Technology

alienmisprint

Jetmech_63

I had that epiphany whle screwing around with my new blackberry phone. I got it for christmas and it wasnt until a few months ago i realized it's full power. I can go online, look up a place....saaaay a b&m, and download directions directly to the gps on my phone and it tells me exactly how to get there. I can even play games online against other people, do my psych class paper, go online for resources and there is one out now you can video teleconfrence from your phone. Oh yeah...i can also make calls on it Crazy. Seems like just yesterday i was jumping up and down because i got a nintendo for christmas and could play Duck Hunt on my tv. Want some really crazy ass technology...you oughta see what the F/A-18's I work on can do...simply amazing.

phobicsquirrel

kuzi16

phobicsquirrel:

come on, duck hunt is way more sophisticated than anything out right now, I mean how the hell does that dog keep surviving after I shoot him so many damn times!!!!

I have the 8bit original NES still hooked up to my TV.

phobicsquirrel

speaking of keeping up on technology, I had a customer last night who after talking with her on the phone, and taking half of the 180 dollars for her home networking set up, I show up and she tells me that she mad a mistake and had a 3rd computer she needed hooked up on the network. Well I was okay with it but told her it would be an extra 30 dollars, which was my base price for the other two. She agreed. So I went to hook up the router she had and it was damaged. She acted all shocked, I told her if the thing doesn't power up than I can't do anything with it. She said it was working fine before. I asked her was it hooked up to the modem, she said no. I asked her, was it just plugged in, she said yes. Her son then came home and told me that he was planning on hooking it up but didn't know how to port forward for applications and gaming. I then said, wait, you wanted this also to be portforwarded? I then asked how many applications, he said 2. I then asked if he noticed the lights off on the router, he did and said it happened about a week ago. Well a week ago there was a large pwr surge at the house. I told the mother that the ac adapter probably got damaged. So I have already been there for going on 30 minutes. I told the mom that I could sell her a new router or I could not finish the install and that I would have to receive an hourly payment since she did not give me all the information over the phone for the install, and have all the equipment fire up and ready to go like she said over the phone. (I ask that all the people I service have everything out and turned on before I get there as it takes time to do these things when at their house, if not I will then charge a hourly fee). All in all I was there for about 1.5 hours and it turned out that I made much more than I had originally bargained for since the woman was not able to give me basic information. I told a friend of mine who works for best buy, part of the geek squad (yeah I know) and told me I should have charged much more, well I told him that's why I am making money because I don't price things too high. Anyway I think people let things get too complicated, and just give up way too easy. Yeah it's electronic but the instructions for these things are very easy to read. But I guess when people can't even give you answers to very simple questions and do them as asked then these people are really going to be in the dark when it comes to tech equipment.

betasynn

Matt Marvel

I remember playing Pong on Atari, so every time I hop on my brothers XBOX 360 or see my friend's ridiculous Dell XPS that can run these new PC games, I'm pretty amazed. That's a lot of progression in a relatively short time if you think about it.

phobicsquirrel

phobicsquirrel

kuzi16:

phobicsquirrel:

come on, duck hunt is way more sophisticated than anything out right now, I mean how the hell does that dog keep surviving after I shoot him so many damn times!!!!

I have the 8bit original NES still hooked up to my TV.

lol, I wish I still had mine, it died years ago. I see them every now and again. I've got several nes games on my wii, which I still love to play. It just might be that it was basically my first system but I still think NES had some of the best games.

alienmisprint

Yeah, the Wii is my wife's, but I have a few old NES and SNES games downloaded on it. Good times, good times.

bbc020

j0z3r

phobicsquirrel:

kuzi16:

phobicsquirrel:

come on, duck hunt is way more sophisticated than anything out right now, I mean how the hell does that dog keep surviving after I shoot him so many damn times!!!!

I have the 8bit original NES still hooked up to my TV.

lol, I wish I still had mine, it died years ago. I see them every now and again. I've got several nes games on my wii, which I still love to play. It just might be that it was basically my first system but I still think NES had some of the best games.

I've still got my original NES that my parents bought for me when I was 5 or 6, several years ago I replaced the chip reader and it worked again as it hadn't for years. I have since downloaded many of my favorite games to my Wii, but I still love that old console.

phobicsquirrel

rwheelwright

brc81

jihiggs

dell sucks, I battle with them frequently about parts, I give them their own error codes for drives with bad sectors, its a crapshoot whether or not they will warranty them. I have on occasion chucked hard drives at the ground to get them to give me the "click of death" so I could tell the dell tech somthing more convincing.

rwheelwright

jihiggs:

dell sucks, I battle with them frequently about parts, I give them their own error codes for drives with bad sectors, its a crapshoot whether or not they will warranty them. I have on occasion chucked hard drives at the ground to get them to give me the "click of death" so I could tell the dell tech somthing more convincing.

It's only Dell home support I have a problem with. Their business support doesn't give me problems ever! I saw I have a bad drive and I get the drive the next day.

burchams

zoom6zoom

Read 'em? Heck, I used to be the guy that wrote 'em! The hardest part of the job was learning Mandarin. ( j/k!)