Signs you're a tech noob....

From my own personal experience, here are some signs that you may be a tech noob. :-)

1. You insist that that a ball mouse is just as good as an an optical mouse;

2. You buy a desktop or notebook computer with a kick-ass processor but with a paltry amount of RAM;

3. You buy an expensive game not even knowing your PC doesn't even meet the system requirements;

4. You set up a Wi-Fi router without changing the default SSID or administrator password, and without enabling WPA, or at least WEP;

5. You believe the more on-board memory a video card has, the more powerful the video card;

6. You always reply with the size of your hard drive whenever someone asks you how much memory your PC has;

7. Your CRT monitor's refresh rate in 2D mode is at 60 Hz and you're putting up with the ghastly amount of flicker, or your LCD monitor is not at its native resolution in 2D mode and you think it's normal for all the icons to look squashed;

8. You believe you'll get charged by your mobile carrier whenever you send or receive something via Bluetooth;

9. You think your notebook's optical drive is broken because it doesn't open all the way when you press the eject button; and my favorite:

10. You're impressed by the graphics of a game displayed at 800x600 with antialiasing and anisotropic filtering turned off. :-)

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