What funny or stupid tech/pc related ramblings have you heard in public?

[SAWYER]

I was just in Fed Ex/Kinko's and this woman was talking to a guy that worked there about her Belkin router that she couldn't get to work, and how they were pos. The Kinko's guy told her "Meh they are just a cheap Wal-Mart brand is why, Wal-Mart makes them"

 

[bucwylde23]

Heard a wal-mart employee talking to an older couple about the differences between DLP TV's and LCD TV's. He said that LCD TV's "bulb" burns out faster than DLP's and need to be replaced more often.. hmmm..

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

One of my friends still judges how good a video card is by its video RAM. I've tried to explain the importance of stream processors/shaders/pixel pipelines and clockspeeds, but he insists that amount of VRAM is what matters. This is a person who spends a lot of his time putting together computers. But he is a mac user...

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: chrisg22
Heard a wal-mart employee talking to an older couple about the differences between DLP TV's and LCD TV's. He said that LCD TV's "bulb" burns out faster than DLP's and need to be replaced more often.. hmmm..

There should be signs in Walmart warning people not to take technical advice from their sales people.

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
One of my friends still judges how good a video card is by its video RAM. I've tried to explain the importance of stream processors/shaders/pixel pipelines and clockspeeds, but he insists that amount of VRAM is what matters. This is a person who spends a lot of his time putting together computers. But he is a mac user...

Thats very very common, unfortunately.

 

[Iron Woode]

remember the classic Best Buy one?

Netburst architecture makes the internet faster.

:laugh:

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
One of my friends still judges how good a video card is by its video RAM. I've tried to explain the importance of stream processors/shaders/pixel pipelines and clockspeeds, but he insists that amount of VRAM is what matters. This is a person who spends a lot of his time putting together computers. But he is a mac user...

Heh, this always cracks me up. You try to set a person straight, but they refuse to believe you. You should present him with some benchmarks that exhibit the performance difference between RAM and clock speed, # of shaders, etc. and see if he can refute that.

 

[Spacehead]

Our resident 'computer expert' - "You can't pass a virus on a CD!"

Said as big wigs were wondering why a non-internet connected PC was acting strangely & some one suggested a virus, as programs were transfered on CD throughout the shop.
This was about 3-4 years ago.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Overheard at a local Big Box, "Of course the graphics are better, it's running Vista!" I kept looking around for the MS rep handing out money.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

When discussing the history behind the concept of orbital solar collectors with a friend that I ran into while I was out dining, we were accosted by a "science" writer for the local paper, who swore up and down that such a thing wouldn't work because the light from the Sun wasn't dense enough in outer space. Apparently solar power requires the atmosphere of the Earth to act as a magnifying lens or something. :roll:

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
When discussing the history behind the concept of orbital solar collectors with a friend that I ran into while I was out dining, we were accosted by a "science" writer for the local paper, who swore up and down that such a thing wouldn't work because the light from the Sun wasn't dense enough in outer space. Apparently solar power requires the atmosphere of the Earth to act as a magnifying lens or something. :roll:

I would have told him, "You are my density!"

 

[Loop2kil]

I had a guy at work recently that swore that AGP video cards are much faster than pci-e cards....he said that pci-e was crap and he would never own one.

 

[pontifex]

my great aunt stuck a cd between the cd-rom drive and case of her pc and wondered where it went.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: pontifex
my great aunt stuck a cd between the cd-rom drive and case of her pc and wondered where it went.

You should have told her that slot was a portal to the dimension of socks that get lost in the dryer. :laugh:

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: pontifex
my great aunt stuck a cd between the cd-rom drive and case of her pc and wondered where it went.

so that's what happened.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
When discussing the history behind the concept of orbital solar collectors with a friend that I ran into while I was out dining, we were accosted by a "science" writer for the local paper, who swore up and down that such a thing wouldn't work because the light from the Sun wasn't dense enough in outer space. Apparently solar power requires the atmosphere of the Earth to act as a magnifying lens or something. :roll:

I would have told him, "You are my density!"

We humored him until we realized he was a moron, then we tried to educate him. It didn't work. He was sure that we couldn't know what we were talking about because we were so much younger than him.

 

[IronWing]

I was a public meeting where a bureaucrat insisted that his agency could not set up a program to gather data from the public via a website because web-based forms simply generated emails that had to be read by a real person who then had to retype everything into a database and that therefore it was cost prohibitive. When I humbly suggested that the form handler could automatically save the data to the database he said it was unpossible, web forms didn't work that way, they could only send emails. We were talking about creating a new database here, not some arcane legacy system. It was really a sad revelation to me. I had no idea that when I post something here, some poor shmuck at Anandtech has to retype every word so it shows up on the forum. No wonder grammarians are so ruthless.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: ironwing
I was a public meeting where a bureaucrat insisted that his agency could not set up a program to gather data from the public via a website because web-based forms simply generated emails that had to be read by a real person who then had to retype everything into a database and that therefore it was cost prohibitive. When I humbly suggested that the form handler could automatically save the data to the database he said it was unpossible, web forms didn't work that way, they could only send emails. We were talking about creating a new database here, not some arcane legacy system. It was really a sad revelation to me. I had no idea that when I post something here, some poor shmuck at Anandtech has to retype every word so it shows up on the forum. No wonder grammarians are so ruthless.

