Every geek has a tale or two about a clueless user, who thought they knew what they were doing, when they really didn't understand the problem they were trying to solve. Some people really are that clueless, and a joke doesn't mean that I think most users don't know the difference between RAM and hard drive memory.
When was the last time you laughed about someone who got their computer upgrade right perfectly on the first try. Most people who tinker with computers have been in the situation where
Well, you SHOULD think that most users don't know the difference between RAM and hard disk space. Lots of people outside the "geek" circles (and a few inside of it) have no clue about the difference between RAM and hard drives. It's all memory to them. They want a bigger hard drive to make their computer go faster. Thankfully I've trained my family and friends to ask me those questions before they believe the twit at Best Buy or wherever, and they're learning more every year;)
Somehow, I don't think that the people who can't tell the difference between a hard disk and RAM are the ones that are going to be buying their own parts. If they do, they're most likely going to learn the hard way. At that point, there's basically two roads. One, they'll NEVER try to put together their own computer ( and probably discourage all future generations from doing so, since they couldn't) OR two, they'll figure out what they did wrong and try again. If they take the second path enough times, they
That is actually a FANTASTIC idea.:O
Not only would this help the newbie-DIYers, but it would make the whole scanning-for-specs portion a lot easier, too.:P
Oh no (Score:5, Funny)
Customer - "The computer memory won't upgrade."
Walmart - "What was the problem?"
Customer - "I put it inside the CDROM drive and didn't get any more hard drive space."
Walmart - "Alrighty then."
Meanwhile at Slashbot Central (Score:0)
Slashbot poster - "The 'All uSerS aRe 1diotz' humour paradigm won't upgrade."
Slashbot #2 - "What was the problem?"
Slashbot poster - "I put it inside the Slashdot and didn't get any more good karma."
Slashbot #2 - "Alrighty then."
* Slashbot #2 summons The Hive to spend some mod-points *
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When was the last time you laughed about someone who got their computer upgrade right perfectly on the first try. Most people who tinker with computers have been in the situation where
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Requires an ORANGE computer or warmer, with at least two yellow RAM thingies. =)
Something like this could work, if it was kept really simple. I'm surprised no one has yet posted, "I'm color blind, you insensitive clod!!"
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