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2015-11-03 01:33:21 am

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Quote from arkarian:

lol wtf @ him asking you to help with the online shopping

the rest is great though ... that's how i view retail stores too. places to get information so i can go home and shop online.

I'm actually cool with that because it's easy as hell to make our sales goal and I WANT more people to just talk tech with. I'm expected to sell like $500 an hour. Sold two iPads in 30 minutes and that made me set for almost two hours.

Some 11 year old kid came in looking at our $1,300 Lenovo gaming laptop, so I talked him up a bit to see if he really knew anything. And this kid was fucking ON POINT. He played CS:GO, and knew all about streaming and video editing, nVidia shadowplay, adobe premiere and after affects, everything. He knew all about refresh rates affecting FPS, different core processors, everything. I even tried to trip him up and asked how he got all these adobe programs and he knew all about torrenting and shit too.

I brought it up later to one of my coworkers and she said the kid comes in with his dad all the time and he knows more than almost all of the people that work here, it's crazy

[quote="arkarian"]lol wtf @ him asking you to help with the online shopping

the rest is great though ... that's how i view retail stores too. places to get information so i can go home and shop online.[/quote]

I'm actually cool with that because it's easy as hell to make our sales goal and I WANT more people to just talk tech with. I'm expected to sell like $500 an hour. Sold two iPads in 30 minutes and that made me set for almost two hours.

Some 11 year old kid came in looking at our $1,300 Lenovo gaming laptop, so I talked him up a bit to see if he really knew anything. And this kid was fucking ON POINT. He played CS:GO, and knew all about streaming and video editing, nVidia shadowplay, adobe premiere and after affects, everything. He knew all about refresh rates affecting FPS, different core processors, everything. I even tried to trip him up and asked how he got all these adobe programs and he knew all about torrenting and shit too.

I brought it up later to one of my coworkers and she said the kid comes in with his dad all the time and he knows more than almost all of the people that work here, it's crazy

ryu

2015-11-03 01:42:00 am

He's got a good dad

2015-11-03 01:48:39 am

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that's the weird thing though, his dad was there too so I asked him if he was a gamer, and he said he hasn't done gaming or anything like that since the SNES days, and apparently his kid has taught him all this stuff. the kid was also talking really, really fast, and he had some weird little social quirks when we were chatting, so I wonder if he has some sort of autism and is just really into this.

I talked to his dad about Gauntlet II and Contra a bit, he's pretty chill. It's funny cause his dad was talking super slow, and really quiet, holding a starbucks coffee. and his kid is just blazing at 1,000 words per minute.

ryu

2015-11-03 02:10:52 am

Next time give the boy a book on quantum physics and see what happens

2015-11-03 05:40:08 am

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oh yeah, another weird thing that happened at work today. A quite overweight young lady was asking very very quietly about the PS4s, so I told her we have a few and also the new Call of Duty one that she can preorder. She told me she wanted that one because it has gold inside of it. I thought maybe she meant like... gold membership? or something, but I told her it only comes with the system and call of duty, and she was like "nono, the parts inside, the C-H-U (?), it has gold inside, like the parts are made of gold, right?". and I was like... uhhh it's just a skin on the outside of the PS4, that's the only difference.

She seemed kinda sad but they still bought it.

Toozin

2015-11-03 06:00:25 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

I think most electronics have at least a little bit of gold inside the circutry because it's such a great conductor, maybe that's what the lady was on about? Still a very weird reason to buy something. It's not lime you'll strike it rich with the pennies worth of gold inside your $400 PS4.

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2015-11-03 06:14:31 am

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I got really curious now what she meant so I was googling "C H U" PS4, and it turns out the new model of PS4 is a "CUH" model, which is slightly more power efficient and a couple dB quieter...
http://segmentnext.com/2015/06/30/new-tests-for-playstation-4-cuh-1200-model-confirm-reduced-power-consumption-and-noice-redcution/

I wonder if maybe that's what someone explained to her. That the parts inside use gold to conduct better, so it's more power efficient with the new CUH models.

Things are making a lot more sense now

2015-11-03 08:16:51 am

as someone with a degree in electronic engineering, sometimes I have to remind myself that to most people electronics are just nonsensical voodoo

2015-11-03 09:52:05 am

Isn't it weird how people aren't curious enough to read about how things work? If I had no idea how my computer worked, I would feel a very strong urge to find out. The info is totally accessible and virtually all info is available in the 'for dummies' format these days so it's not like it's jibberish.

2015-11-03 10:05:46 am

it's true to an extent, although to really understand electronics you need a lot of mathematics, which is something you have to study for years

but yeah I think it is a problem that everyone has come to rely so much on a technology which is only understood by a tiny minority of people

2015-11-03 10:07:07 am

voting machines are a good example, they're not exactly transparent to the electorate, people are expected to use them but have no idea how they work

whereas making a cross on a bit of paper and counting them up is something everyone can understand

2015-11-03 10:07:39 am

it's wrong

2015-11-03 10:10:23 am

I meant how they work on a fundamental level, not become an expert or anything. In one sitting you can find out how a computer works.

2015-11-03 10:12:01 am

Or you can be like bjork and just open up your device and see what's going on:

2015-11-03 12:39:13 pm

Yeah so I've killed about two dozen yellow jackets in my house over the past few weeks. Almost every morning I find one or two in the kitchen. They don't fly, they barely crawl around like they're sick or too cold or something, so they're easy to kill. But where the hell are they coming from? I found three dead ones in my bedroom window last night. I think there's a nest in the attic? gross

Toozin

2015-11-03 01:00:39 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

You should never aspire to be like bjork.

2015-11-03 01:09:24 pm

she punched a photographer who was hassling her, can't fault that really

Toozin

2015-11-03 01:13:18 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

I'm all for punching the shit out of paparazzi, but I'm also all for not getting raped in my ear hole when she sings.

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2015-11-03 01:15:49 pm

I love bjork, but I don't listen to her music past her first two solo albums. When the sugarcubes debuted in america me and my friends ate that shit up. Then when she went solo everyone was like 'Have you heard that new singer Bjork?' and we were like 'She ain't new!' I still have all my Sugarcubes albums. I love her voice. It's memorable.

This was the first time I ever heard Bjork:

2015-11-03 01:41:07 pm

heh they were indie darlings back in those days

2015-11-03 01:41:44 pm

it is weird she got so big since it's hardly a mainstream voice

2015-11-03 01:41:54 pm

or a mainstream look for that matter