Testing a new product for durability, on purpose, is pointless because they
have already been tested before you buy them.
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you! really! are! finished!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicol" <nicoljaco...@telkomsa.net>
To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] making things last
Wow john thanks.
You make me feel better.
Since I was a kid, my mom and various other people accused me of handling
my
headphones roughly if they even slightly stopped working.
I remember one of my primary school teachers used a saying:
"Give something to a blind person and he will break it for you."
Even when I was working, my colleagues and boss would accuse me of
handling my headphones too roughly if they stopped working.
Your e-mail makes me feel much better.
Now after reading your message I realize that there is other blind people
who test their equipment, not deliberately intending to break it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of john
Sent: 05 September 2014 06:19 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] making things last
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.
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