17th April 2005, 7:41 PM
Yes, valuable skills. Some of them may be outmodded in the future, but...
And anyway, I think that it is very important that the average person have some understanding of how the technology they rely on works. Relience on technology isn't evil, because humans have always relied on it since the very start. However, I would submit using it in ignorance is. A lot of people "understand" that it isn't magic, but to hear them use our current tech as an argument to support all manner of silly pseudoscience (the argument usually goes "look at what we have now, you can't say future stuff can't exist because we have cool stuff now!), and to hear them state that so much technology is "unnatural" (suggesting they really don't get how it works or that it's just a natural progression), you would think they do think computers are a sort of magic...
But anyway, just tell us about what sort of price range you want and whether or not you need it for latest era gaming or just to process words, and hey, we'll help you build what you want. If you know where to look, you can save money compaired to what a company like Dell will put together for you.
And anyway, I think that it is very important that the average person have some understanding of how the technology they rely on works. Relience on technology isn't evil, because humans have always relied on it since the very start. However, I would submit using it in ignorance is. A lot of people "understand" that it isn't magic, but to hear them use our current tech as an argument to support all manner of silly pseudoscience (the argument usually goes "look at what we have now, you can't say future stuff can't exist because we have cool stuff now!), and to hear them state that so much technology is "unnatural" (suggesting they really don't get how it works or that it's just a natural progression), you would think they do think computers are a sort of magic...
But anyway, just tell us about what sort of price range you want and whether or not you need it for latest era gaming or just to process words, and hey, we'll help you build what you want. If you know where to look, you can save money compaired to what a company like Dell will put together for you.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)