[geeks] Multihead?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 04:46:46AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> It's pretty sad that someone can have several orders of magnitude more
> computing power in one room of their house the we used to put a couple
> of men on the moon, and he doesn't use it for anything more productive
> than video games.
> 
> Normally, I don't care how people spend their money (because I'm
> libertarian), and I'm not a hard-ass on the "gamers", since I
> occasionally play computer games for idle distraction, but that image
> just makes me nauseous.  There's so much potential there (even if
> they are all PCs running RedmondOS XP) to get Real Work done, and all
> those happy electrons are bouncing around so that some wanker can
> show off his wall-to-wall fantasy land and his "L33t EQUI mods".

This may or may not make things better, but have we considered that he
might be a professional Everquest player?  The sort who brokers things
and sells stuff on ebay, etc?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd