I think that you've misinterpreted my initial statement. I wasn't saying that you should abuse your equipment simply for the sake of abusing it. I was saying that its pointless (and possibly harmful) to 100% baby it. This is especially true in the case of hard drives, which were our initial subject matter. If you purchase a disk, you have no way of telling whether or not you've bought a device which is actually solidly built, or a disk which has manufacturer defects and thus will ware out substantially faster and fail well before most other disks will. By babying this equipment, treating it as carefully as you possibly can, you meerely increase the chances that, should the disk have defects, when it does fail, you will have important information on it (such as your game product keys). If you don't hesitate to be a bit rough on your equipment, when those manufacturer defects send everything sky high, you're more likely to be able to recover easily, because the equipment failed very early on, as opposed to seeming to be functional and giving you time to have mission-critical information stored on it. As you pointed out, I'm not exactly light on my hardware. As a result, I'm pretty much certain that all my current equipment is solid and will last me quite a while, because its already taken plenty of abuse and is still working as well as the day I got it. This isn't a guarantee, but at least I know I don't have an untested device with important information on it.
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Charles Rivard" <wee1s...@fidnet.com> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 10:14 AM To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] making things last Actually, I'm glad that such protective gear exists. It exists for a reason. Use it as directed and you probably won't have a problem. I would not stick my hand into a 500 degree oven when wearing mitts that claim that they will protect your hand up to 500 degrees merely to see if their claim is valid. Doing so is just! plain! stupid!! But knowing that I can do so gives a bit of assurance, and I won't fear doing so. If you were to wear a glove that claimed that it can protect you from a 100,000 volt charge of electricity, would you honestly, purposely, grab onto a wire carrying 100,000 volts just to see if their claim is correct?? If you do so, you just might get what you were stupid enough to ask for. But as for cell phone cases, the better the protection, the better. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
