Experiences with non-techies

[WkdPaul]

2 hours ago, Fetzie said:

The 5 1/4 inch floppies were rather floppy, even in their case

True, though nowadays not many people would know that (I mean the younger crowd on this forum).

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41 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

True, though nowadays not many people would know that (I mean the younger crowd on this forum).

Yeah I used 3.5" floppies a bit but I've never even seen one of the larger ones in real life  

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11 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Yeah I used 3.5" floppies a bit but I've never even seen one of the larger ones in real life  

Full size 5 1/4 floppies are really floppy, like a thin stack of paper.

[You_are_a_cunt]

"Can you make 15 copies of this floppy disk? It has my CV on it and I want to send out applications for a job"

- my 58 year old uncle

 

The most advanced piece of technology that he owns is a 32" plasma TV. From 2008. And a VCR. From 2004.

[matrix07012]

16 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Yeah I used 3.5" floppies a bit but I've never even seen one of the larger ones in real life  

I never used the large one, but my cousin had some and showed them to me, but I used the small ones and we still have copies of MS-Dos and Word.

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4 hours ago, revsilverspine said:

"Can you make 15 copies of this floppy disk? It has my CV on it and I want to send out applications for a job"

- my 58 year old uncle

 

The most advanced piece of technology that he owns is a 32" plasma TV. From 2008. And a VCR. From 2004.

Wait, so he was going to send floppies with the file instead of just printing it?  That's a little odd even with a modern medium  

 

9 minutes ago, matrix07012 said:

I never used the large one, but my cousin had some and showed them to me, but I used the small ones and we still have copies of MS-Dos and Word.

It's weird how the "large capacity" ones were like 8", but then they actually started holding way more as they shrunk physically.  afaik the 1.44 MB 3.5" floppies hold more than any other ones, even the ones that were bigger. I'm kind of glad they haven't done the same thing with hard drives or we'd be using these by now  

 

 

[NumLock21]

On 5/16/2016 at 6:39 PM, Lurick said:

LOL!

 

I always thought that floppy disks got their name from the original 5 1/4" disks which were pretty floppy.

The is even a bigger one at 8 inch

[Lurick]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

The is even a bigger one at 8 inch

An 8 inch magnetic dick?

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, Lurick said:

An 8 inch magnetic dick?

Yes 8 inch disk

[connorpiper]

Person 1: "I am going to store my games on the RAM because it is so fast!"

Person 2: "But RAM needs power to keep data, you can't do that"

Person 1: "I am just going to dedicate the RAM for storage, so I can turn off my computer"

Person 2: "Okay" *Confused face*

 

Overheard this while in a class. Wanted to intervene so bad, but I would have to talk louder for them to hear me, and that would probably disrupt the class.

Person 2 was converted to the stupid side, and believed person 1. 

[Kryis]

On 5/9/2016 at 3:05 AM, wkdpaul said:

So this just happened, we had network problems earlier, this office lady calls me saying her computer was acting up after the network came back, she did a reboot but now her PC isn't working.

 

I show up, the PC is off so I press the power button, the PC open and she goes"ahhh it was just closed?" ... lol I made a WTF face and I think she saw it, she apologized and said she must've clicked shutdown instead.

 

... writing this was longer than fix that problem!

I work in schools doing IT and I get this daily.. Even PD doesn't seem to help. lol

[BingoFishy]

2 hours ago, connorpiper said:

Person 1: "I am going to store my games on the RAM because it is so fast!"

Person 2: "But RAM needs power to keep data, you can't do that"

Person 1: "I am just going to dedicate the RAM for storage, so I can turn off my computer"

Person 2: "Okay" *Confused face*

 

Overheard this while in a class. Wanted to intervene so bad, but I would have to talk louder for them to hear me, and that would probably disrupt the class.

Person 2 was converted to the stupid side, and believed person 1. 

What about RAMDisk?

