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Teacher: Computer settings are stored in the ROM on the motherboard.
Me: *internally* Uhm, yea, sure... and I am the pope
Me: Sorry to interrupt you but how come the BIOS settings get reset when the CMOS battery is pulled out or dies if they are stored in ROM?
Teacher: ....
Me: *internally* yea, that's what I thought, you have no clue what you are even saying - the BIOS is stored in ROM or flash memory while the settings are stored in NVRAM also called CMOS memory...

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  • 16
    Flashable bios means that isn't stored in ROM either 😉
  • 1
    @Root fair point but time is still stored in there, isn't it?
  • 2
    @D3add3d Time changes, so take another guess ;)
  • 2
    @xewl I meant the NVRAM
  • 15
    @noveusurp she said something about ROM being overwritable but only 20 times... I don't know where is she pulling that bullshit from but I am not buying a single word she says
  • 5
    It is sad that techers get qualified for such with little to no experience.
  • 3
    miss, highschool physics teacher, so basically the lines we use to show electromagnetic fields are to signify a cross-section of a layered 3-d shape that the field is? so if i tried to draw how the lines look perpendicular to a on wire, they would just be concentric circles around the wire, right?

    the "teacher", looking utterly confused and distressed by the necessity to think about that idea: "what? no! you can't do that!"

    another physics teacher who actually regularly travels to lecture physics on harvard or something, when i told her about the incident: (with audible condescencion and amusement in her tone) yeah, she's like that, just get used to it.
  • 7
    Ask her what ROM stands for
    Then ask how it's writable 😅
    Afterwards, just teach the class.

    Or: "so you can only change bios settings 20 times?"
  • 1
    It was at that point that the teacher realized she'll never have a peace of mind until you pass and get out of her class. 😂
  • 0
    @suprano naah, she realized that 7 years ago
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