My friend keeps asking me, "do you want to buy anything offline?" rather than online. Im not gonna point out his mistake, Its more funny to see peoples faces when he comes out with it.
The horrid tech-vocabulary of people who are not tech-savvy
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Not quite tech vocabulary, but just earlier, someone booted up this computer, and immediately double clicked Firefox. They sat and waited. Someone else came and suggested they use IE. I tried telling them the computer has more shit to load before it'll load either browser. They called me an idiot, and clicked IE. After five seconds, they quadruple clicked IE, and complained the computer was broken. Apparently, their idea of a computer loading was making the background visible.
By the time it was finished starting, eight IE's had been opened.
I've also witnessed a woman asking how to upload the Internet, download an email, port an email (meaning send), and one who couldn't quite grasp that her pictures existed only on her computer, not on all computers.
By the time it was finished starting, eight IE's had been opened.
I've also witnessed a woman asking how to upload the Internet, download an email, port an email (meaning send), and one who couldn't quite grasp that her pictures existed only on her computer, not on all computers.
Difference is, theres not many brands of acetylsalicylic acid. There are however many different types of mp3 players ready to buy. So its more like saying "My mother is so behind the times that she calls chocolate bars Kit Kats!"Marmooset said:
My dad is a software engineer for T. Rowe Price, so he's usually the one that helps me with computer stuff.
Mind you, I'm not computertarded. I could still build my own with a budget and an in depth guide.
My mom though, she's terrible. Even my 80 year old great aunt is more tech-savvy then she is.
Mind you, I'm not computertarded. I could still build my own with a budget and an in depth guide.
My mom though, she's terrible. Even my 80 year old great aunt is more tech-savvy then she is.
what is this i dont evenQueen Michael said:
No, seriously. I can't even figure out a context in which that makes sense. My brain hurts trying to think about it.
I have surprisingly little of that to deal with in my family. My dad, despite being in his 60s and a retired accounting professor, has been able to install his own RAM and hard drives since almost 20 years ago. My mom may not know what everything is or how it works, but she'll just ask instead of making crap up. It's really quite nice.
I work in an electrical retail outlet in the middle of a town frequented by 60% elderly people.
A big annoyance is people buying an HD ready TV, and then bringing it back saying it's the same quality they're used to. Doesn't matter that I explained it's not built-in, that HD Ready means it needs a HD source such as Sky HD or Blu-ray, anything important I say to correct such myths just doesn't get processed.
I noticed some people mention iPod meaning all mp3s? I gotta say I understand that. It's like Hoover being used for all vacuum cleaners. & I'm guilty of using that one.
A big annoyance is people buying an HD ready TV, and then bringing it back saying it's the same quality they're used to. Doesn't matter that I explained it's not built-in, that HD Ready means it needs a HD source such as Sky HD or Blu-ray, anything important I say to correct such myths just doesn't get processed.
I noticed some people mention iPod meaning all mp3s? I gotta say I understand that. It's like Hoover being used for all vacuum cleaners. & I'm guilty of using that one.
I hate my mum referring to uploading as downloading infact anything to do with files is downloading...
My mum calls my PS3 an Xbox. She thinks my iPod can receive texts. She calls megabytes legobites.
My mother didn't know what respawn in a video game meant if that counts.
And then proceeded to ask me all throughout the day.
And then proceeded to ask me all throughout the day.
I remeber trying to explain to a friend with a Mac that even though he had boot camp it still wouldn't be able to play everything because of hardware requirements. He didn't get how hardware is not the same thing as software.
One of my favorites is how people are used to the "fact" that Windows sucks. I had a friend whose computer kept getting blue screens and he was convinced that blue screens are supposed to happen, because Windows is bad and he doesn't know how to install Linux, which is of course awesome as someone told him. He wouldn't even let me tinker with it to see what is causing the blue screens because he was afraid i was going to mess up his delicate works/doesn't work balance.
One thing that really pissed me off a few years ago is when I went to PC world with a friend because he wanted my input as to what to get - this was about 2 months before Vista came out and they were pushing XP installed laptops that had free upgrades when Vista was released. The salesperson was insisting to my friend that 1gb of RAM was perfect to run Vista, to which I was countering by saying perhaps just to run Vista but you wouldn't be able to do anything else at any speed and he was insistent that he had been using it on a computer with 1/2 a gb of RAM and was doing x, y and z all at the same time.
I know he was trying to sell the damn thing but bloody hell when I've called your bluff don't lie more.
Side Note: I told my friend to not upgrade to Vista when the option was given to him
I know he was trying to sell the damn thing but bloody hell when I've called your bluff don't lie more.
Side Note: I told my friend to not upgrade to Vista when the option was given to him