Most computer illiterate comment ever

[Guest]

I think you are all crazy, but I like the quotes! I a MUCH less knowledgeable programmer so I don't have the slightest what Mike's one liner was, but I'm sure it was good, and I liked the rest of them! Especially feeding the mouse! I'm a mainframer, so my funny lines are more like this:

Me: Do you know how to get to the "kicks" screen?
Her: Kicks? I don't know what that is.
After much deliberation....

It was the CICS screen!!!!

I bet nobody gets the humor in that, but I couldn't resist posting the one joke I had!

CoCo

[Jon]

grimw wrote:

Just because it's more advanced doesn't mean it's any less valid.

That’s arguable.  Consider your own language: You wouldn’t think someone was illiterate just because they didn’t know what apposition or shibboleths are with respect to the English language.  You would also probably not say that a person is illiterate if he doesn’t mind going against a loosely enforced Latin rule of grammar and ends a sentence with a preposition (this is not always a bad thing, and may even be more appropriate given the English language’s roots in a German dialect).  The same goes for improper use of â€Ã...“whoâ€Ã, and â€Ã...“whomâ€Ã, which we all do every day.

There are probably grammatical or spelling errors in this message, but I doubt that even an English major would consider me to be illiterate for the simple reason that these are fairly â€Ã...“advancedâ€Ã, topics.

[William Grim]

However, it can be argued that the person is indeed more illiterate than you are if they don't understand something that you do... at least for that specific example.

[Stiffler]

Congrads on your retirement, Jon.
 wish I was retired. I guess I'm halfway there--right now I'm only tired.

Thanks Dale. :-D I get retired over and over. :-P Actually it's the Anti-Psychotics that make me tired, but that's a different story.

Oh, BTW, I hope you all know that XOOPS records IP addresses and can ban people by IP, so if the Anon guy's IP is the same and not a school IP, then ... well, I think this would be the first ever Banning on CAOS.  :-o So let's end this fueding. This is going nowhere, and it is pointless.

Jon

[Jarod Neuner]

Over the last year my definition of "Computer Illiterate" has changed dramatically. For instance, I find many Computer Science majors and even Computer Science professors that blindly labeled scripts 'viruses', my interpretation of computer illiterate dropped to a very fundamental level. In fact, exchanging an ethernet cable with a telephone cable is commonplace in my world. That in mind, I will now share some of my favorite moments serving as a Residential Technology Assistant.

Anonymous Girl #1 (alias Jane='echo 'Guy #1''):
Jane: "I tried to plug in the keyboard, but the cable wasn't long enough. And now my TV doesn't work."
Jarod: "Did you plug the TV into the wall outlet?"
Jane: "Umm, I don't think so. If I plug in the TV will my keyboard work?"
Jarod: "There isn't anything worth watching on the TV anyhow."

Anonymous Guy #2 (alias John='echo 'Guy #2'')
John: "When I push the power button, nothing happens"
Jarod: "What kind of computer do you have?"
John: "A Dell"
Jarod: "Is it a Desktop or a Laptop?"
John: "Umm, Laptop is the one without wires right?"
Jarod: "Well, kindof. Laptops can work when cables aren't plugged into them."
John: "Then it is a laptop"
Jarod: "Was it working previously...like this weekend or last week?"
John: "It stopped working this weekend while I was writing a paper. I was typing and it just shut off."
Jarod: "Did you get any error messages before it shut off?"
John: "No, but it said it was going to standdown or something."
Jarod: "Umm, is the battery charged?"
John: "It should be. The box says the battery only needs to get replaced after like 3 years."

And amongst the best:
Anonymous Girl (alias Sue='echo 'Sorority Girls are dumb')
Sue: "My disk doesn't fit in the computer"
Jarod: "That isn't a disk, it's a calculator"
Sue: "What? Where are the buttons?"
Jarod:
Sue: "Oh" "You must think I'm so dumb now!"
Jarod: "I figured that out yesterday"

Now I am returning to my Econ homework.