My co-worker did not know how to reboot a computer (things a certain age group should know).

No worries.

So it does in Windows 7.
I like XP, I’m an Old Fart. :slight_smile:

The damn thing should work like a toaster. Turn the dial to brown, throw in the bread, punch the button and wait.

But it don’t. It would help if all the apps were made by Microsoft and there were no viruses.

But it ain’t that way.

I had not noticed that. I guess i’m smart enough to click directly on the button, instead of hovering over it trying to work out what the fuck i’m doing. This is not exactly rocket surgery we’re talking about here.

Your printer isn’t USB? Old fart :stuck_out_tongue:

Two years ago I went back to college for some grad courses in Computer-Aided Translation (which does not mean “using Babelfish” but “using special text editors which let you see the original and translation at the same time”). We had to turn every damn report and exercise in triplicate; finals had to include a CD hardcopy; it had to be CD, not DVD, as some of the teacher’s computers didn’t have DVD drives.

And I had to teach to several of my mid-20s classmates how to tell whether their computer’s “CD player” was CD or DVD, how to tell whether it was a burner or not, and how to use their preinstalled burner.

What made my own brain try to give a BSoD was when, after about one hour of going over “burning disks”, one of them said “what a stupid name, Nero! Why would they call their program such a stupid name?” and the rest agreed. One people not getting the pun, I can get, but six?

I’m 54, I’m amazed at you young folk thinking printer port is the correct name. :smiley:

the vast majority of system hangs are due to failed hardware or defective drivers. I challenge you to find me a consumer-grade OS which can tolerate that. 'cos neither OS X or Linux can.

ETA: while I realize it’s still the in thing to bash Microsoft for everything from programs crashing to the fall of the Soviet Union, what you’ve said here is patently false on its own. Microsoft has a pretty damn good idea of what makes Windows crash, and by and large it’s not Windows.

“totally blind” indeed.

So you mean…

Oh shit I’ve been doing it wrong all this time.

Agree. Not an employee or owner of stock with MicroSoft. I don’t recall any problems with Windows 7 hanging on my now three year old computer.

That’s funny. I’d be willing to bet the vast majority of people don’t get it.

I never connected it, I am ashamed to say.

Complaining about youngins not knowing what “reboot” means - REASONABLE

Complaining about youngins not knowing a jokey reference to Ancient Roman history (that never actually happened) - UNREASONABLE

Thank you. This has been Justin_Bailey’s “You’re being unreasonable!” response of the day.