People on techtv...

[Keefe]

I was watching techtv a few days ago and I saw the dumbest person on there!  The guy did not know the difference between rams slots and PCI slots.  Then half way through the show he said, "I have just been informed that these are the ram slots and those are the PCI slots."

Geeze where do they hire those people!

OMFG I cant believe that they would employ someone who didnt know the difference between them..

So you guys have a channel called TechTV huh?  Hope noone actually relys on it for useful information..

[wizbones]

You know how they always "Promote from within" right? He was probably the janoitor originally and had bought a computer 6 months ago so that made him the most knowledgable dude on the staff. Bam he's now their techie LOL

It's funny when you meat people that say they are technicians etc, then you start talking and find out they are hobbiest not techs. Course you can't say that if you plan on making any money off of 'em. Some of my best clients are wanna be techs. they bring in so many computers of their friends that they have totall botched, I fix em and they get the credit for it.  ;D Works for me as long as they pay up  :P

TechTV huh? That's pretty cool. We don't have that here either. Course from the sounds of it, it's a good thing.

They dont know what they are doing.  the techs from Shaw@home cable internet service came to my house to give me a driver disk and the guy just plain opens the case while win 95 is on!!!  What a f***ing idiot!!!  He could have fried my computer with all the static elctricity in that room or something else.  I think he should have been fired and then when he takes out an old network card hes like "oh dont touch the circuit board.  grab the metal connector"  I was ready to backhand him accross the head if I wasnt such a nice person.  That pissed me off!

Must have been the new kid they have on call for help or Martin Sargent. Leo and Patrick are pros. Patrick knows his shit and Leo does as well, as does Kate. I heard one of them (can't remember who, maybe it was Martin, ya, I think it was) mention that he spaced out and showed a pci slot as a mem slot.

Give 'em a brake, they have a lot of shit to deal with. They write magazine articles as well as do the show. Don't you think that you would screw up ocasionally on LIVE television? I know that I would.

By the way, they aired some video footage that I shot on their now defunked show "You Made It". As well as interviewed me for Internet Tonight on a class reunion website that I made. I never saw the interview, wonder if they canned it, I was soooo nervous when they interviewed me. I had a week to think about 10 million viewers listing to me on tv, that pretty well guaranteed that I would screw things up! :-[

Fair enough they are under pressure...but I mean a PCI slot and MEM slot are two things that
a) Arnt anywhere near each other..
b) Dont even look the same..

[Uranium-235]

I bet that guy dosent know what a CNR slot is, he'll probaly call it a mini-pci slot.

Next you'll hear him saying, "I've have just been informed that I'm too dumb for this job and they've decided to can my ass".

roflmao!!!

i agree...the slots are *Extremely* different...i know you can get nervous but that is just stupidity!