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Fyron · #1 February 3rd, 2004, 07:29 AM

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Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
Really? I thought it was because of Steven - of course we are talking pre-pot using Steven here.

Yes, because the average user is not knowledgeable about computers... they get confused by all those numbers.

Notice how Dell commercials rarely have any specs on the computers they are advertising?

Pre-pot Steven? What are you talking about?

[ February 03, 2004, 05:29: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Kamog · #2 February 3rd, 2004, 07:39 AM

One of my co-workers is 78 years old and he's pretty good with computers...

Captain Kwok · #3 February 3rd, 2004, 07:47 AM

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Pre-pot Steven? What are you talking about?

The kid who played Steven, well he was caught with some pot and since then we haven't seen any more Dell commercials with him...

[ February 03, 2004, 05:48: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

Fyron · #4 February 3rd, 2004, 07:53 AM

I did say there were exceptions people!

Go to a senior citizens trailer park and try to get them to use computers, and see how many of them are able to do so.

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Originally posted by Captain Kwok:

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Pre-pot Steven? What are you talking about?

The kid who played Steven, well he was caught with some pot and since then we haven't seen any more Dell commercials with him...

He was probably high for all of those commercials anyways.

[ February 03, 2004, 05:53: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Captain Kwok · #5 February 3rd, 2004, 08:07 AM

And let's be fair - I'd say some of our best posters here would qualify for senior discounts at many stores.

Kamog · #6 February 3rd, 2004, 08:42 AM

When I was in high school, even the teachers weren't very familiar with computers. One time, for French class I submitted my assignment typed on the word processer. The teacher was amazed that my printout had all the accents on the words. What she always did was just type her stuff normally, and then on the printout, she'd take a pen and add the accents by hand.

The computer science teacher, sadly, knew less about computers than some of the students. While he was teaching us how to program in Pascal, he was taking his own course at university to learn the material to teach us. We were doing our work on the Macintosh, and he was really impressed when I added pull-down menus on one of my programs, because he didn't know how to do that. Sometimes when we made a mistake in our code, our program will get into an infinite loop, and the only way he knew how to get out was to reset the computer, and you lose your work. One time he saw me press the interrupt switch to stop the program without resetting the computer, and he was amazed because he didn't know about that.