Experiences with non-techies

[steezemageeze]

I just assumed that it meant "buy three more 1 gig sticks" and got the question right. I guess I was overthinking it, but they still could've done a better job at explaining the question

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they still could've done a better job at explaining the question

 

No kidding.  How do we know if we're supposed to buy 3 more 1 GB sticks, or throw out (or resell) what's in there and buy 2, 2 GB sticks for each PC?  That would increase the cost by $85 per machine, but depending on the mobo might be necessary (maybe they don't have more than 2 slots?)

[soup]

No kidding.  How do we know if we're supposed to buy 3 more 1 GB sticks, or throw out (or resell) what's in there and buy 2, 2 GB sticks for each PC? 

It doesn't say because it doesn't matter (for the question). It tells you how much to upgrade by, how much that costs and how many machines you have to upgrade it doesn't matter how.

Quite often if the total of marks awarded for that question is mentioned some idea of the thought/depth required can be gleaned,

and for 1 point I would assume it doesn't need much depth at all.

 

Remember answer the question asked, not what you think the question asks or what you think it should ask.

[soup]

I just assumed that it meant "buy three more 1 gig sticks" and got the question right. I guess I was overthinking it, but they still could've done a better job at explaining the question

 I really don't see how they could have explained it better,  just because you overthought a very easy/basic question does not make it a badly worded question.

[Fgtfv567]

 

This was a question I was asked in the math portion of my high school programming class. For one, it was obviously written a while ago (2006ish?), and for two, it doesn't give me any other information. Are we doing single channel? Dual Channel? Quad Channel? How many sticks does the MoBo support? 

 

Oh, and assuming that I'm just buying three new sticks of 1GB per computer, it'll cost nearly $9,000 to upgrade the whole lab

85 bucks a gig?! I'd hate to see how much the rest of the PC costs

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It doesn't say because it doesn't matter (for the question). It tells you how much to upgrade by, how much that costs and how many machines you have to upgrade it doesn't matter how.

Quite often if the total of marks awarded for that question is mentioned some idea of the thought/depth required can be gleaned,

and for 1 point I would assume it doesn't need much depth at all.

 

Remember answer the question asked, not what you think the question asks or what you think it should ask.

It says upgrade from 1 GB to 4 GB.  How on earth does that imply how in any way?  As I said, ywo perfectly valid alternatives are A ) add 3, 1 GB sticks, or B )add 2, 2 GB sticks and remove what's there (perfectly reasonable and necessary if the machines only have 2 slots)

[ShiftHitTheFan]

85 bucks a gig?! I'd hate to see how much the rest of the PC costs

Add in labor and time, and that might just be realistic.

[Vastraguero]

My friend asked about some good gaming pc's. I suggested for him to build his own, and I could help him out with the parts. I pick out some parts that would work but then he wants a laptop (for some reason). And he goes on explaining how a higher storage drive is more reliable

[soup]

  How on earth does that imply how in any way?

 

By telling you what the upgrade cost is per Gig

 As I said, ywo perfectly valid alternatives are A ) add 3, 1 GB sticks, or B )add 2, 2 GB sticks and remove what's there (perfectly reasonable and necessary if the machines only have 2 slots)

 B )  is NOT a valid way at all (for the question) you are told upgrade is £85 a gig not $170  for two or anything like that ,.  The speed of supported RAM is also not given nor the clearance between the top of the RAM and the cooler nor whether you have to colour match nor which supplier you must use or... because none of that matters.

 

Its a simple (after all it is only one mark):-

Amount to be upgraded by times cost of upgrade> 3 X85 =255

 cost to upgrade one machine times every machine in the lab 255 X 35 = 8925  $8925 to upgrade whole lab

nothing about supported slots, size of sticks anything like that

 

I totally agree in the real world you would take all these factors into consideration you may also allow for future upgrading without throwing out more memory but the question asks none of that

[JuztBe]

 

 

This was a question I was asked in the math portion of my high school programming class. For one, it was obviously written a while ago (2006ish?), and for two, it doesn't give me any other information. Are we doing single channel? Dual Channel? Quad Channel? How many sticks does the MoBo support? 

 

Oh, and assuming that I'm just buying three new sticks of 1GB per computer, it'll cost nearly $9,000 to upgrade the whole lab

(Hint: You've just got robbed)

[JuztBe]

Double post   

I was minding my own business when suddenly got call from a cousin.
Me: Hum?
*I told him how to take off Intel cooler and then he asked.
Cousin: Can I use vacuum to clean my PC?

