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Re: what's the dumbest thing a non-hacker has said to you?

Post by Bino Gas » Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:31 pm

smitty wrote:Well I knew that about DOS, but what the heck's OS/2? Mac OS?
Wikipedia saves the day:

OS/2
Mac OS (now known as Mac OS X)

I'm somewhat surprised that you haven't heard of the latter.
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Post by Axaj » Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:17 pm

A friend of mine said this after my teacher mentioned "how you can't make an ipod with one person."

Friend: Dude, an mp3 player is just, like, a USB with headphones.
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Me: Do you even know what USB stands for?

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Post by So Many Kinds of Bagels » Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:01 pm

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themadhacker wrote:let's see. theres jewish, christian, muslim, hindu, budhist, satanist, norman, and lots of others I can't think of off the top of my head. Tell THAT to the girl.

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Post by Rekarp » Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:34 pm

This entire thread has me rolling over

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Post by pLover » Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:11 am

Him: ""Well, that's... stupid." (Out of Jealousy)

Me: "We'll see who's stupid when I get the good grade and a portable Super Nintendo"

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Post by joeyjoe9876 » Thu Dec 03, 2009 2:17 pm

my friends dad insists that anything i mod won't work and that it's impossible to make a GCp. then my uncle thinks that once you take something apart it just doesn't work anymore...
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Post by banditpaw1 » Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:43 pm

My freind came over and he wanted to play a game. I said how about Super Mario Kart? He said sure so i wip out the snes and says what is the hell is that??? :facepalm:

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Post by demonofaj » Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:39 pm

People call an entire computer the CPU. I :facepalm: each and every time.
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Post by kylechu » Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:45 pm

My mom seems to think that "battery cycles" involve spinning.
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Post by joeyjoe9876 » Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:08 am

kylechu wrote:My mom seems to think that "battery cycles" involve spinning.
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Post by SpongeBuell » Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:47 pm

demonofaj wrote:People call an entire computer the CPU. I :facepalm: each and every time.
That one doesn't bother me so much. It's better than hard drive or something, and there aren't many other better words to use that roll off the tongue. Plus, when it comes down to it, CPU means "Central Processing Unit" which does all of the actual thinking. For all practical purposes, that's the... uh, box that everything plugs into. The processor can be considered the center of the center, so to speak. Sometimes it's not so much an issue of not knowing, just a lack of a viable alternative
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Post by OMGpedobear » Fri Dec 04, 2009 1:54 pm

"How do i connect the screen to the hard drive"? , My friend is convinced that computer itself is a hard drive and i even showed him a real hard drive.

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Post by bicostp » Fri Dec 04, 2009 2:04 pm

I hate it when I'm trying to fix something for someone and they insist on hovering around like I'm performing brain surgery on their mother or something. :wtf:

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Post by gamemasterAS » Fri Dec 04, 2009 3:12 pm

bicostp wrote:I hate it when I'm trying to fix something for someone and they insist on hovering around like I'm performing brain surgery or something. :wtf:

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Oh god, this times a thousand. I built a PC for my father that I think is having over heating problems. He keeps demanding I fix it but won't let me open it up. :wtf:
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Post by thewise1 » Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:09 pm

Well then he obviously wants you to fix it with the magic pixie dust you have in your back pocket that you used to build it in the first place.

Oh, and I also run into people that think the monitor is the computer. So when they tell me that there is something wrong with their computer they actually mean the screen.
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