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Geek Culture / Computer Correctness

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Code Dragon
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Posted: 20th Dec 2006 22:11 Edited at: 20th Dec 2006 22:21
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Ugh, where should I start? I don't expect everyone to know everything about computers, but if you have one, you should at least not be stupid about them.

This is what happened at school a few weeks ago:

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Teacher: Ok, I have a program here that will calculate the shortwave solar radiation on a given day. It's an old program written in DOS.

Students: DOS? What's DOS?

Me: Disk Operation System

(teaher loads program)
(students see DOS graphics)

Students: Ahh!! It's from the 60s!! Stupid old software.
"


As if DOS was from the 60s and software actually gets stupid as time goes on!

I hate it when people call the moniter "the computer" and the computer "the monitor"

And when internet preditors think they can get away with stuff by smashing their computers to bits, forgetting to smash the hard drive.

What I hate most of all, is people who can't program at all, but think they're experts with computers because they can do a PowerPoint presentation and use Window's drag and drop feature. EVERYONE in my school is like this, but I'm the only one knows what the ASCII table is, the only one that's ever written a computer program. These people may say they can hack, when they're really downloading software to hack for them. A few days ago:

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Classmate: Hey, what's the website that takes the school's internet blocker off?

Me: I don't know.

(she searches for "unblocking browser website")

Me: You shouldn't be searching for that, the system administators might check the autocomplete.

Classmate: Shut up! You don't know what you're talking about!

"


"Did I ever tell you how I got the nickname the Dragon of the West?"
"I'm not interested in a lengthy anecdote, Uncle."
"It's more of a demonstration really."
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Hobgoblin Lord
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Posted: 21st Dec 2006 01:40 Edited at: 21st Dec 2006 01:43
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Quote: "Ugh, where should I start? I don't expect everyone to know everything about computers, but if you have one, you should at least not be stupid about them."


Eh how many people own a car and have no clue but gas goes here and perhaps oil goes there. Talk to one of those stupid people I bet one of them would think your a moron because you can't drop a transmission or change your own oil, another would wonder why you can't do something simple like frost a cake properly, and someone else would wonder why you can't let out a pair of pants or hang a picture straight.

People have different skills, and many have no idea how a computer or something else works, just that it does.

Quote: ""Did I ever tell you how I got the nickname the Dragon of the West?"
"I'm not interested in a lengthy anecdote, Uncle."
"It's more of a demonstration really.""


Someones an Iroh fan.

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Code Dragon
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Posted: 21st Dec 2006 02:19 Edited at: 21st Dec 2006 02:31
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No, just an Avatar fan, I have that as my sig because I like dragons, surely you caught that? By the way, owning a car and not knowing how to change oil is not being stupid. Being stupid is owning a car and driving it backwards or blindfolded. The kind of stupidness I'm talking about is people who wonder why their computer isn't working when they didn't turn it on yet, there's not that many people out there that bad but I'm mostly annoyed by people who think they know everything about computers when all they can do fluently is Microsoft Office.

Here's a funny video, it really shows the big gap between power users and computer noobs.
http://www.deadtroll.com/index2.html?/video/helldeskcable.html~content

"Did I ever tell you how I got the nickname the Dragon of the West?"
"I'm not interested in a lengthy anecdote, Uncle."
"It's more of a demonstration really."
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Hobgoblin Lord
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Posted: 21st Dec 2006 03:18
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Quote: "By the way, owning a car and not knowing how to change oil is not being stupid. Being stupid is owning a car and driving it backwards or blindfolded."


Im not saying it is, but when people say stuff like

Quote: "I hate it when people call the moniter "the computer" and the computer "the monitor" "


(and I don't just mean you) its the same as refering to a manifold as the engine. Granted a car engine is more (or less depending on what you are doing) complicated then a tower, monitor and keyboard, but as a whole those items are referred to as a computer, just as an engine's parts are reffered to as the engine.

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Oddmind
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Posted: 21st Dec 2006 04:08
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Quote: "Quote: "I hate when people assume you are willing to fix other people's computers just because you have a "computer job". Some people equate all computer jobs with tech support. Idiots.""


I second that.

oh I hated this one time a student teacher was asking about my OS,

"What's an OS" says someone next to us

this other girl had the audacity to butt in and say "Windows whatever, 98 or xp." In a tone that would sound as if there were no others.

I was running Linux at the time, so I laughed and let the others chew her out. I don't really find joy in doing it myself but she had it coming.



People think that when they know your friends friend that you will fix their damn computer. And it's always "The internet won't start up it comes up with a message."

"well what does it say"

"I dunno I just clicked cancel."

ugh it's hard being knowledgeable about anything, you catch people misusing words all the time and it just gets under your skin.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2006 11:48
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If there's one thing I hate, it's the morons who install nineteen different AVs and ASs and then ponder why their system takes a quarter of an hour to boot.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2006 12:00 Edited at: 22nd Dec 2006 12:01
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Quote: "If there's one thing I hate, it's the morons who install nineteen different AVs and ASs and then ponder why their system takes a quarter of an hour to boot."


It takes that long for me with just AVG I doubt my RAM would like me anymore if I had another 14

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El Goorf
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Posted: 22nd Dec 2006 17:41
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also the people who have "my documents", "shortcut to my documents", "shortcut to my documents(2)", "shortcut to my documents(3)", "shortcut to my documents(4)" and "shortcut to my documents(5)" all on the same desktop, and then the same again for my computer and the recycle bin.
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