong, 2k stands for the number of horizontal pixels. Also, there are over 8x the number of pixels in a 4k screen compared to a 720p one. Same goes with your wrong idea of 2k, that has 4x the pixels of 720p. You're just plain wrong with this. 

 

Steve-O 

 lol i guess the whole internet is wrong then too because that is what it says everywhere and it actually makes sense unlike your 2.5k which doesnt exist

 

Nathaniel G

  2k  vs 2.5k is debated, but your way of determining the name isn't even close to being correct. You can easily find the resolution of a 4k display: 3840x2160, 1280x720=921,600pixels. 3840x2160= 8,294,400. 8294400/921600=9. that means that by your logic, 4k should be called 9k, but it isn't. your logic would have 2k/2.5k named as 4k. If you don't believe that 3840x2160 is the resolution of 4k, just google it.

 

If he replies again I will update this or post a follow up post.