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"Now that monitors are much slimmer, people understand that the monitor is just a display mechanism, and the computer actually is under the desk." This is goin

"Now that monitors are much slimmer, people understand that the monitor is just a display mechanism, and the computer actually is under the desk." This is going to become less common. Many PC manufactures are now making iMac-style, everything-jammed-into-a-flat-panel systems.

pyre 17y ago
The only issue that I take with people that don't understand that the monitor is not the computer: What do they think that the box under the desk is for? It's pretty easy to set up 'rules' for this: * If there is a box attached to the monitor (under the desk or otherwise) then the box is the computer. * If everything is plugged directly into the monitor, then the monitor is the computer. It's pretty simple, but people either just don't care or have it stuck in their heads that 'this' is the way the world is... and some people's opinions don't turn on a dime.
- stakent 17y ago
  For some time it was floppy disk drive.
- dkarl 17y ago
  What do they think that the box under the desk is for? What do you think the thing hanging down the back of your throat is for?
  - pyre 17y ago
    Point taken. I guess what I really take issue with is when people have these concepts (i.e. 'the computer is the monitor') and then you try to tell them different, and they fight you tooth and nail to keep you from changing their 'view of the world.' It's like someone knows that you're knowledgeable about a subject so they ask you a question, and you respond by informing them that most of what they think they know is wrong (and then telling them how things really are). Then they get pissed off and basically tell you that they know more about the subject than you do.
Semiapies 17y ago
For all-in-one systems, though, the confusion can't exist. :)
- dkarl 17y ago
  Sure it can. Where's my computer? All I can find is the monitor, but I know the computer is here somewhere because I can see my programs on the monitor.
  - gaius 17y ago
    The files are in the computer! -- Zoolander
  - mquander 17y ago
    That's inane. If you know enough about computers to say "Where's my computer? All I can find is the monitor," then you know enough to look behind it, see no cables leading to a computer, and figure out the answer.
    - pbhjpbhj 17y ago
      There's no cable going to the mouse/keyboard or to the network either - if it's an office computer that you didn't buy then this seems a genuine possible point of confusion.
  - Semiapies 17y ago
    Oh, crap. I didn't think of that. :D

pyre 17y ago

The only issue that I take with people that don't understand that the monitor is not the computer: What do they think that the box under the desk is for? It's pretty easy to set up 'rules' for this: * If there is a box attached to the monitor (under the desk or otherwise) then the box is the computer. * If everything is plugged directly into the monitor, then the monitor is the computer. It's pretty simple, but people either just don't care or have it stuck in their heads that 'this' is the way the world is... and some people's opinions don't turn on a dime.

stakent 17y ago
For some time it was floppy disk drive.
dkarl 17y ago
What do they think that the box under the desk is for? What do you think the thing hanging down the back of your throat is for?
- pyre 17y ago
  Point taken. I guess what I really take issue with is when people have these concepts (i.e. 'the computer is the monitor') and then you try to tell them different, and they fight you tooth and nail to keep you from changing their 'view of the world.' It's like someone knows that you're knowledgeable about a subject so they ask you a question, and you respond by informing them that most of what they think they know is wrong (and then telling them how things really are). Then they get pissed off and basically tell you that they know more about the subject than you do.

Semiapies 17y ago

For all-in-one systems, though, the confusion can't exist. :)

dkarl 17y ago
Sure it can. Where's my computer? All I can find is the monitor, but I know the computer is here somewhere because I can see my programs on the monitor.
- gaius 17y ago
  The files are in the computer! -- Zoolander
- mquander 17y ago
  That's inane. If you know enough about computers to say "Where's my computer? All I can find is the monitor," then you know enough to look behind it, see no cables leading to a computer, and figure out the answer.
  - pbhjpbhj 17y ago
    There's no cable going to the mouse/keyboard or to the network either - if it's an office computer that you didn't buy then this seems a genuine possible point of confusion.
- Semiapies 17y ago
  Oh, crap. I didn't think of that. :D