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Today I....
Conor_3
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....wasted 5 minutes of my life trying to save a bloke £25. He was looking at buying a TOSLink optical cable to connect up some audio equipment and had decided on one with gold plated connections "because it makes the sound quality better". I spent the time pointing out that it transmits light, not electrical signals so it makes absolutely no difference if the connectors were made out of plastic and a £1 TOSLink cable from the local market would work equally as well.
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you should have offered to rub snake oil on it to lubricate the connection, just another fiver
Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant.0 -
Did he he listen to your advice? Or did he go with the gold plated option?Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.0
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I don't think you wasted your time. If you helped him and saved him £25 it
means you did something nice, in my book its not a waste of time being nice
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annemake the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
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You weren't shopping with alienrik were you?0
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anniehanlon wrote: »I don't think you wasted your time. If you helped him and saved him £25 it
means you did something nice, in my book its not a waste of time being nice
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anne
when the OP says 'wasted' and 'tried to save' it suggests, to me, that the advise was ignored
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:cool:Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant.0 -
His loss is the economy's gain.Russia is HERE0
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Neville Chamberlain wasted an awful lot of valuable time being nice in 1938.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xQIJkgpP1hg
And the cost of doing so was very high.
in any event, conor was still being nice in trying anyway,
what's that got to do with the price of teacakesmake the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
okay conor, did he take your advice or not - it seems that he didnt but.........make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
You're right. He paid £25 for a bit of fibre optic that's exactly the same as the bloke who sells them for a quid.0
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You're right. He paid £25 for a bit of fibre optic that's exactly the same as the bloke who sells them for a quid.
I bet the guy thinks he got a far better sounding cable. The guy who sold it made a few quid. The guy who manufactured it made a few quid. Everybody wins!
Ignorance really is bliss - shame on you for trying to educate this man;)The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.0
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