EYEHEARTZOMBIES

Up late watching TV for no reason other than that I haven’t bothered to go to bed yet. Flip over to the Shop at Home channel that only comes in after midnight. The guy on it is trying to see a Toshiba notebook and I start to realize why so many people are confused about technology. He’s talking about an average notebook like it’s this amazing thing. 100gb hard drive. Ooh. Wow. ATI graphics card. OMG.

The best thing, though, is when he talks about the wireless Internet. First, he thinks people should be impressed that he can open up 54 Internet Explorer windows at once. Now, I’ll grant him that it’s impressive to be able to open that many IE windows without it crashing, but he was getting at how awesome it was to have that many windows open without it slowing down the computer. What I guess he doesn’t know or doesn’t care to think about is that once a page is loaded, it’s loaded. It’s process ends. No more stress, no more memory space, nothing. Just a loaded page.

The second was two blatant lies on his part. First is that he claimed it had 55Mbps internet. 55? No, sorry, it’ll have 54, like most other wireless routers and WiFi cards. And that, my dear salesman, is nothing out of the ordinary. His second lie was that this “55Mbps” speed WiFi card was FIVE TIMES FASTER than any other wireless card. Five times? What?

It’s no wonder people get so confused when it comes to technology, especially computers. Sometimes it takes a complete moron (who is now complaining about the letterbox bars on DVD movies. I’ve heard him say that they “scrunch up the picture” which is complete bupkiss) to point out the obvious.