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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #60 on: June 03, 2012, 03:13:03 pm »
If I remember, I heard someone looking for a copy of Linux in a retail store. Granted, Linux has some paid distros, but I think he was looking for Ubuntu, even though it's available for free online.
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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #61 on: June 03, 2012, 05:09:03 pm »
One day in school I was messing with nover and my nspire crashed, and it would not reboot correctly. :(  I knew all I had to do was go home and do a complete reformat. Later that day I went to a fellow math teacher because she also has an nspire (she doesn't know what ndless is), I then told her what had happened and she said "Ooh you might have downloaded a virus". <_<  I tried to explain that "THERE ARE NO F***ING VIRUSES ON THE NSPIRE PLATFORM!" but she still didn't understand.  :banghead:

Today my mom asked me how to use our scanner.  <_<
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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #62 on: June 03, 2012, 06:10:56 pm »
In fact, Ndless is very similar to a virus :P
It exploits bugs, manipulates stuff in memory, makes itself run at boot and other stuff.
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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #63 on: June 03, 2012, 06:15:13 pm »
i suppose you could easily write a real one now  (please don't xp )

since the os doesn't do a thing against the manipulations of ndless..
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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #64 on: June 03, 2012, 06:28:17 pm »
Quote from: DJ_O on June 03, 2012, 03:13:03 pm
If I remember, I heard someone looking for a copy of Linux in a retail store. Granted, Linux has some paid distros, but I think he was looking for Ubuntu, even though it's available for free online.
I have seen ubuntu disks in stores before. They might have been looking for one of those. Some people don't want/can't burn their own disks for distros so most of the big ones sell disks
« Last Edit: June 03, 2012, 06:28:31 pm by ruler501 »
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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #65 on: June 03, 2012, 06:54:50 pm »
"Is this a PC?"
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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #66 on: June 03, 2012, 07:40:50 pm »
Girl at School(With a TI-83+): I want to make a program with my name as the title. How do I make a new program?
Me: *grabs calculator and makes program(takes less than 5 seconds)* *Hands calculator back*
Girl: Wow! That was fast! Thanks!

Not trying to make fun, but really?
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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #67 on: June 03, 2012, 08:27:45 pm »
^^Hm, which button has to do with programs...? Let's see, how about [PRGM]? Now, there's a list of ones to EXEC, to EDIT, and an option for NEW...Wow, you go to NEW to make a NEW program!!!

I don't know. Sometimes it does have to do with how you grew up or how much exposure you've had to technology but in cases like the above just a little effort and analytic thinking will get the job done without needing to ask for help. And you never know Spence, maybe she was just hitting on you ;)
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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #68 on: June 04, 2012, 12:40:56 am »
My Mom:
You mean you can't put a flash drive into my iPad?

Spoiler For Spoiler:
The punchline is that she doesn't even know what a flash drive is x.x


EDIT: another-

Mom: 16 gigabytes? Is that how many thousands of songs I can have?
Me: Sure, mom.
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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #69 on: June 04, 2012, 12:48:35 am »
they did use to put a number of songs on packaging :P
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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #70 on: June 04, 2012, 05:14:05 pm »
Quote from: Happybobjr on June 04, 2012, 12:48:35 am
they did use to put a number of songs on packaging :P
Yaaaay I'm gonna put 100.000 megamixes on my ipod nano!
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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #71 on: June 07, 2012, 08:35:57 pm »
I just recently broke my android tablet, and got it stuck into an impossible bootloop. Both of my parents had no clue what that was, even when I showed them.
Its like when Im playing minecraft or terraria, and my mom watches me play and questions everything I do. (She does it just to be obnoxious.)
I think sometimes its just best for the person to nod rather then keep asking questions.
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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #72 on: June 07, 2012, 09:42:54 pm »
My mom: "How do I make a backup?"
I show her how and then guide her through doing it herself.
Funny part is, I've shown her at least ten times by now.
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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #73 on: June 08, 2012, 02:33:57 am »
hmm you better write a leaflet for her :P
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Re: Most ignorant/dumb thing you've heard someone say/ask about technology?
« Reply #74 on: June 08, 2012, 05:15:45 am »
Oh, I see only now this topic and it rightaway reminded me on something I read a few years ago.
I had a certain usb stick that suddeny had decreased it available size. I found a thread where they explained that that stuff happened with those kind of usb sticks. And they were just bad quality. Despite all that was written there someone decided to write very ignorantly :"I think it's a virus." .
This really made me laugh back then :P
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