Life is Short

Post by argonaut » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 10:11 AM UTC

wfo wrote: post #443

argonaut wrote: post #321

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What? The New Deal was socialist, which is liberal on the American political spectrum. Calling it part of American conservatism is clearly untrue. Virtually no Republicans have a stated goal or platform of reducing economic inequality. Pretty much every Democrat running for president does. To claim otherwise is also clearly untrue. I suspect you are mixing up the fact that in American politics, conservatism (which is…

It was sarcasm.

Okay... You should be a lot more obvious about it in the future. Probably didn't help to put true statements on the same line as sarcastic ones.

Post by babuskov » Fri, Jan 22, 2016, 9:42 AM UTC

mahranch wrote: post #431

babuskov wrote: post #351

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Unless you do this all day, there's no way it would take 10 minutes to research all the components that go into a PC and put it all together. Heck, even researching which model of Mac to buy took me more than two hours. 15 minutes to unbox probably doesn't include taking out the trash. :) I'm a power user, so I need a lot of programs and setting them up properly usually takes 4-6 hours if not more. Just finding and i…

> Unless you do this all day, there's no way it would take 10 minutes to research all the components that go into a PC and put it all together. No, this isn't true at all. The first time you put together your own computer, sure, maybe, it may take a bit longer. But the next time and the time after that, it becomes quicker and quicker because you already know the basics. It only takes 10 minutes to see what new GPUs o…

Please read my post. I could put together a PC in about 3-4 hours max. But getting all the software I need to patch, compile and configure to work properly on Linux would take the rest of the period.

Your 64 year old senile-ish father probably uses one or two applications. I use over 50 different programs.

Also, I don't care about hardware at all. Last thing I remember is that there were Slot 1 and Slot A CPUs. I would need to research stuff before even figuring out which components are compatible. Perhaps it's all user-friendly now, but back in the day I recall always missing some cable or adapter to get stuff to work (like USB-PS2 converters for mouse or VGA-HDMI converters for monitors, etc.).

I care about building software. Hardware stuff is not something I need or want to deal with.

It would be like MLB player going to a baseball bat factory to make his own bat. He just wants a good bat. He doesn't care what wood is it made of, or what material is used for coating. He wants to pay for top-notch bat and concentrate on hitting the balls.

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