Well Tom I do agree our criteria are different.
I think part of this is that you, as a person with a rpactical interest in
computers attach some sort of intrinsic value to the efficiency of hardware
and software.
You care for example that modern machines have more ram and use more
memory more efficiently as a basic good in and of itself, you see a computer
as a designed object with some sort of value in and of itself, perhaps even
an aesthetic appreciation for it's correct running.
I confess I don't understand this, since for me a computer has only
instrumental value and has no worth above and beyond what it can do for me.
To take another example, I know there are now consoles around that in
technology are orders of magnitude more powerful than the capabilities of
my snes, yet because they don't have games I can play, I don't care about
them, indeed on a personal level I rather wish Nintendo was still developing
snes games that I could play rather than games for more powerful modern
consoles that I can't, for all I know that isn't going to happen.
As I've said I'm fairly certain that at some point in the future the
situation with respect to computers at least will change, but it certainly
hasn't as yet.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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