With todays modern technology, you know high speed internet, light-speed fast CPUs and memory, our computers run very efficiently compared to just 5 years ago. My father has a Pentium II (366 mhz) laptop with 320mb of memory and a 6 gig hard drive. He uses it for writing Safety Awareness Programs as he is a safety consultant to industries from coast to coast. He believes that these documents, the "Safety Programs", cause his laptop to run slower. What I mean is that he has the concepts of "storage" (hard drive) and "memory" confused. The documents take all of 100-300kb of space, but he believes that the more he saves to his hard drive, the slower his laptop will run. I have drawn diagrams, written lengthy text files and left them on his desktop, yet he still has this misconception.
Between myself and my mother, we have Win 98se through WinXp pro. My mother loves to dabble with themes and likes the Windowblinds I installed from my OD Network. I try to convince her that she would get a lot more goodies out of WB if she switched to XP. I have intermediate knowledge of streamlining XP to the users needs, and she knows this well. But I can't convince her that. She says that everything is renamed and she can't find anything. I tell her that all she has to do is switch to classic view and everything will look like her Win2k. Then when she wants options like hiding the desktop icons, she doesn't like the fact you have to have active desktop on to do so. I tell her you don't have to do all that with XP...
How about trying to explain why, if you have cable-internet connection @ 1-3 MB/second, you only get download speeds of 200-300kb/s? Bandwidth is not something you can give visuals of to those who are not technically minded...
Kinda off subject: My ex-wife went to the Wal-Mart in town. She was gone for hours, as usual. She calls me at home, tells me the car won't start. It had gas. A new battery. I went into to town. When I get there, I sit in the drivers' side, put my key in and glanced at the console gearshift: it was set in drive. I put it into Park, turned the key and wowsers it started.
Just a little from my experiences.
