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

XCVG · Post by **XCVG** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:45 pm

AfroLH wrote:Today in Class I was talking to a girl who's computer has been broken for a little bit.

So I asked her:
me- So what kind of computer did you have?
Her- A dell
Me- So did you get another dell?
Her- No, it's a Vista.

I've had a lot of people answer Windows XP or Vista when I ask what processor they have.

Post by **eagle5953** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:17 am

SpongeBuell wrote:
XCVG wrote:One guy told me about how my DS is "pretty much the same as an N64". I told him how the DS has an ARM7 and an ARM9 and the N64 has a MIPS processor. Totally different architecture. Id post the whole conversatri=on but I'm typing on an Eee PC right now- horerid kb.

The das part wasa that he's in robotics club. He shouldd know.
In all fairness, he could have been talking from a gaming standpoint. They aren't too different if you look at it that way. It's the insides that are different, which most people don't really care about.

That's what I was thinking too when I read it. Graphically, they are about on par - look at how N64 games (Super Mario 64, Diddy Kong Racing, etc) have been ported to DS. Perhaps that is to what he was referring.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:44 pm

XCVG wrote:
AfroLH wrote:Today in Class I was talking to a girl who's computer has been broken for a little bit.

So I asked her:
me- So what kind of computer did you have?
Her- A dell
Me- So did you get another dell?
Her- No, it's a Vista.
I've had a lot of people answer Windows XP or Vista when I ask what processor they have.

I can just see that

Man 1) "I have an AMD Dual Core"
Man 2) "I Use VISTA"

its sad, but people refuse to educate themselves. I have had to explain to people why you cant hook a PS3 up to some monitors even if it has the connections (HDMI -> DVI), ITS CALLED HDCP!

XCVG · Post by **XCVG** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:48 pm

gamer2 wrote:I have had to explain to people why you cant hook a PS3 up to some monitors even if it has the connections (HDMI -> DVI), ITS CALLED HDCP!

DRM will destroy the world someday.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:15 pm

Here is a quote

Me: I have South Park Season 12 on Blu-ray.
friend: Ew blu-ray?
Me: Whats wrong with it?
friend: nothing except for the fact that every time you play it the disc corrodes and the picture gets worse.
Me:

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:30 pm

gamer2 wrote:Here is a quote

Me: I have South Park Season 12 on Blu-ray.
friend: Ew blu-ray?
Me: Whats wrong with it?
friend: nothing except for the fact that every time you play it the disc corrodes and the picture gets worse.
Me:

sgtpepper · Post by **sgtpepper** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:33 pm

gamer2 wrote:Here is a quote

Me: I have South Park Season 12 on Blu-ray.
friend: Ew blu-ray?
Me: Whats wrong with it?
friend: nothing except for the fact that every time you play it the disc corrodes and the picture gets worse.
Me:

Maybe they just don't know the difference between Blu-ray and Laserdisc, a simple mistake

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:36 pm

sgtpepper wrote:
gamer2 wrote:Here is a quote

Me: I have South Park Season 12 on Blu-ray.
friend: Ew blu-ray?
Me: Whats wrong with it?
friend: nothing except for the fact that every time you play it the disc corrodes and the picture gets worse.
Me:
Maybe they just don't know the difference between Blu-ray and Laserdisc, a simple mistake

No optical disc corrodes when it is played, that luxury is reserved for a contact medium like magnetic tape.

sgtpepper · Post by **sgtpepper** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:59 pm

gamer2 wrote: No optical disc corrodes when it is played, that luxury is reserved for a contact medium like magnetic tape.

Although I was just being sarcastic, I was alluding to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_rot

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:40 pm

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=857067

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:30 pm

good thing I use DVDs then.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:19 pm

themadhacker wrote:good thing I use DVDs then.

I've had DVDs rot too.

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:58 pm

Well, It looks like I'm going back to records (records FTW!) so I don't have to face a CD rot too.

jjhammerstein · Post by **jjhammerstein** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:05 pm

Is that supposed to be a joke?
Vinyl erodes faster than ANYTHING.

Hi-Q digital is the only way to go.

Post by **bicostp** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:11 pm

themadhacker wrote: Well, It looks like I'm going back to records (records FTW!) so I don't have to face a CD rot too.

Yeah, except records degrade every single time you play them.

Music compressed with a lossless algorithm on a Flash drive wins both the quality and longevity contests.

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