Are you saying there are no quality tools that are low cost? Perhaps you just aren't a good shopper. I never said a 'reasonable job', but I don't need a 25 dollar hammer to hang a picture as I said. By your logic, your 25 dollar hammer, would do better than a 5 dollar hammer at putting a nail in drywall to hang a photo. I don't need snap on tools to do brakes on my car, or change the oil, or replace a radiator. My joy as it were, does not come in a mass of low quality tools, but in being sharp enough not to spend $$$ when it only costs $. I look for the least expensive tool that can do the job RIGHT. Isn't that what you do? If you have two equal quality tools for a job, you don't buy the most expensive one do you?
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) < [email protected]> wrote: > Mike, maybe these are two diametrically opposed points of view. I look > for a quality tool likely to produce a professional result, predictably > and efficiently. My joy is the quality of the output and using > efficient, well-built tools. You seem to look for the least-expensive > tool that can do a reasonable job. Your joy might be in having a large > stock of tools of various quality, all low in cost. Maybe these are > irreconcilable. I might not be able to work well with you. > > Thank you, > Mark Snyder > > -----Original Message----- > > If you read, I gave an apple as one of the inexpensive that would do the > job. I think you are confusing what I said with what someone else said. > Can you show where I did this? I can show you where I said purchasing a > mac > mini is an example of an inexpensive tool that works. > * > How would I apply this to computers? Easy. My mom will never in the > course > of the rest of her life ever, never, need more then a few gigs to store > data. She will also never, ever need a high end graphics card so she > can > get better frame rates on Call Of Duty. She will also never, ever need > 16 > gigs of ram to edit a film. Actually, what she does need is something > small..efficient...something that does web browsing, email...perhaps, on > occasion even do red eye removal in a family photo. Sounds like she may > do > very well with a mac mini. Now this being her choice, being the least > expensive mac, at least by your calculations, be a 'crappy' tool? This > is > how I approach buying a drill, I don't first go after the most expensive > drill there, I look at the job that needs doing, I look at future jobs I > may > need to do. I weigh that against the budget and I buy accordingly. > Inexpensive is not crap, just as expensive doesn't equate to quality. > You'll note also that I never defended crummy tools. Reading the thread > I've said the same thing throughout...the right tool, for the right > job.* > > The following is the last time I mentioned MS, you are either assuming > or > mistaking me for saying something I did not. > > *Part of the problem is how MS approaches touting the features. Part of > it > is haters who see 'windows 7 boots faster than vista' as not that 7 is > faster but that vista is crap. Shockingly they don't look at Apple's > advertising the same way, some will never satisfy, better to just ignore > them, nod and smile when they start popping off. Computers aren't tools > to > use to get a job done to them, they are the alpha and omega, it is part > of > how they define themselves.* > > So near as I can tell I never equated your crummy with MS, and I never > cried > expensive with Apple. I also never said Apple makes the only quality > tools. Once again, from the start, I've said the right tool for the > right > job, never pay 500 dollars for a job that should cost 5. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
