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...

Flashable bios means that isn't stored in ROM either 😉

@Root fair point but time is still stored in there, isn't it?

@D3add3d Time changes, so take another guess ;)

@xewl I meant the NVRAM

@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

It is sad that techers get qualified for such with little to no experience.

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.

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?"

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. 😂

@suprano naah, she realized that 7 years ago