Computer Abuse, what ticks u off?

Zero82z said:
I know that, but we were both speaking in terms of consumer-level applications and it was quite obvious he was lying. In all practical personal computer situations, SDRAM can't be used in dual-channel mode since there were no boards or chipsets which supported it.
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*shrug*

I guess its a conditional thing. Tonality and understanding of concepts can go a long way in something like this, becuase what he was saying is technically true, but might not have been appropriate in the context of the conversation... unfortuatnatly, all that is lost on the net...
 
For some reason it annoys me when people double click on everything. Like the start button or a link on a website.
 
I don't think that all DDR RAM can be run in dual channel. Yes, the motherboard needs to support it, and it needs to be identical. But doesn't the RAM need to be "dual channel capable" or something? I know that a lot of RAM says "dual channel RAM", while some RAM doesn't.
 
dBTelos said:
I don't think that all DDR RAM can be run in dual channel. Yes, the motherboard needs to support it, and it needs to be identical. But doesn't the RAM need to be "dual channel capable" or something? I know that a lot of RAM says "dual channel RAM", while some RAM doesn't.
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Nope, that's just marketing fluff. Any two identical or very similar sticks can be run in dual-channel as long as the system is capable of it.
 
dBTelos said:
I don't think that all DDR RAM can be run in dual channel. Yes, the motherboard needs to support it, and it needs to be identical. But doesn't the RAM need to be "dual channel capable" or something? I know that a lot of RAM says "dual channel RAM", while some RAM doesn't.
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No, Ive run two sticks of Gskill, one stick of Kingston and one stick of Infineon ECC together in dual channel with no problems.
 
I've run a stick of Micron, a stick of Infineon, and two sticks of Kingston ValueRAM in dual-channel as well. Really the most important thing is to make sure both sticks can handle the speed they'll be running at, and that they're both either single-sided or double-sided(one single-sided DIMM and one double-sided DIMM will not work together in dual-channel mode).
 
1. When some noob puts your e-mail into a "send this to a friend" link so that you can see yet another set of boobs and suddenly your daily spam rate goes up a little more. My one friend did this a couple times with east european porn sites a few years back, and that's when my spam problems started. Moron!

2. Monitor touching, of course. I have noticed girls are way worse for this.

3. My friend used to bash my mouse buttons way too hard when we would take turns on UT2K4. To fire his weapon he would actually lift his finger way off the mouse and slam it down pretty much as hard as he could...

4. Somewhat related to the above, I used to hate it when people would play Rogue Squadron 3D and repeatedly pull the trigger on the joystick... hold it down you morons, it's Star Wars they have turbolasers.. you're wearing out my joystick!
 
I guess its a conditional thing. Tonality and understanding of concepts can go a long way in something like this, becuase what he was saying is technically true, but might not have been appropriate in the context of the conversation... unfortuatnatly, all that is lost on the net...
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I honestly HATE the fact that the internet doesn't have emotions.

I can't not count how many times when I was talking to someone online, and a simple sentence here or there got miscontruded because there was not vocal intonation.

Granted, we have smilie faces now, but still, I HATE when people misinterpret a sentence online because there is no intonation.

And, plus, it makes writing harder! You have to think about how you can write something with emotions in it... Arg, makes life so much more difficult!
 
Zero82z said:
I once went to Best Buy and one of the Geek Squad guys was talking to someone about some RAM they had on sale. The person asked if two identical 512MB sticks of DDR400 which came separately could be ran in dual-channel. The Geek Squad guy went into a long tirade about memory, so I cut to the chase and told the person that any DDR could be run in dual-channel, as long as the two sticks were identical and the motherboard supported it. The Geek Squad guy proceeded to lecture me on how not all memory could be run in dual-channel, and I said that of course regular SDRAM can't. Then he started telling me that SDRAM can be run in dual-channel, and told me how he saw it in a friend's PC or something. At this point I just ignored the guy and walked away. It's amazing what kind of idiots manage to get hired at these stores...
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Oh man.. My moms laptop is warranted through best buy, and I've had to bring it in quite a few times to get it fixed. Well everytime it ends up BSOD'ing (the hard drive has died in it twice, and various other little stupid errors -- damn sony), I walk into best buy, go to a geek squad employee and am like "This laptop just BSOD'd". The person looks at me for a few seconds with a blank look on their face, then tries to act like they know what they are talking about and asks me to show them the problem.

