My mum calls it the Modem!
Explaining parts to un-educated people
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My mum calls it the Modem!
lol same here. my parents and sister have the family PC set 1024x768, when it's a 19 inch, because it's easier to see apparently, I always change it back to native whenever I use it, it doesnt feel propper otherwise
my mum thinks its called the monitor for some reason :S
When I asked my dad if I could buy a new PC he asked why and I simply said his PC was **** and that the best game I could play on it was Ski Stunt. 2 days later I had all my PC parts and was ready to build. 
He still has the same PC.
He still has the same PC.
My way of explaining things has lived with me for a long time
The PC is like an office,
Case = Office
CPU is the staff working
Memory = desk space - bigger desk, easier to shuffle things round for working
Hard Drive = filing cabinet - bigger hard drive is more storage space
Networks = roads
10Mb = town road (30mph)
100Mb = A road (40/50mph)
1000Mb = Motorway (100Mb used to be motorway until Gig network became "standard")
Mixing memory and hard drive gets on my nerves and as always remember people wanting to keep their monitor because it had a pic of their cat on it!
The PC is like an office,
Case = Office
CPU is the staff working
Memory = desk space - bigger desk, easier to shuffle things round for working
Hard Drive = filing cabinet - bigger hard drive is more storage space
Networks = roads
10Mb = town road (30mph)
100Mb = A road (40/50mph)
1000Mb = Motorway (100Mb used to be motorway until Gig network became "standard")
Mixing memory and hard drive gets on my nerves and as always remember people wanting to keep their monitor because it had a pic of their cat on it!
My way of explaining things has lived with me for a long time
The PC is like an office,
Case = Office
CPU is the staff working
Memory = desk space - bigger desk, easier to shuffle things round for working
Hard Drive = filing cabinet - bigger hard drive is more storage space
Networks = roads
10Mb = town road (30mph)
100Mb = A road (40/50mph)
1000Mb = Motorway (100Mb used to be motorway until Gig network became "standard")
Mixing memory and hard drive gets on my nerves and as always remember people wanting to keep their monitor because it had a pic of their cat on it!
I use the same one. The office one is great, most people get that quite quickly
lol i get that with my mates all the time.
I tell em i have 4gb memory bragging like, then there like, what? thats, carp, i have 200gb
yep thats pretty much what i get, worse for me, i have 2 gb of ram
the looks i get LOLEDIT: to most people 'RAM' is a device used to knock through locked doors
that reminds me of something else, i once told someone my pc dosnt have a floppy drive (cuz its outdated and old!) he looks at me funny and says what???, wow your pc must be really old then
this was onnoying lol
lol. All the above is familiar. the worst is when people ask you to explain something then switch off halfway through. People are really good at making me think thye understand something then not knowing a damn thing later. at leats I have advanced my family to calling the pc case "the box"
what did they call it before???
Heh, I do it all the time.
Haha, my mum's the same. When my parents had a crt she would call it the "box".
dont bother explianing they wont understand anyway, try this
CPU: small 'but important' square thing behind a cold cube thing
RAM: a device used to knock through locked doors
HDD: Rectangle thing
GPU: Flat rectangle thing
PSU: Big cube shaped thing with 'stringy' things comming out of it
DVD/CD drives: CUP HOLDERS
CPU: small 'but important' square thing behind a cold cube thing
RAM: a device used to knock through locked doors
HDD: Rectangle thing
GPU: Flat rectangle thing
PSU: Big cube shaped thing with 'stringy' things comming out of it
DVD/CD drives: CUP HOLDERS
The most upsetting part for me is having to explain almost anything hardware related to the ICT teachers at my school.
Also I once got lots of grief from the IT staff for going behind a PC to plug in a USB pen as it was dangerous and i might get electrocuted.
Holds hand up as another user of word and google for spellchecking.
Also I once got lots of grief from the IT staff for going behind a PC to plug in a USB pen as it was dangerous and i might get electrocuted.
Holds hand up as another user of word and google for spellchecking.
The most upsetting part for me is having to explain almost anything hardware related to the ICT teachers at my school.
Also I once got lots of grief from the IT staff for going behind a PC to plug in a USB pen as it was dangerous and i might get electrocuted.
Holds hand up as another user of word and google for spellchecking.
bringing back memorys of my school days lol
Sims isnt a god game Its like playing with dolls but for lazier people. Dress them up how yuo want then make person 1 meet person 2 and get along or not. Decorate a pretty house for them. Voila! instant dolls.
To reply to the person above, they used to call the casse the harddisk, as far too many people still do!
Its a sad fact of life that every geek has to go through life with that secret desire to knock the teeth out of someone who just doesnt want to learn. Its like I've always said, if I owned a car I would want to know exactly how it works so if something goes wrong I know what to do. I just dont like relying on something when I cant understand it!
Its like playing with dolls but for lazier people. Dress them up how yuo want then make person 1 meet person 2 and get along or not. Decorate a pretty house for them. Voila! instant dolls.To reply to the person above, they used to call the casse the harddisk, as far too many people still do!
Its a sad fact of life that every geek has to go through life with that secret desire to knock the teeth out of someone who just doesnt want to learn. Its like I've always said, if I owned a car I would want to know exactly how it works so if something goes wrong I know what to do. I just dont like relying on something when I cant understand it!
The most upsetting part for me is having to explain almost anything hardware related to the ICT teachers at my school.
Also I once got lots of grief from the IT staff for going behind a PC to plug in a USB pen as it was dangerous and i might get electrocuted.
Haha, I remember my I.T teacher getting the technician out because the mouse wasn't working, turns out it wasn't plugged in properly.
I was setting up my cousins router and he had his resolution set to 800x600 on his computer, changed it to it's native resolution but next time I come by to fix it he changed it back! I can't stand using such a low resolution!
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Sims isnt a god game
Not the way my kids play it. They make some weird family, then just use the cheats to get loads of money. Make house (more like castle) with a pool in it.
Put mum (or dad) in pool for a swim take the steps away and wind the clock on.
They drown!
I look after a few people PC's on the side, and I don't get technical or try not to at least.
You more or less feel it in their voice when they phone up....they don't want the detail, just how much will it cost.
I often find people are reluctant to spend as well.
It's hard explaining to someone that something they paid a few hundred for a couple of years ago is beyond ecomomical repair.
On the other hand, I know a person who has a few quid but always buys the cheapest laptops going, and then moans they are slow etc.
The same people who just bought a brand new BMW Alpina.
Given the amount of time they spend on computers to the time spent driving...see my point.
Most annoying thing ever.
We have ~150 users to support upstairs, and everytime I go up I change about 10 tft's back to their native res, only to hear the user complain that everything's too small.
1280x1024 on 19" is too small? How the hell can they prefer a blurry 800x600, having to scroll the applications in order to see stuff?
Tho, saying that, the laptop I use for work is native 1680, 15".. and that really *is* too small for 8hrs a day
