11 Aug
2010
11 Aug
'10
10:50 a.m.
> You could
easily build a machine that does all these=20
> I assume you also can't understand why people spend many hours making a=20
> mechanical closk from scratch when a $10 quartz clock is much more=20
> accurate. Or why people learn to play a musical instrument rather than=20
> just listening to a record/tape/CD. Or why people paint pictures when=20
> there are plenty of cameras around. However, I took the comment you quoted to have an
intrinsic "in addition"
rather than the intrinsic "instead" you saw.
I am not sure we understnad each other...
My reply was to the comment that the OP couldn't understand why I
insisted on using a classic computer (text display, dialup connection,
whatever). I was commenting that plenty of other people do things that in
a sense make life difficult for them, but I assuem they have reasons for
doing that ('I enjoy it' is a perfectly good reason, BTW).
I have reasons for using my much-hacked IBM 5170, whcih I have mentioned
here many times before. You don;t have to agree with them, sure.
-tony