Seriously, how can you be a computer tech and not know what the term "BSOD" is?


-Brandon
 
EQTakeOffense said:
I honestly HATE the fact that the internet doesn't have emotions.

I can't not count how many times when I was talking to someone online, and a simple sentence here or there got miscontruded because there was not vocal intonation.

Granted, we have smilie faces now, but still, I HATE when people misinterpret a sentence online because there is no intonation.

And, plus, it makes writing harder! You have to think about how you can write something with emotions in it... Arg, makes life so much more difficult!
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They say 50% or 60% (forget the exact figure) of whats read online is taken/understood wrong because of the lack of emotion, and emphasis.

That was in my local newspaper a few months back.


-Brandon
 
CompuDrew said:
Touching the monitor. More specifically, dragging their fingers across their LCD monitors pointing out things. I'm easily annoyed I guess. :p
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Touching any kind of monitor. If people wanna point out something on the screen use the mouse, is it really that hard?
 
Order of least to greatist :

1. I Dont need antivirus. Ad-aware? Whats that?
2. People who expect me to repair their computer for free, and to be on call 24/7.
3. people who get very upset when I move the mouse while the pc boots.
4. People who are more than willing to argue that you are wrong about something, yet cant even give you a direct answer.
5. l33t Ha)(orz who are about half my age.
6. people with almost nothing for ram (windows xp running on 128/256MB).
7. nice greasy fingerprints all over monitors... Why must you all touch and poke it?
8. Computers with a 2" thick rug of dust and cat hair all over every internal peice.
9. people who flip out when I move around my tower while its on, unplug/plug in keyboards, mice, and video connectors while its on. Its my rig, not yours... STFU.
10. People who use incorrect terms - Hard drive is not memory. CD drive is not memory. The metallic rectangular cube under your desk is not a CPU.
 
They have drivers training to teach you how to drive, why is computer training not required before you use a computer?

Seriously. Its the technology that is perpetuating everything we do. It is advancing businesses, lifestyles, everything, yet there is no formal training requirement.

And, just like driving, you can seriously damage your computer, or leave your computer vulnerable to damage other people's computers if you don't have the right knowledge and know-how.


-Brandon
 
Astrogiblet said:
They say 50% or 60% (forget the exact figure) of whats read online is taken/understood wrong because of the lack of emotion, and emphasis.

That was in my local newspaper a few months back.
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This is completely uncalled for. I ask that you don't resort to these kinds of personal attacks in the future.










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Astrogiblet said:
They have drivers training to teach you how to drive, why is computer training not required before you use a computer?

Seriously. Its the technology that is perpetuating everything we do. It is advancing businesses, lifestyles, everything, yet there is no formal training requirement.

And, just like driving, you can seriously damage your computer, or leave your computer vulnerable to damage other people's computers if you don't have the right knowledge and know-how.


-Brandon
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would you or another person die or get seriously injured if they didn't know how to use a computer? no

does a computer costs 10k+? no

ure argument is meaningless
 
coolxboxgamer said:
would you or another person die or get seriously injured if they didn't know how to use a computer? no

does a computer costs 10k+? no

ure argument is meaningless
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And your grammar sucks ass :D (more proof on the dumbing down of our youth :p)

I see his point, but I also see yours, computers don't kill people. But, training would save headaches.

But then too, if they were better trained, we it professionals would be out of a job.
 
1. not blowing the dust out regularly (or ever)

2. installing tons of apps that all open at startup, displaying a screen-full of windows and 5-10 minute boot times.
 
Xaeon said:
This is completely uncalled for. I ask that you don't resort to these kinds of personal attacks in the future.
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Personal attack? I was simply stating a fact to ad to what that guy had already said. I meant no harm or anything to anybody.


-Brandon
 
I can't really add anything here that haven't been mentioned except to support the common ones:

1) Touching LCD screens is bad - I recently bought some wipes to remove the lone fingerprint I saw right in the middle of the screen. After 3 LCD wipes the oil from the fingerprint has left a permanent impression in the screen. Annoyed.

