# 17,000 posts full of shit...yeah YOU, handy **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 30, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742 "2003-09-30T18:37:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/141 "2003-10-06T04:47:50Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Guinastasia_ > **God, Cnote, do you ever post around here and NOT be an asshole?** Tons of times. What, if I may ask, have you done with _your_ thirteen thousand posts? I don’t remember many that were positive. So, hey, the same could be said of yourself, only with more volume, right? In the meantime, if you gotta beaf me with me, start a thread. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Q.E.D_ > **You care to show me where in this, or any other, thread I’ve posted anything “tearing on” handy? Hmmm?** You’re right Q.E.D. And as much as I think you’re an idiot for backing Ilsa’s comment, my complaint was directed more towards Ilsa herself (Or himself, whatever the fuck it is). Not that I think you’re right or anything, you’re wrong… and an idiot. And, just to throw it out here, I’ll give anybody money to show me otherwise… does memory = speed? Nada. Nope. Never (Well, maybe before, but you know) Ever. Prove me wrong, doorknobs (Ilsa!) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/142 "2003-10-06T09:33:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*God, **Cnote** , do you ever post around here and NOT be an asshole? \*\* What’s worse, that kind of behavior or consistently inaccurate or false information? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/143 "2003-10-06T10:12:01Z")
Moo. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/144 "2003-10-06T11:34:31Z")
I wonder if Handy likes pie? ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/145 "2003-10-06T12:22:15Z")
> [@](#): > > And, just to throw it out here, I’ll give anybody money to show me otherwise… does memory = speed? IN WHAT FRIGGIN’ CONTEXT, YOUR HOLINESS? IT INCREASES SWAP SPEED AND DECREASES LAG TIME!!! It does not increases CLOCK SPEED or PROCESSING SPEED, but it MAKES A BOX RUN FASTER DUE TO NOT HAVING TO WAIT ON THE VMM!!! What about that is so hard to understand? :wally ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/146 "2003-10-06T13:11:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*What’s worse, that kind of behavior or consistently inaccurate or false information? \*\* If you’re referring to me, I’d like you to demonstrate a pattern of “_consistently_ inaccurate or false information”, please. If you’re not, then just ignore this. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CNoteChris \* > **And, just to throw it out here, I’ll give anybody money to show me otherwise… does memory = speed?** I have. Twice. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/147 "2003-10-06T14:08:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Q.E.D. \* > \*\*I have. Twice. \*\* That second site you refer to is awesome… > [@](#): > > Then I will find out they are trying to run multiple applications or high-end games under Windows 95 but have only 8 MB of RAM. In a situation like this, upgrading the processor is a waste of money until the system memory is brought up to a more reasonable level. Hahahaha. 8 megs? NO SHIT upgrading your memory would make your computer faster. Moving past a 486 would too. How old is that reference, anyways? But that’s all pointless, as the problem you and your little buddy Ilsa have is not looking at the original post. Astroboy14 has 512 Megs of RAM. Not 256. Not 128. Not 8 (Snort!). 512. The chance Astroboy is going into the paging file enough that upgrading, no, **doubling** his RAM to over a Gigabyte in size, on a system that can’t handle RAM hungry applications to begin with, is absurd (Let alone that Windows 98 won’t work with over 512 MB, as the OP’er attested too). Adding RAM at that point is not only fruitless and a complete waste of hard earned money, IT WON’T FUCKING WORK. And I’m specious of **anyone** who says they currently need more than 512 Megs of RAM, unless their running some incredibly hard-core applications, like video editing or something. It simply isn’t needed, is a waste of time, and isn’t going to make your computer one bit faster. So yeah, the blanket statement that Ilsa said in that thread, that more memory = faster computer is wrong, or at best, misleading. And in my opinion, that’s far more inaccurate a statement that anything Handy said in that thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/148 "2003-10-06T14:15:06Z")
I run ProTools SE on 98 box. It must have AT LEAST 512MB. Upgrade to the XP vers. and you need over 700. You don’t know the OP didn’t need this. My post was a generalization, inaccurate in many cases. You, sir, are an asshole. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=215690](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=215690) ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/149 "2003-10-06T14:30:35Z")
Adding RAM won’t make your computer _faster_. Sorry Ilsa. It may speed up the way in which it is working, but it doesn’t speed shit up. Psst, Cnote… > [@](#): > > his RAM to over a Gigabyte in size, 1024 is a gigabyte… Sam ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/150 "2003-10-06T14:38:35Z")
I UNDERSTAND THAT!!! How many times must I state that it decreases the lag time of processes you are running due to less need for swap space swapping. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/151 "2003-10-06T15:26:19Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by CNoteChris_ > **But that’s all pointless, as the problem you and your little buddy Ilsa have is not looking at the original post. Astroboy14 has 512 Megs of RAM.** Nowhere have _I_ said that more RAM would help out **astroboy** in his case. You made the blanket statement that more RAM never equates to more speed, and I said that was bullshit and proved it. You assumed I was talking about that one particular case, but nowhere did I say that. I never said that more RAM _always_ means more speed. And don’t forget that many video cards use shared memory, so for graphics intensive applications, more RAM can improve performance there, too. I’ll say this again: in the linked thread someone asked of the OP why they needed 512 MB of RAM, and **Ilsa** said for more speed. Could he/she have qualified it better? Sure. But it wasn’t an incorrect or inaccurate response. Merely incomplete at worst. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/152 "2003-10-06T16:05:33Z")
Good now let this thread die already. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/153 "2003-10-06T16:21:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by World Eater \* > \*\*Good now let this thread die already. \*\* I agree. I’m done here. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/154 "2003-10-06T20:34:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*What’s worse, that kind of behavior or consistently inaccurate or false information? \*\* Neither. If you’re referring to **handy** , I’m not defending him-I’m sick of him as much as anyone else is here. **Cnote** , however, is also an ass, from what I’ve seen. _shrugs_ ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/155 "2003-10-06T20:48:44Z")
It shouldn’t matter to whom I’m referring - even if it’s a amalgam of people. It should be plain that the more harmful of the behaviors would be the latter, not the former. That is why it’s the worse of the two. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/156 "2003-10-06T20:57:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*It shouldn’t matter to whom I’m referring - even if it’s a amalgam of people. > > It should be plain that the more harmful of the behaviors would be the latter, not the former. That is why it’s the worse of the two. \*\* Perhaps not, but in an earlier post, you seemed to have a specific individual in mind. I’m sure there are others beside me who wonder who you meant. Tell or don’t, it’s all the same to me. I agree with you that someone “consistently” posting false or misleading information in GQ would be egregious, but to be honest, I don’t see anyone doing that with “alarming frequency”. If you can refute that, well, please do. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/157 "2003-10-07T02:18:46Z")
Geeze! I just wanted to be able to more quickly zone and load more character models when playing EverQuest! And, yes, more RAM would have allowed me to do that… As I said in my OP, it was an impulse buy; I didn’t bother to check whether my OS would handle the extra RAM. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742/158 "2003-10-07T02:22:56Z")
Wow. I was right to begin with. Jesus Christ. What is with some people? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/17-000-posts-full-of-shit-yeah-you-handy/204742.md?page=7)