No kidding. Now quit posting, will you? I have a backlog of user posts I need to type that goes back to last Tuesday and you're not helping!

 

[RESmonkey]

What's REALLY fun is pretending to be as dumb as some other people. Or allowing a dumb person that thinks they know how to fix problems take care of the situation while you stand idle and pretend to be in awe.

I did that at school a couple times. It's fun. I almost died laughing on the inside.


ex.

Person says if they've seen [web content], other person says "Yeah! It was on Myspace! That TOM is such a genius to have made [web content]!"

btw, the reference was of a University study of how the first and last characters of a word and the length kept constant, the human mind can read it the same way if other characters are scrambled. I loled at the thought of Tom inventing that.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: ironwing
I was a public meeting where a bureaucrat insisted that his agency could not set up a program to gather data from the public via a website because web-based forms simply generated emails that had to be read by a real person who then had to retype everything into a database and that therefore it was cost prohibitive. When I humbly suggested that the form handler could automatically save the data to the database he said it was unpossible, web forms didn't work that way, they could only send emails. We were talking about creating a new database here, not some arcane legacy system. It was really a sad revelation to me. I had no idea that when I post something here, some poor shmuck at Anandtech has to retype every word so it shows up on the forum. No wonder grammarians are so ruthless.

No kidding. Now quit posting, will you? I have a backlog of user posts I need to type that goes back to last Tuesday and you're not helping!

Does explain the intense hatred for quote trees.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: ironwing
I was a public meeting where a bureaucrat insisted that his agency could not set up a program to gather data from the public via a website because web-based forms simply generated emails that had to be read by a real person who then had to retype everything into a database and that therefore it was cost prohibitive. When I humbly suggested that the form handler could automatically save the data to the database he said it was unpossible, web forms didn't work that way, they could only send emails. We were talking about creating a new database here, not some arcane legacy system. It was really a sad revelation to me. I had no idea that when I post something here, some poor shmuck at Anandtech has to retype every word so it shows up on the forum. No wonder grammarians are so ruthless.

No kidding. Now quit posting, will you? I have a backlog of user posts I need to type that goes back to last Tuesday and you're not helping!

Does explain the intense hatred for quote trees.

Oh, hey, um, ah, sorrry.

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: pontifex
my great aunt stuck a cd between the cd-rom drive and case of her pc and wondered where it went.

win

 

[coldmeat]

i was at a Sony store looking at laptops and asked the guy working there what panel type they had on the display models (Hi-brite or ECO) and all he could tell me was that one of them was 1080 and the other wasn't and I would get the "full hi-def experience" with the bigger one (15.4" vs 13"). They both however had the same resolution (1280x800).

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: coldmeat
i was at a Sony store looking at laptops and asked the guy working there what panel type they had on the display models (Hi-brite or ECO) and all he could tell me was that one of them was 1080 and the other wasn't and I would get the "full hi-def experience" with the bigger one (15.4" vs 13"). They both however had the same resolution (1280x800).

What always bugs me is when ignorant sales people just won't leave you alone. I'm just browsing around in Staples or something and an associate comes up and asks me if I need some help. First reply is a polite "No thanks, just looking at..." computers, laptops, or whatever. If they persist and I get more annoyed, it's usually degrades to "Listen up, I probably know more about these products than you, so no, I don't need any freaking help."

 

[RESmonkey]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: ironwing
I was a public meeting where a bureaucrat insisted that his agency could not set up a program to gather data from the public via a website because web-based forms simply generated emails that had to be read by a real person who then had to retype everything into a database and that therefore it was cost prohibitive. When I humbly suggested that the form handler could automatically save the data to the database he said it was unpossible, web forms didn't work that way, they could only send emails. We were talking about creating a new database here, not some arcane legacy system. It was really a sad revelation to me. I had no idea that when I post something here, some poor shmuck at Anandtech has to retype every word so it shows up on the forum. No wonder grammarians are so ruthless.

No kidding. Now quit posting, will you? I have a backlog of user posts I need to type that goes back to last Tuesday and you're not helping!

Does explain the intense hatred for quote trees.

Oh, hey, um, ah, sorrry.

Did someone say quotes?

 

[RESmonkey]

Originally posted by: coldmeat
i was at a Sony store looking at laptops and asked the guy working there what panel type they had on the display models (Hi-brite or ECO) and all he could tell me was that one of them was 1080 and the other wasn't and I would get the "full hi-def experience" with the bigger one (15.4" vs 13"). They both however had the same resolution (1280x800).

LOL he probably got confused with Blu-ray.