2) Listening to any chain/retail PC store sales associate giving a customer bad advice. Especially some local dudes a at un-named store that are foreign (non-US native)... everytime I here them giving PC advice I want to punch them.
 
coolxboxgamer said:
would you or another person die or get seriously injured if they didn't know how to use a computer? no
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1) Potentially. You never know what a hacker taking over a computer is aiming to do

2) Yes, some computers cost more then 10k, as well as large amounts of computers. A hacker could take over your $2k computer in order to cause 10 billion dollars worth of damage.

3) I'm glad someone who can't capitalize or write a complete sentence calls my argument meaningless.


AdamNesvick said:
And your grammar sucks ass :D (more proof on the dumbing down of our youth :p)

I see his point, but I also see yours, computers don't kill people. But, training would save headaches.

But then too, if they were better trained, we it professionals would be out of a job.
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Yes, training could potentially hurt IT people, but it could also help. If more people in the world knew the basics of using a computer, then there would be many more computer users. Therefore, more computers in the world, with people only having a basic knowledge, means more work for us IT people.

Also, if more people used computers or had a better understanding of using a computer, can you imagine how that would advance our culture?


-Brandon
 
Astrogiblet said:
Personal attack? I was simply stating a fact to ad to what that guy had already said. I meant no harm or anything to anybody.


-Brandon
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He was kidding you. It was in reference to what you said about people misconstruing meanings over the internet.
 
dBTelos said:
School isn't about making things interesting. It's about teaching you things you will use in the future. If you're so inclined, tell the teacher that learning MS office is boring you, and you wish to learn HTML or Java. I'm sure all the other students are just as eger to learn Java as you are.
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School isn't about teaching things you will use in the future. I can honestly say that I leaned maybe 5% of what I know from school, and that 5% is knowledge that I have never needed yet. I could read before I went to school, I could do math before I went to school, I knew history before I went to school, etc, etc. Good parents and the internet offer so much more than school ever can as far as information and learning goes. School is about creating jobs for people unable to survive in the professional world and having another political arena for politicians to fight in. I've been to nine different schools, parochial, public, and private, ranging from free up to $18,000 a year for elementary school and I have had exactly three good teachers. All schools that I have been to are the exact same. Just places to hide away teachers that can't be fired thanks to tenure.

The one thing school offers that you can't learn at home though is the social aspect. It's a lesson in how the world works.

My biggest pet peeve is having to look through other people's porn when fixing their computers. Coming in close second would have to be explaining to them that they either have to stop wacking off or use playboy because they are too retarded to find a safe porn site online, and that I won't fix their computer again for the same issue.
 
computerpro3 said:
School isn't about teaching things you will use in the future. I can honestly say that I leaned maybe 5% of what I know from school, and that 5% is knowledge that I have never needed yet. I could read before I went to school, I could do math before I went to school, I knew history before I went to school, etc, etc. Good parents and the internet offer so much more than school ever can as far as information and learning goes. School is about creating jobs for people unable to survive in the professional world and having another political arena for politicians to fight in. I've been to nine different schools, parochial, public, and private, ranging from free up to $18,000 a year for elementary school and I have had exactly three good teachers. All schools that I have been to are the exact same. Just places to hide away teachers that can't be fired thanks to tenure.

The one thing school offers that you can't learn at home though is the social aspect. It's a lesson in how the world works.

My biggest pet peeve is having to look through other people's porn when fixing their computers. Coming in close second would have to be explaining to them that they either have to stop wacking off or use playboy because they are too retarded to find a safe porn site online, and that I won't fix their computer again for the same issue.
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I fully agree. I've been told by many teachers that school is there to teach you "logic" and to teach you how to think. I think a lot of classes that are forced on kids these days are useless. My CAD teacher lectured us one time for an hour on how useless gen ed programs are. You can learn a thousand times more useful information in taking a class like CAD, Computer Science, or any elective then you can learn taking a english or science class.


-Brandon
 
BRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH

The idiots who screwed the machine up within days time screwed up the machine and decided to reformat it for some damn reason. I was told it was running real slow again and they didn't bother to install any AV/AS software
 
Astrogiblet said:
Personal attack? I was simply stating a fact to ad to what that guy had already said. I meant no harm or anything to anybody.
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Sorry, dude. I don't swing that way.
 
