Gaming like its 1996

[ApolloSZ]

Ohhh dear GAWD do I hate when people do that! I do tech support, not decoding and reading your feeble mind for whatever you're looking for! It's called communication, use it wisely!!!

AMEN. If I had to remember every users individual phrase for "My Computer", I'd be going bonkers.

Well... more bonkers than I am already

[Food Lady]

Don't feel bad. At the games store we still get the occasional person who comes in looking for an NES.

I don't even know what that is. I don't keep up because I don't play games and don't care to. There's a reason I don't work in our electronics depaftment.

[protege]

That's one thing that always annoyed the hell out of me, when they're vague like that, and follow it up with "You know."

Even better are the tools that end *every* sentence with "You know what I'm sayin'?"

Uh, no asshole! I *don't* know what you're saying. How about you rattle the two braincells you have left, spit out a few more words, and fucking tell me? Along that line, I also don't get the people who invent their own terms, and then get upset when I have no idea what the hell they're talking about

[Geek King]

Yes I want a PS3 because I can get online and play Final Fantasy VII again. Yeah it may be an older game, but it is one of my favorites of all times.

Even Better, you can upload it onto a PSP and take it anywhere.

*Casts Knights of the Round on a Slime, just because I can*

[Andara Bledin]

I don't even know what that is. I don't keep up because I don't play games and don't care to. There's a reason I don't work in our electronics depaftment.

NES = Nintendo Entertainment System

It was their first entry into what we think of when we think consoles.

^-.-^

[Skeen]

We call that place the graveyard for outdated electronics

That pretty much sums up the loft in my house. The best part is that my big xmas pressie this year is the massive flat panel TV that Mr. Skeen got me to play my old non-HD systems on.

[smileyeagle1021]

Me: *standing there for a few seconds, letting the question sink in. Did we travel back in time? Where's the Delorien?* .

There is no Delorien, clearly he used a TARDIS

[protege]

That pretty much sums up the loft in my house.

Same could be said about my workshop. But, not for long! Since my 8-year-old desktop is failing, I've decided to get rid of all the junk I've collected over the years. The various hard drives, power supplies, boards, and other parts are getting donated to a local church, and the rest is getting scrapped. At one point, I had an I/O card for an Apple III (remember those?) in there somewhere But, I don't plan on getting rid of my TI stuff. As long as it works, that is

[ShootMePlease]

I know my dad used to refer to every game system as a Nintendo, just as many many people refer to all tissues as Kleenex and all photocopiers as Xeroxes (fun factoid: Xerox, in particular, spends untold amounts of money every year buying ads trying to *discourage* this practice)

That's because they are trademarked, but some trademarks do wind up actually losing trademark status when genericized. Using the adjective as a noun leads to genericization, and if a company doesn't show that they are trying to prevent it, then they can lose trademark status fairly quickly.

[Andara Bledin]

Using the adjective as a noun leads to genericization, and if a company doesn't show that they are trying to prevent it, then they can lose trademark status fairly quickly.

Dow Chemical has been fighting tooth and nail to keep Styrofoam since almost nobody uses it correctly. Wikipedia has an interesting list of genericized and endangered trademarked names.

There is no Delorien, clearly he used a TARDIS

Because it has to be linked...
It Came Out of Nowhere

^-.-^

[An Haddock]

Doesn't surprise me... in our computer store we get people every day who have no idea what they're talking about. Like a phone call I got earlier from someone checking up on their system.

I swear to god this is word for word.

Moi: Yes, can I help you?

Guy: Yeah, I dropped a Dell monitor off over the weekend and I didn't hear anything yet.

...

Moi: You mean an HP desktop?

Guy: Uh, yeah.

Moi: Still trying to determine what the issue is... we'll give you a call once we've worked it out.



Fortunately it was a short conversation or else my nose probably would have started bleeding from my brain trying to claw its way out of my head.

[Chromatix]

That's because they are trademarked, but some trademarks do wind up actually losing trademark status when genericized. Using the adjective as a noun leads to genericization, and if a company doesn't show that they are trying to prevent it, then they can lose trademark status fairly quickly.

There was certainly a time when "to Xerox" was a widely used generic verb. In Britain, "to Hoover" still is.

[dalesys]

Guy: Yeah, I dropped a Dell monitor off over the weekend and I didn't hear anything yet...

Well?

It must be a deep one.

[Ringtail Z28]

There was certainly a time when "to Xerox" was a widely used generic verb.

Oh, this one is still very much in use.

[Treasure]

I don't keep up with new technology either, but if someone tells me they want a certain electronic something-or-other, I write it down so I don't waste the store employees' time when I go to find it.

QFT!!!


I'll have my bosses write it down, exactly what i'm looking for, when they send me to the computer store.... and i will often hand the employee the slip of paper and tell them "i was told i need this" I usually get an "Ok" and they get it for me... (small stores and they need to ring it up etc, i usually follow them unless told "wait right here while i grab that")