[rant]
Ok so i went to my friend's room last night and i was talking to her roomates BF about computers. He had an xbox that he was playing and i mentioned that i prefered comp games to consoles. He then remearked that it was basically a computer but it didn't waste all of the resources that windows does. Up to this point, no prob. He then elaborates that windows uses a full third or half (don't remember which) of your system resources, but half of what? I have 384MB of ram, i know it doesn't use 192MB of RAM. What if i had 512 or more? He also claims that windows takes half of the video memory(32MB of a 64MB card was the example he gave). He was speaking of windows 2000 here BTW. I told him that i really doubted that was true, and that i would be happy to show him otherwise. To this he responds that he is "In the biz" and that he knows what he's talking about.
Now, I'll be the first, or maybe a really close second to tell you that i don't know too much, although still more than the average bear. MWink can surely give you some amusing stories about that. But, that's the reason i come here, to learn stuff. It just pisses me off when people make stupid comments like this. I mean i work on a fuel dock and on boats occasionally, but that doesn't mean that i can drill for oil or rebuild a lower unit.
anyway, i feel better now
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hmm, i wonder if he frequents AT???
M00se
Ok so i went to my friend's room last night and i was talking to her roomates BF about computers. He had an xbox that he was playing and i mentioned that i prefered comp games to consoles. He then remearked that it was basically a computer but it didn't waste all of the resources that windows does. Up to this point, no prob. He then elaborates that windows uses a full third or half (don't remember which) of your system resources, but half of what? I have 384MB of ram, i know it doesn't use 192MB of RAM. What if i had 512 or more? He also claims that windows takes half of the video memory(32MB of a 64MB card was the example he gave). He was speaking of windows 2000 here BTW. I told him that i really doubted that was true, and that i would be happy to show him otherwise. To this he responds that he is "In the biz" and that he knows what he's talking about.
Now, I'll be the first, or maybe a really close second to tell you that i don't know too much, although still more than the average bear. MWink can surely give you some amusing stories about that. But, that's the reason i come here, to learn stuff. It just pisses me off when people make stupid comments like this. I mean i work on a fuel dock and on boats occasionally, but that doesn't mean that i can drill for oil or rebuild a lower unit.
anyway, i feel better now
[/rant]
hmm, i wonder if he frequents AT???
M00se
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