Astrogiblet said:
You can learn a thousand times more useful information in taking a class like CAD, Computer Science, or any elective then [sic] you can learn taking a english [sic] or science class.
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in English Literature classes, you can learn about irony.
 
1. Idiots who buy $5000 dollar computers and use it for stupid work like solitare.
2. People who try to fix computers, and mess them up in the process.
3. Monitor Fingerprints
4. Underpowered computers that people think are the best of the best.
5. Kids who download crap without knowing what it is.
6. Junk emails
7. Crapware that preys on novice's fears
8. Companies that coax novices into buying a Enterprise performance computer for checking emails.
9. Walmart Sales associates.
10. Compaq.
 
MediaRocker said:
1. Idiots who buy $5000 dollar computers and use it for stupid work like solitare.
2. People who try to fix computers, and mess them up in the process.
3. Monitor Fingerprints
4. Underpowered computers that people think are the best of the best.
5. Kids who download crap without knowing what it is.
6. Junk emails
7. Crapware that preys on novice's fears
8. Companies that coax novices into buying a Enterprise performance computer for checking emails.
9. Walmart Sales associates.
10. Compaq.
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Definitely agree with you on most of these! Or those idiots who buy $5000 computers because they think it will be less susceptible to spyware/viruses!

lol @ Compaq! So true.


-Brandon
 
coolxboxgamer said:
would you or another person die or get seriously injured if they didn't know how to use a computer? no

does a computer costs 10k+? no

ure argument is meaningless
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1. Learn to speak. You never use "ure" in a real conversation. that might be why your stuck on an xbox buddy.
2. Yes a computer can easily cost 10k+. Check out Falcon Northwest.
3. If a person does not protect their computer, their computer can easily add up to Millions of dollars of IT headaches. That one rouge PC can end up becoming a zombie PC attacking a corporate network. Nevertheless, infect or affect several thousand computers in the process.

Also, on a comical note. Yes someone can die or get seriously injured when someone on the 10th story of an office building throws their computer out the window thinking that will turn it on. :D
 
MediaRocker said:
Also, on a comical note. Yes someone can die or get seriously injured when someone on the 10th story of an office building throws their computer out the window thinking that will turn it on. :D
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Um... It wasn't me.







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Shut up!
 
Zero82z said:
Um... It wasn't me.







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Shut up!
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Lol.

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Another peeve of mine is when people go into a brick and mortar store and buy hardware that isnt worth the 300 bucks they are being sold for. Who would buy a "Diamond Stealth S80?" which is really a ATI Radeon 9200 SE for almost the same price of a new 7800GTX Or better. (I dont remember how much a S80 is anymore. maybe cause i dont care about those crap cards.)
 
Please keep this thread on topic. Driving rules / classes / etc. are fine for G[M], not for G[H].

Thanks -
 
BlindedByScience said:
Please keep this thread on topic. Driving rules / classes / etc. are fine for G[M], not for G[H].

Thanks -
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Zoh! Owned by the mod. Back on topic:

Just saw someone here at work mark up his new LCD monitor with an ink pen whilst pointing out inventory to a co-worker. *sigh*. Maybe they ought to ship 'em with some platen glass or similar.

Not to mention...in some cases I know it is corporate policy, but I can't stand horrible, gross, misuse of PCs in corporate settings. Spare high-end PCs gathering dust, low-end PCs in use in the wrong places (the CAD guys need the workstations, not that slut of a secretary who just plays solitaire all day). Grrr.
 
Ya, dumb IT people are bad, too. Like at my dad's office they send lots of pretty large files through email (involved in industrial construction). Well, they had a hard time receiving emails back from those people because they wouldn't go through. Turns out the IT guys had set the mail server to deny emails over a certain size, which was set way too small for what they were sending. D'oh!
 
People not washing their hands (just wiping on their clothes) before using my computer and then I actually feel the grime when I type. "You can look at my hands. They look clean." Yeah keyword: look.
 
ooooh.
that reminded me.
when people take gum out of there mouth, don't wipe their hands, and then start typing/using YOUR mouse/keyboard.
 
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