On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:12:57AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 12:42, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > > Inanity is relative-- to me, things like sports, fashion, and the > > personal life of the celebrity of the month are inane; but the latest > > computer component specs, scientific theory, or good sci-fi > > books/movies are very interesting/important. For most kids my age, > > the opposite is true; I know that for a fact. I figured my statement > > implied that their 'life or death issues' (the federal crime of > > wearing black shoes, white socks, and tan pants together; or the > > Superbowl (who's playing this year, anyway? ;) ) are inane *to me*, > > and vice versa. > > Seriously, though, I think I can understand why people would find the > former subjects important (i.e., having those values is popular, sports > are exciting, beauty leads to sex, etc), but fortunately this does not > mean I share their values. They seem so superficial to me. Exactly. > Then again, so are the latest computer component specs, if I can't > actually buy those components... Live and hope, die and despair? Personally, I keep up with processor specs largely because I just find it incredible that AMD/Intel have come out with processors that are >=2 GHz. Have they come out with 3's yet? But those types of specs I like to keep up on. RAM and HDDs aren't all that interesting-- they don't change as much or as dramatically as CPUs. Video cards-- hmm, I probably couldn't tell a Geforce from a TNT2, quite frankly (although I have TNT2s in both my parent's computer and mine-- they came with them :); but that's because I don't really care overly much. I don't play any games that require an expensive video card. *shrug* Sound cards are about the same. Basically, processors, motherboards, and the price of LCD monitors are what I really keep an eye on. But, mostly, I just mentioned that as the first example that came to mind. I mean, if I were to walk into Sunday's youth group meeting and announce that I had gotten an AMD Athlon XP 2700, what do you think their reaction would be? That was my point. -- Vikki Roemer Homepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ "Just because you're not paranoid, that doesn't mean they're not out to get you." (ripped from someone's slashdot .sig) PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B1D8 5CE0 1578 Keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a--- C++++(++) UL++++ P+ L+++>++++ E W++ N+ o? K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X-() R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)>+++++ h! r-- x? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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