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  • #16
    i own an Ipod touch, so i consider myself a geek who loves technology. I also consider myself an expert on the iphone as a result. I do not, however, own a smart phone. My next purchase may be an android powered device so i can learn the ins an outs of that like i did with the ipod touch
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    • #17
      Quoth SarcasticJerk View Post
      TLDR version: I don't own a smartphone, but am into tech stuff more than most people.
      Agreed - I just need my cell to place/receive calls. Anything else, I usually have my notebook.

      Doesn't mean that I'm not into tech - while not as high-end as SJ's, I have 3 custom-built systems, and I'm on my 15th system. That's not counting the ones I've built for family/friends/customers at my old tech job.

      Quoth SarcasticJerk View Post
      My living room (and my girlfriend) conspired against me, making my setup in there much less elaborate than what's in the car.
      Me too - My wife let me know she preferred that I made my Media Center HTPC compact enough to fit in the enclosed cabinet under the TV.

      Quoth SarcasticJerk View Post
      (lolz at people still using dual channel, right?).
      I don't know - I my 6-core AMD Phenom II system...

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      • #18
        Quoth Duncan MacLeod View Post
        My next purchase may be an android powered device so i can learn the ins an outs of that like i did with the ipod touch
        I've been checking out the Android offerings of late and been seriously considering picking one up. But with the car payments, there's no way I could afford to change my phone plan just now.

        Quoth RichS View Post
        That's not counting the ones I've built for family/friends/customers at my old tech job.
        This reminds me... I don't have a particularly high-end system, myself, because I can't afford all the shiny bells and whistles, nor do I need them for what I do online. But I did help an artist friend who had picked up some extremely shiny components put her system together. It was verrrrry purty. I may have a system that measures up to hers in about, oh, 5 or 6 years when the components become rather less cutting edge.

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        Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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        • #19
          I should clarify that my comments in no way imply that not owning a modern phone disqualifies one from being technologically savvy - I was simply saying that in this market (by which I mean San Francisco, highly urban, with a very high cost of living and a high average salary) it's highly unlikely.

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          • #20
            Quoth Versalia View Post
            I should clarify that my comments in no way imply that not owning a modern phone disqualifies one from being technologically savvy - I was simply saying that in this market (by which I mean San Francisco, highly urban, with a very high cost of living and a high average salary) it's highly unlikely.
            I am afraid I still must find fault with your method of determining whether someone is into technology. I happen to live in the same general area, and I understand that the high average salary is off-set by the high cost of living in the area. Thus, one still may not have the disposable income to simply go out and pick up the latest and greatest smartphone. It is not as unlikely as you are trying to make it out to be, in my experience.

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            • #21
              I think they are right about the area...I come from the Bay Area and yeah I would expect people to have more high end tech devices. I'm also in a highly urban high tech area and people here do tend to have the technology on hand.

              With that said I LOVE technology. I have a huge HD TV, good surround sound, ps3 (found on craigslist for cheaper), an android phone, a laptop that's older and being a pain in the ass, an even older desktop (I want a new one but can't afford it right now) and no vehicles cause I don't care about those
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              • #22
                Quoth telecom_goddess View Post
                I think they are right about the area...I come from the Bay Area and yeah I would expect people to have more high end tech devices. I'm also in a highly urban high tech area and people here do tend to have the technology on hand.
                Oh, I'm not arguing that we here in Silicon Valley tend to make a higher percentage of "hi-tech" purchases than else where. What I'm saying is that I don't think that one can claim that, because one doesn't have a "modern phone", that is to say a "smart phone", that the person isn't tech-savvy or does not have a serious interest in technology. There are many other reasons why a person might choose to have a "plain jane" cellphone without a lot of bells and whistles.

                I do agree, however, that the gentleman in the original post did a poor job in explaining himself.

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                • #23
                  Quoth Teefies2 View Post
                  Some of us geeks are ON A PENSION for one reason or another. Or otherwise severely money-restricted.
                  And I would say that technology savy geeks on pensions have learned to avoid bleeding edge technology.
                  "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                  • #24
                    Yet another counter-example:
                    Not only do I play a EE on TV, I am one at home. [Making custom motherboards, one off proto-types, everything down to vlsi]. Most of my associates who I consider hard core don't *care* at all about a smart-phone for the sake of newness. They have some metric they optimize for, if its not related to mobile communication then they don't follow that curve.

                    The people I see obsessing over the retail phone market tend to have that as the apex of their technical experience.

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                    The main concern I have: is the original poster has one metric they used to evaluate a field X, which really isn't a measure for X but a correlated field; and opining this measure as the authoritative, and immutable, indicator of all things X. This type of discreet thinking may limit the poster in the future.

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