March 13th, 2011

Same place, same coldness, but at least we got more people coming so we did't feel the cold that much this time.

We were continuing from where we left off last week. Since we got some new guys coming in today so Jon introduced them to the procedures while i continued. There were several problems that comes up that required asking around for solutions. And at the end I got myself into checking out compatible video cards for the computer towers.

Now this is getting interesting. Even if we took out the broken part, some perfectly usable hardware that came out a few years ago can't do something we take for granted in current computers (for example, watching youtube videos). The hardware is note even a decade old! Even though most of the people agree that the world today is a rapidly changing world, but the cost may be too high to change the hardware.

During the video card test, over a third of all the video card have to be toss aside. Not because it is bad or broken, but because it's not compatible with the motherboard interface anymore. Then with the ones that are still operational, many of them have to be put aside again due to it's inability to play flash videos (same as above, youtube videos).

Why is this happening? From what we in the workshop can see, there are a few major factors. One been consumer's continual persuasion of better products, faster machines. In response to this demand there is another factor, companies that wants some good money. I do not deny that business have served the world a favor by transferring goods and services around the world; yet when certain human factor is mixed into it, the picture looks for the worse to lower end consumers.