I still don't like your tone, but since my original post was mod'ed down for being flamebait I'll assume that you're not trying to be offensive, but you achieved it anyway. I will give you some advice; all you know of me is a few isolated comments and an ASCII character string called "Nick", don't jump to conclusions about who and what I am. If you want to know what my wife thinks of this you can ask, otherwise making comments is rude and out of context. If you think I mean something you can ask. You can say "This is flamebait" like the person who moded me down. I checked your other posts and I'm the only one who got this sort of reply -- did you just have a bad day?? I did miss one point that you made -- but since I'm annoyed I left it for last.
I think you're missing my point that time is NOT money. It's a resource, but resources only have value if there's people willing to buy them. If you got 20 bushels of tomatoes and the only grocer close enough to transport it before they spoil only commits to buying 18, are you losing money by eating the rest yourself? NO. It was was only tradeable into money up to a certain amount that people were willing to buy. The surplus is yours to use up or let rot. In the same way time is something that most people have a pretty generous amount of extra to throw away on whatever they wish.
The fundamental point was that building a hackintosh was
much cheaper then buying one from Apple looking solely at component costs. The reply was that leaving out the cost of labor creates a false economy. Labor is the most expensive part of almost any human endeavor. Looked at in solely this light you still have not made your case.
I swear if you guys had wives you're probably put them on the clock and the minute taking her out exceeded your hourly rate compared to what a hooker costs you're boot her to the curb . . .
This is incredibly rude and nasty, both my wife and I would like an apology.
Then I doubt that he's actually a mechanic. He's a paper pusher who runs the shop. People who are good at a certain thing generally get that way by participating in it outside of their professional obligations. Many mechanics build hot rods. Basketball players don't just shoot hoops for the game each week, and Olympians don't lace up their shoes once every four years.
Changing the oil is a helpers job not a mechanics. Pro Basketball players don't wash their own uniforms or socks.
Assembling a beige box isn't, but that wasn't the entirety of the scope here.
Yes it was.
I got to tinker quite a bit with a different platform, and learn quite a bit about the workings of OS X (I learned far more here than I ever did with my regular Mac). You see, most of my professional worth these days comes from my knowledge of Linux/Unix. I admin a very mixed network, but I owe my job to knowing both Linux and Windows where everyone else who was looking at the position was Windows-only. I do have a college degree (in Comp Sci), but only one class during my whole curriculum was focused on Unix (and even that was Solaris). All my "worth" that you guys keep suggesting I'm crazy for wasting (because apparently I'm not billing myself) came from tinkering around with computers in just such a "wasteful" way.
Yes -- I agree and I missed this point. I thought I have implied this but it is obvious that I didn't.
You may want to review the other posts in this thread. You'll find a number of other people who made this same point in a more clear and less nasty way.
