What It's Like Watching a Computer Illiterate

[dgingeri]

[citation][nom]TheRabidDeer[/nom]Its true! Its all true! This and people that type 10 words per minute frustrate me to no end![/citation]

hey now, with my constant typos and fingers that don't do as they are told, I'm probably no better than 10 words per minute. My backspace key is the most used key on my keyboard. Yet I'm not an idiot, and I'm quite tech savvy. I earn a living working on computers. So, 10 words per minute is not a good marker of a stupid person.

 

[Zeh]

I hope I wasn't the only one to understand the Inception joke.
Or did I just dream of it?

 

[Belardo]

You're still in the dream.

 

[cmcghee358]

[citation][nom]jsc[/nom]Well, look at the people in the forums who ask a question that a few minutes with google or any other search engine could answer easily.[/citation]

How do you think I get so many best answers?

 

[lp231]

[citation][nom]Belardo[/nom]I visited a friend, who I haven't seen for a while. His computer wasn't working right and yet he's about to get his MSCE cert. which parents paid thousands for, so he can get a job. Took me 5 minutes to locate problems, fixed some and directed how to fix the rest. Mom was pissed.[/citation]
This made me chuckle as it proves no matter how many books you read, you can never replace the "true feeling" if you don't get your hands dirty.
It's like reading a book on how to drive a car. You read it and it sound easy, but once you actually get into the drivers seat it's a totally different experience. There was a story I heard two people both work in the IT field. One had tons of certificates because he good with books and exams while the other only had a A+ certification. One day there was a customer who needed service so the guy with lots of certification went first. Spent almost 4 hours and still can't get it fixed. The the 2nd person went, it took him like 10 minutes and the job was done. He had to chill out with customer for like a hour before returning to base so he won't make the guy with lots of certificates look bad. And if you have the knowledge it doesn't mean you got the experience.

 

[therabiddeer]

hey now, with my constant typos and fingers that don't do as they are told, I'm probably no better than 10 words per minute. My backspace key is the most used key on my keyboard. Yet I'm not an idiot, and I'm quite tech savvy. I earn a living working on computers. So, 10 words per minute is not a good marker of a stupid person.

I understand not everybody can type quickly, but when a fast typist (I average between 100-120WPM, depending on my familiarity with the words that I am typing) is watching a slow typist it is just as aggravating as an IT professional watching a technologically ignorant person. The sheer differences between the two people make it hard to not get frustrated.

 

[razor512]

At my work, I deal with many computers, the servers are ok, especially when the other workers are competent.

the problem is the people who don't feel they need to read.

I get a call about a message coming up on the screen and they want it to go away, the available options are clearly visible on the screen, including the option that the user desires. But they still feel a need to call so I can tell them what to do. It is like they don't feel they need to even read whats on the screen.

 

[sudeshc]

typically true and this wont seems to improve any sooner.

 

[dib]

[citation][nom]Aionism[/nom]Yeah, what a fool! I get paid 24/7 as long as I'm doing my job! I lost $1.43 by taking the time to post this comment.[/citation]

It must suck to have to be on call 24/7. Like they say work smarter not harder. What a fool!

 

[kronos_cornelius]

Most frustrating for me is watching people type looking at the keyboard, meanwhile they don't notice the cursor is in the wrong place, or that the field is autofilling so they can stop typing.

 

[DSpider]

I would encourage people to use the scrollbar instead of the mouse wheel when inside a library or a quiet coffee shop, etc. Some mice are noisy as fuck. I see collage dickheads and bimbos scrolling like mad and I'm like wtf... USE THE DAMN SCROLLBAR BIATCH !

 

[maestintaolius]

*shrug*
I don't mind being the guy that knows more about more things, it's what generally keeps my paycheck bigger than theirs.

[citation][nom]lotri[/nom]It's funny how I haven't really had a use for Excel until my Senior year of college. Even then, I prefer MATLAB because I can do so many more operations with it. Excel is a pretty nice way to enter data though, which I then transfer into MATLAB.[/citation]

That's because Excel is a program for sales figures, accounting and basic statistics but MATLAB is actually useful for doing ... well math and actual statistics. Excel is far too tedious to use for decent surface plots, complex DOEs, fitting anything other than the simplest of regressions, deconvolution and so on. I pretty much use excel for the same reason, it's quite fast for inputing data into spreadsheets but for actual analysis I rely on Mathematica and Minitab.

 

[Guest]

hahaha same experience with my aunt

 

[eddieroolz]

No other video has spoken as much truth as this one.