UPSB v3
Spammer's Bin / Overappreciation for technology?
or maybe just me ranting
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Date: Mon, May 24 2010 04:13:13
Well, Im not sure if overappreciation is the term here, but here I go.
Im constantly hearing my parents and other adults bitching about computers. They expect me to take a video file and convert it to a "song" within a matter of seconds. They expect me to have a menu (food) complete and out of the printer within an hour.
Now you gotta understand that an mpeg, mp4, flv etc etc is MUCH different from an mp3 or wmv file. My parents dont understand that, but they constantly complain about how computers made a cure for cancer or some shit.
My dad heard me play a song through my speakers, and requested that he get it on his phone. I said i couldnt, because i was playing an SNSD MV. For one, its embarassing to have your dad play Oh! as his ringtone, cause he's like 47. Second, it was an FLV file, and i didnt feel like recording the noise. He goes off saying how people have CD music converted onto computers and shit. He has a point there, but CD's and FLV's are two completely different stories.
As for the menu, I had it in psd, and saved it as a jpg so i could use my aunt's printer to print it out. My mother expected me to make a change just like that, and have another out the time she was done with that sentence.
Plus, I've seen a fair amount of people in their 40's at Starbucks bitching about how the internet doesnt run as fast on their laptop as the guy next to him. But what they dont realize is that not all computers are the same, and how technology hasnt advanced to where everything can be done in an instant.
Also, I fucking HATE the fact that something is always compared to something extremely superficial.
"If he can do it, how come you cant?"
he= 40 year old technician
me=16 year old kid
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Date: Mon, May 24 2010 04:33:09
cool story, bro.
But I feel you as well.
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Date: Mon, May 24 2010 04:43:58
ugh this is so true for my parents too, they expect that you and a computer can do anything >_>
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Date: Mon, May 24 2010 04:46:31QUOTE (Colin @ May 23 2010, 08:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>My dad heard me play a song through my speakers, and requested that he get it on his phone. I said i couldnt, because i was playing an SNSD MV. For one, its embarassing to have your dad play Oh! as his ringtone, cause he's like 47.
"If he can do it, how come you cant?"
he= 40 year old technician
me=16 year old kid
LOL at first section i quoted
and yeah i hate when the second section happens >_> doesnt even have to apply to techonology -
Date: Mon, May 24 2010 06:35:22
Converting an FLV, Mp4, WMV, etc to Mp3 is really easy .__.
Vdownloader? Takes like 3 minutes. -
Date: Mon, May 24 2010 06:51:09
whatever you do, pretend you're technologically inept like the rest of them if they ask you to do anything
i made that mistake and now i'm "tech support guy" of the household.... -
Date: Mon, May 24 2010 19:00:18
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Date: Tue, May 25 2010 02:00:31
i actually have this taped to my wall now
.... i think it might have helped, not sure yet -
Date: Tue, May 25 2010 04:15:34QUOTE (k-ryder @ May 25 2010, 11:00 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Spoiler:
i actually have this taped to my wall now
.... i think it might have helped, not sure yet
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Date: Wed, May 26 2010 15:20:03QUOTE (k-ryder @ May 24 2010, 10:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Spoiler:
i actually have this taped to my wall now
.... i think it might have helped, not sure yet
not good
google should be the before picking at random. -
Date: Wed, May 26 2010 18:18:01QUOTEnot good
google should be the before picking at random.
When there aren't that many menu items you just click through them all to see what you're looking for. Maybe not if the menus are insanely cluttered (*cough*Word*cough*) but most other applications that order is apt!