Me: Nope, unless it has a mode to blow air.
Cousin: Alright, cya.
*call ends

Next day I pm him on skype
Me: So, how did PC cleaning went?
Cousin: It went like this.. my mom was blowing hair dryer in to PC and I was catching dust in the air with vacuum cleaner

*I died right after reading this 

[Jambls]

Double post   

I was minding my own business when suddenly got call from a cousin.

Me: Hum?

*I told him how to take off Intel cooler and then he asked.

Cousin: Can I use vacuum to clean my PC?

Me: Nope, unless it has a mode to blow air.

Cousin: Alright, cya.

*call ends

Next day I pm him on skype

Me: So, how did PC cleaning went?

Cousin: It went like this.. my mom was blowing hair fan in to PC and I was catching dust in the air with vacuum cleaner

*I died right after reading this 

By hair fan do you mean hair dryer? as in this

[JuztBe]

By hair fan do you mean hair dryer? as in this

Yup.

[Derpologist]

This is literally happening as I type this

I'm in a class at my high school called Family Life. It's basically a health class where you learn more about label reading and nutrition, and of course sex ed.

The teacher (lets call her Ms. Waterbottle) is very very mean. Most people in the school know her from that reputation. 

She tends to think that she is a very technical person. 

For instance, 'Google Classroom' (a software we use in school, look it up) is known as 'Classroom google' to her, if you say it wrong, she gets mad. 

Another thing, the speaker system built into the ceiling, has an external amp where she can EQ it. She uses this awful wireless connection system between the amp and her laptop, when the laptop is very close to the amp. She also uses 'extreme equalizer technology' which according to her, is 'brand new technology that costs more than we can think'. Long story short, I'm a music producer. I facepalm all the time.

 

But what just happened, has to do with a smartboard type system. She uses this pen and can draw on the board digitally. Yet, it is very buggy, and rather than just using the whiteboard marker, she uses the very buggy digital whiteboard system, and rages when it doesnt work. It's pretty great

 

I can't wait until I bring up PC building one of these times lmao

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By telling you what the upgrade cost is per Gig

 B )  is NOT a valid way at all (for the question) you are told upgrade is £85 a gig not $170  for two or anything like that ,.  The speed of supported RAM is also not given nor the clearance between the top of the RAM and the cooler nor whether you have to colour match nor which supplier you must use or... because none of that matters.

 

Its a simple (after all it is only one mark):-

Amount to be upgraded by times cost of upgrade> 3 X85 =255

 cost to upgrade one machine times every machine in the lab 255 X 35 = 8925  $8925 to upgrade whole lab

nothing about supported slots, size of sticks anything like that

 

I totally agree in the real world you would take all these factors into consideration you may also allow for future upgrading without throwing out more memory but the question asks none of that

They asked what it would cost to upgrade that lab, so that's what I was planning to do. If all they want to know is (4 - 1)*85*35, why even bring "tech" into the question? Its just grade 4 math. I figured since they went to the trouble they did to set it up that way, that they expected at least a little thought in return, but I guess not.

[Jambls]

They asked what it would cost to upgrade that lab, so that's what I was planning to do. If all they want to know is (4 - 1)*85*35, why even bring "tech" into the question? Its just grade 4 math. I figured since they went to the trouble they did to set it up that way, that they expected at least a little thought in return, but I guess not.

Is this going to turn into what the "Great Hard Drive Debate" was?

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Is this going to turn into what the "Great Hard Drive Debate" was?

No, I think we're done with this

And I never heard of that hard drive debate... Can you find it? I'm curious now...

[Guest]

No, I think we're done with this

And I never heard of that hard drive debate... Can you find it? I'm curious now...

It was on the topic of whether HDDs get heavier when they have more data. 

 

answer - they do, but it is so little extra it is insignificant.

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It was on the topic of whether HDDs get heavier when they have more data. 

 

answer - they do, but it is so little extra it is insignificant.

Oh lol. Well, sounds like its time for a new one about SSDs

[Guest]

Oh lol. Well, sounds like its time for a new one about SSDs

Oh god no.

[ttam]

Can I just say this forum is a huge on-going experience... This post has a lot of them too.

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Can I just say this forum is a huge on-going experience... This post has a lot of them too.

Well, of course! It wouldn't really work if the whole forum was entirely all tech savvy or non tech savvy people. It would be pointless and boring, or an orgy of ignorance, respectively.

[aaro.peramaa]

My friend once asked could he download some internet through wifi so he wouldnt have to pay for 3G during his vacation

[Minetex]

My friend once asked could he download some internet through wifi so he wouldnt have to pay for 3G during his vacation

Oh yesy I went though this too The friend who said that was instantly rekted, and even after a week we were asking him about how much do he want for a few square meters of internet, and if 10 bucks are ok :D Good times tho

[Fgtfv567]

(Hint: You've just got robbed)

The proper word here is "conned"