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2 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

What about RAMDisk?

yeah that's what it'd take but just my judgement of how that conversation went makes me think neither of them knew about it

[connorpiper]

46 minutes ago, BingoFishy said:

What about RAMDisk?

Which has to re-write the data to the RAM when you turn off the computer and on again. 

[1shanghai]

my sister had trouble plugging a usb in today. And i would have thought tgat she was the smart oje in thr house! (Except for me of course)

[ace101.]

A fellow tech support brags that he helped his friend to choose a computer for their office. I asked what specs did you recommend? He said "Just Right", "Enough for their needs". And yeah! he was not even able to say any single specs. He just know the brand. 

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38 minutes ago, 1shanghai said:

my sister had trouble plugging a usb in today. And i would have thought tgat she was the smart oje in thr house! (Except for me of course)

A common mistake people make is to just try and plug it in straight away - this will cause you to fail, flip it, try again, fail again, flip it again and then succeed due to USB superposition (see below).  To avoid this, you must observe the port directly.  As with quantum particles, this forces it to immediately collapse the probability wave and choose one of the many states it previously occupied simultaneously.

 

[matrix07012]

Someone on 9gag found this on ArsTechnica

 

 

"Professional tech review"

 

And this is the second most upvoted comment:

"Captain" here
It's actually true. The ps4 has 8gb of gddr5 memory, which is shared for the graphics card and normal Ram. Pcs haven't used gddr5 memory for a graphics card yet until this one.
So it doesn't mean it's gonna have the same process power as a console, just that it now uses the same technology.
*Flies away in 4k*

 

GDDR5 has been used for many years in most graphics cards. Only the really bad ones like GT 730 and lower didn't use it.

[WkdPaul]

5 hours ago, matrix07012 said:

"Professional tech review"

 

And this is the second most upvoted comment:

"Captain" here
It's actually true. The ps4 has 8gb of gddr5 memory, which is shared for the graphics card and normal Ram. Pcs haven't used gddr5 memory for a graphics card yet until this one.
So it doesn't mean it's gonna have the same process power as a console, just that it now uses the same technology.
*Flies away in 4k*

 

GDDR5 has been used for many years in most graphics cards. Only the really bad ones like GT 730 and lower didn't use it.

WHAT THE F... "Professional" my ass ... plus that comment is from a retard, my HD7870 that was released in 2012 has GDDR5!

 

idiots!

 

 

EDIT : Ha! they changed the review, the thing about the 8GB of GDDR5 and console isn't there anymore.

[DirtyDane]

well im finnaly back! god that was a stressful week. passed the cert though. Can someone catch me up on what ive missed here so far

[WkdPaul]

4 minutes ago, DirtyDane said:

well im finnaly back! god that was a stressful week. passed the cert though. Can someone catch me up on what ive missed here so far

you didn't miss much, the GTX 1080 paper release and people being idiots as usual. Congrats BTW.

[DirtyDane]

7 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

you didn't miss much, the GTX 1080 paper release and people being idiots as usual. Congrats BTW.

thanks man but any news on the gtx 1080 i didnt see the preformance review video yet

[WkdPaul]

2 minutes ago, DirtyDane said:

thanks man but any news on the gtx 1080 i didnt see the preformance review video yet

check most of them, LTT, Jay and Tek have good reviews, worth watching! Personally after seeing the reviews I'm more hopeful about the 1070. If what I'm hoping is true that could mean used 980ti are gonna be cheap! lol

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24 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

check most of them, LTT, Jay and Tek have good reviews, worth watching! Personally after seeing the reviews I'm more hopeful about the 1070. If what I'm hoping is true that could mean used 980ti are gonna be cheap! lol

At first people were thinking (myself included) that if the new cards were that much more powerful, the 90 series would get really cheap on the used market, but the new ones will probably be priced so high that it won't really put any pressure on them

[Lurick]

50 minutes ago, DirtyDane said:

well im finnaly back! god that was a stressful week. passed the cert though. Can someone catch me up on what ive missed here so far

Grats on the cert, which one did you take?