Kalmah
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- Oct 2, 2003
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It has boggled my mind for 2 years.. now that circuit city layed me off along with over 7,000 other people I don't care.
The thing is, I believe most people are just afraid to touch anything they don't understand and purposely are ignorant towards it. And then some people go into a store to get something but really have no idea what they actually need.
"I need to make my laptop wireless"
>does it allready have a built in card or do you need a router?
"I don't know..."
>Do you know the model of your computer?
"Uh.. it's a dell.."
>Well the 2 things you need is a router and a wireless card.. I don't know if you allready have any of them though..
5 minutes later that person is talking to another employee about the same problem.. I'm like WTF. I told you, you ignorant bastard.
By the way, please ban circuit city. They are complete shit heads. They cut pay whenever they want, cut hours whenever they want, run the business as if they where monkeys, then blame anybody else that they can.
The thing is, I believe most people are just afraid to touch anything they don't understand and purposely are ignorant towards it. And then some people go into a store to get something but really have no idea what they actually need.
"I need to make my laptop wireless"
>does it allready have a built in card or do you need a router?
"I don't know..."
>Do you know the model of your computer?
"Uh.. it's a dell.."
>Well the 2 things you need is a router and a wireless card.. I don't know if you allready have any of them though..
5 minutes later that person is talking to another employee about the same problem.. I'm like WTF. I told you, you ignorant bastard.
By the way, please ban circuit city. They are complete shit heads. They cut pay whenever they want, cut hours whenever they want, run the business as if they where monkeys, then blame anybody else that they can.
I'm sure it would boggle all of their minds how clueless you are about their expertise or hobbies too.
WT
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- Sep 21, 2000
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Ahhh yesss !! Your generation !! The ones that use Limewire, Ares, Bittorrent and mIRC, as well as MySpace and Facebook !!
You guys are keeping me in business as well !! You USE those apps to get your goodies, but every one of those apps is an exploited mess that you or a friend end up opening a poisoned URL and hosing your PC.
Don't ever act like you are above it, you just know how to infect your PC with MORE apps than the older generation who opens an email attachment every now and then.
I know you think you are above it, but you aren't. My fellow techs can give you a clue on this one, but its speaking from years of experience doing this that I know when I get a PC from the parents that the teens in the family use, I will ALWAYS spend more time to clean the PC than an average older user.
PS - This is comical, but I don't even bother to remove the above junk that I listed. The teens will load it back on after I remove it anyhow, and its not that I like repeat customers, but if you don't fix it, I will just charge you again .. and again ..
I don't know. My view is completely twisted since most of my friends in school were computer nerds. I went to school as an engineer so you had to know how to use a computer. Then there was that time I worked with IT, but they were mainly old people... so here I am.
nerp
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- Dec 31, 2005
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How much do you know about sewing? How much do you know about cooking? It's amazing how little computer nerds know about cuisine. It's amazing how little computer nerds know about poetry. It's amazing how little computer nerds know about the legal system and courts. It's amazing how little computer nerds know about fishing. It's amazing how little computer nerds know about zoning, landscape design, journalism, pharmacuticals, social sciences, bookbinding, printmaking, watercolors, carpentry, plumbing. . . . .
Get out of your bubble.
Get out of your bubble.
No. It's a good thing.
Then I won't be just sitting around telling my friends how "DEY GONE N' TERK MAH JERB"
Then I won't be just sitting around telling my friends how "DEY GONE N' TERK MAH JERB"
- Sep 19, 2000
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I actually know a fair amount about sewing, cooking, and cuisine in general.
I never use poetry.
I know some about the legal system and courts. I know how to fish, I know about zoning, I don't know about landscaping, but I also don't use landscaping on a day to day basis. I know about writing, pharmaceuticals, I've taken social sciences classes and please, I didn't even have to open to book to get an A in the class. I have never done book binding, printmaking.
But I do know how to do watercolors, some carpentry, and plumbing...
But guess what, the average person uses computers EVERY DAY. Regular people, not just computer nerds. These people log in, surf the web, ect. In a society where there is at least one computer per household, people use computers MUCH more then they use almost everything in that little list of yours (the exceptions are cooking, and possibly the legal system
and even those are debatable).If you are employed and living in the US. Chances are pretty high that you are using a computer at work. (as long as you aren't earning minimum wage).
Now, the same could be said about a TV, however, computers are far more interactive then a TV. They aren't just a "Turn it on and let it entertain you". You have to tell the computer what to do.
Yes, I realize there are several things I don't know how to do, but these are things that I have to do or use very rarely if ever in my life. And what I do need to use or purchase I always do it with some research or foreknowledge on the subject.
Get the picture? Computers are commonly used, many people have an buy them. And they are big investments. Yet most people approach things like purchasing a new computer with the blind hope that the BestBuy guy isn't trying to get every nickel out of them.
Do you purchase music without first sampling or researching it? Do you purchase a door knob before seeing if it will fit? How about purchasing a car? Do you just pick the red one and hope it goes fast? Many people take this attitude towards computer where IMO they shouldn't.
Kalmah
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- Oct 2, 2003
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If I was going to buy a sewing machine, I would do my research before.
If I want to cook something, I research it before
If I want to write a poem, I may consider researching other poems first
If I want to know about fishing, I would do research before
If the mass public wants to know about computers... well they don't. They just want to own one. And then when they have a problem with it it's the computer's fault.
RadiclDreamer
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- Aug 8, 2004
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Your going to just have to live with the fact that their are some people that make one or to grammar mistakes hear and they're. Sorry it bother you so much.[/quote]
Don't make fun of others when you can't be bothered to learn the correct usage of "your" and "you're". A typo is one thing, but the whole "your" thing really rubs me wrong.
Nothing strange about that at all. You probably get taken in a very similar manner that you don't even realize.
Every industry has their suckers.
Every industry has their suckers.
ColdFusion718
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