You know you're a hopeless computer geek when...

[GoGeTa006]

dude that guy must have issues when it comes to m457ur8471n6

[ray1301]

I believe that is why man invented the hoover!

[dankles]

dude that guy must have issues when it comes to m457ur8471n6

It's gotta be worse when you're trying to get some, but can't even see any action. Not that hopeless computer geeks get any action...

[quekmeister]

dude that guy must have issues when it comes to m457ur8471n6

I'm sure that little fleshy bit is lost between the other fleshy bits. Da-amn, I bet he can't even reach it!

[captiosus]

................... ..ooooooohhhhhhhhhh hhhkkkkkkkkkaaaaaaa aaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy.. .... lets get BACK on topic

youre a helpless computer geek when you have enough spare parts to build 3 extra computers just lying around

[GoGeTa006]

.....................ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhkkkkkkkkkaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy...... lets get BACK on topic

youre a helpless computer geek when you have enough spare parts to build 3 extra computers just lying around

that guy must have spare computer parts between his fleshy bits!

*returns the "that guy" topic* 

[Tatsujin]

you know you're a hopeless computer geek when you are capable of reading 1010110100101101001 01 AKA computer language.

[dankles]

you know you're a hopeless computer geek when you are capable of reading 1010110100101101001 01 AKA computer language.

hehe that last part isn't 8 digits...

[TorturdChaos]

.....................ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhkkkkkkkkkaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy...... lets get BACK on topic

youre a helpless computer geek when you have enough spare parts to build 3 extra computers just lying around

I could do that except for the Mobo.  All non working pc's I get seem to have a bad Mobo ./cry

U know u are a geek when you don't need the lights in your house any more.  Your towers & Monitor's light up the room just fine without the lights

[EDIT]
I didn't even realize I put the "./cry" at the end of that first line.....
I'm getting bad, need to take a break from WoW i guess

[captiosus]

.....................ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhkkkkkkkkkaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy...... lets get BACK on topic

youre a helpless computer geek when you have enough spare parts to build 3 extra computers just lying around

I could do that except for the Mobo.  All non working pc's I get seem to have a bad Mobo ./cry

U know u are a geek when you don't need the lights in your house any more.  Your towers & Monitor's light up the room just fine without the lights

[EDIT]
I didn't even realize I put the "./cry" at the end of that first line.....
I'm getting bad, need to take a break from WoW i guess

That is when you know you are a helpless computer geek

You are a helpless computer geek when you have a stack of disks that have every operating system used on an computer as old or younger than Pentium (you know the classic one)

[iindigo]

Just remembered one I did a few years back...

You know you're a hopeless computer geek when you buy an ethernet card for a Mac from 1994 off of eBay just to see how well it'd handle the web in its current state.

No, I'm serious. Paid $5 for an ethernet card that fit this blazing 33Mhz 68k Mac with a 320MB HD. Got it running Mac OS 8.1 so it could run a browser that's still being updated even today (iCab if you want to look it up). Surprisingly it worked fairly well, but javascript-heavy sites were really a bitch to load.

[Duki3003]

Man I really feel bad that I didn't try to do that with my old 286... 16 colors EGA grafics with all the power of Windows 1.0 behind it... Nah maybe from DOS...

But you know you're a hopeless computer geek when you try to install Windows 1.0 or 3.11 on modern day machines to see the speed boost... But it's a pain in the ass, 'cause you have to downgrade DOS in order to do it...

[AkumaisDaGr8est]

Lol at all of this.....you know you are a hopeless computer geek when u carry a hard drive with you EVERYWHERE that has all your favorite programs, music, pc shit(notice i didnt say mac shit ), etc.

[moonlight]

Us physicists (or at least, physics undergrads) will tell you something else

It's impossible to keep travelling half as far as you did before. There exists a limit to distance, called the planck length, past which point information can't be determined; there is no such thing as 'half a plank length'. So, when it gets down to planck length, it will be impossible to take another step, half of the last. Of course, this is an absolutely tiny distance, billions of times smaller than a proton. But, with current physics (planck length is determined by constants which we aren't certain about yet - mainly G, the gravitational constant, which you will know if you did high school physics. But anyway...), it's a significant distance and lots of quantum events depend on it.

i liked that answer

i thought maybe java could give us another answer.. and it came out that it depends on how far the distance to the wall is.
why? because either the distance to the wall becomes too small to count or the distance the turtle moves with one step becomes too small to count (=zero).. so the question is what happens faster..

