There are many colours in the XKCD rainbow.
IT Geeks who look down on computer illiterate people deserve to the be the social retards they are. Aside anything, they're their main source of income.

I suppose there is a bit of a geek food-chain.

As a web developer/designer, I get looked down upon by Linux geeks. I can't do any command-line stuff and need a GUI to do things like create directorys or run MySQL stuff.

But I look down on those 'web developers' who only know HTML and even for that, need a GUI for it, and can't read what I would call standard code. I also look down on IT people who can't do much more than install programs.

But at the end of the day, most of us all need each other. When I did that rant, I was under the impression that he was giving gramma lessons to an IT guy in a sarcastic way, which I thought was a bit shit.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 20 Jan 2010, 12:15, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Someone should build a chart for this.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 20 Jan 2010, 12:20, Reply)

I find IT people can NEVER

fix printers, although I blame Canon et al for that really
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 20 Jan 2010, 12:23, Reply)

I fucking hate printers.
They make no logical sense and I don't care what anyone says.

/irrational blog
( Kroney, Wed 20 Jan 2010, 12:32, Reply)

totally agree
we have a Xerox multi-function thing at work. If it worked correctly it would take over the world. Fortunately it is next to useless.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 20 Jan 2010, 12:55, Reply)

I look down on you all in IT world because I've had to teach you and it made me weep with frustration.
But computer vision and cryptography researchers look down on me because they think computer graphics is fluffy. But does the rendering Equation look fluffy to you? Does it? No. t's got greek letters in it therefore it's hard, okay?
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 20 Jan 2010, 13:41, Reply)