Distance to the wall: 1.0E43
The turtle reached the wall (after 53 iterations)!
Distance to the wall: 1.0E44
The turtle stopped moving (after 1220 iterations)!

i hope that helps

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/**
 * @author muesli
 */
public class WillTheTurtleReachT heWall {

   public static void main(String[] args) {   

      whatHappensWithDist ance(1.0E43);
      whatHappensWithDist ance(1.0E44);      
   }
   
   public static void whatHappensWithDist ance(double distance) {
      
      double distanceToTheWall = distance;
      double stepDistance = distanceToTheWall/2;
      double distanceTheTurtleAl readyWent = 0.0;
      int cnt = 0;
      
      System.out.println("Distance to the wall: "+distanceToTheWall);
      
      while (true) {
         distanceTheTurtleAl readyWent += stepDistance;
         stepDistance = stepDistance/2;
         cnt++;
         
         if (distanceTheTurtleAl readyWent == distanceToTheWall) {
            
            // this should never happen
            if (stepDistance == 0.0) {
               System.out.println("The turtle reached the wall (after "+cnt+" iterations) and wouldn't move anymore..");
               break;
            }
            
            System.out.println("The turtle reached the wall (after "+cnt+" iterations)!");
            break;
         }
         else if (stepDistance == 0.0) {
            System.out.println("The turtle stopped moving (after "+cnt+" iterations)!");
            break;
         }      
      }   
   }
}

[captiosus]

you know you are a helpless computer nerd when you have a stick of EDO ram and a p4 chip (in acrylic) on your keychain.

\Im guilty of this one XD

[muesli]

Us physicists (or at least, physics undergrads) will tell you something else

It's impossible to keep travelling half as far as you did before. There exists a limit to distance, called the planck length, past which point information can't be determined; there is no such thing as 'half a plank length'. So, when it gets down to planck length, it will be impossible to take another step, half of the last. Of course, this is an absolutely tiny distance, billions of times smaller than a proton. But, with current physics (planck length is determined by constants which we aren't certain about yet - mainly G, the gravitational constant, which you will know if you did high school physics. But anyway...), it's a significant distance and lots of quantum events depend on it.

i liked that answer

i thought maybe java could give us another answer.. and it came out that it depends on how far the distance to the wall is.
why? because either the distance to the wall becomes too small to count or the distance the turtle moves with one step becomes too small to count (=zero).. so the question is what happens faster..

Distance to the wall: 1.0E43
The turtle reached the wall (after 53 iterations)!
Distance to the wall: 1.0E44
The turtle stopped moving (after 1220 iterations)!

i hope that helps

(click to show/hide)

/**
 * @author muesli
 */
public class WillTheTurtleReachT heWall {

   public static void main(String[] args) {   

      whatHappensWithDist ance(1.0E43);
      whatHappensWithDist ance(1.0E44);      
   }
   
   public static void whatHappensWithDist ance(double distance) {
      
      double distanceToTheWall = distance;
      double stepDistance = distanceToTheWall/2;
      double distanceTheTurtleAl readyWent = 0.0;
      int cnt = 0;
      
      System.out.println("Distance to the wall: "+distanceToTheWall);
      
      while (true) {
         distanceTheTurtleAl readyWent += stepDistance;
         stepDistance = stepDistance/2;
         cnt++;
         
         if (distanceTheTurtleAl readyWent == distanceToTheWall) {
            
            // this should never happen
            if (stepDistance == 0.0) {
               System.out.println("The turtle reached the wall (after "+cnt+" iterations) and wouldn't move anymore..");
               break;
            }
            
            System.out.println("The turtle reached the wall (after "+cnt+" iterations)!");
            break;
         }
         else if (stepDistance == 0.0) {
            System.out.println("The turtle stopped moving (after "+cnt+" iterations)!");
            break;
         }      
      }   
   }
}

wahhh and i never thought i was a hopeless computer geek :'(

[Duki3003]

Well you did solve the turtle issue quite impressively so welcome to the club...

[muesli]

Well you did solve the turtle issue quite impressively so welcome to the club...

yay i impressed duki i hope there are nice people in the club..

[Morgia]

Hi muesli... I'll introduce you to Araeja if you want to XD

*gives her a welcome hug*

[moonlight]

Well you did solve the turtle issue quite impressively so welcome to the club...

yay i impressed duki i hope there are nice people in the club..

Sure there are nice people in the club. They are always ready to help solve your computer issues ~_^, that's nice of them, right? also a sign of a hopeless computer geek